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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Nov 2015

    Fall 2016

    27 replies 53 retweets 357 likes
  2. 16 hours ago

    TOMORROW, winner of the National Book Award, Colson Whitehead will be reading at the Mendelssohn Theater at 7:00 PM!

    4 retweets 7 likes
  3. Jan 4

    Punitive Superego?

    but who says?
    1 reply 11 likes
  4. Jan 3

    The weird politics of Obamacare, in one kicker.

    145 replies 1,472 retweets 1,879 likes
  5. 31 Dec 2016

    This scene from Cabin Fever best describes surviving 2016 & confronting the reality of 2017:

    1 reply 5 retweets 30 likes
  6. 31 Dec 2016

    That was then...

    Me trying to escape 2010 is like Robert Wagner sprinting through the flames with a wet towel on his head in The Towering Inferno.
    5 replies 4 retweets 39 likes
  7. 28 Dec 2016

    This Truck Is the Size of a House and Doesn't Have a Driver: Stories

    This truck is the size of a house and doesn’t have a driver - via
    6 retweets 21 likes
  8. 27 Dec 2016

    It is becoming increasingly obvious that David Bowie has established a better alternate universe and is populating it selectively one-by-one

    688 replies 92,176 retweets 170,269 likes
  9. 27 Dec 2016

    Neat!

    We're just going to call it now: is the author of the year.
    4 replies 5 retweets 87 likes
  10. 27 Dec 2016

    Cant wait to to screen this series of influences at next week! Shorts paired w/BeauTravail & KillerofSheep are 🔥🔥🔥

    Get tickets to with in person for Q&A, plus a handpicked selection of his influences
    8 replies 26 retweets 112 likes
  11. 26 Dec 2016

    A vividly cogent piece by . Art tells us so much. // Eric Fischl’s Great New Work of American Art

    11 replies 72 retweets 216 likes
  12. 24 Dec 2016

    If you are sick of your family & want to see some weirdo drone on...

    @ 3p ET 2016 award winner for fiction talks about his novel, "The Underground Railroad"
    2 replies 13 retweets 88 likes
  13. 23 Dec 2016

    Look at those cavemen go!

    The Lives They Lived: Colson Whitehead on David Bowie, in eternity
    3 replies 14 retweets 36 likes
  14. 23 Dec 2016

    Save those tears! They're redeemable for half-off coupons on my books "Zone One" & the forthcoming "Temerity Gumption, Lady Detective."

    i finished underground railroad yesterday and it made me cry 3 times-once in bed, once in an airport, and once in a mall
    2 replies 6 retweets 78 likes
  15. 23 Dec 2016

    What's the point of getting inaugurated if you can't barge in on a ladies dressing room amirite??

    Free the Rockettes.
    1 reply 46 retweets 125 likes
  16. 23 Dec 2016

    A fitting end to 2016/the world: we learn of Donald Trump's nuclear arms race from a couple of cable talk show hosts in their pajamas.

    2:25
    BREAKING: Trump to on the nukes tweet: 'Let it be an arms race'
    556 replies 7,554 retweets 11,405 likes
  17. 21 Dec 2016

    Dec. 21, 1984, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo was released in theaters.

    6 replies 96 retweets 152 likes
  18. 21 Dec 2016

    Thanks, Youngblood!

    This essay by is wonderful.
    2 retweets 14 likes
  19. 20 Dec 2016

    Everyone borrow Linda's copy if you live in Seattle.

    THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by . Still 1,000+ holds . You can borrow mine! I want everyone to read it.
    1 reply 1 retweet 38 likes
  20. 19 Dec 2016

    the protagonist will be a white journalist

    In 20 years a movie called “Aleppo” will win 7 Oscars & everyone will say “Something like that should never be allowed to happen again”
    159 replies 21,530 retweets 35,896 likes
  21. 19 Dec 2016

    What astonishes me is the total insult of that food.He fed them like they were marks at a Trump U airport conference room seminar.

    CITIZENS: trump is unravelling the very fabric of our democracy, please help WH PRESS CORPS: ooo free lay's potato chips!!!
    32 replies 149 retweets 377 likes

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