My next book, with @littlebrown + editor @pronoydsarkar—on what has happened to America since 2000, and how it can unhappen. Short, sharp, and out in time for the 2024 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. And it will take no prisoners. Now leave me alone for 18 months! pic.twitter.com/OHbpk4dNK2— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) May 17, 2022
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
I've read a couple of those here's-how-to-fix-things books (which this sounds like), and can think of many I haven't; wish he'd continued on with what he was doing.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
The "short, sharp" thing makes me wonder if he needed to give himself a "little" project break between what he was doing and the "leave me alone" bit makes me hopeful he's getting back to it. Dunno.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
I thought so too. Also: cash flow.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
He's already answered the question the next book would need to answer--"How did Trump happen?"--but I still want him to write it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
I remembered a book called "After Strage Texts" after reading about TS Eliott's "After Strange Gods" and discovered it literally un-google-able": only TS and stuff about texting. It can't even come up (without subtitle) in an Amazon search! https://t.co/XFrDEooZZx— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) February 10, 2023
True, I also get no results for "After Strage Texts"
"After Strange Texts" otoh...
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
I've looked for ASG for a couple years. Not even my uni library has a copy.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
A remarkable story from @rickperlstein about a night he shared with Marc Andreessen, who said of rural small-town Americans who didn't leave their communities, "I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet"https://t.co/KqIeLAtXHR— David Dayen (@ddayen) April 24, 2024
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:27 (one month ago) link
paging mr. choppy
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:53 (one month ago) link
That was well written but a long write-up to a pretty weak punchline. I was expecting Burroughsian levels of depravity to be revealed ("...and then Andreesen snapped the houseboy's neck while still balls-deep...") but all that for a snarky one-liner about rednecks? Meh.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:56 (one month ago) link
Says something about Andreessen that's that all he can say!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:57 (one month ago) link
yes it shows how boring the very rich are. They're different from you and me.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:59 (one month ago) link