Sophie Haigney
@SophieHaigney
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Web editor @parisreview / writing a book about collections
Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2016
My dad’s two dogs expelled from dog daycare due to forming a “dog gang”.
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Rebranding Lent as “Mark Wahlberg’s 40 day challenge”
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This week I am starting a new job! I will be the new web editor @parisreview! I am very excited!!.
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We’re always talking about Wife Guys but what about. Boyfriend Girls.
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RIP Cormac McCarthy I have this passage from All The Pretty Horses saved on my desktop and not exaggerating when I say I I read it all the time❤️🔥
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🚨 Sally Rooney on Ulysses, the death of the novel, Jane Austen, and a lot more!!!
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Insight brought to you by my reflections on having a cousin who is 6’6” and another who holds baseball records at his college.
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We’ve unlocked Annie Ernaux’s diaries, which really are the best
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“Cerebral style: she clearly wanted everyone to know she loved the literary magazine”
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My dog Winnie died suddenly in the night, I really really loved him and he was perfect 💚
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This is what Bob Dylan said about Jerry Garcia after he died (29 years ago today) ❤️🔥 always love reading this
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It’s possible that this from todays Opulent Tips is the best advice I’ve ever read in print !!! If you have enemies, let them be somewhat random 💕
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I maintain that one the dumbest decisions newspapers consistently make is cutting culture coverage or laying off culture staff.
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Fact-checker calling my childhood best friend to confirm she is my childhood best friend….what if she says no…. .
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This copy of The Age of Innocence might have the funniest cover design of all time…can never look at it without laughing
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Here is the interview with Sally Rooney interview you've been waiting for: going long on the novel, the passage of time, Winnicott, can Christianity be rehabilitated (?), the mind-body relationship, and what beauty means today.
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Everyone always want to talk about Olympia but the best Manet by far is.Bar at the Folies-Bergere….look at those lights…
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I wrote about how there are only two types of people in the world .
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I wrote for @NewYorker about the landline telephone in fiction, as an object of uncertainty and instability and possibility.
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How do you get a 800-pound grand piano up a narrow staircase in a Harlem townhouse? I wrote for @nytimes about the Herculean task of moving pianos in New York City, and the guys who do it every day.
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This is one the most beautiful essays I have had the pleasure of editing: about the aftermath of a dog attack but really about one of those friendships that is also a romance and also isn’t
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🚨This summer, Sheila Heti began talking to a chatbot named Eliza about God, art, and consciousness, before things took some strange turns. This week, we're publishing a new work that came out of these conversations in five parts (they are amazing).
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Every time me and my friends are like “should we get a keg” I refer to this perfect rundown from my friend who has considered every angle of this “question as old as time”
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New Paris Review just dropped (Louise Gluck interview alert 🚨)
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🚨Ottessa Moshfegh on a house in Providence her dad bought for her
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Addicted to bringing a 500 page book about the history of modern Ireland on a beach vacation reading four paragraphs and lugging it home.
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I wrote about some very bad children’s books that have come to dominate the market for @thedrift_mag
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Absolutely owned at the bar last night by an 82 year old woman who ordered a scotch and soda and said, “So what does someone wearing a Rachel Comey dress drink these days?”.
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I love waking up and looking at my friends’ locations and nodding sagely as I think “everyone is right where they should be”.
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Sorry but it is objectively hilarious that this guy titled his book “San Fransicko”…cannot stop thinking about it
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My mom has a book that will tell you about any two relationships based on your birthdays and also give you an example of two people born in the same period who had some sort of relationship and this is ours.
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I wrote an essay for @Gawker in which I try to answer the question: why do I love The Grateful Dead so much?
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I have acquired for the first in my life a business card :)
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I have written about the resurrection of ~lost smells~ and some attempts to preserve dying ones for @nytimes
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I have been working on my “happiness project” for a few months and trying to answer some questions about happiness and narrative. I did not really but I wrote this ❤️🔥
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In the September issue of @Harpers, I wrote about a house in Cleveland where a horrible crime took place that Google has mysteriously blurred from Street View. Also about digital privacy, trauma, memory, and the blur.
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Just told my friend “you know, I really can’t get any work done in the winter”…he told me I said the same thing last July about the summer.
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Losing my mind at seeing noted racist Eric Clapton described as an “apolitical rock god” by the Washington Post
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A major van Eyck exhibition took eight years to organize. One of its curators has been working on the subject for 35. It got canceled halfway through. For @nytimes, I wrote about the challenges, logistical and emotional, of shuttering museum exhibitions
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Today we are publishing Isabella Hammad’s Edward Said Memorial Lecture
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I’m moving to New York this summer and I’m excited about it :).
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I re-emerge from the woods to say I am obsessed with our Fall issue cover (and what’s inside it)
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Now I am a contributing editor at @thedrift_mag, which is amazing because I have always wanted to be a contributing editor and I love The Drift (this is my coffee table)
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This from Shirley Hazzard stopped me in my tracks ❤️🔥
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“People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.”
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In high school English I was asked to keep a little notebook of alternative words for “said”. retorted, expounded, exclaimed, mused, demurred. in the end it turns out that “said” is almost always the best word for “said”.
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I love to say stuff like “Uggs are back” when what I mean is “I’m personally wearing Uggs around my house”.
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For journalism, I just chased a man on an electric scooter, who declined to comment.
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I wrote about the weird persistence of the trope that millennials don't read even though data shows they read more than other generations. "Data" and "facts" are fetishes for baby-boomers except when they contradict stereotypes about millennials!.
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This is grotesque, both as a political statement and a piece of art, but illustrates something interesting about “public art” in San Francisco today.
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is getting a huge mural in downtown San Francisco
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Saw a kid touch a Rothko at MoMA today and no one else did. very special moment.
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“I find it worrisome that suddenly the trans-exclusionary radical feminist position is understood as commonly accepted or even mainstream. I think it is actually a fringe movement that is seeking to speak in the name of the mainstream.”
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New magazine just dropped….incl. a lost interview between Peter Schjeldahl and James Schuyler about Frank O’Hara <3
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I wrote for @nytimes about some of the objects that have defined our lives over the past few months
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The winner of the 2020 NBCC Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing is Jo Livingstone. The finalists were Rumaan Alam, Jake Cline, Sophie Haigney, and Dean Rader. #NBCCAwards.
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Writing an article that briefly involves the Budapest Metro system and they are really turning the tables on me…someone is now writing an article for the Budapest Metro monthly magazine (?) about me writing an article about them.
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If you have ever been kind of in love with your friend or are interested in rly good nonfiction that withholds as much as it divulges this is a piece for you ❤️🔥
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I wrote for @NYTmag about the anticipation and disappointment of teenage summers, including my own
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There should be a service called "is this flirting" where you text someone interactions and get a firm Yes or No (I could provide this service).
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I wrote for @Slate about how heavily museums rely on volunteer labor—and the problems that’s causing, especially as largely white volunteer corps are being tasked with talking about race
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“About six months after our daughter was born, my husband calmly set the idea on the table, like a decorative gun. I said I’d think about it.” Jean Garnett on open marriage!.
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Me and my friends just periodically text each other “borne back ceaselessly into the past am I right”.
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Reeling from the claim that “The Secret History” is “the American version of Brideshead Revisited”.
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"I have been on first dates with 107 people in the past five years, without securing a long-term love relationship with anyone, which was always my goal." Merritt Tierce has written about online dating and it's really good.
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Today we are launching a new series called Home Improvements, about things in writers’ environments that have obsessed them! So I have written about The Problem of My Life
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I wrote for @NYTmag about Elizabeth Holmes' schedule, aspirational morning regimens, and the weird intimacy of looking at other people's routines online.
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Always claiming I will “work on the train,” forgetting that one of my top activities is pressing my face against the window for hours on end.
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I wrote for @Gawker about bad Irish exits, awkward farewells, and the idea of a departure that is “sudden and absolute”
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For @SSENSE I wrote about Apartamento, everyone’s favorite interiors magazine, and their particular answer to the question: how do other people live?.
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I wrote for @nytimes about an explosion in the market for fossils, which is creating a new "dinosaur rush" in the American West and causing problems for paleontologists.
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I wrote for @newyorker about Street View-hopping, and the weird pleasure of simulated travel to unexpected and often tedious locations
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"Where did I get all those books from? Once again, dead people. I better thank God for those dead people." The first in a series of interviews I'm really excited about, with people who make a living reselling books they find around New York.
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With @DeniseDSLu, I wrote about the surprising beauty of transit chimes: the beeps and ding-songs and arpeggios that play on subways and trains around the world to signal that doors are closing
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The word "but" should often be replaced with "and!" Lots of writing tries to create opposition in places where it doesn't really exist and in fact is simply about two separate things.
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In very exciting news, we are (re)launching Culture Diaries, a column which asks writers and artists and other interesting to people to document a week in their cultural consumption! Here is our first, by @mayabinyam .
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