Lauren Christensen
@lachristensen
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editor at the New York Times book review
Joined February 2011
24 days ago I learned my daughter was dying in utero, and if untreated I risked preeclampsia and stroke. Termination is illegal in NC after 21 weeks, which I was, even when she had no hope of surviving and I was in danger. Because I had the means to leave, I’m ok and recovering.
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Carrying Simone, for five months inside me and then for five minutes in my arms, was the greatest honor and joy of my life. I miss her unspeakably, but feel lucky to continue living for her.
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Thank you all for your beautiful words and stories. Every one of them has made me cry. I am thinking especially of your children, who would have been 3 or 13 or 16 or 50 and 2 months, today and always. ❤️.
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Jay street metrotech is a beautiful name for a boy.
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The disDAIN of the lady shaking her head at me as I took this
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A great way to stop having a crush on someone is to edit them.
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.@deanbaquet: “The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the First Amendment allows the press to publish newsworthy information that was legally obtained by reporters even when those in power fight to keep it hidden.”
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.@mindykaling’s latest is a reflection on single motherhood, being Hindu in America, and how “if I had to choose between having boring sex with someone I love for 15 minutes before going to sleep or being on Instagram, I choose Instagram every time.”.
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Everyone is excited about today’s physical NYT bc of me & @simplylovia (& @mindykaling & @desusnice & @THEKIDMERO) all on one page 😎😎😎😎
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Oh you write literary realism? Then how come your female protagonist doesn’t go pee every three pages.
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I wrote a book about Simone, to be published next year
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The writers below are some of the greatest minds I could think of, period. Thank you for opening ours.
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author profile I spent three months reporting and writing: 16 likes. pic of the word butt: 1.6k.
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My essay on the late writer, editor, educator and extraordinary magical realist, Randall Kenan. His mythical Tims Creek, as generative as any Yoknapatawpha or Macondo, deserves a place in the postmodern canon.
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@TaylorLorenz I want to drive to denver on monday just to feel the temp drop like 10 degrees per minute.
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Frustrated by the erasure of Black queer stories from the Western record, @SonofBaldwin wrote the novel he wanted to read but couldn’t find: about enslaved young men in antebellum Mississippi who dare to fall in love.
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Twitter: Who are some LIVING writers (of any color) whose perspectives on race in America have deepened yours?.
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Celebrating mom’s birthday with jlo and 400 small business owners 😭.
Such an amazing time today speaking to 400 Latina small business owners with @AndreaJung__ ✨ #YoureLimitless #LimitlessLabs @GrameenAmerica @Meta … More to come #OnTheJLo
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so part of this is precedented.
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A new retrospective reveals Maurice Sendak's 60-year artistic career, inspired in many ways by his family of Polish Jewish immigrants who used to call him “vilde chayes” — Yiddish for “wild beast” — when he misbehaved.
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If there’s one thing Ottessa Moshfegh wants you to know it’s this: “I never said it was easy.”
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end of august in the office, so quiet you can hear a pin drop, then @joumana_khatib yells "does anybody happen to know if dostoevsky supported the end of the ottoman empire".
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what is the point of 'the sexiest man alive' what are we supposed to do with that information.
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A year ago yesterday Simone died; a year ago today, she was born. Happy birthday little girl we love you madly
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I spoke to @AlexKleeman about realism, capitalism, plasticity, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan — and a scary, magical desert very close to our hearts.
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But @ziwe "was quick on her feet when asked to name five white people in 10 seconds: 'Three of the Haim sisters, John F. Kennedy, shout out to him, and the fantastic actress Anne Hathaway.'".
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Cognitive behavioral therapists are gonna be so overwhelmed if we all ever have to rejoin the world someday.
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Our Gong Gong died last week at the age of 94. He was as pure-hearted, meticulous and full of wonder in his last days as he was in his first. We were the lucky ones 🤍
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At Wimbledon Kate Middleton congratulates the winner; at the us open it’s an MD at JP Morgan.
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The notebooks in which Virginia Woolf wrote “Mrs. Dalloway” reveal that she initially set out to write a very different novel from the psychological realist masterpiece we know today.
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Do they come back hammered.
My kindergartener gets close to two hours off for lunch, Iike a 90’s magazine editor.
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Who else but @parul_sehgal can write: a lede about scurvy, a kicker about mars and, in between, the devotion it takes to write a manual for the survival of the universe?
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Defying all the odds against a debut story collection, let alone a posthumous one, Anthony Veasna So's "Afterparties" became a best seller right out of the gate.
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my inbox is like, "Enough is enough. Here's free shipping on athleisure to wear while grieving.".
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There was beer, pinot grigio, kombucha on tap. But "The smoothest pour of all at WeWork," writes @walterkirn of @reeveswiedeman's new book, "Billion Dollar Loser," "was the frothy utopian verbiage continually streaming from Neumann’s mouth.".
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Sally Rooney's great reckoning with the ethics of fiction: Amid crisis, how do we justify sex and love, let alone making art about it? .
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I will continue to do gods work ie ask all of our collective crushes if they want to write book reviews
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I profiled @namwalien ahead of her second novel, “The Furrows,” about unresolved grief, the repetition compulsion and the essential sameness of human longing
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This week my grandmother (right, w mom) borrowed Klara and the Sun to read while waiting for surgery. She tore through it and then went under for her “robot-assisted bypass.” When she woke up, still groggy, the first thing she asked the nurse was: can I get a picture of my robot?
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I work with a bunch of heroes @nytimesbooks who helped pull together a tribute to a writer who "wrote about what was difficult and what was necessary and in doing so she unearthed for a generation of people a kind of redemption, a kind of relief."
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i have to wonder if random and house were at one point different companies.
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Book people love to ask what something means and then never tell you what it means
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NYT stylebook update, effective immediately, "based on developments in the world": . "We can now write 'throw a party.'".
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“In one panel we are safe and stupid. In the next, we’re only stupid.” . Elizabeth McCracken, “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination”.
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These 33 handwritten pages are the only evidence we have of Milton's creative process.
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Replies on ig: YAAAAS GRRLLLLL 🔥 🔥🔥❤️👏 IM OBSESSED W YOU THERE IS NOT A SINGLE FLAW ON UR PERSON 🔥🙏🙏WHERE DID U GET THAT EAR CUFF . Replies on here: have u considered maybe death?.
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In a matter of weeks I’ve listened to the entire oeuvre of exploration live and it’s frankly dug my soul out of a deep gutter so thank you @natrotlait and @chunkbardey, great great show
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Dudes love to be like “I don’t read fiction bc I want to learn something.” It’s not working bruv.
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Ivory Mae the matriarch of The Yellow House cried watching her daughter @sarahmbroom win the National Book Award last night
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the way i decide if a book is bad is if i think i could write it.
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Relating to my friends who have babies by recalling when I myself was a baby.
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when people say they 'write to make sense of the world' . ok explain it to me then.
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male sperm whales leave their families at around 10 (to roam the colder parts of the ocean), but the females stay together forever, protecting one another and passing down traditions through the generations 🫠.
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adding 'lol' after all my edits to sound like less of a bitch.
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From now on every novel written before march 2020 is pre-apocalyptic genre fiction.
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Thank you @thommyorange for writing a review that continues to give me chills even after reading it one million trillion times.
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I wrote about a new book of photos capturing everyday life on the lower east side in the 80s.
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The work of one artist from around 1100, the fourth maya codex is the oldest surviving book in the Americas (that we know about).
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Wrote about a new book of photographs by O. N. Pruitt, a white man who captured white and Black life in a Mississippi town under Jim Crow.
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My aunt sent me this from her watercolor class. The assignment was to incorporate my dog into their favorite paintings.
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The first book to visually expose the cruelties of apartheid has been out of print for decades, until now.
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"Carson was not a socialist, but he was interested in having sex".new @blgtylr in @YaleReview .
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I love this defense of content as distinct from form -- "I like the music of words but I like, more so, the meaning of words" -- but I think if any meaning is coming across in a way that is affecting you, it's probably well written in its own way, right?
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Pharmacist just asked if I’m “home from school” I’m never taking this mask off again.
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Anyway heres a good pic I took of Bernie eating gummy bears at Hamilton in April 2016
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“What Keats did for the ode, Irby has done for the complaint.” @girinathan listened to his first audiobook ever (“What do I do with my eyes while listening to this audio? What about my hands?”): @wordscience’s “wow, no thank you.”.
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when twitter's like "are you sure you want to retweet this shouldn't you read it first?" it's like babe i edited this.
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Obsessed w this response to my minor, innocuous article about sperm whales. The internet is good
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For those who “just like the feel of the paper in my hands”
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