“Ezra Klein, So Hot Right Now

Thanks to his best-selling book and blockbuster podcast, the wunderkind liberal wonk of the Obama years has become one of The New York Times’ brightest stars — and an unlikely thirst trap. (The beard! The biceps!) But is his instinct for thoughtful dialogue suited to our clickbait world?”

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“Ezra Klein, So Hot Right Now”

BY AARON GELL

The Hollywood Reporter (May 6, 2026)

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JACK ANTONOFF BLASTS AI MUSIC CREATORS AS 'GODLESS WHORES'

Bleachers frontman subscribes to “ancient ritual of writing, recording, and performing as it comes to us from god”

https://apple.news/AxwAk6pqgSYieTCa0drO3PA

Oldest daughter yesterday with Bill Clinton who was walking in her neighborhood.

 

 Waiting for the train.

 

Author Robert Caro on His Writing Process and Biographies of LBJ and Robert Moses (This was on C-SPAN last night. Wonderful.) He’s 90.

Robert Caro, who was working on the final book of his five-volume biography of President Lyndon Johnson, offered a tour of his New York City office and home library.

https://www.c-span.org/program/qa/author-robert-caro-on-his-writing-process-and-biographies-of-lbj-and-robert-moses/678198

 A recent New Yorker. On my table/desk.