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Boris Kachka

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2 years

@pareene Also really emphasize the importance of multiple exits.

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I have had the most amazing four years at the LA Times. My colleagues are smart, tireless, selfless — a real team. It looks like that time has come to an end. I wish all of them the best as I look for a new landing place. Hit me up if you know of any: Boris.Kachka @gmail .com.

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Boris Kachka

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@Olivianuzzi Jesus that’s a lot of luggage to be carrying around.

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@mattykinsX @MarkHarrisNYC @elonmusk I’m sorry to break it to you but this a complete thought. You just don’t understand it.

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🚨🚨🚨BOOK NEWS🚨🚨🚨

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@RandPaul “Data dumps” meaning precincts reporting in batches.

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Boris Kachka

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See I think there's a substantive difference between selling 3 million copies of a book some people are vocally angry about and having your book legally excluded from thousands of libraries.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

New Year, New Me. Can't wait to work with @juliaturner and the @latimesbooks team to do amazing things in very interesting times.

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4 years

Overjoyed to announce that @Borisk is joining the LA Times to run our books coverage. Our readers—and readers generally—have a lot to look forward to.

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Boris Kachka

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Famously the year everyone got along great.

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Moon brought us together in ‘69, Mars can do that in the future

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You come for democracy, you best not miss.

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Boris Kachka

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2 years

@KSergatskova Hello, can you please let me know who took this photo? I'm the books editor at the LA Times and interested to find out if there's a way of licensing it. Thanks!

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Boris Kachka

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1 year

Hey you know what’s a great paper to read today? The @latimes

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4 years

@lillydancyger Sigh, remember copy editors?

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Boris Kachka

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6 years

@alexnazaryan @JacobAWohl "The Salieri of baseless allegations."

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now entertain us

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Boris Kachka

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27 days

And someone has a disco ball out

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27 days

Eclipse crescents

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

The solution to tampering with elections is not to wait for the election.

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Boris Kachka

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2 years

This is why I haven't answered your emails since February. It's also another reason why I love working at the @latimes . What an amazingly talented and devoted bunch of people, to make something like this happen.

Lit City: The Everything Guide to Literary Los Angeles

A guide to the literary geography of Los Angeles: A comprehensive bookstore map, writers' meetups, place histories, an author survey, essays and more.

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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3 months

To those who have sent messages of support, I can't thank you enough for your warm, appropriately profanity-laced notes.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

I have a new email address! Pitch me at Boris.Kachka @latimes .com.

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Boris Kachka

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6 years

@emilynussbaum Reporters are playing it in the briefing room; you can hear it through the live feed as they wait for Sanders to come in.

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Boris Kachka

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5 years

I also adore this profile by @nymag alum @mollylangmuir , which gives @jiatolentino ’s boyfriend a descriptor of two words (“an architect”) and her dog Luna 29.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

A quick sincere note into the void. I love @NYMag and New York City with all my heart. I've at the former for half my life, the latter since I was 2 and fresh off the plane. But we (my family) are ready for something new -- the most productive midlife crisis there ever was!

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Boris Kachka

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1 year

@stkirsch She paid a lot of money to be left alone.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

I finally saw PARASITE and I have to say I found the delivery of the main lesson — never throw a kids birthday party at home — a little heavy-handed.

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

Please no more tiger documentaries until the next pandemic.

A Wandering Tiger Unnerved Houston. The Man Who Fled With It Is a Murder Suspect. (Published 2021)

The man who was seen with the big cat was taken into custody on Monday night, the police said. But the tiger’s whereabouts remained unknown.

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Boris Kachka

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6 years

A new era of @NYMag books coverage begins today, with this very serious and very silly project:

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Boris Kachka

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8 months

So listen I hate to get competitive but LA sunset rainbow just now.

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Double rainbow in NYC!

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

Cancel culture really coming into its own this week.

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Boris Kachka

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6 years

Shout-out to that one publicist who forgot to hit bcc in a 2011 book-party invite, which I still rely on to solicit writers.

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Boris Kachka

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5 months

I wrote about Gabe Hudson in our newsletter.

The too-short life of Gabe Hudson, a writer with a 'heart as big as his talent'

Remembering author Gabe Hudson, a "sad, funny cheerleader" of writers from South Korea to Southern California, plus the latest book news in our Book Club newsletter.

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

Wow I had no idea John Bolton was a hawk until 700 19 year olds pointed it out on this site today.

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Boris Kachka

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9 months

@katekilla I love this. We are now good friends with a family because the mother had her son give our son a handwritten note inviting us over. But other times the kid will just say “I like Seth B and we’re going to have a play date. I think his house is yellow.”

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Boris Kachka

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6 months

Maybe it's because I grew up as a Soviet immigrant — and was teased relentlessly for it — but it's still mind-boggling to me that so, so many people have trouble distinguishing horrible governments from the people they govern (who are often their first victims).

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Boris Kachka

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3 months

Emily is such a smart, diligent writer and dogged reporter -- and really great with books coverage too. A great loss for the paper, though I have no concerns for @ByEmilyStMartin 's future. Any publication will be lucky to have her.

Emily St. Martin

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I am devastated to share that I've been impacted by the lay offs at the Los Angeles Times. It has been an honor to work with such thoughtful, brilliant, passionate colleagues. I will miss them. . . I'm also so proud of my contributions to the newspaper over the last year.💔

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

I earned the advance on this one (minus a few blown deadlines). Out next week.

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Boris Kachka

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5 months

@mattzollerseitz Counterpoint, people have always been this ignorant but never had platforms.

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Boris Kachka

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5 months

Gabe Hudson was our upstairs neighbor for a year. It took almost that long for me to realize we had mutual friends, but I will always remember him first as the sweetest, kindest neighbor you could have. A soulful mensch who coincidentally happened to be a wonderful writer.

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Boris Kachka

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1 year

Here's @marymacTV with a banger on The Memoir and the ex-royal couple's revenge.

It's a blast watching Harry and Meghan beat the press at its own game

With a controversial onslaught of public disclosure, Harry and Meghan have seized the means of production from a multibillion-dollar royal-watch industry.

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

I just turned in a book, I'm closing a big exciting books section and we're getting a puppy next week. That is the only news I need, thank you.

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Boris Kachka

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2 years

@blgtylr This was in my feed right above a promoted Clifford trailer.

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

Why are the Google Captcha photos so depressing? Any AI could recognize the American sadness in every tile.

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Boris Kachka

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4 months

Subscribe to the @latimes tomorrow; skip the site today.

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2 years

It’s here!

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Boris Kachka

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1 year

So @latimesfood has its "101." Welcome to @latimesbooks ' 110, the result of months of work across teams (and clutch LA book gurus @paperhaus , @davidkipenand and @davidulin ). Some of the most fascinating on my enormous must-read pile below

The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: 110 essential Los Angeles books

In advance of the 2023 L.A. Times Festival of Books, we surveyed 95 writers and culled 110 works into the Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf. Get ready for some surprises

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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3 months

Dark fantasy in which I round up all the people who tweet "learn to code" and stage a coding Squid Game.

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Boris Kachka

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2 years

@todgoldberg @PaulCrenstorm Oh we’re doxxing Jenny now?

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Boris Kachka

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7 years

This is the day @HillaryClinton became president.

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After acts of unspeakable cruelty & cowardice, the people of London & the UK choose resolve over fear. Your friends in the US stand w/ you.

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Got to hand it to the J6 committee, they're not saving anything for the book.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

I told you all @latimesbooks were going to crack this mystery! ⁦ @susanorlean ⁩ breaks down the Tweets for ⁦ @debvankin ⁩

Susan Orlean takes us behind her drunken Twitter whirlwind — and the wild responses

Susan Orlean went on a drunken Twitter whirlwind Friday night — or was it real? Here's what the author tells us about her Twitter escapade.

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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5 months

@ambernoelle Does this grandmother perchance have an unlicensed service dog, name of Zoë?

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Boris Kachka

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5 years

I don’t think I’ve ever read a more depressing lede, from a personal perspective: “In September 2004, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, then 15...”

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

BREAKING🚨🥁 @tedlieu is introducing a new Federal Writers Project bill into Congress, inspired by @davidkipen 's @latimesbooks story last year. Read all about it.

How a COVID-era Federal Writers Project went from wild idea to a proposed bill

Congressman Ted Lieu introduced the 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project act on May 6. It all started with an article by David Kipen in the L.A. Times

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Boris Kachka

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2 years

Never shall 'creative' as a noun survive my edits so long as my heart beats.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

By refusing to wear masks when he was well, he now reminds us every time he's in a mask that he's sick.

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

Would read a six-volume Caro-style biography on America's Mayor. Who's ready for a life-consuming project?

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Boris Kachka

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8 months

That's right it's fall preview time. @cmonstah kicks the books off brilliantly by talking to and writing about Myriam Gurba -- a perfect match of writer to subject:

Myriam Gurba took down 'American Dirt.' It might be the least interesting thing about her

Gurba's essays, collected in 'Creep,' showcase an unblinking gaze at gender-based violence and other cruelties, which the author would rather be known for.

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

Less than a week out West and I'm already very much enjoying the emotional distance from the cauldron of NYC literary social-media politics. Maybe I'll miss it eventually. We shall see.

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Boris Kachka

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6 years

It's unlikely that Dems take both houses but if they do, top of the agenda should be: make Election Day a holiday, give felons the vote, restrict gerrymandering, push for PR and DC statehood. It's okay to be partisan if you're on the side of expanding the vote.

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@nycsouthpaw @whstancil It’s like a Magic 8 Ball that took an acting class.

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1 year

@Stat4Real @StephenKing Have some respect, you’d be paying $20/month if not for him.

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

Something tells me the people of Texas are not as stupid as some of their politicians think they are.

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Boris Kachka

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3 months

Here’s a report on an exciting new bookseller, but did you know @JessicaAFerri also writes bold and incisive reviews and book features? I hope the @latimes keeps her in their Rolodex until I’m in a position to steal her away again.

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Womb House Books owner Jessica Ferri's carefully curated listings have turned her online storefront into the favorite bookseller of Emma Roberts, Natalie Portman, and thousands of Etsy customers.

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Boris Kachka

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People keep asking how I’m doing, which makes sense and I appreciate that people are checking in. But to save time I’ll just post the news here: I bought a new sweater and I’m pretty excited about it.

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Boris Kachka

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2 years

Doing what we do In Big Sur.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

John Homans. I’m heartbroken. He was the voice, literally the voice, of New York magazine for 20 years. And he challenged us, in his impeccably nonchalant way (nicknames and all) to be the absolute best we could possibly be.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

Beautiful appreciation from ⁦ @heybonanos ⁩, the obit he was born to write.

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4 years

Delighted to have @reaganart and @mariskreizman take up a full broadsheet page. Viva print!

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Boris Kachka

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3 months

How was my week? Something like "The Swimmer" meets "My Dinner With André." A string of lunches and drinks in which professional/personal checkins devolve into philosophical debates about the future of journalism and by extension humanity's role in the coming singularity.

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Boris Kachka

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5 years

@mattyglesias No the purple holds more collective interest. Orange will feel like the undercard.

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Boris Kachka

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11 months

What a beautiful piece by @AmyKinLA about someone becoming fully himself.

The survival of Elliot Page

In his new memoir, 'Pageboy,' the most famous trans man in the world recounts the dark night of the soul — at home, in Hollywood — that led him here.

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

@MarkHarrisNYC @PamelaPaulNYT First rough editor at ny Mag had an acronym, MEGO. My eyes glazed over. Not unique to her but she used it liberally.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

MY DOCTOR PRESCRIBED SCREAMING TO HELP MY BREATHING PROBLEM!!!!!

Laura Martínez 🥑

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I never trusted women wearing bebe shirts tbh 👚

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

I want to read @NewYorker , to which I'm a lifelong subscriber, online, but I don't want to re-enter the Kafkaesque nightmare of failing to prove my personhood for 40 minutes. So I guess I won't.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

Here it is. Fall Books. (Print headline: READ IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.) Thank you to my fantastic colleagues at @latimes , wonderful freelancers and one amazing illustrator.

This fall, we need books more than ever. Meet the authors making sense of a wild 2020

Perhaps no other medium has better helped us process 2020. Our fall books special brings you the books and authors who've helped make sense of it.

www.latimes.com

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Sometimes I miss New York

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Boris Kachka

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7 years

A uniquely American disease. It's the dogma of capitalist meritocracy: anyone with money must be smarter/more hardworking than others.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

Feel like it was a good time to move to a sprawling city where people already self-isolate and the primary form of transit is steel cages with six feet of personal space.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

For many years, the one ungettable profile was Sonny Mehta. I wanted it and so did Adam Moss. I interviewed him about specific books and chatted at parties. I never once doubted his sincerity when he declined profiles by telling me it wasn't about him — it was about the books.

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Boris Kachka

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1 year

Raise up your muted post horn for a fanfare: Thomas Pynchon('s work) is coming to LA!

Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon

Pynchon, the great, press-shy postmodern novelist, will become an open book late next year, when the Huntington makes his papers available to scholars

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Boris Kachka

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1 year

People will literally correct the article with information from the article. Have a good weekend everyone.

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My favorite form of media sniping is “Why didn’t this article make more mention of the things I just learned from this article?”

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

Catching up on Charles Yu, winner of the National Book Award for fiction? You can start with @stephycha 's great interview...

Charles Yu knows the world isn't black and white

Steph Cha shares a meal and some notes on performing identity with the "Interior Chinatown" author.

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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How it’s going

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4 years

Awards keep on awarding—great books here. Read them and isolate.

National Book Critics Circle announces awards just in time for shut-in binge-reading

Edwidge Danticat and Patrick Radden Keefe were among the 2020 winners

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

I took a hike meeting today and then gorged on Gjusta flatbread and beet/fennel salad. I live here now.

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2 years

@likaluca A year older than me. Moving target.

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5 years

Saved the best #AWP19 panel for last, starring @GarthGreenwell , @alexanderchee , @carmenmmachado and @LidiaYuknavitch :

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Boris Kachka

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3 years

Do publishers know that there are dates other than February 2?

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2 years

@susanorlean Susan Orlean, played by Meryl Streep, tweeted drunk, dead at 113.

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Boris Kachka

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4 years

I wish I could send every one of you a paper edition of the @latimesbooks Fall Books issue out Sunday. Or better yet just subscribe.

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Boris Kachka

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5 years

@dancohen3000 @LavenderNRed There’s a useful idiot born every minute.

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3 years

Happy Caliversary to me.

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Boris Kachka

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6 months

Justin Torres! 🎇 Read all about him.

How a UCLA author un-erased queer history in a National Book Award-nominated second novel

Even as Justin Torres was riding accolades for his debut novel, 'We the Animals,' he was on a 12-year journey to a wilder, deeper follow-up, 'Blackouts.'

www.latimes.com

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Boris Kachka

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5 years

The great (and fast!) @CharlesFinch writes for @vulture about you-know-what:

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