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@Rumaan

2 years

"Jason" is a name from ancient greece that sounds like it was made up in the united states in 1979

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Nytimes: 15 sheet pan dinners to make before you die of Covid

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1 year

What if someone named their kid Josh but after the wine

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4 years

well i ended class early by saying I HAVE TO GO BECAUSE I WAS NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

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3 years

OH MY GOD WHAT

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Essential 2020 reading! 💖📖

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I took my kids to see a movie and I put in my AirPods and listened to an audiobook and then fell dead asleep missing both the movie and the book

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3 years

What the

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While we were still in the White House, I began sharing my summer favorites—and now, it’s become a little tradition that I look forward to sharing with you all. So here's this year's offering. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

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2 years

every museum should have a writer in residence program, where you get a little office and can come and go like a museum employee, wander around after hours and stuff

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3 years

I want to make a film about Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in which both are played by Elizabeth Olsen (she'll win an Oscar)

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2 years

every boy i went to school with was called jason, every girl was called jennifer

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2 years

it would, i think, be weird to meet a baby born in 2022 named jason

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3 years

There should be a cameo for writers where you can get famous writers to write shit for you… for $220 Rachel cusk will write an email telling your husband you’re leaving him, that kind of thing

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2 years

anyway no offense if your name is jason, every boy i ever had a crush on was named jason (like jason bateman, the real star of silver spoons)

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2 years

more than one editor has reprimanded me for the names i make up... i blame the wasteland of my youth... every name was so bland and the same... these editors were like why is everyone named the same thing but that's how i think of reality

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3 years

at last... a professional accomplishment that impresses my children

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4 years

!!!

Netflix Wins Julia Roberts-Denzel Washington-Sam Esmail Package ‘Leave The World Behind’ Based On...

Netflix Wins Julia Roberts-Sam Esmail Package 'Leave The World Behind'

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4 years

i mean to be clear i don't actually have to do anything i just need some time to digest this insane fact

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3 years

i thought i got an email from colson whitehead but it turned out to be an email from costco wholesale

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5 months

you may have noticed from my endless tweets but @samesmail 's adaptation of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND is on @netflix NOW. Feels like a rare gift as the writer of the novel to say that I love this film. It's beautiful, strange, hilarious, and exhilarating. I love it. Watch it!

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4 years

my older son texted me, deeply impressed that i have a website

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4 years

I saw a woman reading my friend's book on the subway. This is such a dream come true for most writers that I asked if I could take a picture and send it to her. Then this reader attended an event for said friend and told her I had taken her picture. Now I feel we are all friends.

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3 years

I showed this to my children. Big wanted to know how many followers Obama has; little said “wow you’re clawing your way up the ranks”

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6 years

I wrote about seeing art with my children.

How Children Change the Way We See

I want to pass on my love of art to my sons, in part because it’s one of the only ways I know of making a rich life.

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3 years

For this week's @NewYorker , I wrote about @JasonReynolds83 . “I think I can count on one hand the number of white people that exist in my books. The way that I’m addressing race is by creating Black worlds.”

Who Jason Reynolds Writes His Best-sellers For

Through books that center on Black children, the author wants young readers to discover their own stories.

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3 years

talking to kazuo ishiguro was one of the absolute highlights of my life.... honestly what the hell

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2 years

Do the Sulzbergers manufacture sheet pans or something

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3 years

This is such a good idea why did I tweet this

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1 year

My ten year old asked me what his phone number is and I pointed out that he doesn’t have a phone and he said no I know but what’s my phone number and I realized he thinks it’s like blood type or something

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4 years

i am sitting on the stoop writing this piece and watching one child skateboard and the other child opened the door, put this hat on my head, and said, "there, now people won't know you're bald" then closed the door, that's how things are going

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3 years

It’s cold as hell and all my enemies are at this playground

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4 years

I have noticed that not only can my seven year old not stop talking he also seems to feel that he can only talk when standing up so he’s constantly standing up to add to say something like a very small senator

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3 years

!!!!!

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3 years

thoroughly enjoying Rumaan Alam's virtuoso "Leave the World Behind"--satiric energy conflating Albee's "A Delicate Balance," J. Peele's "Get Out," & every dystopian tale you've read/ plus set in Cheeverland.

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1 year

Josh I don’t know who you are but you make a good Cabernet thanks for your service

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4 months

I am done with 2023 but here are the 110 or so books I read this year.

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4 years

my bb makes his debut @Slate today

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4 years

I tweeted this more than a year ago... am i psychic

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@Rumaan

5 years

I did, however, have a dream that I met Julia Roberts (?) and she said “wow I really didn’t like your new book”

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3 years

i gave the kids dinner and a bath and then sat down to zoom with the winner of the nobel prize... totally normal

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3 years

anyway many people told me not to be intimidated because he's so nice and it's 100% true, a real gentleman, extremely generous; so important to remember that so often the real geniuses are also just like... nice people

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4 months

Today I ran into my own child on the subway

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4 years

For this week's @NewYorker I wrote about the troublesome wallpaper (really) Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord, which has hung in the Spence School for decades but will soon be coming down.

What to Do About a Room with a “Vues”?

The wallpaper “Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord” was criticized when it was first installed it in the White House for being too French. Now, the Spence School is removing the paper from its walls, after...

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4 years

Whenever I see anyone on the subway reading a book by someone I know I get such a thrill. If I ever saw someone reading a book I had written I'd probably end up throwing up or fainting.

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3 years

my husband texted to say that he turned on the car and i am on the radio... incredible inadvertent flex on my part

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1 year

I half jokingly wanted to name our first son Jameson

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1 year

My child got stung by a bee then saw another bee and said “I have pts bee”

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3 years

one of the highlights of my *life* was being able to tell @MargaretAtwood that whenever i see people eating chicken in nugget form i think "CHICKIENOBS BUCKET O'NUBBINS"

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1 year

I am occasionally seized by a powerful desire to swallow one of my AirPods

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5 years

Oh also I turned in my book two days ago and haven’t yet emailed my editor or agent to ask if they’ve read it which I think we can all agree means I’m amazing

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5 years

I am at the mall and this little girl said “mom I was talking to this handsome boy over there” and her mom said “what handsome boy?” and the girl said “well he’s a mannequin”

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7 years

Kind of on the nose but I'm on an amtrak with joe biden

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3 years

Yes my enemy is six years old

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7 months

Tonight at a party on the upper west side a woman said to me “sorry to name drop but as Harold Pinter once said to me…” an exchange I will cherish

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3 years

maybe i am psychic

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2 months

updated my website to note that i am publishing a new book soon as well as that i am currently enthusiastic about the way angelica huston pronounces "los angeles" in the film the grifters

Rumaan Alam — Rumaan Alam

www.rumaanalam.com

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This child held onto my leg for the first four years of his existence now he’s just out here riding the rails

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1 year

My ten year old just got home from school and I said do you want a snack and he said yes I want a rice cake with avocado on it

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My child wore his sunglasses to graduation, the Anna wintour of the fifth grade

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5 months

I love this thank you @PatchNavillus

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4 years

my Little has figured out how to text me from his ipad and keeps sending me information about godzilla. i love it

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4 years

@loracorkelley omg we're friends now

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5 years

Not to toot my own horn but holy shit

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5 years

@Rumaan Hi Rumaan, I wanted to let you know you were quoted in today’s @MerriamWebster Word of the Day. You can view today’s Word of the Day here: Here's today’s tweet, if you’d like to share:

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3 years

OH MY GOD

BookBrunch

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3 years

Hermione Lee to write a biography of Anita Brookner for @ChattoBooks in 'the next masterwork from one of the best biographers at work today' (£)

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7 months

Tonight I, a person who often cannot recognize people I know well when encountered out of context, recognized a chandelier that I saw once 17 years ago

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9 years

you guys: i sold my novel? i don't know. sorry for the self-congratulation. but there you go. i'm lying on the floor.

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1 year

“They fuck you up, your dad and dad”

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4 years

I published this two years ago tomorrow! It remains one of the only things I've written that I'm pleased with.

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6 years

I wrote about seeing art with my children.

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We are in Chelsea and my child pointed at a huge gaggle of tank top dudes and said “wow look at those strongmen”

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5 years

@TriciaLockwood At last... a Paris review

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7 months

It was in an instagram photo (by @c_cauterucci ) of a cafe in Prague and i said “I know that light fixture” and indeed found a photo i took in the same place in 2006 anyway I’m gay

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6 years

Me: do you remember my editor? Big: hmmmm Me: you saw her on the subway Big: oh right Julia Roberts

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@Rumaan

5 years

I did, however, have a dream that I met Julia Roberts (?) and she said “wow I really didn’t like your new book”

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@Rumaan

4 years

he said "this cannot be happening" and "can i have my $25 now"

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4 years

Also when we were in Texas two weeks ago I dragged them to two museums back to back but when they recognized Mondrian - "We just saw his painting!" - they were so excited. Anyway, teach your kids about art, it's gratifying.

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4 years

@ConnieSchultz thank you! you know how special it is to realize that strangers are reading your words; i knew my friend would be thrilled

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7 months

I’m going away next week so I asked the kids what I should cook for them to have for dinner in my absence and Little said “hmmm how about paella”

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5 years

He’s a mannequin!?! I’m at a target the mannequins don’t even have heads

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My child has a friend called Tug… unfortunately this is the coolest name I’ve ever heard. Tug!!!

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4 years

this is so cute but also we really don't know, do we, what psychic effect all this will have on kids, though i'm guessing it's not great!

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4 years

Yesterday Big and I were killing time waiting for Little to get out of art class and he drew me some Keith Harings. Kids are geniuses!

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@Rumaan

4 months

damn i didn't mention Marie NDaiye, or Danny Hornsby, or Abdulrazak Gurnah, or Percival Everett. Sometimes I wish I was a bookseller and could just accost people with recommendations

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@Rumaan

4 months

"favorite" is not a useful way to think about these things, but books that linger still: @SusieBoyt 's LOVED AND MISSED, Bryan Washington's FAMILY MEAL, WINTER IN SOCHKO, and both the Damon Galgut novels I read

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@Rumaan

4 years

wow this is my favorite tweet

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9 years

It's our wedding anniversary. We're having pizza at 4:45 and coloring in a Frozen coloring book.

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4 months

closing shout out to John Updike, the Rabbit books are considerably stranger than advertised, and so beautifully written it made me want to scream. anyway i read too much this year and now my brain is broken

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4 years

Like zero hot dads here even

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5 years

This girl is like six? Anyway I burst out laughing my day is made

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3 years

@bottom_txt He said “we’ll you’re not that guys daddy”

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4 years

Everyone is coughing it’s like a pandemic movie

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7 months

Tug is an amazing name. Genuinely gender neutral, the only thing you know when dealing with a Tug is that they’re prob a badass. Damn I wish I had thought of this name and really want to meet Tugs folks who I assume are very cool

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@Rumaan

7 months

Basically everyone I’ve met under the age of 14 is called Henry or Atticus and the occasional “I’m an iconoclast” names are usually risible but Tug…. Brilliant I’m in awe

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@Rumaan

4 years

We are at the boardwalk which I do not find “fun”

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@Rumaan

10 years

I just realized that "If You Care" is a pretty passive aggressive name for a line of environmentally-friendly paper products.

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@Rumaan

5 years

also is someone writing a fucking anita brookner biography or what

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5 years

what is hermione lee doing right now

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@Rumaan

4 months

this year I tried to assign myself a lot of books that are widely acknowledged as masterpieces and honestly you could do a lot worse. Underworld, masterpiece; The Golden Notebook, masterpiece, A House for Mr. Biswas, masterpiece.

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@Rumaan

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@laurenmechling How is this even a question I’m Dorothy

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@Rumaan

4 months

I also tried to read whatever we acknowledge as the canon. Sometimes that was fun (Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is good!) but sometimes it was not (Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell is annoying)

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@Rumaan

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@roughschrade It could be about tippi hedren

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