Dan Chiasson: The Collected Letters of Recommendation (Random House, 12/2/2055, ISBN: 1267769889670)

my best attempt to think through the dynamics of social media and online politics. can the left meme? all your questions answered. insights gleaned from time spent on this website: online.ucpress.edu/representation…

Marcel Proust died in Paris today, as all of us will eventually. As photographed by Man Ray at Cocteau’s request. He left us with one of the greatest books in the world— a book that can never be entirely finished. 🖤

Babies when I play peekaboo with them

“The Book of Lists” (1977)

OK, I wrote a post on this yesterday, but it's time for a New Jersey drones thread with some of the evidence I've been collecting from afar. If you want to know what's going on, start here. 🧵👇

Boston: Dan Chiasson and I will be discussing ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE (@newpress) at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition 🌞🦞 (Boston edition) on Feb. 6. Come along and don't forget to RSVP here: portersquarebooks.com/event/natasha-…

Boston friends: Join Natasha Hakimi Zapata and Dan Chiasson on Thursday, 2/6, at 7 pm at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition 🌞🦞 for a conversation about ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE and the lessons America can learn from other countries from around the world. ow.ly/uRvn50UQwhL

Absolutely despicable that rather than bargaining with us to end this strike,Wellesley College College is forcing students to enroll in RANDOM courses. This completely devalues the Wellesley College educational experience. Wellesley College is making students pay the price.

Yay Harvard!

Looks like a new generation is rediscovering Ben Shahn. Dan Chiasson’s new book from Knopf has a cover drawn by Alison Bechdel, inspired by Shahn! Harvard University Press just reissued Ben Shahn’s The Shape of Content w/ a superb new foreword by Adam Gopnik. hup.harvard.edu/books/97806743…

Brilliant work by the exceptionally talented Dan Chiasson on Bernie’s years in Burlington

Jeff & I had clams in butter and fried green tomatoes at Frankie’s in Burlington last week in Burlington, and vibed discussing Sen. Bernie Sanders

Eight years ago, I drove to Sag Harbor and sat down for tea with Maria Matthiessen, telling her I wanted to write a book about her late husband, Peter. She warned me against it: a Sisyphean task! I pushed on anyway. And today, miraculously, is publication day for TRUE NATURE.

For people not also writing a Bernie Sanders biography, his first mayoral campaign slogan was: “Burlington Is Not for Sale”

“Mitchell had to make a new kind of song, in which conversation could flower, in mid-phrase, into music. Her tunes wander and veer; they manage their own beauty, bringing it forth at variable intervals.” - Dan Chiasson on Joni’s unique sound for The New Yorker in October 2017.