The New Yorker — Dec. 13, 2024

Talk of the town

Thuggerdaily Speaks

• about a guy (maybe not a guy, since they’re anon), who did a deep dive on Young Thug’s trial
• “The state claimed Thug had said he had put, like, a twenty-million bounty on somebody’s head,” … I knew that was a lie. He was talking about a different rapper having a twenty-four-million dollar diamond surgically installed on his forehead.”

Stitching Oz

• “tomorrow I’ll be starting the first day of a new Spielberg film. I can’t say what it is.”

Bookworm

• on Thurston Moore – and his lack of TEA spilled about his f-ing up Sonic Youth and his marriage.
• but his love for first edition books.

the piece takes place at the Strand Bookstore, where another piece I read about Tom Verlaine and Thurston running into each other there at some point … pitchfork maybe?

• Reading Harry Crews – who SY were all apparently into (according to serial cheater and known fabulist Moore) is also who MJ Lenderman purported to be really into reading.