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Give a man a book, and he'll read for a week. Teach a man to write a book, and he'll never fully enjoy anything again.
Eric Nelson
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Eric Nelson
@literaryeric
Big Five nonfiction book editor with 51 NYTimes bestsellers since 2017. Libertarian Quaker. Author of OH, THE MEETINGS YOU’LL GO TO! Okay to DM book ideas.
Orange County, NY
Joined July 2010
- My daughter got a 50% scholarship to a private national university and she wrote to them saying, “You’re my top choice and I’ll enroll immediately if you give me $20k more.” And they did. Who knew?!
- This is a painting of God steering a bullet into a volunteer fireman.
- This is a real tweet from a real member of Congress.The first person to be sent to Alcatraz should be Anthony Fauci.
- How is it possible that there's finally a billionaire that owns a spaceship, smokes weed, played himself in a Marvel movie, and partnered up with a musician, and he's still one of the least cool people in the world?
- If Joe Rogan having Robert Malone on turned his listeners anti-vax, why didn’t having Sanjay Gupta on turn them pro-vax?
- My son in college said aloud today in a sociology class that of course it’s better to be Black now than 200 years ago and the class audibly groaned.
- Every single reply to this is pointing out that you are not allowed to take photos in the Sistine Chapel (to encourage reverence and to eliminate flashes).An epic shot of Vice President JD Vance and his son inside the Sistine Chapel. What an incredible way to spend Easter weekend.
- Replying to @JimGaffigan“I’ll see you when you get here.” When you realize what he means.
- MAGA: Where is our money going? Govt: We publish all numbers. MAGA: Are we not allowed to ask? NGOs: We’ve publicly tracked it for years. MAGA: Why is it a secret? Wonks: I’ve personally written 650 white papers detailing it. MAGA: I GUESS WE’LL NEVER KNOWThe U.S. now has World War II levels of indebtedness without fighting a world war. So where did all the money go? The Greatest Generation incurred that debt to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan. In our case, nobody even knows where the money went and you’re not allowed to ask.
- Me watching conservatives argue that it’s unprecedented to send a celebrity billionaire to prison for creating a few falsified financial documents.
- You’re not neurodivergent. You’re weird in average ways. Your health problems are not from trauma. You have not overcome narcissists. Those were just jerks. You are not cutting toxic people out of your life. Those were just people who didn’t like you as much as you hoped.
- ICE visited a lawyer. They turned off his WiFi so his security cameras wouldn’t record them. They refused to identify themselves, but they knew he’d spoken to an immigrant family recently and wanted to talk to him about it.
