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D.T. Max

@dtmax

@NewYorker. Famly That Couldn't Sleep. Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: Life of David Foster Wallace. Just out: Finale- Late Conversations w/ Stephen Sondheim

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.@dtmax visits Barcelona’s Sagrada Família as it nears completion a century after its original designer Antoni Gaudí’s death. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch?

Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch?

In the century since Antoni Gaudí died, his wild design has been obsessively realized, creating the world’s tallest church—and an endlessly debated icon.

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AstralCodexTen review of DT Max's classic The Family That Couldn’t Sleep astralcodexten.com/p/your-bo… Corey Washington and I interviewed Daniel Max on Manifold years ago! Enjoy😀 manifold1.com/episodes/danie… @slatestarcodex @dtmax
Your Book Review: The Family That Couldn’t Sleep

Your Book Review: The Family That Couldn’t Sleep

Finalist #4 in the Book Review Contest

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It's a big literary week--we have 3 events: MONDAY, 8pm/7pm sign-up: @WorldTransForum TUES, 6:30-8:30pm: The @BKBF International Committee presents a convo in Spanish w/ @dtmax and Julio Villanueva Chang. THURS, 6:30-8pm: #BKBF Bookend Event, Crown Heights Literary Celebration!
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H. G. Carrillo was an admired figure in the literary world, heralded by some as the “Latino Proust.” After he died, Carrillo’s 20-year-long fabrication of his life as a Latino man came undone. nyer.cm/SQt0ukc
The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far

The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far

After the Afro-Cuban writer H. G. Carrillo died, his husband learned that almost everything the writer had shared about his life was made up—including his Cuban identity.

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ON NOW: SONDHEIM CONVERSATIONS: @NewYorker writer @dtmax joins theater critic @jrousuck to discuss his new book, FINALE (@HarperCollins), based on his extensive intvws w/legendary Broadway composer STEPHEN SONDHEIM. (Recorded) 📩[email protected]. LISTEN: wypr.org
D. T. Max is a New Yorker magazine writer and the author of the book "Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim," based on his profile interviews over a three-year period with the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. (Max photo credit Flash Rosenberg/cover image courtesy Harper Collins)

ALT D. T. Max is a New Yorker magazine writer and the author of the book "Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim," based on his profile interviews over a three-year period with the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. (Max photo credit Flash Rosenberg/cover image courtesy Harper Collins)

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On now: @dtmax shares the legacy of Stephen Sondheim. Listen: wgbh.org/news/boston-public-…
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We the people of Iran are wounded but unbowed. With or without the help of the world, we will get rid of out gender apartheid regime but with the support of the West, less people would get killed. We don’t want the West to save us but we want them to stop saving our oppressors.
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Stunned to hear @washingtonpost Sunday Magazine will cease publication.
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Pick up your copy of "Finale" by @dtmax and join us on Tuesday 11/29 to talk about it! Max will be joined by MSU Assoc Prof of Musical Theater @peterflynnmusic. #Sondheim fans will not want to miss this! #musicaltheater #broadway @HarperCollins
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Thinking about all the hardworking people who are getting laid off in the middle of the night by email. #OneTeam
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Finally – finished copies of FINALE are here! This stunner by @dtmax is coming November 22 to shelves near you... 🎼🎼🎼
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.@dtmax explores the close-knit community of lionfish divers: hunters who compete to see who can kill more of the invasive fish. nyer.cm/MoBWsRn
Killing Invasive Species Is Now a Competitive Sport

Killing Invasive Species Is Now a Competitive Sport

In the Panhandle, where swarms of lionfish gobble up native species, a tournament offers cash prizes to divers skilled at spearing one predator after another.

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Check out our new season of public programs! Reserve now to join us in person or online this fall: gc.cuny.edu/public-programs Feat. @DrSidMukherjee @grupo_ife @AmericonnedFilm @Ram_Guha @paulkrugman @Claudia_Sahm @Ranky_Tanky @dtmax & many others
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For some singers, the experience of being the acclaimed star of a Stephen Sondheim production would finally define them. That is not the case for Sara Bareilles, who plays the Baker’s Wife in the revival of Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” nyer.cm/ZrpDHYy
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.@sasdud15 (@YaleLawSch ’20) examines the Presidential practice of selectively declassifying government documents. Her note exposes the uses and harms of selective declassification and offers avenues for reform. yalelawjournal.org/note/spin…
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We're excited to launch our new virtual Banned Books Club on social reading app @GetFable. Each month the club will present a different work of recently barred in one or more U.S. school districts or states. Join the conversation! apnews.com/article/entertain…
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Such an important, harrowing project. washingtonpost.com/history/i…
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.@dtmax visits the best-selling author and magazine editor Hanya Yanagihara in her SoHo loft, filled with art, antiques, baubles, and 10,000 books. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
Hanya Yanagihara’s Audience of One

Hanya Yanagihara’s Audience of One

As a fashion editor, she celebrates idiosyncratic forms of beauty. As a novelist, she explores dark themes of abuse and shame. In both cases, she’s worried only about pleasing herself.

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.@dtmax writes about one Welshman’s quest to recover the key to half a billion dollars’ worth of bitcoin from a landfill. nyer.cm/OzwhPle
Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump

Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump

For years, a Welshman who threw away the key to his cybercurrency stash has been fighting to excavate the local landfill.

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.@dtmax profiles Colm Tóibín, the prolific Irish writer whose new novel, “The Magician,” fictionalizes the life of Thomas Mann. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
How Colm Tóibín Burrowed Inside Thomas Mann’s Head

How Colm Tóibín Burrowed Inside Thomas Mann’s Head

In writing his new novel, the Irish author spent years tracing the secret yearnings of Mann—who, he says, played a lifelong “game between what was revealed and what was concealed.”

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