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Sarah Larson
@asarahlarson
New Yorker staff writer. newyorker.com/contributors/s
New York, NY
Joined May 2007
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    In this week's @newyorker, I wrote about the World Massage Championship, in Copenhagen.
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    Does anyone else have the condition where someone explains a game’s elaborate rules and your mind just becomes a kind of dial tone
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    Once again I’m reflecting on the time I interviewed a powerful guy who knows Jeff Bezos, and who offhandedly told me, “Jeff has personal reasons for wanting to get to Mars … I’m not comfortable sharing what they are”
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    By the great @PaulNoth, from when Trump chose Vance
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    Can we have a mass protest about the USPS? This is insane, even more than usual.
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    Replying to @asarahlarson
    There’s no democracy in space 🪐
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    Replying to @EasterbrookG
    Hubris is powerful, I suppose
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    I'm actually crying about Beverly Cleary, even though she had a great and long life. Her writing was so empathetic, funny, and observant. Here's what I wrote about her when she turned 100.
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    "Spicer’s Emmys appearance should be unacceptable because he is an accessory to an ongoing attack on American democracy."
    Replying to @laurenduca
    Sean Spicer's cameo at the Emmys is what the normalization of authoritarianism looks like teenvogue.com/story/sean-spi… (cc: @StephenAtHome)
    GIF
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    Still struck by the delighted wonder I felt when reading this Alice Munro story opening, in 1989.
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    My appreciation of the great David Berman.
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    Imagine how much would be different if they’d believed and respected Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.
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    I want a print of this. I love it so much.
    Barcelona opera house reopens with performance to 2,292 plants cnn.it/2YYG8BS
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    One of many smiling-then-tears moments this week
    President Biden just signed the executive order for America to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.