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Thrilled by this serious, fascinating review of BERNIE FOR BURLINGTON by the great Jill Lepore. “Revelatory!”
When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills
Dan Chiasson
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Dan Chiasson
@dchiasso
BERNIE FOR BURLINGTON (Alfred A. Knopf, February 2026)
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Joined August 2008
- "Avoid metaphors, which can introduce unneeded baggage." --from UC Irvine's Inclusive Language Guide
- On Emily Dickinson twitter we're going bonkers over the fly
- Donald Barr, AG Barr's father, who hired Epstein to teach at Dalton at the age of 20 w/ no degree, also wrote a sci-fi novel about the pleasures of sex slavery.
- Schiff's rhetorical strategy is to tell the story in all its sordid turns, building up to key gaps: "Would you like me to read that cable to you?" "I'd be happy to read that cable to you." "But the White House has NOT PROVIDED that cable." Then he says the word SUBPOENA
- Books should have bloopers at the end
- Good God.Seems Mr. Stone is under the impression that calling me a "stupid bitch" nullifies what I said. It actually just raises suspicion about him.
- Replying to @dchiasso(Morrison's Notes): "Would you like to see them? "I'd like to see them." "In any courtroom in the country you'd see them." "In a fair trial you'd see them." "They are there for the asking." He's astonishing.
- In Florida, a “state certified media specialist” will now certify which of Shakespeare’s novels can be taught
- God please, I am begging--please God may I never again have a Tweet go viral
- Replying to @dchiassoIt's a brilliant rhetorical contrivance. He keeps building to these cliffhangers, then presenting the missing evidence as a coming-attraction, a tune-in-next-week with just one condition: "Subpoena."
- Here's one of the saddest things I've written. A letter from campus: newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via @NewYorker
- A psychoanalyst writes from NYC to say he’d like to move to Burlington, but he’s concerned because he’s gay. Sanders sends this response
