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Erin Overbey

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Erin Overbey

@erinoverbey

Archive Editor, @NewYorker + Classics newsletter editor. NYer archivist since 1994. IG & Threads: erin.overbey erinoverbey.bsky.social

Manhattan

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Joined March 2009

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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Sep 14, 2021
Let’s talk about racism! Most white people at prestigious magazines don’t ever want to talk about race or diversity at all. Why? It's primarily because they’ve been allowed to exist in a world where their mastheads resemble member registries at Southern country clubs circa 1950..
Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
May 7, 2024
i really love Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall💯—but let’s not forget it was a Black rapper named Redveil who was the 1st artist to name all children killed in Gaza, call for a ceasefire & say “Free Palestine!” during a live concert he was 19 & it was nov 12th
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Sep 27, 2024
“women like us fall into two categories: dragons and fools. you must make sure they think of you as a dragon” rip Maggie Smith💔 (1934-2024)
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Sep 7, 2023
Tina Fey had Jimmy Fallon dead to rights more than a decade ago in her memoir Bossypants. Will never forget this account about his exchange w/Amy Poehler in an SNL writers’ room…
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Dec 6, 2023
our @TIME people of the year: the journalists & humanitarian workers of gaza
Film Updates
@FilmUpdates
Dec 6, 2023
Taylor Swift has been named TIME’s Person of the Year.
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Jul 6, 2024
this is the kind of shit that led to the french revolution, lol😭
Julie Chang
@JulieChangRE
Jul 6, 2024
This West Village home is insane Anyone who’s lived in Manhattan knows just how insane it is to own a 600 ESF studio or classic 6 Much less this home The carriage house and outdoor space is my favorite
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Jul 25, 2022
So the @new Yorker has fired me, effective immediately. I’m speaking with the union about potentially filing a grievance on the termination. But here are some things that I will say….
Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Nov 14, 2023
totally agree, hillary
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Apr 24, 2025
I N S I D E R T R A D I N G
Dr. Simon
@goddek
Apr 22, 2025
How’s this even possible?
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Sep 3, 2024
the funniest part of this cover is that when @newyorker actually had an employee who pointed out the lack of diversity & representation on its own staff—with no Black editor for articles hired in ~15 yrs—instead of thanking her they put her on a retaliatory PIP & fired her…
The New Yorker
@NewYorker
Sep 2, 2024
Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Aug 18, 2024
comms team: we have to have chapell roan *somewhere* on this summer playlist….for the kidz tim walz: ok! but the rest of this list is mmeeeeeeee💯🎸
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Jun 26, 2024
destroying archives—incl archives of political satire shows—is one of the first things authoritarian govts & systems do. the daily show & colbert show consistently spoke truth to power this is a very dangerous trend, so i say this with my whole chest— what👏the👏actual👏f**k👏
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Nov 19, 2023
haaretz & al jazeera out here making all of western media look like substitute junior varsity coaches at a suburban connecticut middle school
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Erin Overbey
@erinoverbey
Jul 25, 2022
Replying to @erinoverbey
The @NewYorker has never contested the facts as I have stated them: 1) that I was put under a performance review shortly after sending an email raising concerns about gender inequality & inclusion at the magazine;