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Katy Waldman

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writer @newyorker. formerly @slate. moves like ice on a hot stove. sorry for tweeting this, I don’t have instagram!

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linkhttps://www.newyorker.com/contributors/katy-waldman calendar_today04-09-2010 14:26:06

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Donald Trump’s use of A.I. suggests that he intends to shape the way Americans see the world. “But it also affirms a basic truth about how Trump views human beings: as fundamentally unreal,” Katy Waldman writes. nyer.cm/cnjimXC

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Donald Trump and A.I.-generated imagery are well matched, Katy Waldman writes. “It makes sense that a man who yearns for a reality untroubled by other humans would be drawn to art that is untouched by anything human.” nyer.cm/T7KVaus

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Donald Trump loves posting A.I. images of himself. On a new episode of The Political Scene podcast, the staff writer Katy Waldman talks about how she sees these often bizarre representations as the “statements of intent” of a budding authoritarian. nyer.cm/rUoWeen

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In an interview with Slate's Mary Harris, the New Yorker's Katy Waldman stated that nothing is going well at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since Donald Trump took over the venerable Washington D.C. institution. rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-…

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The mission’s gone pear-shaped, send backup Big Mac, I said FOMMU me you sorry bastards theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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“Twist,” by Colum McCann, centers around the cables that relay computer data around the world, and what happens when a cable off the Ghanaian coast is severed. But the book doesn’t establish the human stakes of the repair, Katy Waldman writes. nyer.cm/7hWdb1j

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Love Marvel, hate Marvel, all I know is that they put The New Yorker in their closing credit sequence alongside a David Brooks joke that deserves its own Oscar newyorker.com/culture/critic…

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James Frey’s new book, “Next to Heaven,” is a thriller about a group of wealthy finance types and their wives behaving badly. One might call it “cancelled-guy fiction, animated by resentment at being misunderstood,” Katy Waldman writes. nyer.cm/lQhuV1n

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I don’t think I fully succeeded in wrapping my head around James Frey’s cancelled-guy comeback novel. (But “yogurt cannon” kind of says it all.)

I don’t think I fully succeeded in wrapping my head around James Frey’s cancelled-guy comeback novel. (But “yogurt cannon” kind of says it all.)
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What happened to the Cinderella story? Both “Materialists” and “Anora” seek to uncouple love from materialism, with mixed results, Katy Waldman writes. nyer.cm/lWEkGW9

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Eva Victor—the writer, director, and star of “Sorry, Baby”—talks to Katy Waldman about her new film and the mutability of trauma. nyer.cm/ps318XL

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My survey of a bunch of new novels about TV (and “literary fiction”’s growing financial reliance on adaptation) is unpaywalled. With appearances by Justin Taylor, Danzy Senna, Taffy B-A, some grouchy anti–boob tube quotes from Vineland, others. In newest issue of n+1!