Carlos Lozada
@washingtonpost book critic. @NotreDame grad & adjunct. Washingtonian says I’m “quirky.”
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The Future Of Publishing Is Just Books About Donald Trump Forever Until You Are Dead
Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig from the Washington Post are working on a book. So is NBC’s Chuck Todd.
Impersonating Philip Marlowe
What happened when the novelist Lawrence Osborne agreed to write a book in the voice of Raymond Chandler’s iconic gumshoe.
Carlos Lozada
God I don’t know why I loved reading this @lawrenceosborne essay so much
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PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi
CRC Public Relations, a powerhouse conservative firm, guided Ed Whelan on a bad Twitter adventure.
Carlos Lozada
"Best known for its work with the Swift Boat Veterans in 2004..." Nice @elianayjohnson look at the PR firm that enabled the Ed Whelan debacle
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I was sexually assaulted. Here’s why I don’t remember many of the details.
And it doesn’t surprise me that for more than 30 years, Christine Blasey Ford didn’t talk about the assault she remembers.
Carlos Lozada
Patti Davis: "That’s what happens: Your memory snaps photos of the details that will haunt you forever, that will change your life and live under your skin. It blacks out other parts of the story that really don’t matter much."
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Review | Why women’s rage is healthy, rational and necessary for America
Review of "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger" by Rebecca Traister and "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger" by Soraya Chemaly
Carlos Lozada
My review of GOOD AND MAD by @rtraister and RAGE BECOMES HER by @schemaly, two urgent, enlightening and angry books that I very much hope men will read
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Review | Stormy Daniels’s memoir: Funny, vulgar, brash and believable
Besides offering dirt on Trump, Daniels also challenges attitudes about ambitious, self-promoting women.
Carlos Lozada
"She’s not a gold digger or an attention seeker or a bimbo looking for her 15 minutes. And she’s definitely not a liar." @JillFilipovic reviews the @StormyDaniels memoir, FULL DISCLOSURE
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What the New York Review of Books Did Wrong
By publishing Jian Ghomeshi, Ian Buruma revealed that he didn’t understand a major issue of our time.
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Carlos Lozada
"The piece Buruma found so 'interesting' is, actually, unbearably trite. As a literary personal essay, it is a failure, written in abstract and bland language, drowning under the weight of vague therapeutic bromides." I like this @meghanor piece
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Kavanaugh accuser won’t testify Monday but open to doing so later next week
Democrats accuse Republican leaders of trying to “railroad” through President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
Carlos Lozada
“There is zero chance that I would confuse them.”
And with that, the tweet balloon is punctured...
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In the ’80, boys’ prep schools like Kavanaugh’s could be bastions of misogyny
I went to an elite high school down the road from his. Here’s what I saw.
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Stormy Daniels' tell-all book on Trump: salacious detail and claims of cheating
Exclusive: pornographic actor says Trump ‘didn’t want to be president’ in her book Full Disclosure
Hillary Clinton: American Democracy Is in Crisis
"Our democratic institutions and traditions are under siege. We need to do everything we can to fight back."
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Carlos Lozada
“And you won’t be surprised to hear that I passionately believe it’s time to abolish the Electoral College.” —@HillaryClinton
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The 2018 National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction
The authors on this year’s longlist have, among them, four National Book Critics Circle Awards, three Pulitzer Prizes, three National Magazine Awards, and two Guggenheim fellowships.
Carlos Lozada
Two of my favorite writers are long-listed for the National Book Award In nonfiction: @SteveCollNY (for DIRECTORATE S) and @ProfCAnderson (for ONE PERSON, NO VOTE). Congrats to them and all the other authors so honored by @nationalbook
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"'The Most Secretly Interesting Place in America'" from The Book Review by The New York Times on Apple Podcasts
Carlos Lozada
“You don’t want to be so open-minded that your brain falls out, so open-minded that you’re sort of giving everything the benefit of the doubt.... Then you’re just saying nothing and then you just have to go kill yourself.” @DwightGarner rocks
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Bob Woodward: By the Book
The journalist, whose new book is “Fear: Trump in the White House,” remembers reading “The Swiss Family Robinson” as a child: “It was, I believe, the first time I dropped out of my own world into another for a sustained period of time.”
Carlos Lozada
“Lincoln, FDR and Nixon — on the record, with multiple tape recorders running. Nixon, though, might not come. If not, I would substitute Eisenhower.”
The three writers, alive or dead, @realBobWoodward would invite to a dinner party
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Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ is the fastest-selling adult title in three years
A seventh printing of the book brings the total number of hardcover copies up to 1 million.
Novelist who wrote about ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ charged with murdering her husband
Don't hire hit men or lovers, she wrote in blog post before police allege she killed her chef husband with a gun.
The Afghanistan war has gone on so long that people born after 9/11 can now enlist
The longest war in U.S. history exposes a divide between soldiers motivated by the attacks, and those who have no memory of it.
Carlos Lozada
The American infants born the day after the attacks of Sept. 11 are now old enough to enlist and fight in the war in Afghanistan, which is, of course, still going on...
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What a baby
Bob Woodward shows us a president obsessed with the appearance of weakness.
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Carlos Lozada
Perceptive @IgnatiusPost piece on what the @realBobWoodward reveals about President Trump — a constant fear of appearing “weak.”
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