This Mallard duckling is one of seven that recently hatched on a nearby Park Avenue roof and were brought to Central Park's Conservatory Water, where they now swim with their parents and will spend many weeks growing up. 🦆 ❤️ 🦆

Gobsmacked and grateful. “Bohjalian brings a propulsive vitality and a sly humor to a surprisingly moving tale.” —Deepest thanks to Sarah Lyall and New York Times Books . Read the full review in link. Doubleday nytimes.com/2024/04/11/boo…

“I’ve never felt symbolic. I felt — you know, I’m just here.” He laughed. “I’m just Ken.”

Love this ⁦Sarah Lyall⁩ piece on Salman Rushdie nytimes.com/2024/04/14/boo…

In which culture vulture Salman Rushdie references both 'I'm Just Ken' and Monty Python's Spamalot. 🎭🎶

By Sarah Lyall:

nytimes.com/2024/04/14/boo…

Totality at Whiteface Mountain, Lake Placid, New York. Incredible.

Total solar eclipse from an airplane looks wild

This first-person tale by Lachlan Cartwright about the insidious ways in which the tabloid underworld turns is one of the most riveting things I've read in a long time. I'd be shocked if it doesn't eventually get the Hollywood treatment.

(Great cover, too.)

I just photos of the destruction out in Long Island.

Magnitude 4.8 #earthquake

Yelling 'I'M WALKING HERE' at a tectonic plate

Train just stopped in the middle of a tunnel and sat for a second. Somebody said “There was an earthquake.” Nobody said anything for a second as the train kept sitting and a guy goes “Man, fuck this. I’m late for work.”

New Jersey has a name, Kathy.

Like probably everyone else in NYC, my first thought was: “what are the people upstairs doing now?”

Gotta love New York. I was in the local supermarket when the earthquake happened, and the manager, who immediately got on the phone to talk to his wife, shouted out to the whole store, “They felt it in Bay Ridge!”

I AM FINE

Who could resist a fear-of-flying course led by Captain Steve Allright and Captain Nigel Willing, who sound like they've just wandered off the set of 'Airplane!'? Here's my piece:
nytimes.com/2024/04/02/tra…

🎧 Listen to Tana French author of THE HUNTER in conversation with Sarah Lyall on The New York Times podcast 👇 nytimes.com/2024/03/22/boo…

It's the two-year anniversary 🎉 of the 'library owl,' one of the most delightful and unexpected of all time, a Barred Owl that spent several days near the New York Public Library in Bryant Park. 🦉 ❤️ 📚

I've come to terms with these being the most read paragraphs I'll ever write. They seem to be flying around the internet again, god bless them.