Eric Lach@ericlach

writer, @newyorker.

Joined March 2009
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The only true list is “Top 100 Guitarists of All Time” and all other lists are derivatives, essentially
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Listicles, the sages once told us, do not need commentary
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It’s become impossible to gauge nyc storms from the forecasts and warnings. Tomorrow will either be majorly catastrophic or mildly inconvenient or seriously disruptive or somewhat annoying or etc etc
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Let the machine keep their em dashes; embrace the semicolon
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you may not like it, but this is what peak perförmance looks like
Zito@_Zeets
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The New Yorker uses “focussed” instead of “focused”? Every week they try to drive me to madness.
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I’m jealous of any reporter who go the press release for Eric Adams’s visit to Carnegie Deli. I feel left out
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Like FDR to La Guardia
Craig McCarthy
@createcraig
Sep 22
👀👀👀👀 Here's what Trump said to Mamdani yesterday outside Gracie: “I’ll look after you, you look after the New Yorkers. And we can both make it work. I wanna support you, help me. Come with me to the White House – see how I work.” nypost.com/2026/09/22/us-new…
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Heading outside in my light fall jacket
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The kind of Yom Kippur evening that Don Henley sang “The Boys of Summer” about
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“What’s your muffin situation?” <— people simply love asking baristas this question
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I tweeted something mean about my phone and now I think the battery is dying faster to spite me
Eric Lach@ericlach
Sep 19
Sometimes when the subway has been in a tunnel too long my phone refuses to reconnect to the network for a long stretch, out of protest
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Iced coffee is fundamentally antithetical to New York City. New York City as New York City doesn’t actually function properly unless you can drink a hot coffee comfortably on the sidewalk, in the subway, at your desk, etc etc *bangs gavel*
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Sometimes when the subway has been in a tunnel too long my phone refuses to reconnect to the network for a long stretch, out of protest
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30% of New Yorkers weren’t born when “Negroni Season” was published
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“An Expedition to the Pole” deserves to be read and reread and reread
Allison Lorentzen@alorentzen
Sep 16
RIP Annie Dillard. A true legend who once sent me one of her watercolors in the mail as a thank you for my work on her masterful novel THE MAYTREES. Hilarious, brilliant woman with a wicked grin. Read her books.
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no tweet should have more than 15k views
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@AsadFromNYC
Sep 15
“September 11th was a primary day in NYC. Until that morning, Bloomberg had trailed badly in the polls. After the planes hit, officials rescheduled the election. Bloomberg’s victory was arguably a bigger surprise than Zohran Mamdani’s win last year.” newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Ric Burns, N.Y.C. Optimist

The director—and brother of Ken Burns—is releasing two new episodes of his long-running “New York: A Documentary Film,” this time covering Superstorm Sandy, COVID, and Eric Adams.

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Daniel Wortel-London@dlondonwortel
Sep 15
The moment it hits 63 degrees
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Two cliches in a book is nothing to sneeze at
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Me, to the Gmail search function on my phone: “By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.”
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