Bill Tonelli@notille

Editor/writer/lover/fighter/South Philadelphian

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Joined January 2011
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HOW LUIGI MANGIONE STUMBLED INTO THE SECRET HISTORY OF ITALIAN AMERICAN TERRORISM medium.com/@tonelli/how-luig…

HOW LUIGI MANGIONE STUMBLED INTO THE SECRET HISTORY OF ITALIAN AMERICAN TERRORISM

He was but an amateur compared to those who came before.

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The Breslin Era | The Point Magazine thepointmag.com/criticism/th…

The Breslin Era | The Point Magazine

I had never, in the context of journalism, known language like this before.

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Saul Steinberg's Beach House - Tablet Magazine #saulsteinberg #abruzzo tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Saul Steinberg's Beach House

The celebrated artist’s little-known imprisonment in an Italian villa by the sea during the Holocaust

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Saul Steinberg's Beach House - Tablet Magazine tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Saul Steinberg's Beach House

The celebrated artist’s little-known imprisonment in an Italian villa by the sea during the Holocaust

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How long before they call this game? #SFvsPHI
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Homebaked Grandma's Kitchen Brings American Breakfast to Rome - Air Mail airmail.news/food/2023/11/br…

Homebaked Brings American Breakfast to Rome

At this 17-seat restaurant, customers can enjoy pancakes and eggs before walking down the alleyways of Trastevere.

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Nick Piccone@_piccone
25 Jun 2023
lol Mets 8th inning radio call
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At Esquire we sent a bunch of people $100 bills and asked them to send back $100 worth of work. Amis sent this bit of brilliance.
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Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 (Published 2023)

In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son.

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From back when novelists were praised for their talent
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This is a third-rail story. My thanks to @clairlemon and my fine editor @j4mi3p for letting me write it my way. It's fashionable now to encourage people to wilt, to retreat into self-care. It's also wrong. For society, and even likely for them. quillette.com/2022/06/12/the…

The Burden of the Best?

From self-belief to self-care.

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12 Apr 2022
rest in peace to Gilbert Gottfried who has probably the best sequence in game show history on Hollywood Squares. if you're not an old hag like me who remembers the rules, both contestants needed his square to secure the 5-square win, but he decided to troll both of them
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Bobby Rydell, Teenage Idol With Enduring Appeal, Dies at 79 nytimes.com/2022/04/05/arts/…

Bobby Rydell, Teenage Idol With Enduring Appeal, Dies at 79 (Published 2022)

He had his first hit in 1959. Six decades later, teamed with his fellow singers Frankie Avalon and Fabian, he was still drawing crowds.

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28 Mar 2022
Replying to @malcolmkenyatta
The one time Brooklyn wasn't in the house!!! Philly, y'all changed the Oscars Game 4ever!!
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Will Smith smacking Chris Rock and QuestLove winning an Oscar are the two most back to back Philly things to ever happen at the Oscars.
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9 Mar 2022
For the 50th anniversary of The Godfather, I spoke with Al Pacino. nytimes.com/2022/03/09/movie…

Al Pacino on ‘The Godfather’: ‘It’s Taken Me a Lifetime to Accept It and Move On’ (Published 2022)

Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role: how he was cast, why he skipped the Oscars and what it all means to him now.

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Opinion | I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead. - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opini…
They already canceled him, yannick to the rescue, enough already #CancelGergiev
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