Thread by @SethAbramson

"Abramson [looks like] a regional manager for a call-center chain....[but] as with the best normcores, his rejection of style reflects its own punk defiance." My 8,000-word @Playboy interview is up—and I suspect it'll surprise many. Hope you'll pass it on. playboy.com/read/playboy-i…

RELATED/ In 2014, when I was a columnist for Indiewire, I wrote about "normcore" in the context of superhero films and comics. Hopefully an interesting adjunct piece for those wondering what the heck "normcore" means in the first post in this thread. Link: indiewire.com/2014/10/metame…

1/ "As of this writing, not one error has been found in the book."

@Playboy is referring to the book below, and they're correct—no errors have been identified in 4+ months (the book—curatorial journalism, not opinion—has 1,655 endnotes/2,000 citations). amazon.com/Proof-Collusio…

2/ @Playboy did what journalists do and asked for my bio: "He's a professor of communications art and science at UNH...[and] a lawyer with 5 degrees—a BA from Dartmouth, an MA and PhD from University of Wisconsin, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Harvard Law."

3/ You'd be A-M-A-Z-E-D how many media outlets claim to be journalistic but never contact me to get my job title or any other biographic info and—*and*—don't even *Google it*. The person (for @TheAtlantic, @voxdotcom, @thedailybeast, or whatever) just writes whatever they "feel."

4/ @Playboy: "As a poet, he has produced adventurous (and often weird) stuff such as a mash-up of many of the cruel things he’s been called online."

This sentence references the poem "Strangers," from my 2016 book DATA. amazon.com/DATA-Seth-Abra…

5/ @Playboy: "In 2018 he was named a columnist at Newsweek—but his position within the fourth estate is unfixed."

My first @Newsweek column said Beto should run for POTUS—at a time he was publicly saying he wouldn't. I wrote it the night of the midterms. newsweek.com/beto-orourke-c…

6/ (For those who don't read the @Newsweek article: I was saying Beto should throw his hat in the ring—it wasn't an endorsement. I haven't endorsed anyone and don't plan to. My feeling is that defeating Trump at the polls, should he be on the ballot, is what matters most of all.)