I can answer this. Because Google alerts give me a direct link to pirate sites that claim to have my books. I can then pass these on to my publisher. My publisher then does the legwork of getting them taken down.

Did you get around to reading anything about the Safran Froer emails? Vox has a good summary here.

AGREE! yes, yes

Also in Piccoults tweet someone pointed this out

I just had to google him (Franzen) - I couldn’t remember which one he was - and god does he sound insufferable. I already knew Sparks was.

That whole thread was absolutely the MVP. Just hysterical.

And after that tweetstorm, it is probably a very necessary grudge that has expanded to include Picoult and Weiner as well.

A Bret Stephens level of fragility is a good place to start.

how in the world did this writer find out about this article to begin with?

I don’t know, he could be like “Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light.”

And most of those (moderate clones) are polling rather poorly.

Not by being first, but by being first through twentieth. You’d have to be insane to think there aren’t already viable candidates offering everything these new candidates purport to be offering. 

Yes, that’s exactly my take on her too.

I’ve never read Nicholas Sparks cos I view him as the Thomas Kinkade of writing, but from what I can tell, he’s ALL about the melodrama, not straight drama...

“Daddy, why must you leave me and go back to working for an herb?”

Deadspin forever.

These men aren’t going to win. I’m assuming Bloomberg is afraid of Bernie or Warren winning the nomination, but him getting into the race doesn’t help stop that. He would be better off helping one of the moderate Candidates in the race.  

I really hope the failures of these campaigns are going to really underline the point that the needs of the donor class are completely disconnected from what the actual voters in the Democratic party want.

So, as someone who went to Johns Hopkins (Bloomberg is one of our most famous alumni who has donated insane amounts of money to the school and employs a ton of our grads) and lived in NYC, I like Bloomberg just fine. And I’m originally from MA, and Patrick was a perfectly fine governor. BUT WHAT THE HELL. First, both…