Andrea Pitzer

@andreapitzer.bsky.social

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Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.

Overhead view of a plate with a border of blue dots and three fist-sized eclairs on it, sitting atop a kitchen counter.
A large black dog lies on a beige dog bed with his back to the viewer. An open door and shelves of books are visible in the background.
Screen shot from an email that reads, "Someone from Pizza Hut found your profile, Andrea."
An album cover that reads “”Fidelity Jones, PILTDOWN LAD.”
A seven-week old tabby stares suspiciously at the viewer, ready to bolt.
This sends a message on a fundamental level that manly white men taking charge is the only way out of this mess. The argument goes that if we cater to the strongman-loving model just enough to recapture the votes of those who abandoned the Democratic Party at one point or another, we can run a bait-and-switch by imposing progressive policies, even if the voters who get fooled into voting for a white guy weren’t necessarily asking for that. Today, I’m talking less about any of those candidates’ actual platforms or backgrounds and more about and why they get selected to run or to receive massive support from institutions and institutional figures. Because if maintaining white solidarity becomes the overriding principle in selecting candidates, it affects the entire political system over time.
A view of part of the National Mall with a couple hundred people wandering around
A mid-size tan-and-white dog with perky ears looking at the viewer.
A dark liquid pot full of berries.
Four people are visible high on the outside of a tall monument. They have hoisted a huge banner with alternating text in Spanish and illustrations. The text, translated into English, reads “This too is at stake. Migration with dignity. Stop racism and respect autonomy. Peoples in resistance, environmental justice, stop the weapons, justice for the disappeared, people before commerce. The World Is Watching.”
Lion stature at Nee York Public Library.
A publicity photo of the three members of A Tribe Called Quest from the release of their second album, signed by them “To Andrea.”
Screenshot of two posts stacked vertically from a Bluesky feed. The top one is John Travolta with his new look--a very trim beard, spectacles, and a cream-colored beret. The second one is from Grace Pritchard Burson, posting one of Maggie Tokuda-Hall's pigeon paintings. Burson wrote, "It's Lord Pigeon Wimsey." Tokuda-Hall's painting is of a pigeon wearing monocle, top hat, and boutonniere.
A partial screenshot of an email with a subject line "Invitation to Feature Lolita with 48 ARA (Author Reader Alliance)." Underneath, the sender's name is visible and reads "Harley Cooper." The first part of the email is also visible and reads "Hello, Vladimir Nabokov, I hope you're doing well. My name is Harley, and I'm reaching out on behalf of the..."
A fluffy, black and white mixed-breed dog leaning sideways with her tongue lolling out of her open mouth.
A teenager in a traditional navy blue kumdo dobok swings a sword once horizontally, extinguishing a lit candle.
A photo of a red, white, and blue I VOTED sticker.
A still of Robbie Rotten from the show Lazy Town. A strange looking man in heavy black glasses is laughing. He is wearing an orange shirt and cap and a blue jacket.
A woman with gray hair, a pale blue jacket, and black ski pants and boots stands with her back to the camera, holding reindeer antlers in her right hand. A flat moraine, as well as ice and mountains, are visible in the distance. (Photo: Vladimir Melnik)
Screenshot that reads "The century-long year" and "January 6, 2026."
A fortune that reads, “Be a role model. The younger is watching.”
A golden statue of Popeye clutching a can of spinach.
Patrick Swayze with a blue shirt and tie, and a dark jacket. Smiling but somehow simultaneously jittery, his hair is combed back, and he's holding a microphone.
Someone in a winter coat, gloves, and a hat carries a sign that reads “NEVER Underestimate the Power of a QUEER and Their Tambourine.”
A photo of the cover of the Vladimir Nabokov novel THE EYE (with a lone, disturbing eye at the center, and several other less prominent eyes in the background).
Papier-mâché heads of Trump, Vance, Bondi, and Patel on poles carried by demonstrators.
A handmade sign that reads “SO MANY ISSUES NOT ENOUGH SIGNS!”
A large crowd carrying protest signs, with marchers led by two banners reading “NO KINGS” and “JOIN US.”
No Kings crowd near Lincoln Memorial looking across to e Mall to Washington Monument.
A large black and white dog stands in front of plates, napkins and mostly eaten food items strewn across the floor. A trash can is visible at right.
A black Lab-type mutt lying on a bed, looking at the viewer…
"Every culture, every society has its abysses, its fissure lines along which it can be broken. You don't get to be a concentration camp society without there being really serious problems inside that society. And the cultural history and events that lend themselves to letting those camps rise also lend themselves--and I've seen this again and again--they also lend themselves to saying, "Well, these are NOT concentration camps. Our camps aren't like those prior camps. THIS is an actual necessity in our country or our region at this time, and these are bad people who are a real threat to us as a people or as a nation. Inside these societies that do it, it never feels the same. It never feels like that rhetoric should apply."
A photo of an apple pie with several slits cut in the top layer of golden crust. A red lamp and fish towel are visible in the background.
"Your DEOK JND 0.0027. Genuinely remarkable. You sailed past the theoretical human limit like it owed you money. I'd accuse you of cheating but I don't actually know how you'd cheat at this."
Soldiers in camo and black berets carry a coffin past Donald Trump and JD Vance, who are saluting. Trump is wearing a white baseball cap with gold letters that read "USA."
An enormous black and white dog is hogging half a queen-sized bed, stretched out on his side atop a rumpled quilt.
A large black and white Labby-looking dog sleeps on a dog bed, while wagging his tail furiously. A small blue stuffy is visible in the foreground.
A photo of Donald Trump in profile, with a red, scaly, infected-looking rash on the right side of his neck.
A very haggard looking Donald Trump in makeup with scraggly hair. He is wearing a blue blazer and a baseball cap that reads "USA."
A paperback book titled “War in the Age of Intelligent Machines,” by Manuel de Landa.
A sandy desert landscape covers most of the photo, with icy mountains visible near the horizon. On the sand, leading from the foreground into the distance, are two sets of polar bear tracks--one large, one small.
A mother and her very small cub stand in grass below a vertical wall of dark rocks flecked with orange behind them. The mother is eating grass.
Close up of a bowl of ramen with an egg on top. The yolk has somehow slipped to the bottom of the image, almost on its own, with the cooked white spreading up and out just above it.
A small dove gray fox stands on a slope of rocks and boulders facing away from the viewer, with its pale bushy tail in the center of the photo.
A snow-covered lot bordered by tree limbs also outlined with snow.
A large black dog with white spots lying on a floral-patterned quilt, with quilted pillowcases visible in the background.
Annie Lennox wearing a black suit and holding a riding crop from the video of "Sweet Dreams."
A polar bear makes its way down a slope of rocks and small boulders. Its front paws are bloody.
Photo of a wooden floor, with each plank sporting carved Roman numerals (XXXII, XXXI, XXX, XXIX, XXIII, etc.).
Photo of a wall built from gray, weathered planks. Carved lightly into the wood are the initials W.H. Neale, and the next line reads, "Surgeon of Eira, 1880-1881."
Eight tall stacks of books side by side on a dark wooden floor
Two people in a small open-cockpit airborne vehicle. A man in a headkerchief and sunglasses with a rust-red jacket pilots in front, while a gray-haired woman in a blue parka sits behind.
A digital sketch in red lines of a doe-eyed rabbit-eared girl in a hat, jacket, belt and boots.
A grizzled large, black, older dog lies on a bed, looking away from the viewer.
Screenshot of a tweet from Megyn Kelly reading "The whistles should be banned"
A letter from Philip Glass, with his name at the top. "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. [signed] Philip Glass
A screenshot of my profile, with my name and bio at the top. Underneath it a horizontal bar has a heading "Similar accounts," followed by thumbnails of "The first good website about PC games," a "writer, journalist, and co-founder of PC games," and a candidate for Congress in Massachusetts.