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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Can’t wait. Loved You Dreamed of Empires.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/02/2026

Earlier this month, The Washington Post scuttled its Books section amid mass layoffs. Its former editor, @johnwilliams.bsky.social, on why he thinks the paper’s leaders are wrong about subscriber loyalty:

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The Washington Post’s Books Section Worked

Why the editor of the scuttled review pages believes that the paper’s subscribers know better than its leaders

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 08/02/2026

“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak

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The New Fabio Is Claude

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/02/2026

Breaking News: Will Lewis stepped down as the chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post days after it laid off hundreds of journalists.

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Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

Mr. Lewis will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D’Onofrio, formerly the chief financial officer, the company said.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b... Gifted

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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It’s remarkable to me what rich people chose to do with their money. Imagine you’re one of the richest people in the world. Imagine the responsibility. The gift. Imagine what you could do, especially at this time in this country, with The Washington Post. Instead you give $70 million to Melania.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Looking forward to this. DC peeps, do come!

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

DC folks - please come here @lancerichardson.bsky.social and I talk about True Nature, his wonderful new biography of Peter Matthiessen at @politicsprose.bsky.social Ct Ave. this Saturday, 3 pm. politics-prose.com/lance-richar...

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Lance Richardson — True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen - With Carl Hoffman — At Conn Ave

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Absurd as everything this admin does. And per usual just complete ignorance. Anyone interested in Amelia should read @lauriestories.bsky.social new book The Aviator and The Showman.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

These people are nuts. They sound more and more like the Taliban or the right wing Israelis. They hate America.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“...you will live in exile, because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power, and if you have broken the law, to take away your freedom.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Congrats. I love True Nature and couldn’t agree more.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

All five of my books, plus several translations.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

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America Tips Into Fascism

Today is different than before.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Freedom, in the American context, has always meant the freedom to make bank at pretty much anyone’s expense.... My review of Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West for The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com @bookcritics.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Review | The bloody, muddy true story of the real Deadwood

In his history of the legendary South Dakota gold rush town, Peter Cozzens explains how miners, outlaws, gamblers and other reprobates helped shape America.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

One hundred and eight five years after Melville shipped out of New Bedford, Ma., then the largest whaling port in the world, the city remains the highest grossing fishing port in the USA. Spending the next year reporting on it; heading out for ten days on the Debra C in pursuit of wild fish.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Well, I’m still here and still working! Not dead yet!

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In this lawless landscape of frail masculine egos clinging to cockeyed, and often booze-fueled, notions of honor, the bullets fly, the bodies pile up, the pages turn fast and easy...." My review of Bryan Burrough's The Gunfighters for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Review | The gritty, unglamorous truth about the antiheroes of the Wild West

In “The Gunfighters,” Bryan Burrough sets out to debunk the myth of the Colt-toting cowboy hero.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Town and Country weighs in on the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller wing at the Met; alone of the other pieces so far the reporter delved into the complexities of his collecting and the uneven, colonial power relationships of it. www.townandcountrymag.com/society/trad...

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The Mysterious Disappearance and Lingering Legacy of Michael Rockefeller

The late scion of an American dynasty died under bizarre circumstances 64 years ago. Now, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum named for him is reopening and putting him back in the spotlight.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Can't wait to go see the renovated and newly reopening Michael C. Rockefeller room in the Met. An error in the piece: the Asmat never lived in Papua New Guinea, but in Netherlands New Guinea in 1961, and what is today Indonesian West Papua. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/a...

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The Most Wondrous Art in the World in 1,726 Objects

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Once you correctly recognize Trump's tariffs as a way to fund his intended upper-class tax cut with an immediate tax increase on poor and working Americans ... you can't see the tariffs any other way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs

How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Oof, this is tragic and sad. I met Jill Sobule once at an EG conference in 2014 and a few weeks later she sent me a signed CD and I sent her a signed book. She was smart and funny and kind. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a...

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Jill Sobule, Singer of ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dies in House Fire

Ms. Sobule, known for her advocacy as well as her music, died in a house fire. She had been scheduled to perform songs from an autobiographical musical she wrote.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The idiocy of people continues to astound. And what a gift, leaving a can of Coca-Cola for the thirsty, needy "natives." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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US tourist arrested after visit to restricted North Sentinel island

North Sentinel is home to a tribe that does not have contact with the outside world.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

How times have changed. In 1993, during my 1st of 4 trips to Greenland, I flew w US anti-submarine aircraft in then-annual joint Danish/Canadian/American exercises out of Thule, now Pituffik, practicing chasing Russian submarines. Huge base. Big hangars/long runway. Also a good bar w no windows.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"Zelensky’s physical and moral courage, including his refusal to be belittled on camera in the Oval Office, enrages Trump, for he’s accustomed to endless subservience and flattery." Excellent piece; echoes so much of what I wrote in Liar's Circus. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The Hollow Men

It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I've been thinking this for weeks. An American cultural revolution, sending anyone/everyone who supports liberal democracy & rule of law - anything in opposition to Trump - to the fields to humiliate them and to dominate them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/b...

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Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America (Gift Article)

People in China are expressing alarm at what seems to be an authoritarian turn in the United States, long their role model of democracy, that feels familiar.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

"These are intensely good people who did hard things well." "Our work rested upon the fundamental value of our democracy that we exist 'as a government of laws, and not of men." Don't read about it; read the thing itself. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Special Counsel Report on Trump Election Case (Gift Article)

The former special counsel Jack Smith stood behind his prosecution of President-elect Donald J. Trump in a report released early Tuesday.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"You're close to the ground; you're looking for trees & poles. You've got wind shears & crosswinds & convection columns that can flip you right on your back, & smoke and pieces of ember the size of grapefruits." My 2009 Pop Mech piece on aerial fire fighting in LA.https://shorturl.at/GVTRQ

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I'm starting a new project and looking to find/hire someone who has deep experience with FOIA requests. Any names or leads would be most helpful. Please feel free to DM with any suggestions. Thank you!

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What's it like to have your world invaded by an alien society? What happened when a smart, ambitious indigenous man in the Amazon sought economic success for his people? When We Sold God's Eye is powerful & revealing. My review in @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

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Review | Outsiders beat a path to this Brazilian paradise. Mass death ensued.

In “When We Sold God’s Eye,” Alex Cuadros tells a modern story of invasion and tragedy in the Amazon.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thankful for so many interesting new followers, and thought I ought to properly introduce myself. Thirty-five year full time freelance writer. I've seen some things!

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

100 percent true. When I was reporting my Trump book, almost all the Trumpians’ news came from social media. All the things democrats did and say, the people who voted for Trump know nothing about it or don’t believe it. Trumps crimes? Made up.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I think East Greenland is one of the most spectacular places I’ve ever been. So monumental. So untouched by human hands.

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