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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just read this sentence in Alfred Kazin’s great “Starting Out in the Thirties”: “Every day and every week, for exactly eleven years more, Hitler was to be at the back of my mind like a bad dream.” Anyone else have an instant understanding of what this is like, circa the past ten years?

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Holy shit, Ron Darling just described The Great Migration and name-checked Isabel Wilkerson’s “Warmth of Other Suns” during a #Mets broadcast from Chicago.

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How is it that I didn’t know the work of the postwar Georgian painter Vera Pagava? She was extraordinary!

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

www.thelocal.fr/20260714/opi...

Text reads - The success of French football has been achieved by good and cheap sports facilities and the hard work of amateur coaches for children’s teams. It has also been achieved by encouraging, rather than denigrating the diverse qualities offered to France by migrants and their children and their children’s children.

If that has produced a “surplus” of talent which France can export back to the players’ countries of origin, all the better.

The problems of the banlieues remain. They cannot be solved by sport alone. Hence my question. What is French football doing right which the rest of France should copy?

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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I was thrilled to be able to reflect a bit on the historical context of the #Knicks and New York City for the great journal @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social. Enjoy! www.vitalcitynyc.org/knicks-champ...

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New York is the Town and the Team is the Knicks

A tribute to basketball, this squad and the spirit of the city

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Knicks fan in Harlem just now: “Knicks win in 4. Donald Trump games don’t count.”

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Has a more dystopian photo ever been taken in the United States?

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New Yorkers, they get the job done.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

And now nonfiction publishing is on life support. I believe Gladwellism was an accelerant. People loved this annoying shit for awhile! “Experts”! Lots of subtitles that begin with “how” or “why”! Explainification. But it grates soon enough, and then it took down real nonfiction with it.

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Friends: My book PARIS UNDERCOVER is now available in paperback! "One of the best books I've read in ages." -- Sonia Purnell, A Woman of No Importance "A heart-pounding tale of betrayal that is impossible to put down." -- Lynne Olson, Madame Fourcade's Secret War #booksky #nonfiction

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Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal

A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal

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bex @blueraccoon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

a while back there was a "Name something that seems British but really isn't" meme going around and hands down the best answer was "The contents of the British Museum"

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I can’t stop listening to this upper-class twit say “Straits of Vermouth.”

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Praxis, praxis, praxis!

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Today, in the main reading room of the New York Public Library, an unexpected thing happened

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

How to say you’ve never been to New York City without… etc.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Apparently America no longer produces anything other than AI and snack food.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

To paraphrase the great Nina Simone: Minnesota Goddam

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

France is our first and oldest ally. The fact that they are sending troops to fight against us should actually fill every American with horror and shame.

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

As a consequence of some of them having committed fraud, I call for the arrest and deportation of all insurance executives

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Trump was asked by reporters on Sunday whether he had discussed with the Venezuelan government the release of political prisoners or the return of opposition politicians to Venezuela. “We haven’t gotten to that yet,” he responded. “What we want to do now is fix up the oil.”

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Live Updates: Venezuelans March in Support of Maduro as New Leader Rejects Trump’s Claim

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Now *there’s* a sentence! “He screwed onto the side of the desk a pencil sharpener — that highly satisfying implement that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must.” — Nabokov #skybooks

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Rottenartist @rottenartist.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

If you would like to learn more about lunar bat people fornicating and the man that had the entire world talking about it, check out "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth Century New York" by Matthew Goodman. /🧵

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a man wearing a bat mask reads a magazine in front of a sign that says please clean

ALT: a man wearing a bat mask reads a magazine in front of a sign that says please clean

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Welcoming in the traditional Christmas feast!

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Perfectly willing to see this happen to the Kennedy Center — as long as Trump’s name is likewise being added in memoriam

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I saw this scene ONCE when I was a kid and still think about it when I’m putting on my socks in the morning. There’s genuine comic brilliance here from both men. Mr. Reiner, your memory is a blessing.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It’s going to be fascinating to watch GOP response to Trump’s rapid decline — mental, physical, and political. Will they eventually abandon the sinking ship, or stay with it to the bitter end?

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

No more Halloween sightings of Steve Buscemi dressed up as Daniel Day-Lewis!

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Today was the day Zohran Mamdani finally became president

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Pausing the doomscrolling momentarily to say that I’m thrilled that the WaPo has just named my book PARIS UNDERCOVER as one of the top 50 nonfiction books of the year! (Happy too to be on the list alongside my pal @gilbertking.bsky.social.) www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

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50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

“An author’s fondest dream is to turn the reader into a spectator.” — Vladimir Nabokov #writing #blueskywriters

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/11/2025

Print dictionaries: the original large language models 11/18/25

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

On November 13, we are told, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence; that request came from his wife.

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

To those threatening to leave NYC in the wake of Zohran’s victory, I say the same thing I said to those who fled the city after 9/11:

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A terrific essay by @michaelweinreb.com on the 1950 basketball bookmaking scandal — more relevant than ever after last week’s arrests. “The culture of betting is now so omnipresent in sports,” Weinreb writes, “that it sometimes feels like the central reason why sports exist.” Worth a read!

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The Gambler and the Ballplayer (1950)

Seventy-five years after the biggest scandal in basketball history, here we are again.

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

For all the Lebowski heads out there, like me:

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara, Trastevere, Rome

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 27/08/2025

used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It’s a mystery why we still ask whether we’re alone in the universe, isn’t it, when you consider that this question was definitively answered by the New York Sun exactly 190 years ago? For this was the day we learned there were man-bats and bipedal beavers living on the moon

Lithograph from New York Sun, 1835, showing winged humanoid figures in a fantastic landscape. There are unicorn goats, giraffe-like creatures, pterodactyls, a river, a tall waterfall, and high rock faces with caverns

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Matthew Goodman @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Love the subtle “Big Lebowski” reference by @kenjennings.bsky.social on Jeopardy tonight! Not into the whole brevity thing, indeed.

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