Matthew Goodman
Brooklynite, author of narrative histories including the NYT bestseller EIGHTY DAYS and THE CITY GAME, and the recently released PARIS UNDERCOVER. Mets fan. Loves the semicolon.
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanA 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
- To paraphrase the great Nina Simone: Minnesota Goddam
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanFrance 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.
- As a consequence of some of them having committed fraud, I call for the arrest and deportation of all insurance executives
- Kaiser Permanente, DOJ reach $556 million Medicare Advantage fraud settlement, the largest of its kind www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/k...
- 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.”
- 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
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanIf 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. /🧵
- Welcoming in the traditional Christmas feast!
- Perfectly willing to see this happen to the Kennedy Center — as long as Trump’s name is likewise being added in memoriam
- 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.
- The show was so revolutionary due to its content that it’s easy to forget the comedic gifts of its brilliant cast. This is Babe-and-Stan level. RIP to the great and funny Rob Reiner. youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanOne 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
- 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?
- No more Halloween sightings of Steve Buscemi dressed up as Daniel Day-Lewis!
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanToday was the day Zohran Mamdani finally became president
- 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...
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanThe 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.
- “An author’s fondest dream is to turn the reader into a spectator.” — Vladimir Nabokov #writing #blueskywriters
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanPrint dictionaries: the original large language models 11/18/25
- On November 13, we are told, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence; that request came from his wife.
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanI think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
- 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:
- 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!
- For all the Lebowski heads out there, like me:
- Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara, Trastevere, Rome
- Reposted by Matthew Goodmanused 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...
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanIt’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
- Love the subtle “Big Lebowski” reference by @kenjennings.bsky.social on Jeopardy tonight! Not into the whole brevity thing, indeed.
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanAssault with a deli weapon.
- Brattleboro, Vermont
- “Nobody’s seen anything like it — even though they’ve done it twice before”
- A “Palestine exception” to free speech means that there is no free speech
- Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- I’m thrilled to announce that my book PARIS UNDERCOVER has been selected for the long list for the 2025 American Library in Paris Book Award. It’s an honor to be included in this wonderful lineup of books and authors!
- RIP Dave (“The Cobra”) Parker, right fielder non pareil and the baddest mf ever to play the game
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanI get how New Yorkers talking about the city all the time is annoying, but I gotta say that non-New Yorkers talking about the city is way more annoying
- Reposted by Matthew Goodmani think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up
- Founded in 1938, CYCO is a legendary institution in the Yiddish world, an invaluable storehouse of Yiddish culture and history. This is Zohran Mamdani’s 2022 tweet asking folks to help support it. But sure, he’s an “anti-Semite”
- The National Archives research facility in College Park, MD, is a national treasure, offering interested members of the general public an unparalleled direct look at the workings of the federal government. This decision is deeply anti-democratic and anti-intellectual — in a word, fascistic.
- Welcome to America circa 2025: two members of the US House of Representatives being denied their constitutional rights by a smirking guy in a Froot Loops shirt
- What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Nonfiction authors, not their publishers, have to pay for the rights to the photographs and other graphics contained in their books, as well as for the indexing.
- Reposted by Matthew Goodman“We’re going to need a bigger The Hague”
- Pride Night at Citi Field! #LGM
- Surely the greatest “fuck you” letter in the history of American publishing, written by 79-year-old author Norman Maclean to an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, which had rejected his first book, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT.
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanIdk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanI just finished reading this book. Highly recommend. It was the best of humanity and the worst of humanity. In troubled times our true selves are exposed. Thank you Mr. Goodman.
- Charmed to learn that a French idiom for “I digress” is “J’ouvre une parenthèse” — “I open a parenthesis.”
- Hey folks, if you were maybe interested in reading PARIS UNDERCOVER but didn’t want to pay full price (full price? in THIS economy?), now’s your chance! Right now, the Kindle edition is on sale for the low-low price of only $1.99! You heard right — only $1.99! Order yours today!
- These are extraordinary!
- Happy Workers’ Day to all who celebrate
- Reposted by Matthew GoodmanSam Seder confronts Ethan Klein on the dangers of conflating criticism of zionism with anti-Semitism
- Observation during Covid film-bingeing: You will scarcely ever see a more intelligent, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining performance than the one given in the small indie feature “Lousy Carter” by the great (and sorely underappreciated) David Krumholtz.
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