Matt Weiland

I won Worst Extra at the Razzies.

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a great opportunity

"We are pleased to invite distinguished writers with an interest in serving as the next Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature at the Bard Prison Initiative to apply for the role. Please do spread the word!"

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"It wasn’t designed with tomorrow in mind"

Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer

Wonderful and moving tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social to Rachel Cooke, the brilliant Observer journalist who also frequently lit up the pages of the Guardian Weekly, who has died at the age of 56.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]

Writers! Applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award are open. This year, we've increased the prize to $15,000 to account for the higher cost of pasta. Apply now: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...

Coming in March from @wwnorton.com...

The Spurious Glamor of Certain Voids - The Rumpus Don’t we all love looking, Diane Seuss wondered, at dead things?

Don't we all love looking, as a wonderful poet observed, at dead things? A good season for that perspective. Thanks to @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social @mattweiland.bsky.social @therumpus.net. Companion piece from a WIP appearing soon in @revelliterary.bsky.social #booksky therumpus.net/2025/11/10/t...

Opening Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Nonfiction of 2025! Discover the Readers' Favorite Nonfiction in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.

Congrats to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on IS A RIVER ALIVE? being named one of the 24 nominees for the Goodreads Choice Award in Nonfiction! Vote here...
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Right there with ya. I was five and our Subaru was gold.

Great "live" thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today.
cc @petejohnsimon.bsky.social

+ necktie

That article is bonkers. Love the complaint about the lack of dinner at the celebration, and especially the list of toasts that were made, and the respondents, as they all get sauced. (Also the brutal "no response" after the Governor is toasted.)

A celebration of the opening of the first bridge, from the St. Paul Weekly Minnesotian (sic), January 27, 1855:

Most Minnesotan photo of the day:
The view inside the Moorhead, MN bureau of @mprnews.org. All credit to @claymasters.bsky.social.

Paul Laity · After Martha For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hennepin History magazine Dialing Dahlberg: A Minneapolis phone book's moment of Hollywood Fame tl;dr the movie production team went to great lengths to use the correct prop, but due to the unusual publication schedule of the annual phone book, they got or mocked up the wrong edition, not the one the real Woodward would have pulled off the shelf, if he hadn't just called Directory Assistance as in the book.

A few years ago, @garyhornseth.bsky.social and I wrote an entire researched local-history article about the Minneapolis phone book that Robert Redford pulls off the shelf at the Washington Post in that scene from "All the President's Men"

"obliged to choose between complaint and comedy, I choose comedy"

I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)

It will delight me to send you a copy, Gerry!

Book covers of Lance Richardson’s True Nature and Caroline Tracey’s Salt Lakes

Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.

"the jarring juxtapositions whiplash the viewer between bleak slapstick (the car is on the roof!) and horror (the car is on *the roof*)"
--Nathaniel Rich on Richard Misrach's photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath

"a first-time crop artist"

Let's see...

$5.50 in 1965 was worth $17.21 in 1983.

A ticket to the 1983 Prince show for Minnesota Dance Theatre at First Ave cost $25.00.

Therefore Prince was 45% better than the Beatles.

Finally: the All That and a Bag of Chips scandal

Delighted to receive my galley of @cetracey.bsky.social’s forthcoming masterpiece on our planet’s imperiled salt lakes—“a debut as gorgeous and vibrant as the lakes she loves,” as I put it in my blurb. Enamored of that pastel cover so evocative of Utah. Preorder below!

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On this day in 1958, Art Kane photographed 57 musicians at 17 East 126th Street in NYC for Esquire magazine. It was a Great Day in Harlem, 67 years ago today.

Sonny Rollins is the only musician from this photo still living.

#SonnyRollinsBridge

Speaking of water books...

"What his brilliant colleague Richard Powers has done for trees and oceans, Robert Macfarlane here does for embattled waterways."―Pico Iyer, @airmail.news