@mattweiland.bsky.social
VP & Senior Editor at Norton; co-editor of STATE BY STATE, THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, and COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT; midfielder from Minneapolis. Yore: Ecco, Paris Review, Granta, The Baffler, MPR, Minnesota Kicks camp. www.mattweiland.com
Up through the 1930s, State Fairs across America featured head on collisions between trains. The first occurred at the Iowa State Fair in 1896 before a crowd of 20,000. This video is from the Minnesota State Fair during the Great Depression, as featured in the poster below:
Aww thanks. It IS ! Will send you one.
SALT LAKES, a glorious debut by @cetracey.bsky.social, is out next week. Catch her on the road, including at P&T Knitwear in NYC on 3/18 with Jake Bittle...
If you’re in DC tomorrow and want to see a lot of bookish people in one place, I have good news:
Bombo Rivera, Robin Yount, Kirby Puckett, Dan Quisenberry
If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...
I'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.
Join author of A COMPLICATED PASSION Carrie Rickey as she introduces a screening of THE GLEANERS AND I tomorrow at the Film Forum in New York City at 6:15pm.
filmforum.org/film/the-gle...
Happy birthday, Delmore Schwartz
I won Worst Extra at the Razzies.
Book buyers of the Midwest, we've got ya covered at
@wwnorton.com
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!"
www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...
"It wasn’t designed with tomorrow in mind"
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...
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...
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...
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...
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
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.
'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...
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"
