What a time this is for people who have even a vague understanding of how things play out historically.
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
GLITZ, GLAM, AND A DAMN GOOD TIME celebrates Gilded Age society maven Mamie Fish, an irrepressible, ambitious woman whose parties influenced as much as they entertained.
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Mary Shelly lost her virginity on her mom's grave, facilitated a lesbian wedding, and carried her dead husband’s heart around in a bag, so, yeah, I agree, let’s return to traditional values.
Anyway, shout out to @jenashleywright.bsky.social for writing "Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power" and @ashlieatkinson.bsky.social for narrating. I flipped between reading (with eyes) and listening to the audiobook.
Mamie was ON ONE
A 1.5 pages in and Mamie has invited a who's who of Newport to her home to meet a European Prince who turns out to be a monkey in a costume. Unhinged. I love her.
I love doing book reviews for the @nytimes.com, and I especially love it when I get to review something as good as Amanda Vaill’s new biography on the Schuyler sisters. It's a pleasure from start to finish. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
Fans of The #GildedAge, a new biography of Mamie Fish has been named as one of Amazon's best #books of August a.co/d/ivtvzYk
Soo I went into the bookstore to get a gift for someone & saw 2 📚 that caught my attention😊
They now are in my collection of “TBR”
Both look fascinating & I can’t wait to read them.
Two different experiences but so much the American experience.
If Republicans don't like people excitedly speculating regarding Trump's death, they can just ignore it, the way they do gun violence.
Thank you! 🎉 🥂
It really does all come down to "men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them."
GLITZ, GLAM, AND A DAMN GOOD TIME offers an extensively researched, highly entertaining window into the colorful life of Gilded Age party girl Mamie Fish.
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This app needs a Mamie Fish. We need someone who throws absolutely unhinged parties, cooks people on the time line, gives poor people money and also can't read and doesn't think women should vote (I'll ignore the last two things based on the strength of the first thee)
To paraphrase one of the greats LISTEN UP, A FIVE IS TALKING ABOUT A TEN
The NEW HISTORY BOOK from @jenashleywright.bsky.social is ON SALE NOW TODAY! It’s a biography of MAMIE FISH (YES, the one from THE GILDED AGE) and her HUGE INSANE PARTIES
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I'm married to a former Colbert writer, which means I got to meet him occasionally at holiday parties. This also meant I was the *most unimportant* person at those parties. He remembered my name, joked with me and asked how my writing was going every single time. He's just a really, really nice man.
Whenever I see men post this I think about how when women are lonely, it's not pitied. It's used to chastise them for not being nicer to men. Meanwhile, when men are experiencing a "loneliness epidemic" they decide the answer is *also* that women should be nicer to men.
New interview with @readbookpage.bsky.social about my upcoming Mamie Fish Biography: GLITZ, GLAM, AND A DAMN GOOD TIME. (This interview was also a damn good time). www.bookpage.com?p=217775&pre...
That's the way it's been for most of history. And, as someone who still thinks that democracy is, at least, a nice idea, it's fairly horrifying to me.
I have a few (very wealthy) friends who have argued that if you have a new generation of people who can't think critically, read deeply and are cheerfully distracted by slop, well, that's their choice. They can just do servile work for their betters.
He can't argue for the choices he's making, because he does not have those skills BECAUSE of the choice he's made.
Today, commoners are embracing a tool that makes them less likely to be able to make a convincing argument about anything without assistance. One of the most striking parts of this article to me was how dumb and dull the man who uses ChatGPT is in conversation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
One of the reasons monarchs were so horrified by the invention of the printing press was that it might enable charismatic commoners who knew how to write to share their ideas widely. A lot of those ideas had to do with overthrowing the monarchy.
It really comes back to Atwood's claim that "a word after a word after a word is power." If you cede that power willingly, you will have one less essential weapon against demagoguery.
I suppose my greatest objection to using Chat GPT instead of writing yourself is that you cannot convince anyone to do anything unless you know how to use words well. 🧵
