Charlie O'Malley

new from scott, on @triofrancos.bsky.social's EXTRACTION!

check out scott's latest in @nybooks.com -- reviewing a history of a women's prison in indiana written by those currently incarcerated there. beautifully written and devastating.

in the oct. 9 print edition!

fun home came on in the car this morning so i am starting this day emotionally destroyed

Old map showing route across north London

Photo of metal structure in piazza surrounded by platw hlass buildings and flowerbeds

Secretary hand writing

Map of Smithfield with faint red oblong marker

This afternoon, I’m retracing the steps of a Curtain playgoer from the early 1610s, a young domestic servant. On 13th May, he came here to see the Duke of York’s men and then headed back to his mistress’s house in St Bartholomew’s hospital. #CurrainBook

who will buy this wonderful morning

omg my microsoft word just autocorrected "governor" to "gov'ner" no idea how that happened but thrilled nonetheless

this had oscar buzz, the film comment podcast, the izzy and murtada picture show, the big picture, and of course prestige junkie. but none are as focused as LGM was. i'll miss the VF pods (and general coverage!)

yeah, it just really bummed me out. i can't imagine that happening with any of the previous hosts, or on any other peer podcasts...

Congratulations, from one CAC to another! 🎉

#OtD 10 Sep 1962 white supremacists attempted to assassinate Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi. While staying with her friend Mary Tucker, racists drove by, firing 16 shots at her, all of which missed. Learn more about Jim Crow: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Humanities are the antidote to the empire’s greatest weapon: ignorance. They expose how history is weaponized to justify conquest, and how culture is polished to erase resistance. When you attack the humanities, you attack the very tools people use to unlearn oppression.

scott's book gets a rave in the new york times !!

new review from @scottwstern.bsky.social !!

Why We're Launching Bay Area Current Because workers deserve everything.

It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈

bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...

giving my 10 month old eye drops just as he's perfecting the word dada -- heartbreaking

Rest in peace Justice David Souter, the only correct vote in NEA v. Finley, a disastrous decision for art and speech.

Karen Finley claimed that after the decision came down and all those represented in the case were devastated, she received a bouquet of flowers from "An Anonymous Souter". Legend.

libraries are so great. thank you library of congress and your wonderful staff. ily.

and then please enjoy this picture of julie, dick, and robert goulet (?) rehearsing for the ed sullivan show as sullivan, alan jay lerner and frederick loewe sit offstage.

greetings from the library of congress, nerds 🤓

please enjoy these beautiful negatives of julie andrews and richard burton recording the cast album for "camelot"

I AM READY

The World Can’t Keep Up With Its Garbage A new book shows how residents of wealthier nations are jeopardizing the health and safety of other parts of the planet.

Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com! I write about "dystopian reality" of the global waste trade, reviewing a brilliant new book by @alexclapp.bsky.social (@littlebrown.bsky.social)

"A colonoscopy in book form, an exploration of the guts of the modern world"

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Squinting to see the prisoners who were actively fighting the LA fires.

would have walk’d barefoot to Palestine

my twitter / x account was hacked 2 months ago and today, after weeks of attempting to get back into it (rip actual customer support) i finally regained access.

first thing i did? deleted the account. feels pretty good!

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Book Review: "There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas" -- A Painful but Essential History Lesson - The Arts Fuse The publication of "There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas" is especially welcome and necessary at this time.

And the first review to post! A rave from @theartsfuse.bsky.social

artsfuse.org/303400/book-...

The Unsung Power of Maya Angelou's Activism The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the anti-rape movement.

Here is an excerpt in @time.com

time.com/7206199/maya...

A copy of the book "There is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas" by Scott W. Stern.

Today is pub day for THERE IS A DEEP BROODING IN ARKANSAS by @scottwstern.bsky.social !!

I was lucky to be the first reader (💁‍♀️) and it is really quite excellent. Pick yourself up a copy:

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

nyc friends!

scott's NYC book launch is happening this coming monday, january 27, at 7:30pm! he'll be in conversation with the fabulous historian elizabeth hinton. come thru!!!!

@scottwstern.bsky.social @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social
www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/scott-...