Beth Macy
@bethmacy.bsky.social
Candidate for Congress, Author of DOPESICK and PAPER GIRL, thrifting champ, compulsive note-taker, and miner of stories about outsiders & underdogs.
To volunteer and/or donate to my campaign: http://www.bethmacyforcongress.com.
To volunteer and/or donate to my campaign: http://www.bethmacyforcongress.com.
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Kara Swisher talks to Beth Macy & Jacob Silverman, authors of 2 great books!
Kara Swisher talks to Beth Macy & Jacob Silverman, authors of 2 great books!
New Year's Special: On with Kara Swisher
Podcast Episode · Hacks On Tap · 12/30/2025 · 1h 7m
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December 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Kara Swisher talks to Beth Macy & Jacob Silverman, authors of 2 great books!
Kara Swisher talks to Beth Macy & Jacob Silverman, authors of 2 great books!
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I'm about 100 pages into Beth Macy's PAPER GIRL and was thinking, "There are a lot of good threads here for a solid, cutting-edge Democratic campaign" and lo and behold turns out that one person who also thought so was Beth Macy!
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She’s Written Bestsellers About Appalachian Struggles. She’s Running for Office. But Don’t Compare Her to JD Vance.
“Dopesick” author Beth Macy’s unlikely bid for Congress.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm about 100 pages into Beth Macy's PAPER GIRL and was thinking, "There are a lot of good threads here for a solid, cutting-edge Democratic campaign" and lo and behold turns out that one person who also thought so was Beth Macy!
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The big differences, other than ideology: 1) Beth Macy has integrity, JD Vance has none; 2) Macy has courage, Vance is a coward; 3) Macy cares about people, Vance doesn't GAF... bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
December 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The big differences, other than ideology: 1) Beth Macy has integrity, JD Vance has none; 2) Macy has courage, Vance is a coward; 3) Macy cares about people, Vance doesn't GAF... bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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I agree about those root causes. Doesn’t the book read like an elegy? To me, @bethmacy.bsky.social is today’s Thomas Gray while Papergirl is another stunning “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and cannot be read any other way.
It’s loss. It’s grief though, too, because it’s immediate.
It’s loss. It’s grief though, too, because it’s immediate.
December 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I agree about those root causes. Doesn’t the book read like an elegy? To me, @bethmacy.bsky.social is today’s Thomas Gray while Papergirl is another stunning “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and cannot be read any other way.
It’s loss. It’s grief though, too, because it’s immediate.
It’s loss. It’s grief though, too, because it’s immediate.
Thanks Book Nook listeners and Vick!
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1. Stephen Cannell (2003)
2, Laura Lippman
3. Andrew Welsh-Huggins
4. Indu Sunderasan (2003)
5. Jeremy Jones
6. Megan Abbott
7. Beth Macy
8. Normandy Farms (2002)
9. L. Annette Binder
10. Phil King
@thejeremybjones.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Thanks Book Nook listeners and Vick!
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I urge you to read Paper Girl by Beth Macy. She did a very deep dive on this situation, based on her hometown, her own family and friends. Incredibly insightful.
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I urge you to read Paper Girl by Beth Macy. She did a very deep dive on this situation, based on her hometown, her own family and friends. Incredibly insightful.
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Both of these authors happen to live in the communities they write about.(Well, Kingsolver's is fictional, but anyone familiar with S/W Va knows it's barely fictional.)
They wrote so authentically because they know those communities, not because they have more empathy for those particular addicts.
They wrote so authentically because they know those communities, not because they have more empathy for those particular addicts.
December 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Both of these authors happen to live in the communities they write about.(Well, Kingsolver's is fictional, but anyone familiar with S/W Va knows it's barely fictional.)
They wrote so authentically because they know those communities, not because they have more empathy for those particular addicts.
They wrote so authentically because they know those communities, not because they have more empathy for those particular addicts.
Barbara Kingsolver nails how the opioid crisis has changed generations of Appalachian families. Addicted folks are not moral failures and criminals; they’re patients with a treatable medical condition.
Gift article
I'm sure this is in MT, too, and everywhere with low density healthcare and a higher percentage of people make a living via physical labor.
Highly recommend Demon Copperhead. Kingsolver's writing is superb. Also Dope Sick by Beth Macy.
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I'm sure this is in MT, too, and everywhere with low density healthcare and a higher percentage of people make a living via physical labor.
Highly recommend Demon Copperhead. Kingsolver's writing is superb. Also Dope Sick by Beth Macy.
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Opinion | In Appalachia, Children Inherited the Opioid Crisis (Gift Article)
The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Barbara Kingsolver nails how the opioid crisis has changed generations of Appalachian families. Addicted folks are not moral failures and criminals; they’re patients with a treatable medical condition.
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I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
Or like a rack of pins at Lee-Hi Lanes! Or like a hot dog on a carousel at the Weiner Stand! #GoLocalOrGoHome
Go, Beth Macy! She gonna roll Benedict Cline like a ski-ball game at Lakeside Park!
Beyond honored and excited to see Paper Girl at the top of my favorite president’s list!
December 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Or like a rack of pins at Lee-Hi Lanes! Or like a hot dog on a carousel at the Weiner Stand! #GoLocalOrGoHome
Thanks!
A great president and terrific author…and soon-to-be fantastic congresswoman! Congrats, @bethmacy.bsky.social!
Beyond honored and excited to see Paper Girl at the top of my favorite president’s list!
December 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thanks!
Beyond honored and excited to see Paper Girl at the top of my favorite president’s list!
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Beyond honored and excited to see Paper Girl at the top of my favorite president’s list!
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I'm encouraged!
So many people I know are getting involved, running for offices high and low, fighting to restore sanity and competence. Look at @bethmacy.bsky.social running for congress in VA, and now a friend in Ohio has just informed me he's running for a county commissioner seat.
So many people I know are getting involved, running for offices high and low, fighting to restore sanity and competence. Look at @bethmacy.bsky.social running for congress in VA, and now a friend in Ohio has just informed me he's running for a county commissioner seat.
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I'm encouraged!
So many people I know are getting involved, running for offices high and low, fighting to restore sanity and competence. Look at @bethmacy.bsky.social running for congress in VA, and now a friend in Ohio has just informed me he's running for a county commissioner seat.
So many people I know are getting involved, running for offices high and low, fighting to restore sanity and competence. Look at @bethmacy.bsky.social running for congress in VA, and now a friend in Ohio has just informed me he's running for a county commissioner seat.
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Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Autobiography
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Autobiography
So grateful for this prestigious honor! Amazing company to keep!
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So grateful for this prestigious honor! Amazing company to keep!
Thank you so much to my great friend Danny Strong for his support. Danny was the showrunner for Hulu’s adaptation of “Dopesick” and truly understands that we need treatment, not incarceration.
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thank you so much to my great friend Danny Strong for his support. Danny was the showrunner for Hulu’s adaptation of “Dopesick” and truly understands that we need treatment, not incarceration.
Wishing you peace, strength, and a joyful Hanukkah.
The news from Australia was a sobering reminder that antisemitism is not just history.
And yet the Jewish people have endured, rebuilt, and found light even when it was scarce.
May this be a time of warmth and safety for all.
The news from Australia was a sobering reminder that antisemitism is not just history.
And yet the Jewish people have endured, rebuilt, and found light even when it was scarce.
May this be a time of warmth and safety for all.
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wishing you peace, strength, and a joyful Hanukkah.
The news from Australia was a sobering reminder that antisemitism is not just history.
And yet the Jewish people have endured, rebuilt, and found light even when it was scarce.
May this be a time of warmth and safety for all.
The news from Australia was a sobering reminder that antisemitism is not just history.
And yet the Jewish people have endured, rebuilt, and found light even when it was scarce.
May this be a time of warmth and safety for all.
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Major endorsement for Beth Macy in VA06 - by Sen. @kaine.senate.gov. For a bunch of reasons - name ID, money, endorsements - Macy appears to be the favorite for the VA06 Democratic nomination at this point. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Major endorsement for Beth Macy in VA06 - by Sen. @kaine.senate.gov. For a bunch of reasons - name ID, money, endorsements - Macy appears to be the favorite for the VA06 Democratic nomination at this point. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
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Beth Macy, the Roanoke-based journalist and author running for the Democratic nomination for Congress in what is now the Sixth District, picked up the keyest of key endorsements – from U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.
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Tim Kaine endorses Beth Macy in her bid for congressional nomination
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December 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Beth Macy, the Roanoke-based journalist and author running for the Democratic nomination for Congress in what is now the Sixth District, picked up the keyest of key endorsements – from U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2fK...
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
My career has been focused on one thing: listening. And that’s what this campaign is about too. I hope to hear from you tomorrow in Clifton Forge. RSVP here www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My career has been focused on one thing: listening. And that’s what this campaign is about too. I hope to hear from you tomorrow in Clifton Forge. RSVP here www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Tim Kaine’s endorsement means to world to me. It’s from the heart and from Virginia’s finest public servant, someone who always puts the people first.
December 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tim Kaine’s endorsement means to world to me. It’s from the heart and from Virginia’s finest public servant, someone who always puts the people first.
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“Newspapers were the immune system of democracy.”
- Beth Macy, author of Paper Girl in an excellent interview with Kara Swisher.
- Beth Macy, author of Paper Girl in an excellent interview with Kara Swisher.
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Newspapers were the immune system of democracy.”
- Beth Macy, author of Paper Girl in an excellent interview with Kara Swisher.
- Beth Macy, author of Paper Girl in an excellent interview with Kara Swisher.
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Republicans just wrapped a meeting on healthcare and not even pretending to have a plan.
They’re blaming Dems for the shutdown, as if that stopped them from doing the job. They were still getting paid, they could have been working the entire time.
15 years of whining about Obamacare—still nothing!
They’re blaming Dems for the shutdown, as if that stopped them from doing the job. They were still getting paid, they could have been working the entire time.
15 years of whining about Obamacare—still nothing!
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Republicans just wrapped a meeting on healthcare and not even pretending to have a plan.
They’re blaming Dems for the shutdown, as if that stopped them from doing the job. They were still getting paid, they could have been working the entire time.
15 years of whining about Obamacare—still nothing!
They’re blaming Dems for the shutdown, as if that stopped them from doing the job. They were still getting paid, they could have been working the entire time.
15 years of whining about Obamacare—still nothing!
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@bethmacy.bsky.social for Congress in VA 6th! Currently reading her latest book, Paper Girl, and she understands the problems facing our country & will work hard to improve people’s lives — not just working for the country’s wealthiest people.
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Welcome to the Worst-Kept Secret
I'm running for Congress!
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December 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
@bethmacy.bsky.social for Congress in VA 6th! Currently reading her latest book, Paper Girl, and she understands the problems facing our country & will work hard to improve people’s lives — not just working for the country’s wealthiest people.
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
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