Joe Pompeo
@joepompeo.bsky.social
Author, BLOOD & INK (William Morrow 2022) and CALIFORNIA SCREAMING (Union Square & Co. 2027). Working on something fun for Vanity Fair/iHeart Media 👀
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Shot the shit with @bradricca.bsky.social about his new book (hot off the presses), LINCOLN’S GHOST: Houdini’s War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency:
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Brad Ricca on LINCOLN'S GHOST
"This is a book about ghosts. A lot of it’s goofy, but some of it’s scary."
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October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Shot the shit with @bradricca.bsky.social about his new book (hot off the presses), LINCOLN’S GHOST: Houdini’s War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency:
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October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New true crime anthology from Penzler Publishers/Crime Ink featuring a Vanity Fair story of mine plus other great reads from Harper’s, Esquire, Texas Monthly, Slate, The Atavist, and more.
Preorder here: penzlerpublishers.com/product/the-...
Preorder here: penzlerpublishers.com/product/the-...
October 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
New true crime anthology from Penzler Publishers/Crime Ink featuring a Vanity Fair story of mine plus other great reads from Harper’s, Esquire, Texas Monthly, Slate, The Atavist, and more.
Preorder here: penzlerpublishers.com/product/the-...
Preorder here: penzlerpublishers.com/product/the-...
Chatted with my pal @lauriestories.bsky.social about the wild research breakthroughs behind her dishy and revelatory new Amelia Earhart book, THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN:
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro on THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN
"You can’t work with the estate if you want the real story."
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September 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Chatted with my pal @lauriestories.bsky.social about the wild research breakthroughs behind her dishy and revelatory new Amelia Earhart book, THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN:
joepompeo.substack.com/p/laurie-gwe...
joepompeo.substack.com/p/laurie-gwe...
Gilded Age power women, Holocaust survival, and the Brits behind the bomb — four new books to check out in September:
Gilded Age power women, Holocaust survival, and the Brits behind the bomb
Four new books to check out in September
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September 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Gilded Age power women, Holocaust survival, and the Brits behind the bomb — four new books to check out in September:
My latest for TOWN & COUNTRY, for their higher education digital issue, with cameos from @paulcollins.bsky.social and @ellisw.bsky.social:
www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...
www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...
The Historic Harvard Murder Mystery That Still Keeps College Students Up at Night
Scandals at Harvard University always receive outsized attention, especially when a well-liked professor is accused of murder.
www.townandcountrymag.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My latest for TOWN & COUNTRY, for their higher education digital issue, with cameos from @paulcollins.bsky.social and @ellisw.bsky.social:
www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...
www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...
Chatted with Bryan Burrough about the research behind his new book on the Old West outlaws who “all became famous for shooting people.”
Bryan Burrough on THE GUNFIGHTERS
"They all became famous for shooting people."
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July 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Chatted with Bryan Burrough about the research behind his new book on the Old West outlaws who “all became famous for shooting people.”
My latest podcast script for iHeart's VERY SPECIAL EPISODES is about JFK's summer as a journalist for the Hearst newspapers at the sunset of WWII. You can listen to it and check out some fun extras over at my Substack:
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JFK's summer as a journalist
"A reporter is reporting what happens; he's not making it happen."
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July 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My latest podcast script for iHeart's VERY SPECIAL EPISODES is about JFK's summer as a journalist for the Hearst newspapers at the sunset of WWII. You can listen to it and check out some fun extras over at my Substack:
joepompeo.substack.com/p/jfks-summe...
joepompeo.substack.com/p/jfks-summe...
Over at my Substack, @michelleyoung.bsky.social talks about her research behind "the true story of a World War II resistance hero, Rose Valland, who was an art historian inside the museum the Nazis took over to loot art through."
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Michelle Young on THE ART SPY
"The true story of a World War II resistance hero."
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June 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Over at my Substack, @michelleyoung.bsky.social talks about her research behind "the true story of a World War II resistance hero, Rose Valland, who was an art historian inside the museum the Nazis took over to loot art through."
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TOWN & COUNTRY asked me if I had anything juicy for their GILDED AGE-themed digital issue so I dug into the archives of the great Vanderbilt divorce scandal:
"Every class is concerned with this divorce announcement. It interests the rich as well as the poor who want to be rich."
"Every class is concerned with this divorce announcement. It interests the rich as well as the poor who want to be rich."
The War of the Vanderbilts: When Divorce Came for the Gilded Age
How feuding millionaires invented the modern split, and what it could mean for TV’s most refined aristocrats.
www.townandcountrymag.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
TOWN & COUNTRY asked me if I had anything juicy for their GILDED AGE-themed digital issue so I dug into the archives of the great Vanderbilt divorce scandal:
"Every class is concerned with this divorce announcement. It interests the rich as well as the poor who want to be rich."
"Every class is concerned with this divorce announcement. It interests the rich as well as the poor who want to be rich."
Story behind the story of @suzannecope.bsky.social's new book about four anti-fascist Italian women who found their agency and became members of the resistance during World War II:
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Suzanne Cope on WOMEN OF WAR
"Four anti-fascist Italian women who found their agency and became members of the resistance"
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May 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Story behind the story of @suzannecope.bsky.social's new book about four anti-fascist Italian women who found their agency and became members of the resistance during World War II:
joepompeo.substack.com/p/suzanne-co...
joepompeo.substack.com/p/suzanne-co...
Blabbing about historical true crime with @garykrist.bsky.social @abbottkahler.bsky.social and @michaelwolraich.com:
Crime as history
A good gab with Gary Krist, Abbott Kahler and Michael Wolraich
joepompeo.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Blabbing about historical true crime with @garykrist.bsky.social @abbottkahler.bsky.social and @michaelwolraich.com:
Kate Summerscale digs into London's infamous Rillington Place murders in her latest historical true-crime thriller, THE PEEPSHOW, out in the U.S. May 6 and previewed for you over at my Substack:
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Kate Summerscale on THE PEEPSHOW
“Johnny, let’s play dig up the bodies!”
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April 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Kate Summerscale digs into London's infamous Rillington Place murders in her latest historical true-crime thriller, THE PEEPSHOW, out in the U.S. May 6 and previewed for you over at my Substack:
joepompeo.substack.com/p/kate-summe...
joepompeo.substack.com/p/kate-summe...
Did you ever hear the one about the doll shop spy of World War II? Learn all about it in my latest for iHeartMedia's VERY SPECIAL EPISODES.
Special thanks to the FBI's resident historian, Dr. John Fox, for helping us tell this truly wild tale:
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Special thanks to the FBI's resident historian, Dr. John Fox, for helping us tell this truly wild tale:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Spies and Dolls
Podcast Episode · Very Special Episodes · 04/23/2025 · 50m
podcasts.apple.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Did you ever hear the one about the doll shop spy of World War II? Learn all about it in my latest for iHeartMedia's VERY SPECIAL EPISODES.
Special thanks to the FBI's resident historian, Dr. John Fox, for helping us tell this truly wild tale:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Special thanks to the FBI's resident historian, Dr. John Fox, for helping us tell this truly wild tale:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Come for Clem Burke, stay for Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Sable Starr, Stiv Bators, and more, from @theresakereakes.bsky.social:
Death of a Punk
not what you think
punkturns30again.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Come for Clem Burke, stay for Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Sable Starr, Stiv Bators, and more, from @theresakereakes.bsky.social:
Thanks to @harkaudio.com for audio-excerpting our GATSBY episode. You can listen here: harkaudio.com/april-10-202...
April 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thanks to @harkaudio.com for audio-excerpting our GATSBY episode. You can listen here: harkaudio.com/april-10-202...
For THE GREAT GATSBY'S hundredth birthday, here's the story of how Fitzgerald's Great American Novel went from forgotten Jazz Age flop to timeless literary phenomenon thanks to an anti-fascist book campaign designed to boost the morale of American soldiers during World War II:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, World War II, and the remarkable resurrection of THE GREAT GATSBY
“Brilliant Novelist of Twenties, Inactive Recently, Likened Self to Cracked Plate”
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April 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
For THE GREAT GATSBY'S hundredth birthday, here's the story of how Fitzgerald's Great American Novel went from forgotten Jazz Age flop to timeless literary phenomenon thanks to an anti-fascist book campaign designed to boost the morale of American soldiers during World War II:
New narrative-history bangers coming up from @michaelluo.bsky.social, @suzannecope.bsky.social, and more:
Five new books to check out in April
The fall of Budapest, the Italian female antifascist resistance, a Gilded Age spy saga, and more.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New narrative-history bangers coming up from @michaelluo.bsky.social, @suzannecope.bsky.social, and more:
Sad news in my inbox from @europaeditions.bsky.social that author/translator @timmohr.bsky.social has died. Didn't know him but his book BURNING DOWN THE HAUS is a great read and an important entry in the punk rock history canon:
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www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tim-m...
April 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Sad news in my inbox from @europaeditions.bsky.social that author/translator @timmohr.bsky.social has died. Didn't know him but his book BURNING DOWN THE HAUS is a great read and an important entry in the punk rock history canon:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tim-m...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tim-m...
Head over to my Substack for a sneak peek at Steven Schwankert's riveting, James Cameron-endorsed new Titanic book that hits shelves next week:
Excerpt: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors
"Were they heroes? Were they cowards? Or were they just lucky?"
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March 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Head over to my Substack for a sneak peek at Steven Schwankert's riveting, James Cameron-endorsed new Titanic book that hits shelves next week:
Behind the scenes of @garykrist.bsky.social's new Gilded Age true crime banger:
Gary Krist on TRESPASSERS AT THE GOLDEN GATE
"The murder was just about as brazen and scandalous as it gets."
joepompeo.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Behind the scenes of @garykrist.bsky.social's new Gilded Age true crime banger:
Hot list 🔥🔥🔥
My picks for the top historical #truecrime books of 2024 chireviewofbooks.com/2024/12/18/7... via @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
@jamespolchin.bsky.social @michaelwolraich.com @abbottkahler.bsky.social
@jamespolchin.bsky.social @michaelwolraich.com @abbottkahler.bsky.social
7 of the Best Historical True Crime Books of 2024 - Chicago Review of Books
A roundup of some of our favorite historical true crime books of 2024
chireviewofbooks.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hot list 🔥🔥🔥
Revisiting the "Rolling Stone of the information age," with cameos from @time.com, Sega Genesis, Terminator 2, Æon Flux, The Lawnmower Man, Genesis P-orridge, Brian Eno, Glenn Branca, Blixa Bargeld, Shonen Knife, Milli Vanilli, and more:
Let's all meet up in the year Mondo 2000
A look back at cyberpunk's prescient publication of record
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March 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Revisiting the "Rolling Stone of the information age," with cameos from @time.com, Sega Genesis, Terminator 2, Æon Flux, The Lawnmower Man, Genesis P-orridge, Brian Eno, Glenn Branca, Blixa Bargeld, Shonen Knife, Milli Vanilli, and more:
This is a great episode format from
@karaswisher.bsky.social / @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social —a mix of breezy narrative and dishy roundtable chat with primo guests:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
@karaswisher.bsky.social / @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social —a mix of breezy narrative and dishy roundtable chat with primo guests:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Can Kara Save The Washington Post From Jeff Bezos?
Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 03/03/2025 · 1h 29m
podcasts.apple.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is a great episode format from
@karaswisher.bsky.social / @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social —a mix of breezy narrative and dishy roundtable chat with primo guests:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
@karaswisher.bsky.social / @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social —a mix of breezy narrative and dishy roundtable chat with primo guests:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...