Matt Weiland
@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
Yore: Ecco, Paris Review, Granta, The Baffler, MPR, Minnesota Kicks camp.
www.mattweiland.com
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Matt Weiland
@mattweiland.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Delighted and grateful to fly here, to skies full of color and life. I publish books both colorful and alive.
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...
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Opening Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Nonfiction of 2025!
Discover the Readers' Favorite Nonfiction in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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...
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
Great "live" thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today.
cc @petejohnsimon.bsky.social
cc @petejohnsimon.bsky.social
November 10, 1975 7:10pm: The last radio communication.
Anderson: "Fitzgerald, we are about 10 miles behind you, and gaining about 1 1/2 miles per hour. How are you making out with your problem?"
Fitzgerald: "We are holding our own."
Anderson: "Fitzgerald, we are about 10 miles behind you, and gaining about 1 1/2 miles per hour. How are you making out with your problem?"
Fitzgerald: "We are holding our own."
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Great "live" thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today.
cc @petejohnsimon.bsky.social
cc @petejohnsimon.bsky.social
A celebration of the opening of the first bridge, from the St. Paul Weekly Minnesotian (sic), January 27, 1855:
October 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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.
The view inside the Moorhead, MN bureau of @mprnews.org. All credit to @claymasters.bsky.social.
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Most Minnesotan photo of the day:
The view inside the Moorhead, MN bureau of @mprnews.org. All credit to @claymasters.bsky.social.
The view inside the Moorhead, MN bureau of @mprnews.org. All credit to @claymasters.bsky.social.
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'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...
Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
'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...
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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"
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"
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I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)
September 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)
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Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.
"the jarring juxtapositions whiplash the viewer between bleak slapstick (the car is on the roof!) and horror (the car is on *the roof*)"
--Nathaniel Rich on Richard Misrach's photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath
--Nathaniel Rich on Richard Misrach's photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath
20 years ago, Richard Misrach took these never-before-seen photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. “Mr. Misrach’s images assume an uneasy new dimension. How long will it take for these visions of the past,” Nathaniel Rich writes, “to be mistaken for visions of the future?”
Opinion | ‘It Was Unlike Anything I’d Ever Seen:’ Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later
The jarring juxtapositions in Richard Misrach’s photographs of New Orleans whiplash the viewer between bleak slapstick and horror.
nyti.ms
August 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"the jarring juxtapositions whiplash the viewer between bleak slapstick (the car is on the roof!) and horror (the car is on *the roof*)"
--Nathaniel Rich on Richard Misrach's photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath
--Nathaniel Rich on Richard Misrach's photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath
Let's see...
$5.50 in 1965 was worth $17.21 in 1983.
A ticket to the 1983 Prince show for Minnesota Dance Theatre at First Ave cost $25.00.
Therefore Prince was 45% better than the Beatles.
$5.50 in 1965 was worth $17.21 in 1983.
A ticket to the 1983 Prince show for Minnesota Dance Theatre at First Ave cost $25.00.
Therefore Prince was 45% better than the Beatles.
Sixty years ago today the Beatles made their one Minnesota appearance! Gift link.
Fans paid up to $5.50 to see the Beatles’ only Twin Cities concert in 1965
We revisit that landmark event 60 years ago with the Fab Four by the numbers.
www.startribune.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Let's see...
$5.50 in 1965 was worth $17.21 in 1983.
A ticket to the 1983 Prince show for Minnesota Dance Theatre at First Ave cost $25.00.
Therefore Prince was 45% better than the Beatles.
$5.50 in 1965 was worth $17.21 in 1983.
A ticket to the 1983 Prince show for Minnesota Dance Theatre at First Ave cost $25.00.
Therefore Prince was 45% better than the Beatles.
Finally: the All That and a Bag of Chips scandal
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
www.thecity.nyc
August 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Finally: the All That and a Bag of Chips scandal
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Delighted to receive my galley of @cetracey.bsky.social’s forthcoming masterpiece on our planet’s imperiled salt lakes—“a debut as gorgeous and vibrant as the lakes she loves,” as I put it in my blurb. Enamored of that pastel cover so evocative of Utah. Preorder below!
bookshop.org/p/books/salt...
bookshop.org/p/books/salt...
August 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Delighted to receive my galley of @cetracey.bsky.social’s forthcoming masterpiece on our planet’s imperiled salt lakes—“a debut as gorgeous and vibrant as the lakes she loves,” as I put it in my blurb. Enamored of that pastel cover so evocative of Utah. Preorder below!
bookshop.org/p/books/salt...
bookshop.org/p/books/salt...
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On this day in 1958, Art Kane photographed 57 musicians at 17 East 126th Street in NYC for Esquire magazine. It was a Great Day in Harlem, 67 years ago today.
Sonny Rollins is the only musician from this photo still living.
#SonnyRollinsBridge
Sonny Rollins is the only musician from this photo still living.
#SonnyRollinsBridge
August 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1958, Art Kane photographed 57 musicians at 17 East 126th Street in NYC for Esquire magazine. It was a Great Day in Harlem, 67 years ago today.
Sonny Rollins is the only musician from this photo still living.
#SonnyRollinsBridge
Sonny Rollins is the only musician from this photo still living.
#SonnyRollinsBridge
Speaking of water books...
"What his brilliant colleague Richard Powers has done for trees and oceans, Robert Macfarlane here does for embattled waterways."―Pico Iyer, @airmail.news
"What his brilliant colleague Richard Powers has done for trees and oceans, Robert Macfarlane here does for embattled waterways."―Pico Iyer, @airmail.news
August 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Speaking of water books...
"What his brilliant colleague Richard Powers has done for trees and oceans, Robert Macfarlane here does for embattled waterways."―Pico Iyer, @airmail.news
"What his brilliant colleague Richard Powers has done for trees and oceans, Robert Macfarlane here does for embattled waterways."―Pico Iyer, @airmail.news
Out early next year: SALT LAKES by @cetracey.bsky.social. A book that captures the nature world and the human one with rare clarity and feeling.
August 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Out early next year: SALT LAKES by @cetracey.bsky.social. A book that captures the nature world and the human one with rare clarity and feeling.
Out in paperback this week: the celebrated biography of Agnès Varda by @carrierickey.bsky.social.
"Enthralling."―The New Yorker
"Intellectually satisfying and inspiring."―WSJ
"One of the best books ever written about the intersection between a director’s personal life and their work."―IndieWire
"Enthralling."―The New Yorker
"Intellectually satisfying and inspiring."―WSJ
"One of the best books ever written about the intersection between a director’s personal life and their work."―IndieWire
August 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Out in paperback this week: the celebrated biography of Agnès Varda by @carrierickey.bsky.social.
"Enthralling."―The New Yorker
"Intellectually satisfying and inspiring."―WSJ
"One of the best books ever written about the intersection between a director’s personal life and their work."―IndieWire
"Enthralling."―The New Yorker
"Intellectually satisfying and inspiring."―WSJ
"One of the best books ever written about the intersection between a director’s personal life and their work."―IndieWire
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Today in: can I sneak read this book at the front desk galley mail: A Guardian and a Thief by @meghamaj.bsky.social coming from @aaknopf.bsky.social in October. Be nice to your future self and preorder a copy today! islandbooks.com/book/9780593...
August 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Today in: can I sneak read this book at the front desk galley mail: A Guardian and a Thief by @meghamaj.bsky.social coming from @aaknopf.bsky.social in October. Be nice to your future self and preorder a copy today! islandbooks.com/book/9780593...
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The @apnews.com says that its ending its weekly book reviews.
August 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The @apnews.com says that its ending its weekly book reviews.
This is delightful.
Would pay premium for a social media platform that consisted only of people suggesting books for Anne Trubek's mom forever.
Would pay premium for a social media platform that consisted only of people suggesting books for Anne Trubek's mom forever.
Ok book ppl, need suggestions: my mother is a voracious reader constantly needing book recs. Nothing too depressing or dark. Nothing too commercial. Recent reads: Chaim Grade, the Condé Nast book, Doris Kearns Goodwin about her husband, new Shteyngart (didn’t love), Deaf Sentence, Anthony Horowitz
August 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This is delightful.
Would pay premium for a social media platform that consisted only of people suggesting books for Anne Trubek's mom forever.
Would pay premium for a social media platform that consisted only of people suggesting books for Anne Trubek's mom forever.
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Worth reading again: John Lanchester's profile of the BLS (which also appeared in Michael Lewis's recent book, "Who Is Government"). Gift link:
wapo.st/4l7AJjR
wapo.st/4l7AJjR
Opinion | The Number
How a country collects and interprets data reveals a lot about what it values.
wapo.st
August 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Worth reading again: John Lanchester's profile of the BLS (which also appeared in Michael Lewis's recent book, "Who Is Government"). Gift link:
wapo.st/4l7AJjR
wapo.st/4l7AJjR
"In fact, the crowd was so quiet [hearing "Purple Rain" for the first time], producer David Z had to tweak the recording. 'I cheated and put a crowd from the Minnesota Vikings in the audience track.'"
An excellent oral history of Prince and Friends' August 3, 1983 benefit concert at First Avenue can be heard (or read!) at The Current Rewind podcast webpage. The show is also the centerpiece for an exploration of Prince in Minneapolis at @placesjournal.bsky.social
placesjournal.org/article/prin...
placesjournal.org/article/prin...
The Current Rewind: Aug. 3, 1983
Most casual Prince fans know 'Purple Rain' was partially filmed at First Avenue. But did you know the title song is a live recording, taped at First Ave a few months before filming started? In this ep...
www.thecurrent.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"In fact, the crowd was so quiet [hearing "Purple Rain" for the first time], producer David Z had to tweak the recording. 'I cheated and put a crowd from the Minnesota Vikings in the audience track.'"
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42 years ago today, on Aug. 3, 1983, Prince "and Friends" (soon to be known as The Revolution) performed songs for the first time that would appear a year later on the soundtrack album and in the movie "Purple Rain."
August 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
42 years ago today, on Aug. 3, 1983, Prince "and Friends" (soon to be known as The Revolution) performed songs for the first time that would appear a year later on the soundtrack album and in the movie "Purple Rain."
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In the fifties the covers of Anchor Books were printed with a flat color process that limited them to three colors and black, each printed separately. Edward Gorey turned this limitation into a virtue and many of his covers, like this one, have a distinct Japanese woodcut flavor.
August 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
In the fifties the covers of Anchor Books were printed with a flat color process that limited them to three colors and black, each printed separately. Edward Gorey turned this limitation into a virtue and many of his covers, like this one, have a distinct Japanese woodcut flavor.
prestige Sumerian myth
July 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
prestige Sumerian myth