Jessica Goldstein
@jessicagolds.bsky.social
Reporter, recapper, novelist.
Read me in/on: Washington Post, New York Times, Vulture, McSweeney's, Marie Claire & more. Debut novel RETRO to be published by Ballantine 💫 Say hello: Jess at jessicamgoldstein dot com
Read me in/on: Washington Post, New York Times, Vulture, McSweeney's, Marie Claire & more. Debut novel RETRO to be published by Ballantine 💫 Say hello: Jess at jessicamgoldstein dot com
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Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein: 9798217091362 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present—in this sharp, speculative debut novel....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
My debut novel is available for preorder!!!!
In RETRO, an out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present.
Get your ticket to ride: June 23, 2026 💫
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788779...
In RETRO, an out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present.
Get your ticket to ride: June 23, 2026 💫
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788779...
My debut novel is available for preorder!!!!
In RETRO, an out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present.
Get your ticket to ride: June 23, 2026 💫
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788779...
In RETRO, an out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present.
Get your ticket to ride: June 23, 2026 💫
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788779...
Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein: 9798217091362 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present—in this sharp, speculative debut novel....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My debut novel is available for preorder!!!!
In RETRO, an out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present.
Get your ticket to ride: June 23, 2026 💫
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788779...
In RETRO, an out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present.
Get your ticket to ride: June 23, 2026 💫
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788779...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“Bobby probably doesn’t remember the millions of people who were paralyzed or killed by polio before the vaccine was available. My dad… does remember. Recently, I asked him what it was like when he got the vaccine. He said that it felt like freedom.”
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www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“Bobby probably doesn’t remember the millions of people who were paralyzed or killed by polio before the vaccine was available. My dad… does remember. Recently, I asked him what it was like when he got the vaccine. He said that it felt like freedom.”
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www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
This week on THE RETRO REPORT: Come reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with me during the most poignant time of the year!
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Looking at the world once and burning ugliness: The Retro Report, vol. 7
ON REREADING YOUR BELOVED CHILDHOOD CLASSICS DURING THE MOST POIGNANT TIME OF THE YEAR
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November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This week on THE RETRO REPORT: Come reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with me during the most poignant time of the year!
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retroreport.substack.com/p/looking-at...
Reposted by Jessica Goldstein
"The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon. The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon. The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
"It sounds hyperbolic, but it’s true: In a world where shared experiences are becoming rarer and rarer, the cinema — as both a place and a practice — remains one of the last bastions of our common humanity."
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
The Pope vs. the Algorithm
In his speech to filmmakers last weekend, Pope Leo XIV showed he’s been paying serious attention to the issues facing cinema as an art form.
www.vulture.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"It sounds hyperbolic, but it’s true: In a world where shared experiences are becoming rarer and rarer, the cinema — as both a place and a practice — remains one of the last bastions of our common humanity."
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
This week on THE RETRO REPORT we must ask ourselves: what *do* people do all day? I make the case for offices as the strangest places around, ft. Retro recs to support my theory!
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November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This week on THE RETRO REPORT we must ask ourselves: what *do* people do all day? I make the case for offices as the strangest places around, ft. Retro recs to support my theory!
retroreport.substack.com/p/no-place-i...
retroreport.substack.com/p/no-place-i...
Perfect @winterjessica.bsky.social piece on the “crisis” of modern men, the protagonists of reality apparently!!!
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Perfect @winterjessica.bsky.social piece on the “crisis” of modern men, the protagonists of reality apparently!!!
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Get over to the Retro Report to talk about EMBARRASSING BOYFRIENDS in literature and in life, ft. My personal nemesis: Nino Sarratore 👿
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Embarrassing boyfriends in literature and in life: The Retro Report, vol. 5
FINALLY: WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FERRANTE!!!
retroreport.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Get over to the Retro Report to talk about EMBARRASSING BOYFRIENDS in literature and in life, ft. My personal nemesis: Nino Sarratore 👿
retroreport.substack.com/p/embarrassi...
retroreport.substack.com/p/embarrassi...
My newsletter this week is all about what I’m calling the VISION/POWER gap: when an artist has taste but not clout! Come see what all the fuss is about and subscribe to THE RETRO REPORT :)
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October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My newsletter this week is all about what I’m calling the VISION/POWER gap: when an artist has taste but not clout! Come see what all the fuss is about and subscribe to THE RETRO REPORT :)
retroreport.substack.com/p/how-many-a...
retroreport.substack.com/p/how-many-a...
Reposted by Jessica Goldstein
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
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CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
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CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the time of the season for HAUNTING AND BEING HAUNTED by the art that never was!
This week’s Retro Report is all about the art that got away.
Come yearn with me!
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This week’s Retro Report is all about the art that got away.
Come yearn with me!
retroreport.substack.com/p/haunted-by...
Haunted by the art that never was: The Retro Report, vol. 3.
YEARNING FOR THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY!
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October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It’s the time of the season for HAUNTING AND BEING HAUNTED by the art that never was!
This week’s Retro Report is all about the art that got away.
Come yearn with me!
retroreport.substack.com/p/haunted-by...
This week’s Retro Report is all about the art that got away.
Come yearn with me!
retroreport.substack.com/p/haunted-by...
THRILLING NEWS: I STARTED A NEWSLETTER! It is called THE RETRO REPORT.
Come and get the super-specific, mood-based recommendations for what to read, watch, listen to, meditate on, and obsess over you've been yearning for!!!!!!
open.substack.com/pub/retrorep...
Come and get the super-specific, mood-based recommendations for what to read, watch, listen to, meditate on, and obsess over you've been yearning for!!!!!!
open.substack.com/pub/retrorep...
Extremely-online language is the Shein of slang, or: why do all celebrities sound Like That? The Retro Report, vol. 2
PLUS: RETRO RECS TO REPLENISH THE WORD WELLS IN OUR MINDS!!!
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October 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
THRILLING NEWS: I STARTED A NEWSLETTER! It is called THE RETRO REPORT.
Come and get the super-specific, mood-based recommendations for what to read, watch, listen to, meditate on, and obsess over you've been yearning for!!!!!!
open.substack.com/pub/retrorep...
Come and get the super-specific, mood-based recommendations for what to read, watch, listen to, meditate on, and obsess over you've been yearning for!!!!!!
open.substack.com/pub/retrorep...
very funny to read this in the Washington Post which was, until quite recently, in the business of setting up singles. clearly the people yearn for Date Lab!
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Your single friends are dying for you to set them up
Tired of dating apps, some singles long for their friends to get into amateur matchmaking.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
very funny to read this in the Washington Post which was, until quite recently, in the business of setting up singles. clearly the people yearn for Date Lab!
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
"The person-based relational constellation that once transmitted skill, mentorship, and mutual obligation, however imperfect, has been replaced by a digital loop: workers feeding prompts into the same systems that eventually gatekeep, surveil & smoothly replace them."
www.thecut.com/article/job-...
www.thecut.com/article/job-...
The Job Search Has Become a Humiliation Ritual
“It feels like I’m trying to make my robots talk to their robots.”
www.thecut.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"The person-based relational constellation that once transmitted skill, mentorship, and mutual obligation, however imperfect, has been replaced by a digital loop: workers feeding prompts into the same systems that eventually gatekeep, surveil & smoothly replace them."
www.thecut.com/article/job-...
www.thecut.com/article/job-...
REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF.
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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aaa...
“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief
“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aaa...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aaa...
just in time for spooky season: a fantastic horror story by @annasilman.bsky.social
www.gq.com/story/how-th...
www.gq.com/story/how-th...
How the Crisis PR Machine Shapes What You Think About Celebrities
The disinformation age has hit Hollywood, and the celebrity-industrial complex is armed to the teeth. Meet the crisis publicists, right-wing wranglers, and trolls for hire who are influencing what we ...
www.gq.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
just in time for spooky season: a fantastic horror story by @annasilman.bsky.social
www.gq.com/story/how-th...
www.gq.com/story/how-th...
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By @petridishes.bsky.social who has actually never said anything to or about anyone and never will, I’m sure of it 🫡
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By @petridishes.bsky.social who has actually never said anything to or about anyone and never will, I’m sure of it 🫡
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing
That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!
www.theatlantic.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By @petridishes.bsky.social who has actually never said anything to or about anyone and never will, I’m sure of it 🫡
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
By @petridishes.bsky.social who has actually never said anything to or about anyone and never will, I’m sure of it 🫡
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"One translation of Aaaaughhhh is 'There’s a difference between not dying and being alive.' A summary of Gyyyyyuaaack might be 'Things can grow so corrupted or damaged that it’s better not to have them anymore.'” Great @xwaldie.bsky.social on modern zombiemania: www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Our Age of Zombie Culture
Zombies are the least eloquent monster. But they have a lot to say about us.
www.newyorker.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"One translation of Aaaaughhhh is 'There’s a difference between not dying and being alive.' A summary of Gyyyyyuaaack might be 'Things can grow so corrupted or damaged that it’s better not to have them anymore.'” Great @xwaldie.bsky.social on modern zombiemania: www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
*snap-snap*
WEDNESDAY on @netflix.com is back and so are my @vulture.com recaps!
The season premiere: www.vulture.com/article/wedn...
WEDNESDAY on @netflix.com is back and so are my @vulture.com recaps!
The season premiere: www.vulture.com/article/wedn...
Wednesday Season-Premiere Recap: It’s a Death Trap
Wednesday claims to need no one’s help. But isn’t that where we found her at the beginning of last season?
www.vulture.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
*snap-snap*
WEDNESDAY on @netflix.com is back and so are my @vulture.com recaps!
The season premiere: www.vulture.com/article/wedn...
WEDNESDAY on @netflix.com is back and so are my @vulture.com recaps!
The season premiere: www.vulture.com/article/wedn...
"It takes a whole life to learn to leave it – the seeming mistake or incompletion, the absolutely ordinary word."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: Solving Sylvia Plath
I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"It takes a whole life to learn to leave it – the seeming mistake or incompletion, the absolutely ordinary word."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Jessica Goldstein
Six months of congestion pricing in NYC has produced “perhaps the fastest ever environmental improvement from any policy in US history,” @us.theguardian.com’s Oliver Milman reports.
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New York City’s congestion pricing has cut pollution and traffic – but Trump still wants to kill it
With less congestion, less carbon pollution, less accidents, could it be a model for other US cities? Six months in, environmentalists say yes
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Six months of congestion pricing in NYC has produced “perhaps the fastest ever environmental improvement from any policy in US history,” @us.theguardian.com’s Oliver Milman reports.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“The Alligator is on the side of the slave catcher & overseer against the black underclass; why not the ICE agent & concentration camp guard against the immigrant, the dissident, the stripped-of-citizenship? The threat is the same: you will be eaten up and disappear.”
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Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators? | Defector
In June, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier extolled the benefits of the concentration camp they were rushing to build in the wetlands of the Big Cypress Nature Reserve, west of Miami and just ...
defector.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“The Alligator is on the side of the slave catcher & overseer against the black underclass; why not the ICE agent & concentration camp guard against the immigrant, the dissident, the stripped-of-citizenship? The threat is the same: you will be eaten up and disappear.”
defector.com/why-do-fasci...
defector.com/why-do-fasci...
Reposted by Jessica Goldstein
The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread
Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.