Matthew Budman, book guy
@matthewbudman.bsky.social
News junkie, editor, faculty spouse, author of “Book Collecting Now.”
I'm doing my part
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm doing my part
How can that be, I thought Jared was on the case
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
How can that be, I thought Jared was on the case
Post a nonreligious image you think of as holy
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Post a nonreligious image you think of as holy
Exactly: Every Senate Democrat—even John Fetterman!—signed onto this www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Exactly: Every Senate Democrat—even John Fetterman!—signed onto this www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Via @roncharles.bsky.social, learned that USPS will be debuting a Phillis Wheatley stamp in January! Hoping Stephen Miller doesn't catch a glimpse before then and draft tweets for his boss railing against the whole notion of Black heritage #BookSky about.usps.com/newsroom/loc...
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Via @roncharles.bsky.social, learned that USPS will be debuting a Phillis Wheatley stamp in January! Hoping Stephen Miller doesn't catch a glimpse before then and draft tweets for his boss railing against the whole notion of Black heritage #BookSky about.usps.com/newsroom/loc...
Rudy Giuliani convened a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping five years ago today. Good times. No, really: The times are unlikely to *ever* get any better than this.
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Rudy Giuliani convened a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping five years ago today. Good times. No, really: The times are unlikely to *ever* get any better than this.
Here's the Fox News website headline. Does "Lunch Vindicated" count as failed wordplay, a mixed metaphor, or ??
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Here's the Fox News website headline. Does "Lunch Vindicated" count as failed wordplay, a mixed metaphor, or ??
Sub, no cape
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sub, no cape
What a predicament!
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
What a predicament!
The Fox News home page, acknowledging that its readers will find Republican losses "disappointing." (Spoiler: Neither of the two possible reasons is that Americans hate Trump.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Fox News home page, acknowledging that its readers will find Republican losses "disappointing." (Spoiler: Neither of the two possible reasons is that Americans hate Trump.)
50.64% + 4.85% = 55.49%
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
50.64% + 4.85% = 55.49%
Not a surprise, but congrats to @marklevinenyc.bsky.social, New York's next comptroller! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Not a surprise, but congrats to @marklevinenyc.bsky.social, New York's next comptroller! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Nearly two-thirds of Americans hate Donald Trump, but he still has the power to make life difficult for companies & universities, so no surprise that they're terrified of him no matter his approval ratings. I didn't expect them to begin canceling A-listers such as @anandwrites.bsky.social, though.
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Nearly two-thirds of Americans hate Donald Trump, but he still has the power to make life difficult for companies & universities, so no surprise that they're terrified of him no matter his approval ratings. I didn't expect them to begin canceling A-listers such as @anandwrites.bsky.social, though.
Beware, evildoers, wherever you are! (He's also great in MANHATTAN)
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Beware, evildoers, wherever you are! (He's also great in MANHATTAN)
We're past midnight in New York, happened to check Facebook Memories, and got this. What's happening now: my *second* genuinely exciting baseball game!
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
We're past midnight in New York, happened to check Facebook Memories, and got this. What's happening now: my *second* genuinely exciting baseball game!
Harry died when I was 4, so mostly I knew him from photos. This one always caught the eye—it’s Grandpa Harry with JFK!!—but I didn’t think to look up the backstory until a few years ago. It really happened, November 1, 1960. www.jfklibrary.org/archives/oth...
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Harry died when I was 4, so mostly I knew him from photos. This one always caught the eye—it’s Grandpa Harry with JFK!!—but I didn’t think to look up the backstory until a few years ago. It really happened, November 1, 1960. www.jfklibrary.org/archives/oth...
65 years ago today: Sen. John F. Kennedy, a few days before the 1960 election, held a rally at Douglas Aircraft’s Long Beach plant, and my maternal grandfather, Harry Landy—an official w/ Douglas Local 148 (UAW–CIO)—ended up in this discolored snapshot, stuck in family collage frames over the years.
November 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
65 years ago today: Sen. John F. Kennedy, a few days before the 1960 election, held a rally at Douglas Aircraft’s Long Beach plant, and my maternal grandfather, Harry Landy—an official w/ Douglas Local 148 (UAW–CIO)—ended up in this discolored snapshot, stuck in family collage frames over the years.
Trump stopped following pop culture in the late '80s, so I assume his Gatsby is Robert Redford, whom he liked to imagine he resembled back in the day
November 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Trump stopped following pop culture in the late '80s, so I assume his Gatsby is Robert Redford, whom he liked to imagine he resembled back in the day
Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Talkin’ ’bout my g-g-generative AI
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Talkin’ ’bout my g-g-generative AI
Sure, for those fearful of Andrew Cuomo's return, it's disconcerting that more older New Yorkers are voting early, but this fiftysomething was excited to fill in the ballot bubble today for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #NYCvotes
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Sure, for those fearful of Andrew Cuomo's return, it's disconcerting that more older New Yorkers are voting early, but this fiftysomething was excited to fill in the ballot bubble today for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #NYCvotes
Grove Press published THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X sixty years ago today. @doubledaybooks.bsky.social had paid an advance but canceled the contract three weeks after Malcolm X's assassination; Manning Marable called it the "most disastrous decision in corporate publishing history." #BookSky
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Grove Press published THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X sixty years ago today. @doubledaybooks.bsky.social had paid an advance but canceled the contract three weeks after Malcolm X's assassination; Manning Marable called it the "most disastrous decision in corporate publishing history." #BookSky
Exactly! It's very People's Front of Judea vs. the Judean People's Front
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Exactly! It's very People's Front of Judea vs. the Judean People's Front
I was thinking about Massive Genius demanding money on behalf of "Jimmy's mother, who I'm content to call my aunt." No one challenges his relationship to Jimmy's mother: He calls her his aunt, so she's his aunt!
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I was thinking about Massive Genius demanding money on behalf of "Jimmy's mother, who I'm content to call my aunt." No one challenges his relationship to Jimmy's mother: He calls her his aunt, so she's his aunt!
No we can’t dance together
No we can’t talk at all
No we can’t talk at all
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
No we can’t dance together
No we can’t talk at all
No we can’t talk at all