Tricia Romano
@tromano.bsky.social
Author of The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture.
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Reading this @dwightgarner.bsky.social review of The Freaks Came Out To Write will never get old. I made this little video when it came out to express how I felt. *Sound on*.
Freaks is out on paperback today!
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Freaks is out on paperback today!
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November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reading this @dwightgarner.bsky.social review of The Freaks Came Out To Write will never get old. I made this little video when it came out to express how I felt. *Sound on*.
Freaks is out on paperback today!
buff.ly/To9oyH7
Freaks is out on paperback today!
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It was indeed a perfect day with @willhermes.bsky.social and a fun reading and event at the @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social in Woodstock. Great to see old friends and meet new ones, including @joehagantv.bsky.social who took the first photo and had blurbed the book!
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It was indeed a perfect day with @willhermes.bsky.social and a fun reading and event at the @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social in Woodstock. Great to see old friends and meet new ones, including @joehagantv.bsky.social who took the first photo and had blurbed the book!
Tonight! I'll be with David Browne, author of Talkin' Greenwich Village, to talk about the Village and the Village Voice at P&T Knitwear. Come on down and say hi and help me celebrate the release of the Freaks Came Out To Write on paperback!
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November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Tonight! I'll be with David Browne, author of Talkin' Greenwich Village, to talk about the Village and the Village Voice at P&T Knitwear. Come on down and say hi and help me celebrate the release of the Freaks Came Out To Write on paperback!
buff.ly/GO96WjE
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It would have been AWKWARD to say the least if the editors or writers at the Village Voice didn't like the book I wrote about the Village Voice, but thankfully, they really liked it.
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It would have been AWKWARD to say the least if the editors or writers at the Village Voice didn't like the book I wrote about the Village Voice, but thankfully, they really liked it.
One of my favorite reviews, which is enhanced by the fact that Paul Wells sent me a gift via GoFundMe, writing me a touching email about how much the Voice meant to him as a budding journalist. The Village Voice was such as special paper that decades later because have such fond memories of it.
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of my favorite reviews, which is enhanced by the fact that Paul Wells sent me a gift via GoFundMe, writing me a touching email about how much the Voice meant to him as a budding journalist. The Village Voice was such as special paper that decades later because have such fond memories of it.
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Vivian's review of Freaks in the London Review of Books had come out not too long before this event and it had one of the most hilarious passages to be found in a book review.
Vivian's review of Freaks in the London Review of Books had come out not too long before this event and it had one of the most hilarious passages to be found in a book review.
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Vivian's review of Freaks in the London Review of Books had come out not too long before this event and it had one of the most hilarious passages to be found in a book review.
Vivian's review of Freaks in the London Review of Books had come out not too long before this event and it had one of the most hilarious passages to be found in a book review.
Aaron Hicklin asked me to do a panel with two New York legends, Ada Calhoun and Vivian Gornick for a panel at the Deep Water Literary festival in June up in the Catskills. I was quite intimidated to meet Vivian Gornick.
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Aaron Hicklin asked me to do a panel with two New York legends, Ada Calhoun and Vivian Gornick for a panel at the Deep Water Literary festival in June up in the Catskills. I was quite intimidated to meet Vivian Gornick.
Perhaps my favorite event from the book tour last year was one that happened long after the initial rush of events in March.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Perhaps my favorite event from the book tour last year was one that happened long after the initial rush of events in March.
One of the things that made the Voice exciting, but also, unbelievable in today's world, is the amount of inappropriate behavior that went on inside the offices in a way that would never, ever be tolerated today.
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
One of the things that made the Voice exciting, but also, unbelievable in today's world, is the amount of inappropriate behavior that went on inside the offices in a way that would never, ever be tolerated today.
One of the things that made the Voice exciting, but also, unbelievable in today's world, is the amount of inappropriate behavior that went on inside the offices in a way that would never, ever be tolerated today.
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of the things that made the Voice exciting, but also, unbelievable in today's world, is the amount of inappropriate behavior that went on inside the offices in a way that would never, ever be tolerated today.
In less than a month, I'll be chatting alt weeklies with @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social at Elliott Bay books! We all worked at the Stranger, and Erica spent time at the Austin Chronicle. Come!!
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October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In less than a month, I'll be chatting alt weeklies with @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social at Elliott Bay books! We all worked at the Stranger, and Erica spent time at the Austin Chronicle. Come!!
www.elliottbaybook.c...
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One of the most insulting moments of my long career was when a writer scoffed at me that I was not a writer or an 'author' of the Freaks Came Out To Write, because this is an oral history. Or when people say oral histories are just "copy and paste" and think they are "so easy."
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of the most insulting moments of my long career was when a writer scoffed at me that I was not a writer or an 'author' of the Freaks Came Out To Write, because this is an oral history. Or when people say oral histories are just "copy and paste" and think they are "so easy."
Many people may not know this but the late Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff hailed from Boston (He did have a book called Boston Boy). So it's not surprising The Boston Globe ran a photo of their hometown boy with the review of The Freaks Came Out To Write.
October 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Many people may not know this but the late Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff hailed from Boston (He did have a book called Boston Boy). So it's not surprising The Boston Globe ran a photo of their hometown boy with the review of The Freaks Came Out To Write.
One of the most gratifying things about reading all the words written about The Freaks Came Out To Write is seeing how many people loved the paper. Cities outside of the NY/LA axis weighed in with their fondness for the book.
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
One of the most gratifying things about reading all the words written about The Freaks Came Out To Write is seeing how many people loved the paper. Cities outside of the NY/LA axis weighed in with their fondness for the book.
Continuing in my tradition of sharing the embarrassment of riches of book reviews for The Freaks Came Out To Write leading up to the release of the paperback on Nov 4th, here's one of my favorites by T.M. Brown. I laughed out loud when I read the lede:
"Tricia Romano must be exhausted."
"Tricia Romano must be exhausted."
October 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Continuing in my tradition of sharing the embarrassment of riches of book reviews for The Freaks Came Out To Write leading up to the release of the paperback on Nov 4th, here's one of my favorites by T.M. Brown. I laughed out loud when I read the lede:
"Tricia Romano must be exhausted."
"Tricia Romano must be exhausted."
Seattle! In anticipation of the paperback release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, please join me and @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social, two veterans of alt weeklies to talk about the Village Voice and the importance of alt weeklies in journalism at Elliott Bay bookstore on Nov. 22.
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Seattle! In anticipation of the paperback release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, please join me and @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social, two veterans of alt weeklies to talk about the Village Voice and the importance of alt weeklies in journalism at Elliott Bay bookstore on Nov. 22.
In just over a week, I will be in upstate New York talking to @willhermes.bsky.social at @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social. He is the author of the excellent Lou Reed biography King of New York. Please stop by!
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Paperback out Nov 4 from @PublicAffairsBooks.
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Paperback out Nov 4 from @PublicAffairsBooks.
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In just over a week, I will be in upstate New York talking to @willhermes.bsky.social at @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social. He is the author of the excellent Lou Reed biography King of New York. Please stop by!
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Paperback out Nov 4 from @PublicAffairsBooks.
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Paperback out Nov 4 from @PublicAffairsBooks.
I love all my book reviews, but some I love a little more than others. This one, by Voice critic, James Wolcott, remains one of my most prized possessions. Every line made me giddy. Just a few of my favorite sentences from this review:
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I love all my book reviews, but some I love a little more than others. This one, by Voice critic, James Wolcott, remains one of my most prized possessions. Every line made me giddy. Just a few of my favorite sentences from this review:
me, knee deep in taxes: oh, let's check on the mariners, hope they are doing ok after yesterday's close game.
October 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
me, knee deep in taxes: oh, let's check on the mariners, hope they are doing ok after yesterday's close game.
Seattle at Cyclops!!
October 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Seattle at Cyclops!!
Another day: another recap of amazing reviews for The Freaks Came Out To Write in honor of its forthcoming November paperback release.
I didn't exactly have being compared to Gay Talese on my bingo card, but I really enjoy having this on bingo card!
I didn't exactly have being compared to Gay Talese on my bingo card, but I really enjoy having this on bingo card!
October 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Another day: another recap of amazing reviews for The Freaks Came Out To Write in honor of its forthcoming November paperback release.
I didn't exactly have being compared to Gay Talese on my bingo card, but I really enjoy having this on bingo card!
I didn't exactly have being compared to Gay Talese on my bingo card, but I really enjoy having this on bingo card!
One of my favorite reviews of The Freaks Came Out to Write was from Ed Park. Now, a very celebrated novelist (he's a Pulitzer Finalist in Fiction), Ed and I worked at the paper at the same time.
October 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
One of my favorite reviews of The Freaks Came Out to Write was from Ed Park. Now, a very celebrated novelist (he's a Pulitzer Finalist in Fiction), Ed and I worked at the paper at the same time.