Brooklynite, author of narrative histories including the NYT bestseller EIGHTY DAYS, THE CITY GAME, and PARIS UNDERCOVER. Mets fan. Loves the semicolon.https://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mw572352ls2qJust read this sentence in Alfred Kazin’s great “Starting Out in the Thirties”: “Every day and every week, for exactly eleven years more, Hitler was to be at the back of my mind like a bad dream.” Anyone else have an instant understanding of what this is like, circa the past ten years?22 Sep 2026 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw572352ls2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mtrjsbtgd224Holy shit, Ron Darling just described The Great Migration and name-checked Isabel Wilkerson’s “Warmth of Other Suns” during a #Mets broadcast from Chicago.23 Aug 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrjsbtgd224https://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mrfab474jk2yHow is it that I didn’t know the work of the postwar Georgian painter Vera Pagava? She was extraordinary!24 Jul 2026 11:20 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfab474jk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3monpjmyjek2yI was thrilled to be able to reflect a bit on the historical context of the #Knicks and New York City for the great journal @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social. Enjoy! https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/knicks-champions-new-york-why-it-matters/19 Jun 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3monpjmyjek2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mo7vnvfcgc2yKnicks fan in Harlem just now: “Knicks win in 4. Donald Trump games don’t count.”14 Jun 2026 04:11 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo7vnvfcgc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mnycrll75s24HAD IT ALL THE WAY11 Jun 2026 03:44 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnycrll75s24https://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mngmj6ph7s2iHas a more dystopian photo ever been taken in the United States?04 Jun 2026 02:51 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mngmj6ph7s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mmer2v3qxs2vFriends: My book PARIS UNDERCOVER is now available in paperback! "One of the best books I've read in ages." -- Sonia Purnell, A Woman of No Importance "A heart-pounding tale of betrayal that is impossible to put down." -- Lynne Olson, Madame Fourcade's Secret War #booksky #nonfiction https://bookshop.org/p/books/paris-undercover-a-wartime-story-of-courage-friendship-and-betrayal-matthew-goodman/825143bd5ada4084?ean=9780593358948&next=t21 May 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmer2v3qxs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mjlcl27zys26I can’t stop listening to this upper-class twit say “Straits of Vermouth.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Apr 2026 01:55 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlcl27zys26https://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mi5amx2lms2dHow do you get to Carnegie Hall? Praxis, praxis, praxis!28 Mar 2026 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5amx2lms2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mhj6nvlwzk2uToday, in the main reading room of the New York Public Library, an unexpected thing happened20 Mar 2026 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhj6nvlwzk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mhgwclrz7c2cHow to say you’ve never been to New York City without… etc. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2026 21:15 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgwclrz7c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mefg7b2m4k27Apparently America no longer produces anything other than AI and snack food.09 Feb 2026 02:38 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mefg7b2m4k27https://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mdbfgbyl5k2gTo paraphrase the great Nina Simone: Minnesota Goddam25 Jan 2026 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbfgbyl5k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mchtlg2n522gAs a consequence of some of them having committed fraud, I call for the arrest and deportation of all insurance executives [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jan 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchtlg2n522ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mbsdxfjrsk2kTrump was asked by reporters on Sunday whether he had discussed with the Venezuelan government the release of political prisoners or the return of opposition politicians to Venezuela. “We haven’t gotten to that yet,” he responded. “What we want to do now is fix up the oil.” https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/06/world/venezuela-maduro-us-trump?smid=nytcore-ios-share07 Jan 2026 01:47 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbsdxfjrsk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mbc5pjcr6k2yNow *there’s* a sentence! “He screwed onto the side of the desk a pencil sharpener — that highly satisfying implement that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must.” — Nabokov #skybooks31 Dec 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbc5pjcr6k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mateyb7qxk27Welcoming in the traditional Christmas feast!25 Dec 2025 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mateyb7qxk27https://bsky.app/profile/mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social/post/3mac7oslazs2pPerfectly willing to see this happen to the Kennedy Center — as long as Trump’s name is likewise being added in memoriam18 Dec 2025 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:iik35sfa5ps5r23ab4ujly32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mac7oslazs2p