SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET is out today! @scottwstern.bsky.social and I are really proud of this project, which we've jokingly called our third child. Buy your copy today! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

SHAKESPEARE’S MARGARET is out from @wwnorton.com today!! Check out @charlesomalley.bsky.social and my essay in LitHub about co-writing this book while also being married and not killing each other :) lithub.com/what-co-writ...

truly disappointed at the lack of leslie uggams in my June 1 feed today.

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SHAKESPEARE’S MARGARET (by @charlesomalley.bsky.social and yours truly) is out from @wwnorton.com in ONE WEEK (June 2)!! Please consider preordering! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

mrs dalloway said she would create the art & write the books herself

happy eliza doolittle day 🌧️ 🇪🇸 🖼️

Three signs that bookclub email you just got is probably a scam 🚩 1) Generic gmail (or similar) address 2) The book club, award, or organization doesn’t exist when you look it up 3) The email is overly long, vague, and full of excessive praise (often AI-written)

Book tour!!! Come hear @charlesomalley.bsky.social and me talk about Shakespeare’s Margaret, out from @wwnorton.com on June 2!

huge news - arden 4 begins publishing today! truly so excited 😍

Book tour time! We’re heading out to talk about Margaret and will be joined by a few guests along the way. All events are open to the public. We’ll share more info on each as we get closer. We’d love to see you and take your Qs about Shakespeare, theatre, and writing with toddlers in the house!

unequivocally great news!

Author copies are here! SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET drops Jun. 2 - preorder now pls and thnx ☺️ wwnorton.com/books/978132... @scottwstern.bsky.social

from the archive: a letter from stephen sondheim to hal prince, around the time sondheim was in rehearsal for the 2009 revival of a little night music, a play the two had worked on in 1973. reading this made me so sad for all the art we never see

has the new york times ever thought about doing a focus group with someone who has read a book

on slam frank and the impossibility of actual commercial satire www.thedriftmag.com/history-has-...

fascinating and silly. love that the henry vi plays aren't reflexively placed last!

hey if you're feeling mentally all over the place it's nice to read a book

SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET has a new review, and it begins with "Step aside, m'lords" which is all I could really ask for! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The story of the 1970s anti-pollution crusader Rex Braun, writes Scott W. Stern, helps “return us to a Texas in which populist environmentalism was imaginable.”

new from @scottwstern.bsky.social on the origins of environmental justice in texas for @nybooks.com

horrible news. i am drinking out of my yiddish book center mug right now. the humanities in the united states are in a dire place, and if we don't change course we will lose them entirely.

Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com, wherein I review a brilliant, shockingly svelte history of capitalism (out now from @wwnorton.com)! Thanks, as always, to @lauramarsh.bsky.social for the incisive edits! newrepublic.com/article/2088...

Today marks a quarter century of same-sex marriage, and the sky has not fallen, children are still born, and capitalism endures apnews.com/article/gay-...

Incredible piece about Oakland and the legacies of urban renewal and gentrification by @drbrandi.bsky.social placesjournal.org/article/oakl...

the second casting oscar goes to:

i have a problem. and it's been going on since 2015.

Charles O’Malley and @scottwstern.bsky.social had such a great idea for a book! Can’t wait to dive in.

Justice for The Way We Were, a flawless weepie romance that's also a shrewd look at the way history can impact individual lives.

truly everyone at the oscars got the brooch memo!? thrilled for my mother-in-law and all the other moms out there

sometimes i plant something in my yard and it dies immediately. sometimes i plant something and it flourishes. but i really love it when a plant does absolutely nothing for three years then suddenly doubles in size in a month. it was just waiting till it was ready! a literal late bloomer!

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

very much this. i wrote a book about it! 😆

Todd Haynes + The Well of Loneliness

SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET has its first review, from @publisherswkly.bsky.social!!! "O’Malley and Stern ingeniously probe the sweep of Shakespearean history ... The result is a fascinating biography of a singular character and a revealing commentary on theater’s power to evolve with the times."

there are few joys in this world as pure as choosing an episode of veep at random just to realize it is a minna häkkinen episode

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

AND @coyotemedia.org how could i forget !! these places won't stick around if we don't SUPPORT THEM !!

in just the past few years, the bay area has welcomed three fantastic new outlets: @oaklandside.org @oaklandreviewofbooks.org AND @bayareacurrent.bsky.social they are wonderful and we should support them !!

We need to find a way to tell the youths about alt-weeklies so they restart them

the oscar nominations make me really miss old twitter. those were they days.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, the book i wrote with my co-conspirator / husband @scottwstern.bsky.social, is coming out 2 june 2026 from @wwnorton.com! take a look at the book page linked below and place those preorders! we're traveling in june to promote the book; hope to see some of you on the road 😎

Y'all, @charlesomalley.bsky.social and my book, SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, comes out on June 2!!! Please please please consider preordering - it honestly makes a huge difference!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

in non-the-world-is-terrible news, i am finally reading @markharris.bsky.social's pictures at a revolution, which is fabulous, provocative, and just inspiring. sometimes you intend to read something for a long time, & when you finally do, it exceeds your expectations. more of those books, please!

from @scottwstern.bsky.social !!

International environmental law has floundered in the face of the global climate crisis and cannot hold our worst actors to account. @scottwstern.bsky.social traces the problems back to the 1972 UN Conference that put us on this trajectory.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX