Police brutality meets early eighties tabloid journalism meets the Pyramid Club-era East Village scene. Come for the propulsive racial justice narrative, stay for the superstar cameos:

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Always love a Nieman newsletter plug…

Shot the shit with William J. Mann about the research behind BLACK DAHLIA: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood, out this week from Simon & Schuster: joepompeo.substack.com/p/william-j-...

The Black Dahlia is back:

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"The piece rushes breathlessly through both the particulars of the Stranglers’ eventual capture and a who’s-who of the west-coast punk world, and the overall effect is a book-proposal vibe. Not that I wouldn’t like to read said book!" @sarahdbunting.bsky.social Said book coming your way fall 2027😂

In this week’s issue of The Hollywood Reporter, I talk to James Patterson about his forthcoming Marilyn Monroe “true crime thriller” and his expansion into juicy/tabloidy nonfiction. Read it over at @thr.com: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...

Shot the shit with @bradricca.bsky.social about his new book (hot off the presses), LINCOLN’S GHOST: Houdini’s War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency: joepompeo.substack.com/p/brad-ricca...

My latest for TOWN & COUNTRY: www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...

New true crime anthology from Penzler Publishers/Crime Ink featuring a Vanity Fair story of mine plus other great reads from Harper’s, Esquire, Texas Monthly, Slate, The Atavist, and more. Preorder here: penzlerpublishers.com/product/the-...

Chatted with my pal @lauriestories.bsky.social about the wild research breakthroughs behind her dishy and revelatory new Amelia Earhart book, THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN: joepompeo.substack.com/p/laurie-gwe...

Gilded Age power women, Holocaust survival, and the Brits behind the bomb — four new books to check out in September:

My latest for TOWN & COUNTRY, for their higher education digital issue, with cameos from @paulcollins.bsky.social and @ellisw.bsky.social: www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

Chatted with Bryan Burrough about the research behind his new book on the Old West outlaws who “all became famous for shooting people.”

My latest podcast script for iHeart's VERY SPECIAL EPISODES is about JFK's summer as a journalist for the Hearst newspapers at the sunset of WWII. You can listen to it and check out some fun extras over at my Substack: joepompeo.substack.com/p/jfks-summe...

Over at my Substack, @michelleyoung.bsky.social talks about her research behind "the true story of a World War II resistance hero, Rose Valland, who was an art historian inside the museum the Nazis took over to loot art through." joepompeo.substack.com/p/michelle-y...

TOWN & COUNTRY asked me if I had anything juicy for their GILDED AGE-themed digital issue so I dug into the archives of the great Vanderbilt divorce scandal: "Every class is concerned with this divorce announcement. It interests the rich as well as the poor who want to be rich."

Story behind the story of @suzannecope.bsky.social's new book about four anti-fascist Italian women who found their agency and became members of the resistance during World War II: joepompeo.substack.com/p/suzanne-co...

Blabbing about historical true crime with @garykrist.bsky.social @abbottkahler.bsky.social and @michaelwolraich.com:

Kate Summerscale digs into London's infamous Rillington Place murders in her latest historical true-crime thriller, THE PEEPSHOW, out in the U.S. May 6 and previewed for you over at my Substack: joepompeo.substack.com/p/kate-summe...

Did you ever hear the one about the doll shop spy of World War II? Learn all about it in my latest for iHeartMedia's VERY SPECIAL EPISODES. Special thanks to the FBI's resident historian, Dr. John Fox, for helping us tell this truly wild tale: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Come for Clem Burke, stay for Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Sable Starr, Stiv Bators, and more, from @theresakereakes.bsky.social:

Thanks to @harkaudio.com for audio-excerpting our GATSBY episode. You can listen here: harkaudio.com/april-10-202...

For THE GREAT GATSBY'S hundredth birthday, here's the story of how Fitzgerald's Great American Novel went from forgotten Jazz Age flop to timeless literary phenomenon thanks to an anti-fascist book campaign designed to boost the morale of American soldiers during World War II:

New narrative-history bangers coming up from @michaelluo.bsky.social, @suzannecope.bsky.social, and more:

Sad news in my inbox from @europaeditions.bsky.social that author/translator @timmohr.bsky.social has died. Didn't know him but his book BURNING DOWN THE HAUS is a great read and an important entry in the punk rock history canon: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tim-m...

Head over to my Substack for a sneak peek at Steven Schwankert's riveting, James Cameron-endorsed new Titanic book that hits shelves next week:

Behind the scenes of @garykrist.bsky.social's new Gilded Age true crime banger:

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Revisiting the "Rolling Stone of the information age," with cameos from @time.com, Sega Genesis, Terminator 2, Æon Flux, The Lawnmower Man, Genesis P-orridge, Brian Eno, Glenn Branca, Blixa Bargeld, Shonen Knife, Milli Vanilli, and more:

This is a great episode format from @karaswisher.bsky.social / @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social —a mix of breezy narrative and dishy roundtable chat with primo guests: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

New books out this month from @hallierubenhold.bsky.social, @garykrist.bsky.social, @elongreen.bsky.social, @risenc.bsky.social and more:

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The first Academy Awards—and other historic scenes from the legendary Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Janet Gaynor, Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Marilyn Monroe, the Go-Go's, Darby Crash, David Hockney, and more.

@mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social set out to tell a WW2 “adventure story” about two ordinary older women who “found it within themselves to resist authoritarianism.” During his book research, he ended up uncovering a major historical fraud:

Join me Thursday afternoon (2/13) for a virtual author shindig brought to you by Grouper and @silentbookclub.bsky.social: silentbookclub.substack.com/p/youre-invi...

2025: "How Zyn Conquered the American Mouth" (www.gq.com/story/how-zy...) 2008: "Snus Is on the Loose!" observer.com/2008/07/snus...

Gather 'round for a tale of true crime and Nathaniel Hawthorne from 19th Century New England:

New from me in the February issue of TOWN & COUNTRY:

“Lacking a standing spy agency, the U.S. needed to pull together a company of spies very quickly, and they decided to do so by recruiting the nation's professors and librarians. So this is a story about the librarians and scholars who invented modern spycraft.”

New from me in TOWN & COUNTRY's December issue:

Putting my finger in the wind to get a sense of where any fellow HarperCollins authors' heads are at on this... cc: @authorsguild.bsky.social www.404media.co/harpercollin...