As a former @bostonglobe.com transportation reporter, I shed a tear at the sight of this misplaced child-size @mbta.com Green Line sweatshirt at PDX airport (3,000 miles from Park Street)

The Hardest, Longest Race by Eric Moskowitz is an informative and entertaining wild ride through auto #history. #NonFiction #Audiobooks #NetGalley #BookSky 💙📚 @ericmoskowitz.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

For today’s also not-quite-a #LayoverLibrary, I’m reading ‘The Hardest, Longest Race’ by @ericmoskowitz.bsky.social. The book recounts the thrilling 1909 Ocean-to-Ocean race that propelled Ford’s Model T to a sales success through dubious tactics and sunk a little known Boston automaker.

Seattle-area folks! Come see me in conversation tonight with the great @walsh.bsky.social at 6:30 pm @brick-mortar.bsky.social in Redmond. Can’t wait!

Tomorrow (Mon, June 29) is our event w/ @ericmoskowitz.bsky.social! 🚘 The author of THE HARDEST, LONGEST RACE will be in conversation w/local podcaster Andrew Walsh to discuss this nonfiction. Car buffs and history buffs unite! Event begins at 6:30 and no sign-up or registration required. #booksky

Honored to be highlighted among @csmonitor.bsky.social's best books of the summer. And thank you, Danny Heitman — “voluminous research and wry humor” is a great compliment, and I'm going to have to start using "moneyed rake" & "precarious odyssey" in my book talks! www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/a...

History buffs 🤝🏽 Car buffs One week from today (on Mon, 6/29 at 6:30), we'll be joined by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist @ericmoskowitz.bsky.social in conversation with public radio veteran Andrew Walsh to celebrate Eric's debut nonfiction book THE HARDEST, LONGEST RACE! #booksky

Love these graphics @stmartinspress.bsky.social came up with to promote THE HARDEST, LONGEST RACE! There's still time to pick up a copy for any dads — or anyone who likes a good yarn, braided with snapshots of America in 1909 — in your life as a gift today! Happy to mail you a signed bookplate, too!

Excited and honored to be speaking about my book tonight at the Boston Athenaeum — a treasured cultural institution (and my home base for receiving interlibrary loans of microfilm from across the country, in the loveliest of settings). Still a few tix left! events.bostonathenaeum.org/en-US/eric-m...

I love "The Curiosity Desk" on @wgbh.org with Edgar B. Herwick III! Excited to be joining in the latter half of the 1-2 pm hour today to chat about my book. You can catch it on-air or via GBH's YouTube simulcast, or archived afterward there or thru the show's podcast! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XB6...

On this date in 1909, a little known car from Boston called the Shawmut clung to an unlikely lead over two Model Ts deep into a cross-country race — only to find a Ford fixer & armed guard blocking their way in WY. Read more in my book excerpt in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When I worked for @bostonglobe.com, I always loved to buy it at the newsstand while traveling on my way to the gate, especially if it had my byline. What a thrill to come back home from a few tour stops and see my name in the Globe again for the first time in years! Thanks, @katekilla.bsky.social!

Philly! Come out to Head House Books at 6:30 tonight to hear about my new book THE HARDEST, LONGEST RACE, in conversation with Paul Hendrickson. Should be a lot of fun! (And don’t just take my word for it; look at these happy people at my NYC reading 😊) headhousebooks.com/event/2026-0...

While “the competition would strike the public as a test of the merits of each type of automobile—and the limits of human endurance—one thing would matter most of all: which competitor was willing to do whatever it would take to win,” Eric Moskowitz writes:

So honored and excited to be able to share an excerpt of my book in @theatlantic.com today, before my first reading this afternoon and the official launch Tuesday! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

My book is finally here! Come join me on tour! While I won’t be retracing all 4,106 miles of the 1909 Ocean-to-Ocean Race, I have several events lined up, with more to come. If you can't make it, visit ericmoskowitz.com & I'll mail you a signed custom bookplate! Thanks!

So honored to have made this @startribune.com list of "Five books we can't wait to read in June" — alongside the novelist behind "Hamnet" and the Kelce brother's literary debut! www.startribune.com/no-dumb-ques...

6yo: “Ref says redo!” Me: “Remember, buddy, in baseball it’s not called a ref; it’s an umpire.” 6yo: “What’s an empire?”

#BookReview: The Hardest Longest Race by @ericmoskowitz.bsky.social (via @stmartinspress.bsky.social ). Detailed Yet Approachable #History of Historic And Even Monumental Event That Is Virtually Unknown. #amreading #nonfiction #car #automobile #race #HenryFord #Interstate #USA #BookSky 📚💙💡

Wow! Just got a really positive review in the WSJ from Roger Lowenstein! "... brisk prose that keeps our interest for the 4,106 miles to Seattle ... Mr. Moskowitz’s rendering has the feel of a travelogue tracking Lewis and Clark, updated for the machine age." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Sad to hear about the death of Barney Frank, the most lightning-quick person I ever interviewed at the Globe, in or out of politics, and one of the most interesting, too. Great, sweeping obituary here from David Shribman www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/20/m...

Just did my first podcast, two weeks before my book comes out. What a pleasure to join Blaine DeSantis for Books & Looks! share.transistor.fm/s/f4a494cb

Excited to share that my book comes out in 15 days, and I just got a starred review from Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Really enjoyed getting to meet Richard Glazunov and share his story! Back in 2012, he was skipping school to play video games at home or handball at the park in Brooklyn. Now, on the far side of military service, he's about to graduate from Harvard current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/afte...

In an unlikely turn, my 6yo went from elation to agony when he opened the pizza I brought home and discovered it did NOT have anchovies (or as he put it, “those tiny fish in the little container that I had with Grandpa”) … though he bounced back a second later

Hat tip to Kevin from AAA, who just jumpstarted the ancient Honda Fit we inherited from my mother-in-law — and who, flipping the usual question after hearing about my book (“How’d Ford cheat?”), said “Wait! Don’t ruin it! I’m gonna buy the book!”

So great to see my friend (and former Globe podmate) @davabel.bsky.social and his wonderful — and deeply personal — short film “The Petal Pusher” @iffboston.bsky.social tonight, an ode to family, flowers, and Penn Station www.petalpusherfilm.com

So cool to test out typewriters from the 1920s to ‘60s from repairer-dealer-collector Stephentown Typewriter Co for Analog Day at The Clark Art Institute (in conjunction with an exhibit of art made by Raffaella della Olga with modified typewriters)

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! It's as good a day as any to visit your neighborhood indie — and pre-order The Hardest, Longest Race! If you don't have a local shop, you can order today at a discount and get free shipping, too, while supporting indie bookstores here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Watching Celts-Sixers at a sports bar/bowling alley in the Berkshires. My kids’ minds were blown when I told them I knew who took the ubiquitous Bird/Dr. J photo on the wall — the one and only Ted Gartland — and had even seen the negative! (Though I had to explain what a negative was)

Growing up, I sometimes browsed at Building 19 with my mom, but I ALWAYS looked for the Building 19 circulars in the @bostonglobe.com every Sunday! This piece from Billy Baker on 90yo artist Mat Brown (and the younger fans celebrating his work) is fantastic! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

This was a fun one to write today — the Clark Medal couldn’t have gone to a nicer person! current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/ludw...

Big day!

The great @keithob.bsky.social at the Power of Narrative Conference, on the scrapbooks and newspaper bound volumes he leafed through in Larry Bird’s hometown: “Libraries” — and librarians — “are crucial to the work we do as narrative storytellers. Full stop.”

Good news for people who like books and sales! @barnesandnoble.com is running a preorder promo through the end of Thursday, offering 25% off preorders of my book (and others coming soon) with the code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hardes...

“Dad, is ninja a job?” — Izzy, 6, contemplating his future

Want to win a free copy of my book (THE HARDEST, LONGEST RACE, coming June 2)? @stmartinspress.bsky.social is sponsoring a giveaway at Goodreads through the end of the month: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

Didn’t expect to get choked up walking around the corner to buy circus tickets at the BU Agganis Arena box office, but that’s how life works. Saw that Meth and Red are coming and immediately wanted to text my friend Rod Kurtz—we saw them in Philly in 2000(!). Rod passed away last year. A gut punch.

“Dad, can dogs eat tacos,” my 6-year-old asked, on the escalator at DSW, “or do they fall apart when they eat them?” Wasn’t where I expected the second half of that question to go. 😂🌮🐶

Nothing like the pleasant surprise of finding a package on the porch with a book you pre-ordered months ago. Can’t wait to read this, @keithob.bsky.social!

Happy to report that I started a new job earlier this month on the editorial team at Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. First story posted today! About AI's role in solving a thorny theoretical physics problem news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

He was the internet's friend, but he was mine, too. sebastianstockman.substack.com/p/dan-mcquade

Wonderful to see so many people turn out in the snow today to the @bpl.boston.gov to pay tribute to the amazing Rescue (2012-2025) — a very good dog, and my all-time favorite story subject (from 2017) www.boston.com/news/local-n...

This story is so well done — and so sad, infuriating, and affecting, for all who love The Post and for anyone who grew up so enamored with their hometown metro (be it the nation’s hometown paper or any other) that it propelled them into a career

Love this. No notes. (Well, maybe one.) ☀️☃️🏖️

Many readers have asked how they can help support Dan McQuade’s surviving wife and son after his death last week. Here’s a place for they can do so, as can you. everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

My final take on the Celtics trade is that I hope for great things for Anfernee Simons the rest of his career. And maybe that includes coming back here someday.

Dan McQuade in The New York Times! A richly deserved tribute: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Here's a thread of some Dan McQuade blogs that we really loved 🦅 The Garden State Parkway’s Jon Bon Jovi rest stop is playing fast and loose with famous quotes: defector.com/the-garden-s...

I only overlapped with Dan for a year on the sports staff at The Daily Pennsylvanian, so I’ve mostly admired him from afar, one of many fans of his hilarious, humane, endlessly creative, and distinctively Philly body of work. Wonderful to see him being recognized, but what a terrible loss.