Happy too see pal @bethmacy.bsky.social keeping good company in my neighborhood indie.

Thanks Archon! Part of my research was watching one of your democracy seminars on zoom. When you teach Paper Girl, I’ll try to return the favor and Zoom in.

Thanks! Xo

NBCC member Hope Reese talked to Beth Macy, author of "Paper Girl," for Greater Good Magazine:

Roanoke Mayor Joe Cobb (first pic, listening) is an occasional participant, @andreapitzer.bsky.social, also and @bethmacy.bsky.social too. Every Monday, 12-1 pm, corner of Jefferson and Franklin.

Author Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio to write a memoir about her hometown. She was shocked at the despair she found — and how little she knew. Her new book, “Paper Girl,” explores what happened ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/a...

Author Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio to write a memoir about her hometown. She was shocked at the despair she found — and how little she knew. Her new book, “Paper Girl,” explores what happened ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/a...

Yes they did! Celebrating Virginia this morning, and course correcting!

Author Beth Macy on rural radicalization Author Beth Macy joins @chrislhayes.bsky.social to discuss how Urbana has changed from the time she grew up there.

This performer at Trump’s Great Gatsby party should clear up any suspicions about whether or not he’s in the Epstein Files.

Thanks!

A Writer Who Did What Hillbilly Elegy Wouldn’t In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her Trump-voting hometown to find out how America got so divided. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

And @andreapitzer.bsky.social, both her One Long Night and her podcast and newsletter.

@bethmacy.bsky.social plugs Nicholas Buccola’s The Fire is Upon Us in @theweek.com

#ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

Thanks, Stephen!

In her new book, Beth Macy tries to understand America’s growing fissures by returning to her Donald Trump–voting Ohio hometown and talking with residents—those who agree with her and, more important, those who don’t, writes Alex Kotlowitz:

BOOM! She took him down a country road.

I’ll proudly be the anti-JD Vance, the fake hillbilly venture capitalist-turned-politician who blames poor people, not the billionaires who are robbing us all, for their problems. A Writer Who Did What Hillbilly Elegy Wouldn’t - The Atlantic

Great to be back in conversation again with @chrislhayes.bsky.social, one of the great interviewers of our time! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

If you're a @bethmacy.bsky.social fan and/or want to learn more about smaller town America, this is a great conversation with @miwamesser.bsky.social. Barnes & Noble needs to do better promotion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCil...

Thanks Rick, appreciate the support!

No one is coming to save us but us.

A Republican Congress is functionally the same as no Congress.

Never thought this small town girl and longtime Appalachian would make the cover of the NYTBR! Thrilling!

I love Evie’s and I love Beth Macy! So many great suggestions in this piece. So important to support local businesses and do what we can to address food insecurity in our own communities. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, Hope Reese, for doing such a meaningful interview for Greater Good!

I'm not sure why the @newyorker.com reviewer called @bethmacy.bsky.social "a surprisingly empathetic narrator." No surprise there. Empathy has been the key to Beth being Beth! But, I agree, "Paper Girl" is a "cogent and thrilling story."

So grateful for this New Yorker review ❤️https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-muscular-compassion-of-paper-girl?fbclid=IwZnRzaANnOhVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmpKRQY3e53wOf6QZHQDH59jFl1DT4C6qGLYuwODGYQtqWpqtHRYOw2ykRtz_aem_1i5msdxnxdqo4TtY0plQRw

Please join us on the livestream if you can!

Thinning pantries, the soaring price of fall chili, and America's Thanksgiving dilemma - do you stay or do you go? open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...

DC folks! Don't forget to come out 7pm Wednesday @politicsprose.bsky.social bookstore in DC to hear @bethmacy.bsky.social answer my questions re her book PAPER GIRL, a painful love story about her hometown which is also the history of the country. Here's a pic of Macy and me from the 2023 eclipse.

Thanks for this, Vick!

Thank you!

Amen, brother.

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

@andreapitzer.bsky.social I can’t wait for this event! Thanks so much for all your help with this (and with all my books!) Hope to see folks there!

Jesus. Take and read this from @bethmacy.bsky.social. Very (sadly) congruent with my own life in journalism. lithub.com/how-the-coll...

Thanks! “Interesting” is one word for it!

Senate is back in session today. 1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown. You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

Thank you Jeff—and for all your help. You’re the OG!

Reuters: How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs www.reuters.com/world/us/how... "...it is U.S. companies that are footing the bill and passing on some of it to the consumer - with more price hikes likely."

Author Beth Macy recently joined "Fresh Air" to talk about her new memoir, Paper Girl. She'll deliver the Humanities Week keynote address at @virginiatech.bsky.social on Tues., 10/28 @ 7pm. Learn more and register for this free event: liberalarts.vt.edu/humanities-w... www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Thank you!

Just a note for East Coasters that I'll be meeting Anna Quindlen online at 4 p.m. ET on Monday, so you can pull up a chair, grab a hot chocolate (or glass of wine), and join our gabfest, please.

Thanks, Vick, and thanks for another great interview.

In addition to Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, this week's releases include a new memoir from Dopesick author Beth Macy, and a coming-of-age story from former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.

When you get to be in writerly conversation with one of your favorite all-time writers, Anna Quindlen. Pinch me, and then sign up to join us Monday (4 p.m. ET) through the link below at Book Passage!

Through what political scientists might call a deep canvass into her own culturally polarized family in rural Ohio author Beth Macy gives us a riveting, devastating and call-to-action mirror into our nation with her extraordinary new book, “Paper Girl" theiowamercury.substack.com/p/coming-to-...