This weekend Columbia U stages its graduation activities and celebrates its history. 103 years ago, at the Columbia commencement, the KKK paraded through the grounds.A year later, the KKK burned a cross on the quad. CU admin tried to sweep all this under the rug. indypendent.org/2026/05/colu...

For #independentbookstoreday, celebrating joints that will be hosting my mini-book tour 5/3 East End, Boston 5/4 Brown U Bookstore, Providence 5/4: Stanza, Beacon 5/22 Madison Street, Chicago 5/27 Talking Leaves, Buffalo 6/4 Book Culture 112th St, afterparty at Dive106 @sunypress.bsky.social

#hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork Pre-order with 30% off discount code "SNWS26" at checkout. The publisher tells me to tell my friends that "pre-orders are love." #NYChistory #Newyorkhistory sunypress.edu/.../Hidden-H.... @sunypress.bsky.social @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social @nyitlibrary.bsky.social

#onthisdayinhistory... 105 years ago today, James Cross, a Black maintenance worker, saved a white coworker from a fire. One of the events depicted in Jonathan Ezra Goldman's new book #hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork @sunypress.bsky.social @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social www.ny1920.com/1921apr-9

Folks, #Ulysses was just named the greatest novel of all time... again. That's silly, but what's not silly (except in good ways) is the online course I'm leading on it that starts next week. irishartscenter.org/event/u-for-... parade.com/news/controv...

Why yes, if you are in Paris looking to buy my new book, #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork, you will be able to get it at Shakepeare and Co. @shakespeareandcompany.com www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/hidden... @sunypress.bsky.social @brooklynsocial.bsky.social @newyork1920s.bsky.social

Please spread the word about my upcoming course at Irish Arts Center: "U for You! Joyce's Ulysses for New Readers (and Re-Readers) (Online)" irishartscenter.org/event/u-for-...

New review of #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork "giving readers a sense of how contemporary New Yorkers viewed the urban world around them." artsfuse.org/326490/april... @sunypress.bsky.social @brooklynsocial.bsky.social

As someone who writes personal essays (and also thinks about AI very often), this was a topic I couldn't resist. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Proud to have an article in a brilliant collection, Jim Crow Modernism, edited Adam McKible, Robert Jackson, and Keith Clark. My piece is an extension of research from my new book #hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork academic.oup.com/book/62299/c... academic.oup.com/book/62299

#Kirkus review of my book has arrived: "Historian Goldman’s ambitious book takes a detailed dive into New York City over 10 years.... This complex city, he writes, was a rich site of “acceleration and deceleration.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @sunypress.bsky.social #nyitlibrary

Happy to see my new book on sale at @rizzolibooks.bsky.social www.rizzolibookstore.com/category/new...

NYC! I'm doing a @lecturesontap.bsky.social on April 20 in a secret location. Reach out for details. The idea is: I talk, you drink. I'll be presenting on immigration (immigrant communities, suppression, and deportations) in 1920s NYC. Part of the launch of #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork

Published this piece for the centenary of the opening of the Savoy, the first truly integrated dance club in New York City. #100yearsago #nychistory @sunypress.bsky.social syncopatedtimes.com/the-opening-...

"This shameful attack on the St. John's faculty union betrays the university's history and most deeply-held Catholic values. It's outrageous that religious leaders are joining in the assaults on higher education that are happening nationwide." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Scenes from our 4-week "Circe" reading group. 2 more sessions to go! Thanks to guest facilitators Casey Lawrence @myexplodingpen.bsky.social and Robert Spoo. Next up: Vicki Mahaffey! on board!(@samslote.bsky.social had a last minute conflict.) Join us! Info at Joycesociety.com/readinggroups

I'm sort of tickled that at 2:30 pm the day after not watching the Superbowl I can tell you a lot about the halftime show but I don't know who won the game.

#OnThisDay 1921: Lunar New Year in Chinatown was more subdued than usual due to Prohibition–except for an altercation in which local residents attacked a film shoot. The actors were reportedly "Japanese and Korean"–playing Chinese criminals kidnapping a white woman. read more: ny1920.com/1921feb-7

Can't wait to hear White House Barbie tell us that Omar attacked the dude first.

Jan.24, 1920. On Ellis Island, 6 federal detainees died of unsanitary conditions before their deportation hearings -- victims of the Palmer Raids of Jan.2, date of the greatest number of political arrests in US history (so far). www.ny1920.com/jan-24 #hiddenhistoriesnyc @sunypress.bsky.social

ICE agents only do this because they are extremely well-trained and experienced with the situations they are creating

Evergreen #casablanca #antifa #FuckIce

NYC erected a Bolivar statue on a hillock near W. 83rd in 1893. A new monument went up in 1921 (pictured). President Harding spoke about peace between the US and S.American countries. #venezuela @sunypress.bsky.social @nychistoryhq.bsky.social @centralparknyc.bsky.social #libraryofcongress #NY1920s

My favorite part of the inauguration was when Jewish Santa Claus and those kids did the gay anthem. #mandypatinkin #zohranmamdani

New Yorkers, see you tonight.

#bariweiss went about quashing the story in such a stupid and ham-fisted way that more people are going to know about the deportations to #CECOT prison than if #60Minutes had just run it. @bariweiss.skystack.xyz

If I were #lornemichaels I would have just snuck this in between two other #SaturdayNightLive sketches. The audience would have howled. youtu.be/Z7YouaaKGNg?... @thatweekinsnl.bsky.social @snlnerds.bsky.social @snlwriter.bsky.social

I can't decide whether I am more honored, thrilled, or floored by this news. Tie for all three. Thank you @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @sunypress.bsky.social.

I am thrilled to be sharing the cover to my "Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York," forthcoming from SUNY Press, May 2026. @sunypress.bsky.social The cover uses a detail from Lily Furedi's WPA painting "Subway."

@aaup-penn.bsky.social Vice President Lorena Grundy took to the streets alongside @psc-cuny.org @debtcollective.bsky.social and more to denounce Trump ally and billionaire Marc Rowan's assault on academic freedom.

Today, @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org outside Apollo Global Management's Midtown office to protest Marc Rowan's "Compact for Higher Education". PSC-CUNY President James Davis explains why this assault on higher ed undermines academic freedoms and our democracy itself.

The officer's testimony does not pass mustard.

I have never seen a political campaign that has created as much joy as that of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Contrast that with the bitterness, sourness, and resentment of that of his opponent @andrewcuomo.bsky.social. In itself, this is not a reason to vote for ZM. But I believe it speaks volumes.

Join us in protesting the billionaire who is behind Trump's attack on higher ed. #handsoffhighered psc-cuny.org/calendar/no-...

i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.

Re-posting this to celebrate the end of the first weekend of early voting. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mondoweiss.net "Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City" mondoweiss.net/2025/09/zohr...

Zohran Mamdani's promises of free busses might sound great, but I live in Albuquerque NM where city busses have been free for five years and I'm here to tell you the truth. This is what every bus in my city looks like now. Think carefully about your choice this November.

"Divisive candidate" used to mean candidates who purposely set factions against one another. Now "divisive candidate" means "candidate who makes me feel for the first time in my life like I am being disempowered." Fuck centrist babies who are throwing hissy fits for not getting their way for once.

“If the Jews want a national home in which their national life and culture will have an untrammeled development, Palestine is not the place.... Anti-Semitism in the whole world will revive and become more entrenched than ever before. This is actually taking shape before our eyes.” H.I. Katibah, 1921

Bari Weiss would be a great name for an old jazz musician name dropped in a Tom Waits song. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

I think we all need to start practicing that thing where one person gets on hands and knees behind someone while their partner pushes the person so they fall backwards.

NYC Joyce readers! Join us 10/8 for Casey Drosehn Gough's talk, "Joycean Saínz: Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Mexican History in the Novels of Gustavo Saínz." At the Jefferson Market Library, where Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap went on trial in 1921 for publishing Ulysses. tinyurl.com/mvsx7fx7

I didn't get invited to my cousins' Rosh Hashana celebration for the first time ever because I write stuff like this, so I guess I'll keep posting it.

I don't watch White House press secretary appearances ever but once in awhile I see a clip and I'm just wondering what is up with that lady's hair that she can't stop touching it?

Re-posting this to reach more eyeballs.

Joyce nerds, this is tomorrow, live-streamable. @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social @jamesjoycegazette.bsky.social @jamesjoycetower.bsky.social @jamesjoyceuk.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social