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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2h

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.

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 4h

Awww❤️

Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 7h

@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!

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 18h

Come out to @politicsprose.bsky.social at 7pm on Wednesday 10/22 to see @bethmacy.bsky.social and I talk about her knockout new book PAPER GIRL: A MEMOIR OF HOME AND FAMILY IN A FRACTURED AMERICA.

Beth Macy — Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America - with Andrea Pitzer — at Conn Ave

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Aarik Danielsen @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus. Take and read this from @bethmacy.bsky.social. Very (sadly) congruent with my own life in journalism.

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How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust

My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store…

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! “Interesting” is one word for it!

tvb2005.bsky.social @tvb2005.bsky.social · 1d

@bethmacy.bsky.social Just finished Paper Girl. Great read. It must have taken great courage to write it. You have an interesting family (to say the very least).

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 1d

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

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to my pal @bethmacy.bsky.social brilliantly tie it all together on Fresh Air! Then check out her critical new book, Paper Girl. Not just another rant; real reporting about real people. 'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home

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'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home

Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to find jobs have left, families are struggling and old friends now embrace conspiracy theories. Her new memoir is Paper Girl.

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 2d

Reuters: How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs

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"...it is U.S. companies that are footing the bill and passing on some of it to the consumer - with more price hikes likely."

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs

U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs, early indications show, contradicting assertions by President Donald Trump and complicating the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation.

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Virginia Tech Center for Humanities @vthumanities.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home

Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to find jobs have left, families are struggling and old friends now embrace conspiracy theories. Her new memoir is Paper Girl.

www.npr.org

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone needs to read @bethmacy.bsky.social's new book. WaPo says, "There couldn’t be a timelier book than Beth Macy’s searching and deeply reported 'Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America.'” www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Review | To understand our divided America, she started with her hometown

In “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy describes returning to Urbana, Ohio, once a key stop on the Underground Railroad, now a place where Confederate flags abound.

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social · 5d

This Monday, 1 pm PT! Join @bethmacy.bsky.social and Anna Quindlen in a virtual event, free and open to all. Visit the Book Passage site to tune in:

www.bookpassage.com/event/beth-m...

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Vick, and thanks for another great interview.

Vick Mickunas @vickmickunas.bsky.social · 4d

@bethmacy.bsky.social !

and @damedenisemina.bsky.social !

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6 New Books We Love This Week

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NPR @npr.org · 8d

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.

New books this week: Thomas Pynchon's first novel in 12 years, and much more

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.

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 4d

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!

Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social · 5d

This Monday, 1 pm PT! Join @bethmacy.bsky.social and Anna Quindlen in a virtual event, free and open to all. Visit the Book Passage site to tune in:

www.bookpassage.com/event/beth-m...

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Douglas W. Burns @douglaswburns.bsky.social · 6d

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"

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 6d

New post: @douglaswburns.bsky.social will interview Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social about her new book, Paper Girl, at the Banned Books Festival in Des Moines this Saturday.
More on the event and this "powerhouse work of non-fiction" about rural America:
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/09/b...

Beth Macy, author of 'Dopesick' and 'Paper Girl,' coming to Des Moines

Douglas Burns will interview Beth Macy about her new book, Paper Girl, at the Banned Books Festival in Des Moines.

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Smoot Hawley remix @manssearch4meaning.bsky.social · 6d

People here on Bluesky trash The Atlantic. I love that magazine. Everyday I check in to see their latest. I don't agree with every artlicle but when I read one like one by @bethmacy.bsky.social I feel I understand the world a little more.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6d

Tl;dr: America has an acute mental health problem (see also the guy who started the LA fire) and Trump's solution to that is to invade everywhere with people who THEMSELVES appear to have stability issues.

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Carole Tarrant @carolet.bsky.social · 6d

“‘Paper Girl’ layers memoir with reporting to produce an unsettling portrait of her native Urbana, Ohio, battered all but unrecognizable by opioids and other malignant social currents.” @bethmacy.bsky.social

NPR @npr.org · 8d

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.

New books this week: Thomas Pynchon's first novel in 12 years, and much more

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.

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much for reading and for living with these painful questions with me.

Christine @buddhaclauser.bsky.social · 6d

This very thoughtful and moving book excerpt in The Atlantic by a woman about the fate of her small town, her family and her life after she moved away and her continued relations w a much changed town that reflects our current dilemma. As a small town girl myself-now living in NYC-it resonates.

Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 7d

So grateful to @theatlantic.com for excerpting Paper Girl so beautifully yesterday.

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 7d

So grateful to @theatlantic.com for excerpting Paper Girl so beautifully yesterday.

TheTimeline 🔎🧩 @thetimeline.bsky.social · 7d

GREAT read on our changing society, communities, family-relations, news consumption — and just the change in humanity.

(🎁 gift article)

@bethmacy.bsky.social

What Happened to Ohio?

The fraying of my family and our working-class hometown

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TheTimeline 🔎🧩 @thetimeline.bsky.social · 7d

Just came to say the same. REALLY well written/woven together look at the nuanced evolution of getting where we are.

Hell, AJC won’t even be PRINTING their paper starting 2026. And THAT is a small (but another way lost) of us even connecting with NEIGHBORS: just going to get the paper.
#following

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Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social · 7d

"Macy’s personal history provides an appealing prism" in PAPER GIRL, as she "takes on the pressing subject of the country’s political divide by returning to her hometown, Urbana, Ohio." @nytimes.com reviews PAPER GIRL.

cc: @bethmacy.bsky.social

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Revisiting Her Hometown, a Journalist Finds Anger, Addiction and Despair

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 8d

Crucial writing from @bethmacy.bsky.social :

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 8d

@bethmacy.bsky.social recalls how the collapse of local journalism can decimate a community’s sense of trust.

How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust

My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store…

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