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Carl Hoffman
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NYTimes bestselling author of 5 books: Savage Harvest, Lunatic Express, Last Wild Men of Borneo, Liar's Circus, Hunting Warbirds. Sixth coming from HarperCollins/Mariner. Previously contributing editor Wired, NG Traveler. Book reviews The Washington Post.
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I asked @lancerichardson.bsky.social some questions about his major new biography of Peter Matthiessen. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
An ‘accidental biographer’ on Peter Matthiessen
Lance Richardson talks about “True Nature,” his biography of an acclaimed, versatile and fascinating writer
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
Looking forward to this. DC peeps, do come!
lancerichardson.bsky.social Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 27d
Two book events this weekend! Both with exceptional writer friends.

Saturday in DC: Politics & Prose with @carlhoffman.bsky.social at 3pm. Details here: politics-prose.com/lance-richar...

Sunday in Providence: Riffraff with @francescawade.bsky.social at 6pm. Details here: riffraffpvd.com/events/
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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DC folks - please come here @lancerichardson.bsky.social and I talk about True Nature, his wonderful new biography of Peter Matthiessen at @politicsprose.bsky.social Ct Ave. this Saturday, 3 pm.

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Lance Richardson — True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen - With Carl Hoffman — At Conn Ave
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October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Have fun!
October 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
A delicious read, this book. DC friends - please come see Lance and I discuss it at @politicsprose.bsky.social Saturday, 11/1 at 3 pm.

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October 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Absurd as everything this admin does. And per usual just complete ignorance. Anyone interested in Amelia should read @lauriestories.bsky.social new book The Aviator and The Showman.
cliftonlee.bsky.social Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · Oct 8
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭whut da fuck? We are beyond an Idiocracy.... Cc: @carlhoffman.bsky.social
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Oct 8
The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
These people are nuts. They sound more and more like the Taliban or the right wing Israelis. They hate America.
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Oct 7
The nativist right keeps talking about “heritage Americans.” It's a buzzword engineered to move the goalposts on immigration even further, argues @alibreland.bsky.social.
Are You a ‘Heritage American’?
Why the far right wants to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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“...you will live in exile, because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power, and if you have broken the law, to take away your freedom.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
Congrats. I love True Nature and couldn’t agree more.
September 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
All five of my books, plus several translations.
alexdecampi.bsky.social Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Freedom, in the American context, has always meant the freedom to make bank at pretty much anyone’s expense.... My review of Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West for The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com @bookcritics.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | The bloody, muddy true story of the real Deadwood
In his history of the legendary South Dakota gold rush town, Peter Cozzens explains how miners, outlaws, gamblers and other reprobates helped shape America.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
One hundred and eight five years after Melville shipped out of New Bedford, Ma., then the largest whaling port in the world, the city remains the highest grossing fishing port in the USA. Spending the next year reporting on it; heading out for ten days on the Debra C in pursuit of wild fish.
July 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
Well, I’m still here and still working! Not dead yet!
jbeilinson.bsky.social Jerry Beilinson @jbeilinson.bsky.social · Jul 12
Came across Savage Harvest in a bookstore today; it's a great work by @carlhoffman.bsky.social that took crazy amounts of time, chutzpah, and skill to report. And I thought: Now that old-school magazines with real editorial budgets are dead, will we have writers like that anymore?
July 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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lancerichardson.bsky.social
Reviewed James Rebanks's strange and beguiling new book for the Washington Post.
Review | On Norway’s coast, looking for an older, more thoughtful way to live
In ‘The Place of Tides,’ acclaimed nature writer James Rebanks visits a memorable woman committed to helping ducks
www.washingtonpost.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
What we have become:

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
In this lawless landscape of frail masculine egos clinging to cockeyed, and often booze-fueled, notions of honor, the bullets fly, the bodies pile up, the pages turn fast and easy...." My review of Bryan Burrough's The Gunfighters for @washingtonpost.com

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | The gritty, unglamorous truth about the antiheroes of the Wild West
In “The Gunfighters,” Bryan Burrough sets out to debunk the myth of the Colt-toting cowboy hero.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I love sulphur-crested cockatoos.

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‘Opportunistic’ cockatoos wait in line, drink from fountains, study finds
The birds, which have also opened trash bins, were filmed operating fountain handles with complex maneuvers. Researchers say they are learning from one another.
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June 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Town and Country weighs in on the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller wing at the Met; alone of the other pieces so far the reporter delved into the complexities of his collecting and the uneven, colonial power relationships of it.

www.townandcountrymag.com/society/trad...
The Mysterious Disappearance and Lingering Legacy of Michael Rockefeller
The late scion of an American dynasty died under bizarre circumstances 64 years ago. Now, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum named for him is reopening and putting him back in the spotlight.
www.townandcountrymag.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
Can't wait to go see the renovated and newly reopening Michael C. Rockefeller room in the Met. An error in the piece: the Asmat never lived in Papua New Guinea, but in Netherlands New Guinea in 1961, and what is today Indonesian West Papua.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/a...
The Most Wondrous Art in the World in 1,726 Objects
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
A gang controlled this Honduran barrio. Then a small NGO fought back. My review of Bear Witness in The Washington Post:

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Review | A gang controlled this Honduran barrio. Then a small NGO fought back.
“Bear Witness” by Ross Halperin details a Christian charity’s attempts to make the criminal justice system serve some of the poorest people in Latin America.
wapo.st
May 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Once you correctly recognize Trump's tariffs as a way to fund his intended upper-class tax cut with an immediate tax increase on poor and working Americans ... you can't see the tariffs any other way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China
www.theatlantic.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
Oof, this is tragic and sad. I met Jill Sobule once at an EG conference in 2014 and a few weeks later she sent me a signed CD and I sent her a signed book. She was smart and funny and kind.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a...
Jill Sobule, Singer of ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dies in House Fire
Ms. Sobule, known for her advocacy as well as her music, died in a house fire. She had been scheduled to perform songs from an autobiographical musical she wrote.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
carlhoffman.bsky.social
Beware of searching too hard for the past in the present. My review of A Training School for Elephants in The Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | These elephants’ march through Africa tells a tale of exploitation
In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM