Jack El-Hai
LightNews LightNews
jackelhai.bsky.social
Jack El-Hai
@jackelhai.bsky.social
1.7K followers 900 following 940 posts
#Author: THE NAZI & THE PSYCHIATRIST (movie NUREMBERG opening 7 November 2025); FACE IN THE MIRROR; THE LOST BROTHERS; THE LOBOTOMIST. #Writer of DAMN #HISTORY newsletter. [email protected]
Posts Replies Media Videos
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: “All good research – whether for science or for a book – is a form of obsession.” ― Mary Roach
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"Pivotal intelligence networks."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author Helen Fry & @yalepress.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: "The hatefulest thing in the world is a cuckoo clock." – Mark Twain
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"Aristocrat-turned-American Communist."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @cktroublemaker.bsky.social & @harperbooks.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: “First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.” ― Octavia Butler
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"Human predation, slavery, and imperialism."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @worldhistorian.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: "Personally, I like to meet my corpse on page one, and I like him (or her) to be very dead." – Delano Ames
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: "In #memoir we learn what our story means as we work on it, sometimes discovering pivotal connections in much later drafts." — Ronit F. Plank
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"The first major spousal rape trial in America."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @sarahweinman.com & @eccobooks.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: “The #writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.” ― Janet Malcolm
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - John Adams
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"Why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @zygaro.bsky.social & @scribnerbooks.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: "There is no present or future — only the past, happening over and over again — now." – Eugene O'Neill
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"A top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @bhendersonbooks.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: "I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes." – Jonathan Winters, born 100 years ago on November 11
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"An electrifying journey."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @johnlingan.bsky.social & @scribnerbooks.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: “What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.” ― Mary McCarthy
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"The birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @emlieb.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: "Ideas, especially the ones that become novels, come to me before I am ready for them." – Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"The criminal underworld in the #medieval Holy Land."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author Steve Tibble & @yalepress.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, #history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." – Barbara Tuchman
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"Franco's life and the enduring legacy of Francoism."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author Giles Tremlett & @oxunipress.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
Now out: the November issue of DAMN HISTORY, my free monthly newsletter for #history readers and writers. Nazi and psychiatrist, Arthur C. Clarke on the ocean floor, from hitman to pop star, Russia's JFK dossier, cookbook stains, + more.

Read/subscribe: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
#Writing: “I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
jackelhai.bsky.social
"The first American woman to hold federal office."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @lorissa.bsky.social & @stmartinspress.bsky.social!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM