mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social
Brooklynite, author of narrative histories including the NYT bestseller EIGHTY DAYS and THE CITY GAME, and the recently released PARIS UNDERCOVER. Mets fan. Loves the semicolon.
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He once said that his own favorite performance was in Scarecrow. He loved that film and had such high hopes for it, and when it tanked at the box office he decided he was only going to make commercial films from then on.
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So many of us experience only minor variations of this — about writing and much else. Thanks for opening up about it!
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I agree with everything that Surekha said!
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Next up is PARIS UNDERCOVER by the one and only @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social - an engrossing tale about two women in Nazi-occupied Paris who created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. A book for the ages: shorturl.at/0VPGw
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You’re so very kind! [And back atcha.]
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That's how I first heard the name "Nellie Bly" -- which led me to write a book about her!
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And then it didn't take much for them to become American citizens, and I like to think that the country is a slightly better place for having allowed them to do so. Interesting how the rules change when the people wanting to come in -- likewise fleeing poverty and oppression -- are black or brown.
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They came with NO skills, NO money, NO education, NO jobs, NO knowledge of English, and NO home or family waiting for them. Yet America was a welcoming place for immigrants back then, and more or less all they had to do to come in was to get off the boat. 2/
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Yes, yes, a hundred times yes! My favorite place in the world in which to do research.
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Shout out to Sue Ellen Mischke!
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Haven’t read it since college, approximately a million years ago. I’m in!
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Fantastic! Wonderful piece. I started studying French 6 years ago, and it’s changed my life in countless ways! (For the better, that is.)
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Agree about “White Noise.” But Richard Russo’s “Straight Man” is also hilarious!
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Damn, that's a solid Woody/Billy shoutout!