Scott Simon
@nprscottsimon
Host NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday Author, SWINGTIME FOR HITLER, fall 2023. Special Contributor CBS Sunday Morning. Husband, father. @nprweekend @upfirst
Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this—11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw
Our Open Book reopens Joan Didion’s (dare I say classic) essay, “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air…” x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Our Open Book reopens Joan Didion’s (dare I say classic) essay, “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air…” x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Our Open Book has eloquence from @jonregen on a piano that has just come into his trust, from a Rachmaninoff contemporary: scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/scott-simons…
Our Open Book has eloquence from @jonregen on a piano that has just come into his trust, from a Rachmaninoff contemporary: scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/scott-simons…
My newsletter this week is on the most critically lauded film of the summer of 1975. Not Jaws, or Cuckoo's Nest or Dog Day Afternoon, but..well, sign up here to find out! npr.org/newsletter/sco…
Our Open Book welcomes @jonregen to tell us the story of another artist revealed by his newest piano--Henrietta Schuman. 6:15 pm et /3:15 pm pt live on @SubstackInc then Rt'd on X
Had too much fun telling @nprscottsimon about the time I spilled a bunch of murder feathers on my lap while going through Roxie Laybourne’s archives. Head over to his substack to hear about it: open.substack.com/pub/scottsimon…
𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗 Mark Buehrle throws the 18th perfect game in MLB history!
Wanna seem him wear it to celebrate mass. Please!
Bears fans vacationing in Rome gifted Pope Leo XIV a shirt that says "Da Pope" (🎥: Ann Bannapradist Munoz/FB)
My newsletter this week is on the most critically lauded film of the summer of 1975. Not Jaws, or Cuckoo's Nest or Dog Day Afternoon, but..well, sign up here to find out! npr.org/newsletter/sco…
This great player has become the essence of what it is to be part of the @Cubs.
In Wrigleyville this weekend there were kids holding a lemonade stand to raise $ so one of them could get their hair done like PCA (bleached with blue stars). #Cubs PCA heard about it and showed up to meet the kids & give them enough $ to get the hairdo 🥹
There was only one Ozzy 💙 Look back to Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
Our Open Book w/ @cbsweeney on the remarkable life and work of Roxie Laybourne, THE FEATHER DETECTIVE: scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/scott-simons…
Our Open Book w/ @cbsweeney on the remarkable life and work of Roxie Laybourne, THE FEATHER DETECTIVE: scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/scott-simons…
LIVE SOON: Chris Sweeney joins us on tonight’s Open Book for his newest story on THE FEATHER DETECTIVE open.substack.com/live-stream/44…
This truly was the last song Ozzy ever sang live with the boys. The song that put them on the map. Paranoid. They were just kids in a hippy band out of Birmingham not knowing they would pave the way for thousands of bands for over 55 years.
Remembering my brother in music, Ozzy Osbourne. I've always looked back at this commercial we shot in '03 so fondly. The last time we spoke was backstage of Dancing with The Stars season 9, when he told me how much he loved the Osmond song, "Crazy Horses"...talk about crazy!…