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Matt Haig

@matthaig.bsky.social

The Midnight Train is coming.

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Celeste Ng@pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. [T]heir neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Canongate@canongate.co.uk · 10mo ago

Announcing THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, the new novel from @matthaig.bsky.social, to publish in May 2026. A time travelling love story from the world of The Midnight Library, it's available to pre-order here buythebook.online/the-midnight...

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The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 10mo ago

Canongate has got on board with Matt Haig's latest novel The Midnight Train, a "sibling, not a sequel" to his global hit, The Midnight Library, publishing in May 2026 📚 Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/4es7b2ku

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Reading The Midnight Library, and this line popped out. Explains a lot right now. “She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’”

Matt Haig@matthaig.bsky.social · last yr.

Can we stop calling billionaire CEO investors and world destroyers ‘rock stars’. They are the thing you rebel against. They aren’t articulating their pain into beauty. They are just dickheads making life a bit more shit.

Matt Haig@matthaig.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you’ve never watched It’s a Wonderful Life give it a go. It’s not schmaltzy. It’s raw. It’s very 2024. About the little guy against the machine. Humans against economies. About why we matter. About the difference a life can make. About why we should stay alive.

Matt Haig@matthaig.bsky.social · 2y ago

Going to be doing a podcast next year. Not just a roll call of celebs. Proper non-PR convos with people on the cutting edge of mental health and culture and with something interesting to say. Therapists, neuroscientists, survivors, flawed people aware of their flaws. It’s going to be good.

Matt Haig@matthaig.bsky.social · 2y ago

I think I will start Bluesky with a sign of the level of political debate and interaction I want on here. So I am going to put it out there that I like dogs.