Scott Simon
@nprscottsimon.bsky.social
I host a Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR, write books, plays, do some other reporting. Nightly Substack RT YouTube on writing, and other interests. Husband, father and Chicago Cubs fan. Book in May, 2026: ULYSSES S. CAT AND OTHER ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN.
Our Open Book continues with reading the Portis classic TRUE GRIT. Mattie meets the Texas Ranger… scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book continues with reading the Portis classic TRUE GRIT. Mattie meets the Texas Ranger…
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Our Open Book reopens Portis’ TRUE GRIT. Mattie meets Rooster Cogburn. Can she persuade him to track the murderous Tom Chaney? scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book reopens Portis’ TRUE GRIT. Mattie meets Rooster Cogburn. Can she persuade him to track the murderous Tom Chaney?
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Our Open Book continues with our reading from TRUE GRIT. Mattie has seen her dear father killed… scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book continues with our reading from TRUE GRIT. Mattie has seen her dear father killed…
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Our Open Book begins the reading of the classic TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis. How it all began for 14 year old Mattie… scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book begins the reading of the classic TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis. How it all began for 14 year old Mattie…
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Our Open Book reads the last of Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD. Agent Alvin Dewey at the jail, then cemetery. Haunting indeed… scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book reads the last of Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD. Agent Alvin Dewey at the jail, then cemetery. Haunting indeed…
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Our Open Book welcomes the great Paul Theroux on his book TRUE NORTH. thoughtfull, funny, and ebullient. scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book welcomes the great Paul Theroux on his book TRUE NORTH
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Our Open Book will read from @parisreview Annie Dillard appreciation of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit paleontoligist. scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book will read from @parisreview Annie Dillard appreciation of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit paleontoligist.
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Our Open Book returns to Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD. The final arguments in court… scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book returns to Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD. The final arguments in court…
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Our Open Book remembers Roger Simon (no relation, alas, but often confused for one) by reading two of his columns and sign off. scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book remembers Roger Simon (no relation, alas, but often confused for one) by reading two of his columns and sign off.
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Our Open Book reopens Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD. Dick and Perry conjure dreams of escape from Kansas prison. scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book reopens Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD. Dick and Perry conjure dreams of escape from Kansas prison.
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Our Open Book opens to two cherished poems about work in America. Any guess what I’ve chosen tonight? Join us! scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book opens to two cherished poems about work in America. Any guess what I’ve chosen tonight? Join us!
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Our Open Book reopens Lenny Bruce’s HOW TO TALK DIRTY…to his Brother Mathias scam. Funny, but not nice… scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book reopens Lenny Bruce’s HOW TO TALK DIRTY…to his Brother Mathias scam. Funny, but not nice…
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Our Open Book opens Lenny Bruce’s HOW TO TALK DIRTY…for his account of his ruse to get discharged from the US Navy. Language apologies… scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book opens Lenny Bruce’s HOW TO TALK DIRTY…for his account of his ruse to get discharged from the US Navy. Language apologies…
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Our Open Book with Ron Charles on online author scams and what he is reading scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book with Ron Charles on online author scams and what he is reading
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Our Open Book with Josh Silver on his best-selling debut novel FRUIT FLY. So open and moving on the challenge and reality of addiction. So grateful to speak with such a man who is talented in all ways. scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book with Josh Silver on his best-selling debut novel FRUIT FLY
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Our Open Book opens to Jan Morris’ memories of monks, saints, and more from 50 YEARS OF EUROPE scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book opens to Jan Morris’ memories of monks, saints, and more from 50 YEARS OF EUROPE
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Our Open Book opens to Oscar Wilde on art, lit, and crit(icism). scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book opens to Oscar Wilde on art, lit, and crit(icism).
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Our Open Book read E.E. Whites classic ONCE MORE TO THE LAKE. Warm, cheery, until… scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book read E.E. Whites classic ONCE MORE TO THE LAKE. Warm, cheery, until…
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Our Open Book returns with a reading about the title character of ULYSSES. S. CAT AND OTHER ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN. Join us! scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book returns with a reading about the title character of ULYSSES. S. CAT AND OTHER ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN. Join us!
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My thoughts on the 60th anniversary of the death of Lenny Bruce for @airmail.news : airmail.news/issues/2026-...
If Lenny Bruce Were Alive Today, He'd Be Dead
Sixty years after his death, the boundary-pushing comedian might have less to fear from the police—and more from the audience, argues NPR's Scott Simon.
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Our Open Book reopens Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD to the remarkable story of Josie Meier at the county jail. What a citizen and person! scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/our-open-b...
Our Open Book reopens Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD to the remarkable story of Josie Meier at the county jail. What a citizen and person!
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We reopen our Open Book to IN COLD BLOOD and the confession Agent Dewey has been pursuing—and it sickens him. scottsimonspeaks.substack.com/p/we-reopen-...
We reopen our Open Book to IN COLD BLOOD and the confession Agent Dewey has been pursuing—and it sickens him.
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We pick up our reading from Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD on the anniversary. Perry blames the murders on Dick to agents in the car. Tough and sobering open.substack.com/pub/scottsim...
We pick up our reading from Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD on the anniversary. Perry blames the murders on Dick to agents in the car. Tough and sobering
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We reopen Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD in the anniversary year. Dick and Perry questioned after being on the lam, and are surprised by… open.substack.com/pub/scottsim...
We reopen Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD in the anniversary year. Dick and Perry questioned after being on the lam, and are surprised by…
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Our Open Book continues with Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD for the anniversary. Dick and Perry, the killers, on the run, but unaware… open.substack.com/pub/scottsim...
Our Open Book continues with Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD for the anniversary. Dick and Perry, the killers, on the run, but unaware…
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We reopen IN COLD BLOOD on the anniversary for Capote’s capture of an extraordinary jailhouse confession about the Clutters… open.substack.com/pub/scottsim...
We reopen IN COLD BLOOD on the anniversary for Capote’s capture of an extraordinary jailhouse confession about the Clutters…
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