nicholas mainieri

Writer. Fiction, narrative journalism, and so on. @NewAmerica Us@250 Fellow for 2024-2025.

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

Grateful to share that I am a @NewAmerica Us@250 fellow for 2024-2025. I’ll be working on a story about @FoundryField, a ballpark and communal art project that amplifies history, creates new space for play, and both expands and complicates understandings of our national pastime.

[New America @NewAmerica]

🎉 The 2024 class of New America’s Us@250 Initiative is here!

13 fellows & 2 senior fellows will reimagine the American narrative through storytelling that reflects our shared values/aspirations, just in time for the nation’s 250th anniversary.

🇺🇸 #Us250 https://t.co/n0KMB8Oxkp

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

I will be joining tonight’s @NDBaseball broadcast during the early innings to talk about South Bend’s Foundry Field and what I’ve been writing about it over the last year with the support of my @NewAmerica fellowship. @FoundryField #us250 #journalism #JackieRobinsonDay

[Notre Dame Baseball @NDBaseball]

Join us as we celebrate the history of the Foundry Giants - a team of Black players who worked in the Studebaker factory and played baseball in the 1920s-30s.

🆚 Valparaiso
📍Frank Eck Stadium
⏰ 5:30 PM ET
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📊 https://t.co/b1eBlyNCz7

#GoIrish ☘️

[mattgallagher0 @MattGallagher0]

Slava Ukraini.

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

Nah. I, and about every writer I know, love em dashes. We learn to edit against them in revision. If AI is overusing them it’s because it was trained on the pirated writing of many real human beings for whom the em dash is instinctual, artful, considered, and not always logical.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

A shortcut for detecting if something is written with AI is they all use this symbol "—" throughout the writing. It's relatively rare when a human uses it, maybe once or twice, if that. But AI chats love using it. No clue why.

[Luke Johnson @ByLukeJohnson]

Today’s press box setup includes a memorial for the late Chris Mortensen.

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

@ByLukeJohnson @NOLAnews @RodWalkerNola @JeffDuncan_ @Matthew_Paras @zewing @JimDerryJr That’s a handsome Super Bowl crew

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

@clairehopple Oh yeah, I’m watching you too, but this guy’s really showing me something!

[Alex Heard @alexheard]

As you may have heard, most (not all) of the people who produce Outside magazine (and the website) were laid off on Thursday. The ex-ME has a complete archive of issues going all the way back to the 1970s. If anybody knows of a library that might want to house these, lemme know.

[Dave Griffith @poorerthandead]

This is the first piece of a book project I'm working on about Timothy MacCarry, a Catholic anti-war protester who died under mysterious circumstances in 1971 at the age of 22.

It is, I think, a timely story. I hope you will read it and share it widely.

https://t.co/Gmsywa2YAo

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

Those who come here risking life and limb to harvest the food that appears on American tables or to rebuild American cities after disasters should have as much claim to being American as any of us born into it do.

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

Yes, Mexico Has Deep Narco Corruption, But So Does The USA

- Border Agents working with cartels
- CIA has worked with traffickers
- U.S. gun shops sell to cartels
- Cartel snitches get sweetheart deals
- U.S. banks launder drug money

Read the story at:↓
https://t.co/euRltGAFY5

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

It's true there is huge narco corruption in Mexico.

It's also true that:

- US gives sweetheart deals to narco snitches
- US shops supply guns to cartels
- CIA has worked with drug traffickers
- US has biggest drug market in world
- There are corrupt US police and border agents

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

What a wonderful story. A little dose of something that we all need right about now.

[Gary Shteyngart @Shteyngart]

This weekend, lie back and let the capybara take you to a gentler place.

[Bob Uecker @BobUeckerSays]

"As a catcher, it’s too easy to throw out a guy stealing. So I'd throw it to the CF and see if he could throw him out."
#Brewers #MLB

[Truly*Adventurous @TrlyAdventurous]

"Part history, part murder mystery, part seagoing adventure—entirely captivating" https://t.co/vbswvSiTPw

[New America @NewAmerica]

Are you looking for funding and a community of peers to help develop your next big idea? If so, then @NAFellows wants to hear from you!

Apply to be a part of the 2026 Class of New America Fellows by February 3, 2025.

📝 https://t.co/NEVvi4A2gk

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

In honor of @JohnAxford’s forthcoming Wall of Honor inclusion by the @Brewers, resharing my story about Ax’s last comeback at the 2023 World Baseball Classic @WBCBaseball. Congrats, Ax! The Ax Man Cometh, Again.

https://t.co/2Smfke6ZKd

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

In honor of @JohnAxford’s forthcoming Wall of Honor inclusion by the @Brewers, resharing my story about Ax’s last comeback at the 2023 World Baseball Classic @WBCBaseball. Congrats, Ax! The Ax Man Cometh, Again.

https://t.co/2Smfke6ZKd

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

Coming to an exclusive wall near you

@JohnAxford

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

Weird how these people still don't care if the output makes sense at all. Grimoires are books of spells, not blank pages. County fairs started in the 1800s. A golem is not a type of homunculus. Mountebanks are people who sell quack medicine, not persona shape shifters. Etc.

[nicholas mainieri @NickMainieri]

@jrrosenb If only we all had nemeses to name sinking steamboats after in great American novels!