Scott Simon ✓
@nprscottsimon · Washington DC · joined 06 Feb 2009
Host NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, and NPR's Up First. Author, novels, essays (May 2026 ULYSSES S. CAT AND OTHER ANIMALS I'VE KNOWN. Husband, father, Cubs fan.
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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… https://t.co/R8s8JhDnwn
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Our Open Book welcomes the great Paul Theroux on his book TRUE NORTH. Thoughtful, funny, and ebullient.
https://t.co/B22lsleU7C
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Our Open book welcomes @PaulTheroux_ to talk about his new TRUE NORTH: ON THE ROAD IN CANADA
6:15 pm et / 3:15 pm pt live on @Substack https://t.co/UGj2BJgC5m
Join us with questions! RTd all over thereafter https://t.co/9llVfriy3S
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A grrreat piece of reporting:
https://t.co/xpV1YH7Mlj
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Our Open Book welcomes the authors of ORTIZ’S WAR. An extraordinary story, finally told.
https://t.co/vxgMvB5z8j
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Our Open Book welcomes Nicholas Reynolds and Katie S. Sanders to talk about ORTIZ'S WAR. An amazing, laureled, but largely unknown WWII career.
6:15 pm et 3:15 pm pt
live on @substack https://t.co/UGj2BJh9UU
RTd here thereafter. Join us with your questions, too! https://t.co/Qcx
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Our Open Book will read from @parisreview Annie Dillard appreciation of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit paleontoligist. https://t.co/DqnkK4o6NI
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Our Open Book will read from @parisreview Annie Dillard appreciation of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit paleontoligist.
6:15 pm et live on @Substack
https://t.co/UGj2BJgC5m
And RTd thereafter. Join us!
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Confirms an old sports cliche. 59 points one week, 3 the next, but still just 1-1 in W-L column.
https://t.co/jX7IX0KOhg
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Ahead: chef Patrick O’Connell on his memoir MAIN, MIDDLE, & GAY, finding his life in the theater of fine food. And great new Brazilian music from Mari Froes.
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Ahead: FL faces the question of if a cut in property taxes means a reduction in services. Then @hbryant42 with sports as baseball’s regular season roars into its last couple of weeks. And then, a Nathan Hale. We regret we have but one show to put on in our country this week…
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Ahead: the implications of rising gas prices. Then @vanromo on families who are frustrated getting information on loved ones who are in ICE facilities, some of whom have died.
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Ahead: @ElBeardsley with a postcard from a delightful town on the Normandy coast. Then @BenMacintyre1 on REDWOOD, a Col War story of a KGB agent who tells MI6, “I have a personal problem…” Ahhhem. And then remembering our beloved colleague Rose Friedman.
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Ahead: Ou @dparvaz from Kabul on people trying to live around Taliban restrictions now. Then @JuliaRJones on her central role as an indigenous woman who signs on to a hazardous mission in THE WEIGHT.
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We remember Annie Dillard with her own words, beginning with her own snails. https://t.co/hgUs2mppL6
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Caroline's wonderful newsletter on Bayeux Fever:
https://t.co/fjaGcZxcEc https://t.co/s7XQlETOxT
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Our Open Book returns to Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD. The final arguments in court… https://t.co/ogYozUQzbE
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Being shown Chicago’s Chinatown by Wen Huang is like being shown Las Vegas by Frank Sinatra. https://t.co/4xkEAKXJMm
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At Printers Row book fest in Chicago and my interlocutor Wen Huang came prepared. https://t.co/mwxgRAImwZ
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$5,000? In Chicago, that would be enough for two state senators, a building inspector, and a judge.
https://t.co/xyNgeJNdjH
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Ahead: the great Kate Atkinson her moving and funny new novel OUR NOBLE SELVES, set in post-WWII UK as people try to heal with their memories of testing times and losses. Then the new @netflix Instadocs and their Decoy Plane. And then, the sound of the shofar…
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Ahead: @DiaaHadid1 on the BRICS summit meeting in New Delhi. Then sports! @MichelleSteelCA @usopen and more. And an organ of hope revived at @TrinityChrchNYC 25 years after 9-11.
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Just heard @mesoplodon say poo on our air. Very proud.
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Ahead: the possible impact of Houthi seizure of a Red Sea port. Then @oyousef on doxxing that began following Charlie Kirk’s assassination that may be persisting.
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Ahead: @NPRJoel on the @amazon crash in Miami that killed 5 people. Was the small airline they booked up to flying? Then new music from Nate Amos.
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Our Open Book reopens Capote's IN COLD BLOOD to the trial. A mother of one of the killers stops him cold...
https://t.co/U8bggip3GB
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Having some problems signing on to @Substack for our Open Book. Will advise...
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Adding some aside would only distract from the gravity of this warning.
https://t.co/yS8J41vn3n
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@nprscottsimon @StarTrek Guess that makes me a pioneer. Long- term friendship based on other saying he knows why creative tempermental people are creative and temperamental,
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@nprscottsimon @StarTrek Scott- we are contemporaries and share many things- fascination with science and space exploration, and of course, the adventures of the USS Enterprise and its Mission to explore new worlds among them.
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Face aux comptes de taille comparable
33 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 100K–1M abonnés. en dessous de ses pairs à la fois en portée et en engagement.
Vues médianes2 568ce compte5 983médiane pour 100K–1M
Portée, %0.27%ce compte1.49%médiane pour 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.53%ce compte0.93%médiane pour 100K–1M
| Indicateur | Ce compte | Médiane pour 100K–1M | Rapport |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vues médianes par post | 2 568 | 5 983 | 0.43× |
| Portée (vues ÷ abonnés) | 0.27% | 1.49% | 0.18× |
| Taux d'engagement | 0.53% | 0.93% | 0.57× |
Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
2.6K19 Sep
1.7K
2.1K
2.4K
3.7K
4.5K20 Sep
3.8K
4.3K
2.5K21 Sep
5.4K
2.8K22 Sep
1.7K
2.6K23 Sep
1.4K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.43%19 Sep
0.58%
0.53%
0.70%
0.37%
0.27%20 Sep
0.29%
0.21%
0.63%21 Sep
0.26%
0.22%22 Sep
0.96%
0.43%23 Sep
0.44%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes81.3%347 in total
Reposts9.6%41 in total
Replies5.6%24 in total
Quotes0.9%4 in total
Bookmarks2.6%11 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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