Drew Broussard
@drewsof.bsky.social
he/him
writer
bookstore manager, Rough Draft Bar & Books
podcasts editor at Literary Hub & host of The Lit Hub Podcast
head full of pumpkins
www.drewbroussard.com
writer
bookstore manager, Rough Draft Bar & Books
podcasts editor at Literary Hub & host of The Lit Hub Podcast
head full of pumpkins
www.drewbroussard.com
I love this prize (the only one run by booksellers! or at least the only translation prize run by booksellers!) and this is a very very good decision by this year's jury.
🎉 Congratulations to Christina MacSweeney and Jazmina Barrera! THE QUEEN OF SWORDS is the winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize! ⚔️ www.cercadorprize.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I love this prize (the only one run by booksellers! or at least the only translation prize run by booksellers!) and this is a very very good decision by this year's jury.
King Tuff's "Smalltown Stardust" (song) is the flip-side of @themountaingoats.bsky.social's UNIVERSAL HARVESTER (novel) and I won't be explaining any further but for those who already know/need to know about this... now it has been said.
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
King Tuff's "Smalltown Stardust" (song) is the flip-side of @themountaingoats.bsky.social's UNIVERSAL HARVESTER (novel) and I won't be explaining any further but for those who already know/need to know about this... now it has been said.
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What even was literary Twitter? Vote in the first round of our bracket to determine the literary internet’s wildest, weirdest, most iconic moment!
What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket
We are gathered here to celebrate the brief, bright, Roman Candle life of Literary Twitter, a mesmerizing and maddening place where the most talented writers used to rub shoulders with the most unb…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What even was literary Twitter? Vote in the first round of our bracket to determine the literary internet’s wildest, weirdest, most iconic moment!
Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
PSA: The Year's Best Weird Fiction (Vol. 1 / 2024) is a revitalizing tonic, a reminder of just how good and strange and fun speculative fiction can be. @undertow.bsky.social has a keen and expansive eye—I look forward to many many installments to come. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 — Undertow Publications
A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds upon, the critical success of its sibling predecessor,...
undertowpublications.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
PSA: The Year's Best Weird Fiction (Vol. 1 / 2024) is a revitalizing tonic, a reminder of just how good and strange and fun speculative fiction can be. @undertow.bsky.social has a keen and expansive eye—I look forward to many many installments to come. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Well worth your time. I hope it makes you think about your own existence as much as it has made me think about mine.
Well worth your time. I hope it makes you think about your own existence as much as it has made me think about mine.
The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Well worth your time. I hope it makes you think about your own existence as much as it has made me think about mine.
Well worth your time. I hope it makes you think about your own existence as much as it has made me think about mine.
sitting in line for rush tickets (that cost $20 or less), Cafe Deville on 13th & 3rd (also Booker + Dax / the original Milk Bar), the ARCs nook at the Strand, the old lobby of The Public
I'm not going to read the NYT story but I do want to hear what other people would put in their "Lost New York" takes, mine would include Dr Zizmor ads and the free transfer between the Broadway G/Lorimer JMZ stops
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
sitting in line for rush tickets (that cost $20 or less), Cafe Deville on 13th & 3rd (also Booker + Dax / the original Milk Bar), the ARCs nook at the Strand, the old lobby of The Public
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Over the past few weeks, HiLoBrow has run installments of my long essay “Without Care,” which maps out a 21st century gothic that I started calling The Devoid. All four installments are now live and you can read the whole thing here; enjoy!
without-care – HILOBROW
www.hilobrow.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Over the past few weeks, HiLoBrow has run installments of my long essay “Without Care,” which maps out a 21st century gothic that I started calling The Devoid. All four installments are now live and you can read the whole thing here; enjoy!
I think it bears repeating: stop reading the New York Times. The indignation you're feeling at this shitty headline/piece is energy better spent elsewhere.
(Can you still read individual writers who might show up in the NYT? Sure! Lots of great ppl write for them! Trust the byline, not the outlet!)
(Can you still read individual writers who might show up in the NYT? Sure! Lots of great ppl write for them! Trust the byline, not the outlet!)
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I think it bears repeating: stop reading the New York Times. The indignation you're feeling at this shitty headline/piece is energy better spent elsewhere.
(Can you still read individual writers who might show up in the NYT? Sure! Lots of great ppl write for them! Trust the byline, not the outlet!)
(Can you still read individual writers who might show up in the NYT? Sure! Lots of great ppl write for them! Trust the byline, not the outlet!)
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Just a reminder, as we head into the holiday season to be kind & patient with retail workers. On top of, you know, everything else, this is flu & cold season & so the odds you talk to someone short staffed because of call outs is pretty damn high.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Just a reminder, as we head into the holiday season to be kind & patient with retail workers. On top of, you know, everything else, this is flu & cold season & so the odds you talk to someone short staffed because of call outs is pretty damn high.
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bro every aspect of online life has just become me trying to hide from clippy’s nosy ass. this is just 1999 all over again. i open any app or page and there he is, clippy’s ghost, in the form of AI or algorithms, spying on and meddling in my life choices
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
bro every aspect of online life has just become me trying to hide from clippy’s nosy ass. this is just 1999 all over again. i open any app or page and there he is, clippy’s ghost, in the form of AI or algorithms, spying on and meddling in my life choices
"green grass turns brown when it begins to rot" is an all-timer tbh
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"green grass turns brown when it begins to rot" is an all-timer tbh
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trying to hedge bets only to be rejected by both sides
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
trying to hedge bets only to be rejected by both sides
Yeah, it would be totally wild if it was true! It would also be totally wild if I was in the running for The New Yorker's 5 under 35 like I said in that email I sent to my friends on my 36th birthday!
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yeah, it would be totally wild if it was true! It would also be totally wild if I was in the running for The New Yorker's 5 under 35 like I said in that email I sent to my friends on my 36th birthday!
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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
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Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
just don't read the NYT! even when they write about something good & cool (and I genuinely think 831 Stories is good & cool—I can guarantee (with receipts!) that their pitch is getting more people INTO romance & reading in general) they do so in such a way as to piss off the most people possible.
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
just don't read the NYT! even when they write about something good & cool (and I genuinely think 831 Stories is good & cool—I can guarantee (with receipts!) that their pitch is getting more people INTO romance & reading in general) they do so in such a way as to piss off the most people possible.
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
my kingdom for a bookstore inventory-management platform that doesn't require us to get a PC to run it
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
my kingdom for a bookstore inventory-management platform that doesn't require us to get a PC to run it
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Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚
Are "classic reissues" imprints a recession indicator? Or, maybe more accurately, a general coming-industry-collapse indicator? Because lordy it seems like there are a bunch of them cropping up recently and it just feels like we maybe don't need *so* many?
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Are "classic reissues" imprints a recession indicator? Or, maybe more accurately, a general coming-industry-collapse indicator? Because lordy it seems like there are a bunch of them cropping up recently and it just feels like we maybe don't need *so* many?
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...
The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell
When he was a teenager, the Mountain Goats founder never expected to live to 21. He has since become one of this century’s best songwriters. The lessons of his survival, life, and work feel endless.
www.gq.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...
okay does anybody have a back-up on this story? because Grijalva is getting sworn in *today* so....
Nancy Mace is expected to pull her support for the petition to release the Epstein Files, the day before Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
okay does anybody have a back-up on this story? because Grijalva is getting sworn in *today* so....