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
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Since the Goodreads Choice Awards were posted last night, here's a reminder of how white these awards are (& why): bookriot.com/the-unbearab...
The Unbearable Whiteness of the Goodreads Choice Awards
There's one place online you can go to ensure a very white "best of" book list: The Goodreads Choice Awards.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Since the Goodreads Choice Awards were posted last night, here's a reminder of how white these awards are (& why): bookriot.com/the-unbearab...
You know that refrain in SLOW HORSES about London rules v. Moscow rules? I think there's a useful something in there about the kinds of rules we've decided are the dominant ones in storytelling these days—but any kind of rules can apply any-old-where. We need to be reminded of that.
I do like Nick's thoughts and the responses have a lot of fun ideas but, folks, this isn't hard: just make a new movie and set it up however you want. We don't always have to play by Marvel rules, or Sanderson rules, or any rules. Nobody thinks DR. NO and CASINO ROYALE are the same universe anyway.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
You know that refrain in SLOW HORSES about London rules v. Moscow rules? I think there's a useful something in there about the kinds of rules we've decided are the dominant ones in storytelling these days—but any kind of rules can apply any-old-where. We need to be reminded of that.
I do like Nick's thoughts and the responses have a lot of fun ideas but, folks, this isn't hard: just make a new movie and set it up however you want. We don't always have to play by Marvel rules, or Sanderson rules, or any rules. Nobody thinks DR. NO and CASINO ROYALE are the same universe anyway.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I do like Nick's thoughts and the responses have a lot of fun ideas but, folks, this isn't hard: just make a new movie and set it up however you want. We don't always have to play by Marvel rules, or Sanderson rules, or any rules. Nobody thinks DR. NO and CASINO ROYALE are the same universe anyway.
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"frasier, have you been ... building abominations in the basement? does the co-op board know?"
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"frasier, have you been ... building abominations in the basement? does the co-op board know?"
Continuing the loose 2025 trend of great stage-plays ending up as films instead: BLUE MOON, which I want to direct so badly I woke myself up in the middle of the night about it. Linklater's film sings and Ethan Hawke is gonna get himself another Oscar nod for sure. Beautiful, tragic, delightful.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Continuing the loose 2025 trend of great stage-plays ending up as films instead: BLUE MOON, which I want to direct so badly I woke myself up in the middle of the night about it. Linklater's film sings and Ethan Hawke is gonna get himself another Oscar nod for sure. Beautiful, tragic, delightful.
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If we had a parliamentary system, I wonder how many seats say Working Families or DSA would have gained in the off year election results from last Tuesday.
Let me dream.
Let me dream.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we had a parliamentary system, I wonder how many seats say Working Families or DSA would have gained in the off year election results from last Tuesday.
Let me dream.
Let me dream.
And whyever did Ezra not say to these Democrats that letting the tax credits expire WILL ALSO LEAD TO PEOPLE GETTING HURT! If you're gonna play politics with people's lives, at least have the decency to be consistent in your rationale.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
And whyever did Ezra not say to these Democrats that letting the tax credits expire WILL ALSO LEAD TO PEOPLE GETTING HURT! If you're gonna play politics with people's lives, at least have the decency to be consistent in your rationale.
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I suppose the question is always what is the purpose of a government that does not care for its people.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I suppose the question is always what is the purpose of a government that does not care for its people.
(I'd love a Senator Lander as much as the next person but tactically speaking I think he's better knocking off Dan Goldman in the NY-10 but either way let's go my guy, your time has come)
Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
(I'd love a Senator Lander as much as the next person but tactically speaking I think he's better knocking off Dan Goldman in the NY-10 but either way let's go my guy, your time has come)
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did you know that most independent booksellers do not get healthcare through their jobs and navigate insurance markets on their own? do you know most independent booksellers don't make a lot of money?
anyway for no particular reason here's a reminder to donate to BINC: bincfoundation.org
anyway for no particular reason here's a reminder to donate to BINC: bincfoundation.org
Home - Binc Foundation
The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation and Macmillan Publishers are proud to announce that applications are open for the Macmillan Booksellers
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November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
did you know that most independent booksellers do not get healthcare through their jobs and navigate insurance markets on their own? do you know most independent booksellers don't make a lot of money?
anyway for no particular reason here's a reminder to donate to BINC: bincfoundation.org
anyway for no particular reason here's a reminder to donate to BINC: bincfoundation.org
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no more Schumers. no more Kaines. no more Cuomos. no more Obamas, even, no more Newsoms, no more Pritzkers, not one more goddamn Clinton. no. who else do you have. show me something else. show me something better.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
no more Schumers. no more Kaines. no more Cuomos. no more Obamas, even, no more Newsoms, no more Pritzkers, not one more goddamn Clinton. no. who else do you have. show me something else. show me something better.
just imagining Wally Shawn's Vizzini adding one more classic blunder to the list: calling the vote before you're sure you have the votes
still hasn't passed lol
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
just imagining Wally Shawn's Vizzini adding one more classic blunder to the list: calling the vote before you're sure you have the votes
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Exactly this — caving for nothing makes all that pain for nothing.
Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that!
Call those senators, please.
Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that!
Call those senators, please.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Exactly this — caving for nothing makes all that pain for nothing.
Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that!
Call those senators, please.
Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that!
Call those senators, please.
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"A promise of a vote on healthcare"
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"A promise of a vote on healthcare"
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
wow I can't even leave a voicemail for Fetterman right now because we're "outside of business hours" — just tried his DC offices and two of the PA offices and simply could not get out of any given phone tree
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
wow I can't even leave a voicemail for Fetterman right now because we're "outside of business hours" — just tried his DC offices and two of the PA offices and simply could not get out of any given phone tree
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Y’all…it’s really very important to make sure you don’t believe that the humans you don’t like, or don’t know, deserve fewer human rights. I know you THINK you don’t believe that, but I’d check in and make sure. Sometimes, we surprise ourselves.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Y’all…it’s really very important to make sure you don’t believe that the humans you don’t like, or don’t know, deserve fewer human rights. I know you THINK you don’t believe that, but I’d check in and make sure. Sometimes, we surprise ourselves.
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Maybe my imagination is broken too, but I was thoroughly and completely disappointed by THE ROSE FIELD. Suffers from the same issues, interestingly, I found in THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT—which is to say overstuffed and yet underbaked, way too long yet somehow rushed. Static, for all its breadth.
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Maybe my imagination is broken too, but I was thoroughly and completely disappointed by THE ROSE FIELD. Suffers from the same issues, interestingly, I found in THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT—which is to say overstuffed and yet underbaked, way too long yet somehow rushed. Static, for all its breadth.
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Your moment of calm: An angry fish fountain. Feel the calm overtake you.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Your moment of calm: An angry fish fountain. Feel the calm overtake you.
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As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.
I am not allowed to buy more books until I read the ones I already own
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.
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All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.