Lucas Schaefer
@lucaseschaefer.bsky.social
Debut novel THE SLIP out now from Simon & Schuster
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Hugely honored to see THE SLIP win the 2025 Kirkus Prize in fiction. Thank you, Kirkus!
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December 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If you’re trying to nab THE SLIP and find yourself getting the message below, just a reminder you can (and should!) grab it from @bookshop.org or your local indie. Here in Austin it is currently in stock @bookpeople.com, Reverie, Birdhouse, Black Pearl, The Little Gay Shop & Vintage!
December 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If you’re trying to nab THE SLIP and find yourself getting the message below, just a reminder you can (and should!) grab it from @bookshop.org or your local indie. Here in Austin it is currently in stock @bookpeople.com, Reverie, Birdhouse, Black Pearl, The Little Gay Shop & Vintage!
Loved chatting with @lauravandenberg.bsky.social for her wonderful Fight Week substack. We talked about boxing gym culture, what boxing taught me about writing & more. 🥊
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fightweek.substack.com
FIGHT WEEK | Laura van den Berg | Substack
FIGHT WEEK is an every-other-week newsletter on writing & fighting. Click to read FIGHT WEEK, by Laura van den Berg, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Loved chatting with @lauravandenberg.bsky.social for her wonderful Fight Week substack. We talked about boxing gym culture, what boxing taught me about writing & more. 🥊
fightweek.substack.com
fightweek.substack.com
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@lucaseschaefer.bsky.social: have you seen The Book Report? Congratulations. #writingcommunity #writerslift #booksky #bluesky #booklovers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BH...
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The Book Report: Ron Charles' books of the year for 2025
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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December 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@lucaseschaefer.bsky.social: have you seen The Book Report? Congratulations. #writingcommunity #writerslift #booksky #bluesky #booklovers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BH...
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2025 was my first full year freelancing, and to my happy surprise I got enough published to do a summary thread!
I mostly wrote from bed, but I was at the very fun and hot Australian Open, and covered it for Defector. (Sans credential, but check back in a month.) defector.com/the-australi...
I mostly wrote from bed, but I was at the very fun and hot Australian Open, and covered it for Defector. (Sans credential, but check back in a month.) defector.com/the-australi...
The Australian Open Is Happy And Hot | Defector
MELBOURNE — Envy sabotaged my plans for watching the first day of the 2025 Australian Open. I was going to take in Day One on a projector at Federation Square, a public area surrounded by angular buil...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
2025 was my first full year freelancing, and to my happy surprise I got enough published to do a summary thread!
I mostly wrote from bed, but I was at the very fun and hot Australian Open, and covered it for Defector. (Sans credential, but check back in a month.) defector.com/the-australi...
I mostly wrote from bed, but I was at the very fun and hot Australian Open, and covered it for Defector. (Sans credential, but check back in a month.) defector.com/the-australi...
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Defector also let me do some boxing blogs, one a Q&A with author Lucas Schaefer on his brilliant and audacious debut novel THE SLIP, and another on a violent card in November (all gift links):
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Lucas Schaefer Understands The Brutality, Absurdity, And Transcendence Of Boxing | Defector
The opening line of Lucas Schaefer’s novel The Slip concerns the smell of shit: a bold first impression for a debut author. Luckily, reading the book provides a far more pleasant sensory experience. T...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Defector also let me do some boxing blogs, one a Q&A with author Lucas Schaefer on his brilliant and audacious debut novel THE SLIP, and another on a violent card in November (all gift links):
defector.com/lucas-schaef...
defector.com/the-fights-g...
defector.com/lucas-schaef...
defector.com/the-fights-g...
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Fun to see Anthony Marra’s review of THE SLIP in print today @nytimes.com Book Review 🥊
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Fun to see Anthony Marra’s review of THE SLIP in print today @nytimes.com Book Review 🥊
Fun to see Anthony Marra’s review of THE SLIP in print today @nytimes.com Book Review 🥊
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Fun to see Anthony Marra’s review of THE SLIP in print today @nytimes.com Book Review 🥊
New me (yogurt stained pants, beret, Guinness and High West)
December 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
New me (yogurt stained pants, beret, Guinness and High West)
Bari Weiss has greatly benefited from the elite contention that it is essential to “fair debate” that we pretend that bad faith actors are acting in good faith (instead of the proper course of action: telling them to fuck off)
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Bari Weiss has greatly benefited from the elite contention that it is essential to “fair debate” that we pretend that bad faith actors are acting in good faith (instead of the proper course of action: telling them to fuck off)
“The one thing about [insert horrible public figure] is you have to admit they’re smart.” No I don’t!
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“The one thing about [insert horrible public figure] is you have to admit they’re smart.” No I don’t!
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This book is wild good!
The Slip by @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social
The Slip by @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This book is wild good!
The Slip by @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social
The Slip by @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social
Fun to see THE SLIP on @jcgrenn-reads.bsky.social top 10 books of 2025 in the Clarion Ledger. & with the Monte Cristo reference! 🥊
December 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Fun to see THE SLIP on @jcgrenn-reads.bsky.social top 10 books of 2025 in the Clarion Ledger. & with the Monte Cristo reference! 🥊
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always amazed to see the ways people will debase themselves for free
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
always amazed to see the ways people will debase themselves for free
The only appropriate response to “how many books have you sold?” is “how many books have you sold?”
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The only appropriate response to “how many books have you sold?” is “how many books have you sold?”
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That 60 Minutes piece will win a Pulitzer and Bari Weiss will instantly change her bio to “Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist.”
And feel zero shame doing it.
And feel zero shame doing it.
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
That 60 Minutes piece will win a Pulitzer and Bari Weiss will instantly change her bio to “Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist.”
And feel zero shame doing it.
And feel zero shame doing it.
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Never change, Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Never change, Bari Weiss
Maximalist or spare, genre or literary, written in French or in rhyme - the one guarantee is that someone will say it’s been “workshopped to death”
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Maximalist or spare, genre or literary, written in French or in rhyme - the one guarantee is that someone will say it’s been “workshopped to death”
Nice to see Anthony Marra’s review of THE SLIP highlighted in today’s @nytimes.com Book Review newsletter on books that defy the algorithm 🥊
December 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Nice to see Anthony Marra’s review of THE SLIP highlighted in today’s @nytimes.com Book Review newsletter on books that defy the algorithm 🥊
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It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
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One of our goals when we started spreading the word about THE SLIP was to get writers who cover boxing in on the action, so it’s especially gratifying to read this review from the wonderful Andrew Rihn in The Fight City 🥊
www.thefightcity.com/can-the-grea...
www.thefightcity.com/can-the-grea...
The Slip- Lucas Schaefer Scores A Knockout
The Slip by Lucas Schaefer is another great book whose recent publication suggests we are currently enjoying a Golden Age for boxing writing.
www.thefightcity.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
One of our goals when we started spreading the word about THE SLIP was to get writers who cover boxing in on the action, so it’s especially gratifying to read this review from the wonderful Andrew Rihn in The Fight City 🥊
www.thefightcity.com/can-the-grea...
www.thefightcity.com/can-the-grea...
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Just a stunning degree of incompetence from the FBI. The problem when all law enforcement resources are being redirected to terrorize immigrants (and, really, all Black and Brown people), and the FBI head is a grifter.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/n...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/n...
‘A series of miscues’: Brown University shooting investigation reignites criticism of FBI’s Kash Patel - The Boston Globe
Patel's handling of the Brown University investigation has inflamed the long-simmering frustration with his tenure.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just a stunning degree of incompetence from the FBI. The problem when all law enforcement resources are being redirected to terrorize immigrants (and, really, all Black and Brown people), and the FBI head is a grifter.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/n...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/n...
One of our goals when we started spreading the word about THE SLIP was to get writers who cover boxing in on the action, so it’s especially gratifying to read this review from the wonderful Andrew Rihn in The Fight City 🥊
www.thefightcity.com/can-the-grea...
www.thefightcity.com/can-the-grea...
The Slip- Lucas Schaefer Scores A Knockout
The Slip by Lucas Schaefer is another great book whose recent publication suggests we are currently enjoying a Golden Age for boxing writing.
www.thefightcity.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
One of our goals when we started spreading the word about THE SLIP was to get writers who cover boxing in on the action, so it’s especially gratifying to read this review from the wonderful Andrew Rihn in The Fight City 🥊
www.thefightcity.com/can-the-grea...
www.thefightcity.com/can-the-grea...