Michael Schaub
@michaelschaub.bsky.social
Journalist, @bookcritics.bsky.social board member, anxiety guy. mschaubtx@gmail.com.
Almost forgot to post my favorite indie-pop Christmas song. Happy holidays! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0P...
Secret Santa (You Could Be The One)
YouTube video by Six Cents and Natalie - Topic
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December 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Almost forgot to post my favorite indie-pop Christmas song. Happy holidays! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0P...
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the meet-cute of DREAMS
December 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
the meet-cute of DREAMS
I wrote about my favorite book news of 2025 for Kirkus Reviews, including Colleen Hoover's "Reminders of Forgetting to Remember That It Ended With Them," which does not technically exist. Also, MrBeast makes an appearance because nothing matters anymore: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
Year in Review: Our Favorite Book News of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews
In a year full of distressing news stories, these weird dispatches from the literary world kept us entertained.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I wrote about my favorite book news of 2025 for Kirkus Reviews, including Colleen Hoover's "Reminders of Forgetting to Remember That It Ended With Them," which does not technically exist. Also, MrBeast makes an appearance because nothing matters anymore: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl
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me, as a child: *walks into the kitchen covered in my own blood holding a rabbit I fought from a hawk*
my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone
my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone
May 3, 2023 at 11:55 AM
me, as a child: *walks into the kitchen covered in my own blood holding a rabbit I fought from a hawk*
my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone
my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone
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A terrific experience to chair the @bookcritics.bsky.social nonfiction committee, with the amazing @gwinnma.bsky.social, @michaelschaub.bsky.social, Jacob Appel, Colette Bancroft, Iris Dunkle, Jonathan Leal. Congrats to all longlisted authors and all writers whose work we read during the last year!
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction
December 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A terrific experience to chair the @bookcritics.bsky.social nonfiction committee, with the amazing @gwinnma.bsky.social, @michaelschaub.bsky.social, Jacob Appel, Colette Bancroft, Iris Dunkle, Jonathan Leal. Congrats to all longlisted authors and all writers whose work we read during the last year!
The pride of Texas. Rest in peace, Joe Ely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOH...
Joe Ely - All Just To Get To You - Music Video 1997
YouTube video by Dan Powers
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December 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The pride of Texas. Rest in peace, Joe Ely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOH...
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Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction
Excited to continue serving on the NBCC board with a bunch of incredible people!
Honored to be re-elected to the @bookcritics.bsky.social board for a 2nd term. Congrats to my fellow re-elected colleagues @michaelschaub.bsky.social, @davidwoo.bsky.social, + @jhowardrosier.bsky.social! Welcome and congratulations to Joanna Biggs, Anahid Nersessian, Zoe Hu, + Craig Morgan Teicher!
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Excited to continue serving on the NBCC board with a bunch of incredible people!
This person’s name sounds like a really drunk person trying to remember who wrote “Song of Solomon”
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This person’s name sounds like a really drunk person trying to remember who wrote “Song of Solomon”
"He will command his angels in front of you / There was this one time Steve Cropper played with Lou" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEoB...
Steve Cropper Plays Femme Fatale
YouTube video by The Paranoid Style - Topic
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December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"He will command his angels in front of you / There was this one time Steve Cropper played with Lou" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEoB...
Rest in peace to one of the greatest guitarists in history: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84
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December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rest in peace to one of the greatest guitarists in history: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
NPR's Books We Love is here! This year, I had the honor of writing about books by Claire Jia, Andrew Porter, Davey Davis, Leni Zumas, Paula Bomer, Joan Silber, Travis Mulhauser, Corinna Vallianatos, Dean Van Nguyen, Jeremy Atherton Lin, and Lucas Schaefer: apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
NPR's Books We Love is here! This year, I had the honor of writing about books by Claire Jia, Andrew Porter, Davey Davis, Leni Zumas, Paula Bomer, Joan Silber, Travis Mulhauser, Corinna Vallianatos, Dean Van Nguyen, Jeremy Atherton Lin, and Lucas Schaefer: apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
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The literary establishment: "Hey, what's your new book prize called?"
Me, having not thought about it until now: "The Book... er?"
Me, having not thought about it until now: "The Book... er?"
November 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The literary establishment: "Hey, what's your new book prize called?"
Me, having not thought about it until now: "The Book... er?"
Me, having not thought about it until now: "The Book... er?"
Todd Snider was one of the smartest, funniest singer-songwriters in Americana. Heartbroken that he's gone, far too young: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Todd Snider, Rambling Troubadour Who Helped Shape Alt-Country and Americana, Dead at 59
Todd Snider, the rambling troubadour who helped shape the Americana music movement, has died at 59.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Todd Snider was one of the smartest, funniest singer-songwriters in Americana. Heartbroken that he's gone, far too young: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
I thought all pitchers threw balls on purpose
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I thought all pitchers threw balls on purpose
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
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Big Paranoid Style news! New single "It's A Dog's Breakfast (for LR)" is available now! Plus new LP 'Known Associates' is available as a Bandcamp preorder! Check out the new tune, a tribute to my hero Linda Ronstadt, with an accompanying essay at Southwest Review! southwestreview.com/track-premie...
October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Big Paranoid Style news! New single "It's A Dog's Breakfast (for LR)" is available now! Plus new LP 'Known Associates' is available as a Bandcamp preorder! Check out the new tune, a tribute to my hero Linda Ronstadt, with an accompanying essay at Southwest Review! southwestreview.com/track-premie...
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Thank you @michaelschaub.bsky.social for including WITHOUT CONSENT in the OC Register’s Fall Books Preview!
Fall book preview: 34 new titles you’ll want to read in 2025
From novels and nonfiction to titles that resist easy classification, these exciting books are coming to your local library or favorite independent bookstore.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thank you @michaelschaub.bsky.social for including WITHOUT CONSENT in the OC Register’s Fall Books Preview!
I got Covid for the first time and it feels like I finally discovered the band that everyone else was into five years ago. A band that sucks and when you go their concert beats the shit out of you
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I got Covid for the first time and it feels like I finally discovered the band that everyone else was into five years ago. A band that sucks and when you go their concert beats the shit out of you
I was honored to talk to Derrick Barnes—a two-time Kirkus Prize winner who has been named a finalist for a third—about his latest novel for young readers, "The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze," for Kirkus Reviews: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
Derrick Barnes Wants To Smash Stereotypes | Kirkus Reviews
The protagonist of the award-winning author’s new middle-grade novel is, above all, ‘incredibly human.’
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September 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I was honored to talk to Derrick Barnes—a two-time Kirkus Prize winner who has been named a finalist for a third—about his latest novel for young readers, "The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze," for Kirkus Reviews: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
The finalists for the 2025 Kirkus Prize have been announced! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
Finalists for the 2025 Kirkus Prize Revealed | Kirkus Reviews
The literary award, now in its 12th year, comes with a $50,000 cash prize.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The finalists for the 2025 Kirkus Prize have been announced! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
I don't like being sincere on social media but what Tom and Mike did with Book Fight! was an incredible service to literature. The best book podcast ever, hosted by two of the smartest and nicest dudes in the world. Thanks, y'all.
13 years, 763 episodes, didn't count anything else but a ton of books and great guests and weird flavored snacks and questions about vampire names and everything else between. Recorded the last Book Fight! with @mikeingram.bsky.social today. One of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I don't like being sincere on social media but what Tom and Mike did with Book Fight! was an incredible service to literature. The best book podcast ever, hosted by two of the smartest and nicest dudes in the world. Thanks, y'all.