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
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/
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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.
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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....
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I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Every politician, including those caving ass dems, should be asked for their position on this.
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Every politician, including those caving ass dems, should be asked for their position on this.
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beginning my quixotic and privileged campaign to get publishers to pay a per diem rather than asking their touring authors to carry a couple thousand dollars in credit debt and hoard paper receipts, like rats lining their nests for winter 🙏
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
beginning my quixotic and privileged campaign to get publishers to pay a per diem rather than asking their touring authors to carry a couple thousand dollars in credit debt and hoard paper receipts, like rats lining their nests for winter 🙏
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Love this article from @mariabustillos.com on the manosphere pundit grifters, and what actually motivates them. Read the whole thing, only on @flaminghydra.com!!!
flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Love this article from @mariabustillos.com on the manosphere pundit grifters, and what actually motivates them. Read the whole thing, only on @flaminghydra.com!!!
flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com
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The track is a killer. I hate it.
Authors, read this from Maria Kunetsova @literaryhub.bsky.social
Authors, read this from Maria Kunetsova @literaryhub.bsky.social
The Publishing Industry Gambled on Me… and Lost
Eight years ago, when I sold two books to an imprint of a Big Five, I was on top of the world. I was thirty-one and eight weeks pregnant, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. My agent s…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The track is a killer. I hate it.
Authors, read this from Maria Kunetsova @literaryhub.bsky.social
Authors, read this from Maria Kunetsova @literaryhub.bsky.social
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People are collectively realizing they’re much braver than the people we’ve empowered to represent us, and it’s both crushing and a call to action
I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
People are collectively realizing they’re much braver than the people we’ve empowered to represent us, and it’s both crushing and a call to action
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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?"
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Anyway, I think Dems are right to believe subsidy expiration, because many Americans will suffer and maybe die, is going to hurt Republicans in the midterms. A less harmful way to do well in elections, though, is to offer voters a compelling vision for why they should vote, affirmatively, for you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Anyway, I think Dems are right to believe subsidy expiration, because many Americans will suffer and maybe die, is going to hurt Republicans in the midterms. A less harmful way to do well in elections, though, is to offer voters a compelling vision for why they should vote, affirmatively, for you.
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.