J Brooke
@jbrookewrites.bsky.social
Writer / Prose Book Reviews Editor at The Rumpus / Filmmaker
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After Jimmy’s Heart: Nicolas Boggs’ "Baldwin: A Love Story" - The Rumpus
Boggs implicitly asks: is Jimmy still lovable within the fullness of his humanity?
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November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So proud to publish this deep heartfelt dive @therumpus.net — thank you @nonbinarypapi.bsky.social
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I remember these sleeping on eggshell years and while relieved (again) by outcome, somehow cannot believe so many rights and freedoms are always on the line, always up for grabs… #queer
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I remember these sleeping on eggshell years and while relieved (again) by outcome, somehow cannot believe so many rights and freedoms are always on the line, always up for grabs… #queer
Just received my contributor copy in mail … first time published @slipperyelmlj.bsky.social and honestly this hard copy pub is a WOW— high recommend for anyone valuing read-every-page look-great-on-the-nightstand lit journals! Thanks to the editors and readers!
Join us for a release party and reading celebrating Slippery Elm's 2025 issue, at 7pm on Tuesday, November 11th, at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay! www.facebook.com/events/15170...
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Just received my contributor copy in mail … first time published @slipperyelmlj.bsky.social and honestly this hard copy pub is a WOW— high recommend for anyone valuing read-every-page look-great-on-the-nightstand lit journals! Thanks to the editors and readers!
October 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
So thrilled to have my debut collection published by this OUTSTANDING press @driftwood I have so much respect for!!
#poetry #debut #collection
#poetry #debut #collection
Driftwood Press is proud to announce the title of the winner of our Editor's Choice Poetry Contest Winner, I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side by J Brooke! Keep an eye out for a cover reveal down the line. Poetry collection submissions are always open too! #bookannouncement
September 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So thrilled to have my debut collection published by this OUTSTANDING press @driftwood I have so much respect for!!
#poetry #debut #collection
#poetry #debut #collection
September 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Amazing writer (and buddy) @terielamstories.bsky.social covered this WONDERFUL new book for us @therumpus.net @tinhouse.bsky.social
"Moore’s tales are transcendent in many ways—filled with wisdom, soul, and blues."
Teri Elam reviews Carrie R. Moore’s Make Your Way Home (@tinhouse.bsky.social).
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Teri Elam reviews Carrie R. Moore’s Make Your Way Home (@tinhouse.bsky.social).
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September 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Amazing writer (and buddy) @terielamstories.bsky.social covered this WONDERFUL new book for us @therumpus.net @tinhouse.bsky.social
@indigogirlsmusic.bsky.social @melissaetheridge.bsky.social @amyray.bsky.social #LyrusHung @lucywr.bsky.social #emilysailers
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
EASILY the most unusual genesis of a book we have reviewed! Celia Bell triumphs in this analysis!! @therumpus.net
“What, it asks, can an artist do to push her work through a hostile system and retain her vision?”
Celia Bell reviews Helen DeWitt’s Your Name Here (@deepvellum.bsky.social).
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Celia Bell reviews Helen DeWitt’s Your Name Here (@deepvellum.bsky.social).
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September 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
EASILY the most unusual genesis of a book we have reviewed! Celia Bell triumphs in this analysis!! @therumpus.net
A book I LOVED reading!
"I am interested in the gaze of female desire. I want that gaze to be complex and vital, because it is. I want it to deconstruct and disrupt."
@riggstah.bsky.social interviews Nini Berndt about There Are Reasons for This (@tinhouse.bsky.social).
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@riggstah.bsky.social interviews Nini Berndt about There Are Reasons for This (@tinhouse.bsky.social).
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September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A book I LOVED reading!
How something can simultaneously seem futuristic and anachronistic
August 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
How something can simultaneously seem futuristic and anachronistic
EXTREMELY happy to help spread the word about this beautiful book, sensitive translation, illuminating review! @therumpus.net #OtherPress
“Life’s forward movement hovers over the novel like a storm cloud that never quite breaks.”
Hilary Malamud reviews Nanae Aoyama’s A Perfect Day to Be Alone (Other Press).
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Hilary Malamud reviews Nanae Aoyama’s A Perfect Day to Be Alone (Other Press).
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August 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
EXTREMELY happy to help spread the word about this beautiful book, sensitive translation, illuminating review! @therumpus.net #OtherPress
HEY check out this new piece @electricliterature.com by AMAZINGLY agile writer/editor @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social ! electricliterature.com/these-carson...
These Carson McCullers Stories Are Haunted By Mothers Who Can’t Be Their Authentic Selves - Electric Literature
Women, men, and children alike are confined and defined by the artifice of the “tradwife”
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July 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
HEY check out this new piece @electricliterature.com by AMAZINGLY agile writer/editor @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social ! electricliterature.com/these-carson...
Yes! Submit anything of course @therumpus.net but submit book reviews to criticism with gusto fervor and frequency if you want to make one particular editor (who shall remain nameless but their name rhymes with “hey book!”) really happy — J Brooke
FYI, @therumpus.net is open for submissions in a whole bunch of categories. Essays, fiction, poetry, comics, criticism, interviews! therumpus.submittable.com/submit
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The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...
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July 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Yes! Submit anything of course @therumpus.net but submit book reviews to criticism with gusto fervor and frequency if you want to make one particular editor (who shall remain nameless but their name rhymes with “hey book!”) really happy — J Brooke
No self-respecting east coaster eats dinner before 7pm… @therumpus.net live @gregmania.bsky.social is the perfect 6PM tonight
Tonight on Instagram Live!
in some much-needed good news, my july desk belongs to @kashana.bsky.social, who’s so funny i once almost choked on a grape reading one of her jokes. join us for a well-earned serotonin boost this tues, 7/8 at 6pm ET / 3pm PT, live on the @therumpus.net IG 🎉
July 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
No self-respecting east coaster eats dinner before 7pm… @therumpus.net live @gregmania.bsky.social is the perfect 6PM tonight
Proud to work for a pub with a true track record of amplifying worthy voices! This #book, this #author, this #review #writer … @therumpus.net
“The verby, staccato prose holds the reader captive and propels them from scene to scene, conversation to conversation...”
Nathan Blum reviews David Szalay’s Flesh (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social).
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Nathan Blum reviews David Szalay’s Flesh (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social).
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June 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Proud to work for a pub with a true track record of amplifying worthy voices! This #book, this #author, this #review #writer … @therumpus.net
Just subscribed to @hammerandhope.bsky.social — the journalism and writing is top notch and significant — I know we all have more to read than we can read so I try to call out the worthwhiles— this is that — check them out if you can
June 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Just subscribed to @hammerandhope.bsky.social — the journalism and writing is top notch and significant — I know we all have more to read than we can read so I try to call out the worthwhiles— this is that — check them out if you can
This review may make you add to your #summerreading — it happens to be written by one of my favorite newish #writers — the kind of #author you’ll be hearing more from — very proud to publish this review — enjoy! therumpus.net/2025/06/25/o...
On Exteriority: David Szalay’s "Flesh" - The Rumpus
After a few more one-liners, it becomes clear István is living in pandemic-era England (he vapes now, etc.) and trying to log on to a Zoom meeting with his therapist
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June 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This review may make you add to your #summerreading — it happens to be written by one of my favorite newish #writers — the kind of #author you’ll be hearing more from — very proud to publish this review — enjoy! therumpus.net/2025/06/25/o...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social and @barackobama.bsky.social tonight… this is the country I recognize #church #hope
June 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social and @barackobama.bsky.social tonight… this is the country I recognize #church #hope
When you’re not #reading @therumpus.net I strongly suggest you dig into this issue @themassreview.bsky.social
Our summer issue has arrived! Featuring work by Sumana Roy and Ariel Katz, poets janan alexandra and Marianne Boruch, plus translations of Kim Hyesoon and José Luís Peixoto, plus art by Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, be sure to get a copy today! massreview.org/issue/volume...
Volume 66, Issue 2 - The Massachusetts Review
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June 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
When you’re not #reading @therumpus.net I strongly suggest you dig into this issue @themassreview.bsky.social
OK so I penned this review myself — but ONLY after the slated reviewer had a conflict — So like my words or not, but please BUY and READ @jackiedwrites.bsky.social ‘s book: No Offense
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“What is remarkable...is what Domenus does to unite this relatively small sector of the queer community with a far greater maligned population.”
@jbrookewrites.bsky.social reviews @jackiedwrites.bsky.social’s No Offense (@emergejournal.bsky.social).
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@jbrookewrites.bsky.social reviews @jackiedwrites.bsky.social’s No Offense (@emergejournal.bsky.social).
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June 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
OK so I penned this review myself — but ONLY after the slated reviewer had a conflict — So like my words or not, but please BUY and READ @jackiedwrites.bsky.social ‘s book: No Offense
@therumpus.net @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social
@therumpus.net @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social
Again - a slight departure for us as this review not merely regards one seminal book but rather the arc of a current seminal author … @therumpus.net @emmdubb16.bsky.social @jverchwrites.bsky.social @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social
“The novels deal with the visceral incisions faced by hyphenated identities.”
@emmdubb16.bsky.social reviews @jverchwrites.bsky.social’s novels.
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@emmdubb16.bsky.social reviews @jverchwrites.bsky.social’s novels.
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May 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Again - a slight departure for us as this review not merely regards one seminal book but rather the arc of a current seminal author … @therumpus.net @emmdubb16.bsky.social @jverchwrites.bsky.social @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social
Think we just review individual #Books ? Think again — versatile #writer @emmdubb16.bsky.social offers a near survey course of John Vercher in our newest #Review @therumpus.net — maybe check it out instead of reading the news
(addl thanks to asst ed @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social )
(addl thanks to asst ed @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social )
May 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Think we just review individual #Books ? Think again — versatile #writer @emmdubb16.bsky.social offers a near survey course of John Vercher in our newest #Review @therumpus.net — maybe check it out instead of reading the news
(addl thanks to asst ed @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social )
(addl thanks to asst ed @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social )