Michael Schaub
@michaelschaub.bsky.social
Journalist, @bookcritics.bsky.social vice president/online, nervous, sleepy. mschaubtx@gmail.com.
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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.
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Don’t miss Friend of Books @michaelschaub.bsky.social as he recommends 33 novels, story collections, nonfiction titles and more #books this summer.
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33 summer book recommendations featuring some of 2025’s best novels and more
Here are some great choices for fiction, nonfiction, essays, memoir and more to keep you busy through the hot summer months.
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July 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Don’t miss Friend of Books @michaelschaub.bsky.social as he recommends 33 novels, story collections, nonfiction titles and more #books this summer.
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There are some great books coming this summer! Here are 33 of them: www.ocregister.com/2025/07/15/3...
33 summer book recommendations featuring some of 2025’s best novels and more
Here are some great choices for fiction, nonfiction, essays, memoir and more to keep you busy through the hot summer months.
www.ocregister.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
There are some great books coming this summer! Here are 33 of them: www.ocregister.com/2025/07/15/3...
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The one-and-only @michaelschaub.bsky.social called us “your favorite publisher’s favorite publisher” and now we have to sit down.
THANK YOU, Michael, and thank you for featuring Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE on this great summer book roundup @ocregister.bsky.social 🧡
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THANK YOU, Michael, and thank you for featuring Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE on this great summer book roundup @ocregister.bsky.social 🧡
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June 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The one-and-only @michaelschaub.bsky.social called us “your favorite publisher’s favorite publisher” and now we have to sit down.
THANK YOU, Michael, and thank you for featuring Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE on this great summer book roundup @ocregister.bsky.social 🧡
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THANK YOU, Michael, and thank you for featuring Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE on this great summer book roundup @ocregister.bsky.social 🧡
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Dave claims his bread is "killer," and yet on the logo he seems to be playing a C add #5 (muting the low E with his pinky). They should rename it Dave's Jazzy Bread imo
June 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Dave claims his bread is "killer," and yet on the logo he seems to be playing a C add #5 (muting the low E with his pinky). They should rename it Dave's Jazzy Bread imo
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SLEEP PHASE by Mohamed Kheir, translated by Robin Moger is in great company on @michaelschaub.bsky.social's list of indie press summer reads! 🌞https://www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/33-new-books-youll-want-to-read-this-summer-from-independent-publishers/?share=3hoosmssporei3ldwn4h
33 new books you’ll want to read this summer from independent publishers
Looking for something new or a fresh take on a favorite genre? Check out these small-press titles.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
SLEEP PHASE by Mohamed Kheir, translated by Robin Moger is in great company on @michaelschaub.bsky.social's list of indie press summer reads! 🌞https://www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/33-new-books-youll-want-to-read-this-summer-from-independent-publishers/?share=3hoosmssporei3ldwn4h
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Celebrate your independents with @michaelschaub.bsky.social’s list of small-press #books out now or coming this summer. #booksky
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33 new books you’ll want to read this summer from independent publishers
Looking for something new or a fresh take on a favorite genre? Check out these small-press titles.
www.ocregister.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Celebrate your independents with @michaelschaub.bsky.social’s list of small-press #books out now or coming this summer. #booksky
www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...
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I recommend reading this to yourself in a President Thomas J. Whitmore voice. (Then buying some small-press books from your favorite indie store.)
Celebrate your independents with @michaelschaub.bsky.social’s list of small-press #books out now or coming this summer. #booksky
www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...
www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...
33 new books you’ll want to read this summer from independent publishers
Looking for something new or a fresh take on a favorite genre? Check out these small-press titles.
www.ocregister.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I recommend reading this to yourself in a President Thomas J. Whitmore voice. (Then buying some small-press books from your favorite indie store.)
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a surprising recipe for a hot afternoon:
fill a glass with ice, top with half iced coffee and half lemon-lime gatorade.
Will this be good? absolutely fucking not. totally disgusting. but it *is* surprising
fill a glass with ice, top with half iced coffee and half lemon-lime gatorade.
Will this be good? absolutely fucking not. totally disgusting. but it *is* surprising
June 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
a surprising recipe for a hot afternoon:
fill a glass with ice, top with half iced coffee and half lemon-lime gatorade.
Will this be good? absolutely fucking not. totally disgusting. but it *is* surprising
fill a glass with ice, top with half iced coffee and half lemon-lime gatorade.
Will this be good? absolutely fucking not. totally disgusting. but it *is* surprising
I had the pleasure of talking with Dean Van Nguyen about his fascinating new book, "Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur": www.ocregister.com/2025/06/19/h...
How Tupac Shakur became an icon of political resistance and rebellion
Author Dean Van Nguyen looks at the performer’s work through a political lens in his new book, ‘Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur.’
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June 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I had the pleasure of talking with Dean Van Nguyen about his fascinating new book, "Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur": www.ocregister.com/2025/06/19/h...
Novelists, you might want to be thinking about which fast-food dessert you want to embrace: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
Emily Henry Partners With Pinkberry on Sweepstakes | Kirkus Reviews
It’s the latest in what appears to be a craze for author partnerships with chain restaurants.
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June 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Novelists, you might want to be thinking about which fast-food dessert you want to embrace: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
Brilliant interviewer, brilliant author. This is going to be great
NBCC Co-Vice President/Membership and Vice President/Barrios Book in Translation Prize Mandana Chaffa will be interviewing Lydia Millet about her collection "Atavists" for The Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment series on Wednesday, May 28, at 1 p.m. Eastern:
Lydia Millet: Atavists | The Brooklyn Rail
Writer Lydia Millet joins writer Mandana Chaffa for a conversation.
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May 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Brilliant interviewer, brilliant author. This is going to be great
Paula Bomer's new novel is about a cruel, misogynistic sociopath who lies about being successful in real estate and hurts anybody he can. I wrote about it for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/05/25/n...
'The Stalker' is one of the most appalling characters in recent American fiction
Paula Bomer's dizzying book is a fascinating look at an absurdly stupid young man in the early 1990s who manages to sustain himself despite having no evidence of a soul.
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May 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Paula Bomer's new novel is about a cruel, misogynistic sociopath who lies about being successful in real estate and hurts anybody he can. I wrote about it for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/05/25/n...
Look it’s not the mouse’s fault that your cookies are dry as hell
May 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Look it’s not the mouse’s fault that your cookies are dry as hell
NPR's list of books we're looking forward to this summer is up! I wrote about Lucas Schaefer's Austin-set novel, "The Slip": www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
17 new books our critics can't wait to read this summer
We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.
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May 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
NPR's list of books we're looking forward to this summer is up! I wrote about Lucas Schaefer's Austin-set novel, "The Slip": www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
I can attest that these books do actually exist! Sincerely, Michael Schaub, human
Here’s a 2025 summer reading list with real books, no AI. Check out picks from @michaelschaub.bsky.social for road trip reading.
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12 new books to send restless readers on a summer road trip
Start your summer road trip with a curated list of far-reaching fiction and nonfiction.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I can attest that these books do actually exist! Sincerely, Michael Schaub, human
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one interesting thing about watching the wnba is that unlike in the nba, they don't shout "NBA!!!" before taking a shot. they just shoot it
May 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
one interesting thing about watching the wnba is that unlike in the nba, they don't shout "NBA!!!" before taking a shot. they just shoot it