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Michael Taeckens
@mtaeckens.bsky.social
Co-founder, Broadside PR
—michael at broadsidepr dot com
Lit Agent, Massie McQuilkin & Altman
—michael at mmqalit dot com
https://michaeltaeckenspr.com/about-me/
My 2nd deal as an agent. I've been reading Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander's work since my late teens and am over the moon about working with him.
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
September 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Congrats Nicholas Boggs, whose BALDWIN (FSG) is a $50,000 Kirkus Book Prize finalist and an instant national bestseller: #7 on the L.A. Times bestseller list and #8 on the Washington Post bestseller list! 🎉🎉🎉
August 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Boggs’s book [BALDWIN], at more than six hundred pages, makes a hugely important contribution.”—Louis Menand, @newyorker.com

www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
August 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A new book from @elizmccrack.bsky.social is cause for celebration! 🎉 Get an up-close look at her brilliant, delightfully idiosyncratic, & uber-funny notes on writing fiction in A LONG GAME, coming Dec. 2 from @eccobooks.bsky.social. Pre-order: www.harpercollins.com/products/a-l...
June 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Ty @chrisvognar.bsky.social
& @katekilla.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com for including BALDWIN (8/19, FSG) in your summer reading feature!
May 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Recent book haul from Chaucer’s Books 😍
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ARCs of BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY have landed! 😍

Coming 8/19—at the tail end of the Baldwin centennial—from @fsgbooks.bsky.social.

Book media, hit Steve Weil & me up for review copies:
* michael at broadsidepr dot com
* stephen dot weil at fsgbooks dot com
March 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Everything is horrible but on a positive note I’ve befriended the crows in my neighborhood. They visit me each day for peanuts and apple slices. 🖤
March 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New (old) desk, circa 1979 ✨✨
February 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Devoured this in one sitting last night. A masterpiece.
@appletwigli.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
January 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Some news. Thanks to @shelf-awareness.com for sharing this. ❤️
January 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In ‘90 @joriegraham.bsky.social introduced our class to Anne Carson’s work. I later went to the library & photocopied every poem she had published in lit journals. I then wrote her a fan letter (& included my own poems lol—I was only 19!). To my astonishment, she responded w/this gracious letter. ❤️
January 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Syd is dubious about the new year.
January 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Guardian’s 2025 lit preview, incl. Booker Prize finalist Madeleine Thien’s *spectacular* new novel, THE BOOK OF RECORDS (May 20, @wwnorton.bsky.social). @theguardian.com

Book critics: hmu for ARCs!
December 31, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Get ready for this spectacular, groundbreaking biography of Baldwin, written by Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee Nicholas Boggs. Coming from @fsgbooks.bsky.social 8/19/25! @whitingfoundation.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 6:06 PM
BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY by Nicholas Boggs. Spectacular!
December 27, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Merry Chrismukkah. May everyone be happy, healthy, peaceful, and safe. ❤️
December 25, 2024 at 8:38 PM
The gift of a cashmere hoodie. Never wearing anything else ever again. (Ty @katelloyd.bsky.social & Sonya! 😍)
December 21, 2024 at 2:48 PM
This good boy had to have 3 teeth pulled yesterday and (despite the pain meds) has been whimpering all morning 😭
December 17, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Marlon James’ Get Millie Black is pretty damn fantastic. Airing on Max: www.hbo.com/get-millie-b...
December 2, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Post-election coping method #947
November 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Writers, a good reminder that critics—and the public!—sometimes get it royally wrong. Your work may just be decades ahead of its time.

(Photos from a screening of Vertigo at my local indie movie theater this past Sunday. Heaven.)
November 19, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Any day I receive an ARC of a book by @paullisicky.bsky.social is a joyous day. This gorgeous work drops 2/25, but you can pre-order it from your local indie or bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/song....
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 PM