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Brian Platzer

@bplatzer.bsky.social

25 followers 21 following 5 posts

novelist, teacher, dizzy

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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Your next favorite novel has arrived! THE OPTIMISTS by @bplatzer.bsky.social is now available. Follow the 30-year journey of Mr. Keating and Clara Hightower from lower Manhattan to Silicon Valley in this profound meditation on legacy. Get your copy today: page1m.co/4rcI30N 📸: Sean Sime

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"We want others to feel good because we understand the intensity of that same desire in ourselves." @pearsonality.bsky.social's interview with @bplatzer.bsky.social on "The Optimists” (@littlebrown.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/02/25/b...

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Brian Platzer Gets the Joke in "The Optimists" - Chicago Review of Books

I first met Brian Platzer in 2007 when we were wide-eyed graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. I say “wide-eyed” but in truth, that was just me: a medical student deligh...

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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

THE OPTIMISTS Catch @bplatzer.bsky.social on tour for THE OPTIMISTS: March 4: Politics & Prose (Wharf) w/ Matt Yglesias March 10: Flyleaf Books w/ Joanna Pearson March 18: Greenlight Bookstore w/ Adam Gidwitz 2/5

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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Brian Platzer, educator, NYT/New Yorker contributor (yes, he wrote that viral Paw Patrol article), is dropping a fierce novel: THE OPTIMISTS. It's about a teacher charting his brilliant student's three-decade, controversial path. Expertly written! Pre-order now! Available Feb 24, 2026. #BookSky

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Brian Platzer @bplatzer.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

The most popular Australian poetry podcast teamed up with the most popular American poetry podcast to chat with me about the problem of boredom and how writing and parenting do and don't solve it: www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/...

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Ep 127: The Mercy Rule, Pt. 1 — MBS

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Brian Platzer @bplatzer.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

So far this platform has not been worth the $16,000 I paid for my invite.

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