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Drew Broussard

@drewsof.bsky.social
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he/him writer of stories and such professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books contributing editor at Literary Hub occasional guitarist and singer drewsof.neocities.org

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Christopher @cdhermelin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is a fun one I think, especially if you like lists of books
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a timeline where American democracy is destroyed by a reality show contestant does imply, weirdly, a timeline where Regis Philbin saved it
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unexpectedly timely week to pick up Imani Thompson's HONEY, which is a bit of BOY PARTS and a bit of MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER and a bit of A CERTAIN HUNGER while also being a great campus novel and a great theory novel and just in general pretty great.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More lit novels would benefit from a single small intrusion of the speculative, or the irreal, if you like. Can be nothing but a sentence! But when it happens? 🤌
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ok, well, Wickhills by @premeemohamed.com is one of the best fantasy novels I've read in quite awhile so I'm going to go with that...probably for whoever is looking for fantasy at the moment.
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of war.Looking after a defecting scientist should have been Vycol Ferec's easiest mission. But now he's on the run from the intelligence agency he works for, dodging a handler who might have gone rogue and relying on a secret patchwork of illicit resources and dodgy contacts. Turns out his defector might be carrying an apocalypse-level magical weapon — and protecting it requires Ferec and his team to go underground, literally. Down here, the rules are very different... and the tense peace between every city in the world will shatter unless Ferec can drag their darkest secrets into the light.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will not complain about book reviews on social media I will not complain about book reviews on social media I will not complain about book reviews on social media I will not complain about book reviews on social media I will not complain about book reviews on social media I will not complain abo
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 28/09/2026
Latest weirdness: glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacial-er...
A bumper sticker with some crystals that reads EMPLOYEES MUST CLEANSE SOUL WITH 432 Hz BEFORE RETURNING TO WORK
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
others have said this, but if you are a real person using AI to draft your messages to me, you not only sound like a scammer, you are someone i do not want to work with, scam or no scam
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/b... This is *at best* a Goodreads review, which is to say it is not a review at all. I love this book and it deserves (as do so many!) to be actually engaged with, to be considered, and it sucks that the 'big review' for this book is this (positive!) nothingburger.
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Book Review: ‘May We Feed the King,’ by Rebecca Perry
In Rebecca Perry’s “May We Feed the King,” a curator falls down a rabbit hole imagining life in a palace court.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Give me and my friends some editorial control of one major media outlet for a year and I can basically guarantee we'd change this country for the better.
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Half-formed thought but it's kind of depressing to see which publishers are profiled in the UK versus here.
Profile of fitzgeraldo in FTProfile of and other stories in The observerNew York times profile about zibby owens
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First time this has happened to me: I've had a story out on sub for a bit past six months, which is about two months past the "ping us if you haven't heard" mark for the outlet. I pinged them two weeks ago and haven't heard ANYTHING since. Weird? Sadly normal and I've just been lucky so far?
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We live in an increasingly isolationist culture that encourages you to be emotionally stunted. Books and stories should be about experiencing minds different from yours. They should expand your empathy and emotional intelligence. But that doesn't happen if the reaction is constantly this:
Scroll of Truth meme, final panel where the adventurer throws the scroll in disgust because they did not like the truth
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Okay this was fun, mostly because it reminded me of how much fun computer games used to be.
My 9 Games! 3 rows of 3, L to R:

1.1: Heroes of Might and Magic II
1.2: Heroes of Might and Magic III
1.3: Myst
2.1: The Incredible Machine 2
2.2: The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain
2.3: The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
3.1: Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue!
3.2: Age of Empires II
3.3: Donkey Kong Land 2
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this was always my favorite of the “grey poupon” ads
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
oh my god we have to make this a reality
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
god I love this (and her, and her sparkly jacket)
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey can we get a script that'll change any appearance of "Bret Stephens" in text to "BS"? The man was gifted with nominatively determinate initials and we should use them widely more often.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ISO a copy of Barbara Livesey's NADIA CORELLI, if anybody has any leads
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
update: I told the guy (pretty gently, for me) that his use of AI sucks and he wrote back... you guessed it... with a very obviously AI email. But don't worry, the Authors Guild certified his book as Human Made so I'm sure everything is fine!
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled
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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Huh, the policy shown to succeed essentially every time it is employed works again... ... ... ... We'll have to do another study!!!!
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just got a pitch for a book about a two-person tour of a stage adaptation of Huck Finn in the early 90s and the book's website is not only totally AI-generated... it has AI-generated covers of actual Percival Everett novels and an AI-generated poster of "American Fiction" and I want to scream
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I want to make a joke about this being prep for water scarcity / the water wars, but it feels maybe a liiiittle too close to reality 😬
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GET HIS ASS, RUMAAN!
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Google is the fucking worst! I can no longer search for a review by using "author name review". Every search result now pulls up page after page of unhelpful stuff. GR and Reddit are at the top, then a bunch of shop pages. Even adding "kirkus" or "publishers weekly" doesn't bump them to the top.
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as a bookstore owner, we cannot do the work or offer the benefits which public libraries do—fund libraries and everyone, including bookstores, will thrive
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
places still listing ISBNs with dashes between the numbers, why must you do this, it is helpful to no one in 2026
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
so now Central Hudson is texting aggressive bill reminders? to people with autopay set up? god I hate them
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DO THIS!!!!!!
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
adding on to this: national Dem support for Democratic candidates has historically been almost completely absent in red states. if the Democrats would care to get behind this candidate on a national level, I think it has the potential to change the race. people DO NOT LIKE Letlow.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
so I was out for a walk with my dog and she told me I had to consider that the book I'm writing now is not the book I thought I'd be writing and that I might need to kill some darlings to get this done and maybe I'm finally going to listen to someone about this
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People are def annoying which is why I always say that I love humanity and can't stand people, lol.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ngl kind of obsessed with "(Airport!)"
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Re-upping—publishers and editors of weird fiction. I'd be delighted to consider your 2026 projects for Vol. 3 of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
omg the Heartbeat Opera co-founder is directing that new Macbeth at the Met?! ugh I have to get down to see it now for sure
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Music/dance/theater people: there is *one week* left to add your voice to the Impact of AI on the Performing Arts survey.
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GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
greaaaat interview
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That NYMag 'book gossip' newsletter is a real monkeys-paw result of wishing for a more dishy industry again, huh
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How annoying that technology is moving backwards in the name of privacy (or, tbh, capital): it now takes multiple clicks and approvals to convince my Mac to open RTF files with the program I want, a program that was my default for years, instead of Text Edit or Pages. Every time, it asks! Why!!!
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We really put the dumbest motherfuckers alive in charge, didn't we?
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Viriconium reissue when!!
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I cannot believe [positive] M. John Harrison is a Booker finalist, holy moly, there are good things in this world yet!!
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dim Philby and the International Vampire is my new band? Hard to pass that up I think?
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sam @samthielman.com · 22/09/2026
Four of the big five publishers have dedicated conservative imprints devoted to propagating absolutely outrageous lies. these are distinct from their Christian imprints, which are also far more conservative than most Christians. that none of these books ever win literary awards is notable, certainly
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is one of the best experiences you can have in a movie theater. But soon, so very tantalizingly soon, you can also welcome Little Death into your own home. reactormag.com/teenage-sex-...
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Comes to Streaming Next Week - Reactor
You have MUBI, right?
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