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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Been building some writing time into my schedule lately. Unbelievable to me that I used to crank out several stories a month during MFA days. I've now been working on the same short story for nearly two years!
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’ve gotta start talking normal before my daughter goes over to some other kid’s house and refers to thinly sliced banana as “coins of the realm”
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Excited to lead an in-person workshop this fall at the new & improved Michigan Central Station! Price of admission includes coffee, bagels, literally everything I know about revision. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-of...
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The Art of Revision
Detroit Writing Room coach Justin Brouckaert will share best practices and tips for revising your work in progress.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Can't wait for this book. I've been obsessed with parasocial relationships after watching everyone slowly lose their minds during the early waves of covid. There's absolutely NO ONE better to write about this than Jess!
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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Ever wonder how parasocial relationships took over social media, pop culture, and fandom? I got you. My first general audience book on social media, PARASOCIAL: HOW STRANGERS STRUCTURE OUR ONLINE (AND OFFLINE) LIVES will be published by Sourcebooks in North America & Urano in Spain in Spring 2028
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A true testament to this account that my first response to this photo was, "Damn, the ArtButMakeItSports guy is gonna have a field day with this one."
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The fundamental tension, it would seem, is that it's difficult to tempt writers with a tool that promises to **make writing easier** and not getting a decent portion of them to bite.
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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This Thursday at 6:30 pm, I'm speaking with @justinwolfers.bsky.social about my book EVERYBODY LOSES at Ann Arbor's @literatibookstore.bsky.social. I'd bet we'll touch on things like: --How do sportsbooks egg on bettors? --Do people in the industry have misgivings? --Are sports being corrupted?
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Writers returning from #AWP: Who out there is producing your favorite chapbooks? Like, inkjet-printed, hand-folded, saddle-stitched chapbooks? Poetry or prose. I'd like to support them! #booksky
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I wrote for xness once and chose a song so appalling to the readership—Xiu Xiu's cover of "Fast Car"—that I think I was automatically unsubscribed from all email communications. Enjoying the essays tho!
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
In my last review for the Washington Post, I wrote about @dannyfunt.bsky.social's excellent EVERYBODY LOSES, which understands the full scope of America's sports gambling epidemic better than anything else I've encountered www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...
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Review | ‘Everybody Loses’ tallies the steep costs of sports gambling
Danny Funt’s book makes clear that addiction is just one of many problems in the new age of legalized betting
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Kids don't study the classics anymore. When was the last time you heard someone under 30 say "Euripides nuts"?
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The world is what it is but books continue! Agents + writers: looking for deeply researched and imaginative nonfiction manuscripts about the South, for publication in 2027/28. Literary nonfiction, personal/reportage & cultural criticism are highly welcomed. DMs open for pitches or meg@hubcity.org.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
With the WP book section closing and other publishing news, I think literary people really need to adopt a punk rock mindset. It's DIY or die these days.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is good. defector.com/how-bill-sim...
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How Bill Simmons Went All In | Defector
The following is excerpted from a chapter of Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling, by Danny Funt. The book is available for purchase now. Bill Simmons never seemed like the...
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
As an agent, I love witnessing the magic that happens when a nonfiction book proposal turns into a book. I'm not sure I've ever been as floored by the final product as I was by @dannyfunt.bsky.social's EVERYBODY LOSES, out today: www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lo...
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Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling
Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling [Funt, Danny] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Podcasts on Netflix...somehow the most confusing of all the things happening right now!
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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Judge these books by their covers open.substack.com/pub/dannyfun...
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Judge these books by their covers
David Gee designs some eye-catching book covers, including mine. He shared how he approaches his work.
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Yasmin Tayag @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
My feature on Jollibee is out today!!! Read on for a tale about fried chicken, sweet spaghetti, and postcolonial revenge 🇵🇭 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game?
A fast-growing Filipino chain is serving burgers and chicken that seem like typical American fare—until you taste them.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 01/12/2025
Jeremy B. Jones and Denton Loving discuss Jones’s new memoir “Cipher,” the process of journaling, what it’s like to be haunted, and whether the past offers any hope for our current times.
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Decoding an Ancestor’s Scandalous, Encrypted Diaries - Electric Literature
In “Cipher,” Jeremy B. Jones uses the nineteenth-century life of his forefather to better understand the present
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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is a thrilling list of books that deserve attention and love. Small press publication is thriving.
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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Thrilled to read this starred review in @ala-booklist.bsky.social. Thank you! "Funt masterfully chronicles the meteoric rise in gambling and societal acceptance of a predatory business in a book that will simultaneously inform and alarm readers." "Everybody Loses" is available for preorder.
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CiCi🌸 @ciciadams.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨 TODAY IS THE DAY 🚨 Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is finally here. There are so many people to thank, so many people who have held me through this journey. I am grateful. Grateful. Grateful. @jahbarchart.bsky.social
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Recommended reading for anyone haunted by the AI actress story: Olga Ravn's THE EMPLOYEES. My favorite reading experience of the past few years.
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Is today the South's biggest pub day?! LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING joins new works by my good pals John T. Edge and @thejeremybjones.bsky.social. Go get them wherever books are sold!
Lullaby for the grieving by Ashley Jones in USA TodayHouse of Smoke by John T. EdgeCipher by Jeremy Jones
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Jeremy B Jones @thejeremybjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
my book’s out today or whatever
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This is such a cool idea.
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Vick Mickunas @vickmickunas.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Don't miss this: www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/b...
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Book review: An uncensored, unexpurgated version of American life two centuries ago
One of my true joys is finding a good book and reading it slowly. A few pages at a time. Savoring it. Making it last. I obtained an early edition of “Cipher - Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret ...
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I've recently learned that, in what has to be one of the most pathetic attempts at fraud in recent history, someone is impersonating me and asking for money to read queries. I would never do that! Nor would any legitimate literary agent. We work on spec, getting paid only when the author is paid.
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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Preorders are live for this major anthology edited by Michael Welch. I am always stoked for work that shows honest aspects of the Midwest, especially the Great Lakes Region. Honored to be in these pages.
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"EVERYBODY LOSES: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling" is available for preorder! What's at stake as billions of dollars are spent to turn a nation of sports fans into a nation of sports gamblers? My findings after 300+ interviews are alarming. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyb...
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Everybody Loses
This jaw-dropping book pulls back the curtain on the alluring yet perilous world of American sports gambling.Everybody Loses is the first major inv...
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CiCi🌸 @ciciadams.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My doctor said if y’all don’t preorder my book, ima die. If it ain’t one thing it’s another😞😞 #BlackSky #BlackBookSky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
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Black-Owned by Char Adams: 9780593474235 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements, told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organ...
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We could have a serious conversation about ORIGINAL SIN, sure. Or we could ask: Was it really necessary for Jake Tapper to do his Biden impression for every single quote on the audiobook?!
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Chicago pope got Bluesky looking like 2014 Twitter!
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I'm so grateful for the death of Twitter. If we had gotten this type of Pistons season in 2015 at the height of my social media addiction, y'all would have seen me GO THROUGH IT in real time.
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@maris.bsky.social wants to know why so many book workers in corporate publishing don’t make a living wage.
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As Big Publishing Gets More Corporate, Shouldn’t the Salaries Go Up?
I guess we’re doing this again. Over the past few weeks I’ve seen a few posts (I’m not linking to the posts in order to protect the innocent and underpaid) about how dismal publishing salaries are,…
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CiCi🌸 @ciciadams.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Annnndddd we have a cover! 📚 Pre-order is now available for “Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore.” It’s the first-ever full length book chronicling the history of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Pretty excited for this event next week, which should be a fun & friendly space to address any & all questions you might have about working with a literary agent (like me?!) www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-fin...
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How to Find a Literary Agent
Professional literary agents will answer all your questions about finding an agent, and why you may need one, during this virtual event.
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Lauren MacLeod @laurenmacleod.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Y’all the publishing scams are wild this year. Writers take note!
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Some brilliance from ACM client Dana Miranda in this latest Charlotte Cowles column! www.thecut.com/article/debt...
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Don’t Beat Yourself Up for Going Into Debt
The holidays are stressful enough as it is.
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Jeremy B Jones @thejeremybjones.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
***COVER REVEAL*** Thanks to Laura Williams, designer, and the good folks at Blair (and thanks to my kid for making a cool animation). Do you like it when a guy reads his great (x4) grandfather’s racy diaries and wonders if there’s anything to learn there? Have I got a book for you
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Maybe people wouldn't get so mad at health insurance companies if we accurately described how they work. Paying premiums doesn't buy you care, it buys you the opportunity to pay an unknown amount for care in the future. Hmm ok that may make people more mad actually
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Yasmin Tayag @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Yes, McDonald's used to cook its fries in beef tallow. No, they weren't healthier. My latest on RFK Jr.'s ridiculous push to "Make Frying Oil Tallow Again" 🤦‍♀️ www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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America Stopped Cooking With Tallow for a Reason
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s view on fats is about bucking convention, not promoting health.
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Looking forward to running into old friends here. And new friends: I'm a literary agent representing narrative nonfiction (journalists, academics/historians, CNFers) and some literary/upmarket fiction. I'm also a human dad, Midwesterner, diehard Pistons fan, president of the Jesse Ball fan club.
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Justin Brouckaert @jahbarchart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Heard @dril.bsky.social was on Bluesky now, so I came running!
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