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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Galleys for the UK edition of THE SLIP have arrived! Coming January 2027 from Hamish Hamilton. If you’re a reviewer, podcaster, or general Books Person, very much hope you’ll check it out! 🥊

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mivven @ghostsghouls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It cannot be overstated how much Bret does not make an argument in this column. He does not list a single worthy book he thinks was excluded. He clearly has not read the vast majority of the books. His entire critique is just “these books are written by women and minorities, which is bad”.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Galleys for the UK edition of THE SLIP have arrived! Coming January 2027 from Hamish Hamilton. If you’re a reviewer, podcaster, or general Books Person, very much hope you’ll check it out! 🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cover for ÚNIK, the Czech edition of THE SLIP, translated by Lukás Tomášek and coming from BETA in October 🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cover for ÚNIK, the Czech edition of THE SLIP, translated by Lukás Tomášek and coming from BETA in October 🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sad to report I’m not one of DNA’s sexiest men alive, but they did include a nice review of THE SLIP in their September issue 🥊

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BookPeople @bookpeople.com · 01/09/2026

Meet LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY author Bonnie Garmus on November 17th in Austin, Texas to celebrate her new novel, PECK & PECK, set in the publishing world of 1980s New York City. She will be in conversation with Lucas Schaefer. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople... @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social

BookPeople Events Presents BONNIE GARMUS (author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY) with LUCAS SCHAEFER (author of THE SLIP) on Tuesday, November 17th at 6PM.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy to see THE SLIP on the Crook’s Corner Book Prize longlist alongside so many amazing titles and authors. Thanks, Crook’s Corner! crookscornerbookprize.com/crooks-corne...

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Crook’s Corner Book Prize 14th Annual Longlist Announced – Crooks Corner Book Prize

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Téa Obreht (l.) celebrated the launch of her second novel Sunrise (Random House) at First Light Books in Austin, Tex., on August 14. She was joined in conversation by fellow author Lucas Schaefer (r.). (Penguin Random House)

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Happy/delighted/stoked to be visiting in the English Dept at Southwestern this year. Fall I’ll be teaching an intro creative writing workshop and a course on Literary Transformation. The syllabus pleases me!

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Had fun talking to Sebastian Langdell for @liberalartsut.bsky.social Life & Letters. We talked about my love of Lord’s Boxing Gym, the first time I went to @texasbookfest.bsky.social, and the 3 places all newcomers to Austin should visit.

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BookPeople @bookpeople.com · 10/08/2026

Trust us, you're gonna want to read this one... Signed Copies: bookpeople.com/book/9781668...

Mallory M recommends THE SLIP by Lucas Schaefer. A True feat. THE SLIP is like a puzzle. Schaefer doling out pieces with each chapter. Pieces that click perfectly together by the last page. The Austin reflected here of the 90s and early oughts glistened because of the boxing gym at the heart of it.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New signed paperback copies of THE SLIP @bookpeople.com 🥊

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My favorite novel of last year had the world's worst elevator pitch: Boxing. Blackface. 500 pages long. I asked Lucas Schaefer how he wrote, sold, and promoted it. roncharles.substack.com/i/202498060/...

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The UK edition of THE SLIP is coming from Hamish Hamilton @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in January 2027. Excited to welcome some new fighters into the ring 🥊🥊🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The UK edition of THE SLIP is coming from Hamish Hamilton @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in January 2027. Excited to welcome some new fighters into the ring 🥊🥊🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thrilled that PASSO FALSO (“False Step”), the Italian edition of the THE SLIP, is coming from NN Editore in October, translated by Michele Martino, cover photo by Jim Lommason 🥊🥊🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thrilled that PASSO FALSO (“False Step”), the Italian edition of the THE SLIP, is coming from NN Editore in October, translated by Michele Martino, cover photo by Jim Lommason 🥊🥊🥊

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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I feel like Insta knows about this, but Bluesky doesn't. I'll be posting about it when I get my copy. See below for the roster of writers (including me) who contributed to this interesting project edited by novelist Josh Riedel.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Had a blast contributing to Josh Riedel’s Thirty Cabins zine alongside an A+ roster of writers. Link to preorder below!

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Something I want liberals to get more comfortable with is staking out values that aren't dependent on credentials or institutions.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

fundamentally, Alito and Thomas believe that the 14th Amendment established a hierarchy of citizenship or allowed the elected branches to do so. but that is totally ass backwards! it was explicitly written to *preclude* any hierarchy of citizenship. it is right there in the text!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I Am Not A Lawyer™. (Though I spent a year studying law) Neither is @joshtpm.bsky.social But we both know something about US history (him w PhD), including about anti-Asian immigrant wave of late 1800s. And agree w him 100% here. That this was 5-4 is a relief. That it was not 9-0 is an emergency.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you hate birthright citizenship the person who hates America is you.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

You know it's an extremist, partisan court because the opinion here is not 9-0. The Constitution does not leave any room for doubt on this question.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Or maybe it will be your Republican member of Congress since many of them seem eager for the chance

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Anyone participating in the project of rehabilitating W or pretending he didn’t help usher in this disgraceful era need only be pointed toward his judicial legacy before being laughed out of public life

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Slaughter belongs in the anti-canon, a decision so egregiously wrong it has zero precedential value and is self-discrediting. It is not a plausible reading of a constitutional ambiguity, it is constitutionalizing the structure of an autocracy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Our independent federal regulatory agencies were created to protect the public from corporate harms. The only reason to end these protections is to give corporate America even higher profits by shifting the risks of harms to individual people. The shame of the John Roberts court.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Fun to see THE SLIP in @nytimes.com Book Review’s Paperback Row today 🥊

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/06/2026

They're bad about EVERYTHING. Packing the Court has to be one of the very first things the next D president/Congress push through.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hard to imagine a group of people who hates their fellow Americans more than the “conservatives” on the Supreme Court

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Had fun chatting with my friends at First Light Books ahead of THE SLIP paperback launch tomorrow 6/23. Join us!

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Had fun chatting with my friends at First Light Books ahead of THE SLIP paperback launch tomorrow 6/23. Join us!

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Since reviewing THE SLIP last summer, Ron Charles has been such a tremendous advocate for the novel. It was a real honor to get to chat with him about marketing, publishing and THE SLIP for his wonderful substack. THE SLIP comes out in paperback next Tuesday, June 23.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Appreciate this mention in @austinchronicle.bsky.social about THE SLIP paperback out 6/23 🥊

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Sarah Randall @cookcanread.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I love this book. If you haven’t read it, or even if you have!, pb comes out next week. 👍🏼

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In all 487 pages of THE SLIP I only depict one incident that happened to me in real life and it happened here in the parking lot at Central Market. THE SLIP comes out in paperback on 6/23. 🥊🥊🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Had a blast talking writing, boxing gyms and working out with Sebastian at the Secretly Sporty podcast. I also offered up some of my Peloton fan fiction. Hope you’ll check it out! shows.acast.com/secretly-spo...

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Lucas Schaefer Slips into the Ring | Secretly Sporty

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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Lucas Schaefer Slips into the Ring | Secretly Sporty

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