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Michael Schaub

@michaelschaub.bsky.social
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Journalist, @bookcritics.bsky.social board member, raised in the canebrake by an old mama lion. mschaubtx@gmail.com.

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Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 06/10/2026
@indyweek.bsky.social featured AHP author Adam O'Fallon Price and his debut short story collection, Objects of Desire, available now! Congrats to @adamoprice.bsky.social, and thank you to INDY Week, photographer Matt Ramey, and culture editor Sarah Edwards! indyweek.com/news/culture...
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Adam O'Fallon Price's Compelling Stories of Characters at Rock Bottom
"Objects of Desire," Chapel Hill writer Adam O'Fallon Price's debut short story collection, releases on October 6.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about T. Geronimo Johnson’s brilliant "The Occidental Book of the Dead" for the Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/01/a...
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T. Geronimo Johnson’s ‘Occidental Book of the Dead’ is a tour de force - The Boston Globe
The novel features a sprawling cast with connections to one another that don’t become clear until later in the book, and Johnson takes frequent digressions into the history of the South, sociology, ec...
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was lucky enough to get to work with Rose, a brilliant journalist whose kindness and generosity were unmatched. Her loss comes five years after the passing of her colleague Petra Mayer. We lost both far too soon. This is a deeply sad day for cultural journalism. www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n...
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Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38
Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Drew Buxton's "Daytona Teddy Riggs" is the rare novel that gets Texas exactly right. I wrote about it for Southwest Review: southwestreview.com/a-portrait-o...
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A Portrait of a Fuckup as a Young Man
By Michael Schaub
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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“One of the best Texas novels to come around in years.” Read @michaelschaub.bsky.social on DAYTONA TEDDY RIGGS by Drew Buxton out now via @hubcitypress.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/a-portrait-o...
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A Portrait of a Fuckup as a Young Man
By Michael Schaub
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For The Orange County Register, I talked to Allie Rowbottom about the porn industry, feminism, technology, and her new novel, "Lovers XXX": www.ocregister.com/2026/08/24/w...
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What led Allie Rowbottom to write her porn industry novel, ‘Lovers XXX’
Rowbottom explains why she ended up changing her characters from singer-songwriters to adult film performers while writing ‘Lovers XXX.’
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had a great time talking with Krista Diamond about "Close Relationships With Strangers" for The Orange County Register: www.ocregister.com/2026/08/21/k...
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Krista Diamond worked in national parks, then went to Vegas to write a novel
The ‘Close Relationships With Strangers’ author said she felt like she was ‘the paparazzi for the paparazzi’ while observing them for her new book.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 14/08/2026
Some awful suicide news circulating today. When I can't manage hope – "hope" is a big and sometimes impossible concept – I hold to the the possibility of change. And that can be enough to get me through the day.
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Adalena Kavanagh @mamiyaroid.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Excited to share an excerpt of the novel I just sent to my agent!
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For the Orange County Register, I wrote about 50 books that, considered together, form a snapshot of the USA, past, present, and future: www.ocregister.com/2026/06/25/5...
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50 books for America250: Novels and nonfiction telling the nation’s stories
This collection of fiction, history, biography and more offers a variety of looks at life in the United States.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I know Jaime and Jaime knows what’s up, I recommend this strongly
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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I wrote about the death at 100 of former long-time Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, the nightmare of the choke-point capitalism he eagerly promoted and the Paranoid Style song I wrote about him in 2019, when he was merely a sprightly 93. Never thought he'd die. theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/ive-got-a-...
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It absolutely is! Except that your hometown's team beat my hometown's team for the NBA championship and I have decided to take it personally. (Not really, you're cool.)
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hi to you! I hope California's treating you good, man.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Same here but with a portobello "steak." I should have won a fucking Oscar.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
i really don't think people understand how much a trillion dollars actually is. that's three million dollars. you could offer tampa bay rays outfielder jake fraley an entire one-year deal with that kind of money. imagine jake fraley playing an entire season for your team. that's wealth. that's power
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I'm torn because I have so many NYC friends on here, and I want them to be happy, but I was born and raised in San Antonio. I bleed black and silver. That's not related to me being a Spurs fan. It is something I should have a doctor look at
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I had a great time talking to Tom Perrotta about his new novel, "Ghost Town," for the Orange County Register: www.ocregister.com/2026/05/06/e...
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‘Election’ author Tom Perrotta revisits the ’70s in new novel ‘Ghost Town’
The author will discuss and sign copies of ‘Ghost Town’ at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena on May 16.
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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
One of the most important albums of my life. Thanks to "Dani California" I realized that music could be bad
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Aaron Parsley just won a Pulitzer for this story, one of the most heart-wrenching things I've ever read in my life: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Congratulations! You’re the right man for the jawn
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The NBCC is proud to announce that the winners of the Toni Morrison Achievement Award are NPR and PBS!
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
RIP to the king of San Antonio: www.tpr.org/arts-culture...
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San Antonio music legend Augie Meyers dies at 85
The Vox organist helped shape the sound of South Texas as a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and later the Texas Tornados.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'm super excited!
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
he's Har-BACK
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Chad Harbach has a follow-up to "The Art of Fielding" coming in October. We've got the exclusive at Kirkus: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
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New Novel by Chad Harbach Coming This Fall | Kirkus Reviews
Little, Brown will publish the author’s follow-up to ‘The Art of Fielding’ in October.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Love this guy and can’t wait for his new book
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Keith Emerson Moogmogged Rick Wakeman. I am almost certainly going to delete this
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The secret to feeling young as a 48-year-old is to early vote at a retirement community’s pro shop
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I wrote about Dan open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...
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Goodbye to Dan McQuade
The absolute Best of Philly
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It's more than 125 years old, it had to have lost a ton of its potency by now
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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Moby Dick (2026) "Call me Ishmael," I smile. "Okay," Queequeg frowns. "Anyways," I get up from my chair and move to the window, "being highkey broke and lowkey bored, I got sailpilled." Queequeg moves behind me, "Where did you go?" I smirk, "The watery part of the world."
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is such a fascinating, beautifully written essay
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Damn, the Dallas Stars are gay as hell
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I was honored to join my friends Tom Beer and Megan Labrise to talk about 2025 in books for Kirkus Reviews' Fully Booked podcast: www.kirkusreviews.com/podcast/2025...
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Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction | Kirkus Reviews
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Almost forgot to post my favorite indie-pop Christmas song. Happy holidays! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0P...
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Secret Santa (You Could Be The One)
YouTube video by Six Cents and Natalie - Topic
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
the meet-cute of DREAMS
October 20: It’s been a tough year, so we might as well end on something sweet. Pop star Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner have been one of the world’s most enviable celebrity couples, and Turner revealed in an interview that the two first bonded after realizing they were simultaneously reading the same book: Hernan Diaz’s Trust, which won the Kirkus Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. (Does this mean Kirkus might have been responsible for their romance? We’re going to go ahead and say yes and not offer any supporting evidence.) This news should give single readers hope: You could just be one book away from finding the love of your life—if you are a celebrity multimillionaire with unfathomably good looks. Otherwise, you
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I wrote about my favorite book news of 2025 for Kirkus Reviews, including Colleen Hoover's "Reminders of Forgetting to Remember That It Ended With Them," which does not technically exist. Also, MrBeast makes an appearance because nothing matters anymore: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
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Year in Review: Our Favorite Book News of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews
In a year full of distressing news stories, these weird dispatches from the literary world kept us entertained.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Right? Someone didn’t get the memo.
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl
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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 03/05/2023
me, as a child: *walks into the kitchen covered in my own blood holding a rabbit I fought from a hawk* my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone
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Christoph Irmscher @chrisirmscher.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A terrific experience to chair the @bookcritics.bsky.social nonfiction committee, with the amazing @gwinnma.bsky.social, @michaelschaub.bsky.social, Jacob Appel, Colette Bancroft, Iris Dunkle, Jonathan Leal. Congrats to all longlisted authors and all writers whose work we read during the last year!
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The pride of Texas. Rest in peace, Joe Ely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOH...
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Joe Ely - All Just To Get To You - Music Video 1997
YouTube video by Dan Powers
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This adds up
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Excited to continue serving on the NBCC board with a bunch of incredible people!
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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This person’s name sounds like a really drunk person trying to remember who wrote “Song of Solomon”
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