Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

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.

I wrote about Dan open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...

It's more than 125 years old, it had to have lost a ton of its potency by now

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."

This is such a fascinating, beautifully written essay

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...

Almost forgot to post my favorite indie-pop Christmas song. Happy holidays! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0P...

the meet-cute of DREAMS

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...

Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl

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

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!

The pride of Texas. Rest in peace, Joe Ely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOH...

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

This adds up

Excited to continue serving on the NBCC board with a bunch of incredible people!

This person’s name sounds like a really drunk person trying to remember who wrote “Song of Solomon”

"He will command his angels in front of you / There was this one time Steve Cropper played with Lou" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEoB...

Rest in peace to one of the greatest guitarists in history: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...

NPR's Books We Love is here! This year, I had the honor of writing about books by Claire Jia, Andrew Porter, Davey Davis, Leni Zumas, Paula Bomer, Joan Silber, Travis Mulhauser, Corinna Vallianatos, Dean Van Nguyen, Jeremy Atherton Lin, and Lucas Schaefer: apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

The literary establishment: "Hey, what's your new book prize called?" Me, having not thought about it until now: "The Book... er?"

Todd Snider was one of the smartest, funniest singer-songwriters in Americana. Heartbroken that he's gone, far too young: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I thought all pitchers threw balls on purpose

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Big Paranoid Style news! New single "It's A Dog's Breakfast (for LR)" is available now! Plus new LP 'Known Associates' is available as a Bandcamp preorder! Check out the new tune, a tribute to my hero Linda Ronstadt, with an accompanying essay at Southwest Review! southwestreview.com/track-premie...

Thank you @michaelschaub.bsky.social for including WITHOUT CONSENT in the OC Register’s Fall Books Preview!

I got Covid for the first time and it feels like I finally discovered the band that everyone else was into five years ago. A band that sucks and when you go their concert beats the shit out of you

I was honored to talk to Derrick Barnes—a two-time Kirkus Prize winner who has been named a finalist for a third—about his latest novel for young readers, "The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze," for Kirkus Reviews: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

The finalists for the 2025 Kirkus Prize have been announced! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

I don't like being sincere on social media but what Tom and Mike did with Book Fight! was an incredible service to literature. The best book podcast ever, hosted by two of the smartest and nicest dudes in the world. Thanks, y'all.

Don’t miss Friend of Books @michaelschaub.bsky.social as he recommends 33 novels, story collections, nonfiction titles and more #books this summer. *Gift Link* www.ocregister.com/2025/07/15/3...

There are some great books coming this summer! Here are 33 of them: www.ocregister.com/2025/07/15/3...

The one-and-only @michaelschaub.bsky.social called us “your favorite publisher’s favorite publisher” and now we have to sit down. THANK YOU, Michael, and thank you for featuring Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE on this great summer book roundup @ocregister.bsky.social 🧡 🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...

Dave claims his bread is "killer," and yet on the logo he seems to be playing a C add #5 (muting the low E with his pinky). They should rename it Dave's Jazzy Bread imo

SLEEP PHASE by Mohamed Kheir, translated by Robin Moger is in great company on @michaelschaub.bsky.social's list of indie press summer reads! 🌞https://www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/33-new-books-youll-want-to-read-this-summer-from-independent-publishers/?share=3hoosmssporei3ldwn4h

Celebrate your independents with @michaelschaub.bsky.social’s list of small-press #books out now or coming this summer. #booksky www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...

I recommend reading this to yourself in a President Thomas J. Whitmore voice. (Then buying some small-press books from your favorite indie store.)

a surprising recipe for a hot afternoon: fill a glass with ice, top with half iced coffee and half lemon-lime gatorade. Will this be good? absolutely fucking not. totally disgusting. but it *is* surprising

I had the pleasure of talking with Dean Van Nguyen about his fascinating new book, "Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur": www.ocregister.com/2025/06/19/h...

Novelists, you might want to be thinking about which fast-food dessert you want to embrace: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Brilliant interviewer, brilliant author. This is going to be great

Paula Bomer's new novel is about a cruel, misogynistic sociopath who lies about being successful in real estate and hurts anybody he can. I wrote about it for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/05/25/n...

Look it’s not the mouse’s fault that your cookies are dry as hell

NPR's list of books we're looking forward to this summer is up! I wrote about Lucas Schaefer's Austin-set novel, "The Slip": www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

I can attest that these books do actually exist! Sincerely, Michael Schaub, human

one interesting thing about watching the wnba is that unlike in the nba, they don't shout "NBA!!!" before taking a shot. they just shoot it