Justin Brouckaert

Good to see a friendly face over here!

This does seem cruel!

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

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!

Done! (And congrats!)

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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This looks (and sounds) great!

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

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...

Kids don't study the classics anymore. When was the last time you heard someone under 30 say "Euripides nuts"?

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.

Five minutes on YouTube Voice was truly the cherry on top.

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.

Strangely, watching The Life Aquatic for the first time a few years ago was what singlehandedly reignited my interest in music theory and actually learning to play guitar the right way. He's incredible!

We had a collective mental breakdown last week when we learned there was going to be a second snow day in a row (to kick off a long weekend).

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...

This is good. defector.com/how-bill-sim...

It's a genuinely stunning book! The sports gambling world is so much wilder, the consequences of legalization so much broader, the scope of addiction and delusion (and corruption) so much more insidious than I'd imagined.

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

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...

Please delete. This is highly offensive to me specifically (the father of a toddler who has not enjoyed a weekend coffee in three years)

Podcasts on Netflix...somehow the most confusing of all the things happening right now!

Judge these books by their covers David Gee designs some eye-catching book covers, including mine. He shared how he approaches his work.

Judge these books by their covers
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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.

My feature on Jollibee is out today!!! Read on for a tale about fried chicken, sweet spaghetti, and postcolonial revenge 🇵🇭

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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

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.

This is a thrilling list of books that deserve attention and love. Small press publication is thriving.

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.

🚨 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

Recommended reading for anyone haunted by the AI actress story: Olga Ravn's THE EMPLOYEES. My favorite reading experience of the past few years.

Lullaby for the grieving by Ashley Jones in USA Today

House of Smoke by John T. Edge

Cipher by Jeremy Jones

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!

my book’s out today or whatever

I'm always SO offended on a client's behalf when I get a peek at their peer review reports. The attitude!!