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📚 Bookseller: @roscoebooks.bsky.social 🛠️ Daily Editor: @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social ✍️ Marketing and communications: @storystudiochicago.bsky.social 📝 Book Reviewer: open.substack.com/pub/thenewdorkreviewofbooks Chicagoan. Marquette alum. Runner
Gut reaction -- this is sad, I love Maplewood. My favorite Chicago brewery.
More measured reaction -- if this keeps both around long-term, I suppose it's good news.
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Happy Pub Day to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social editor-in-chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social. If you're in Chicago, the launch party for ON AN INLAND SEA is tonight at 6:30 pm at @roscoebooks.bsky.social.
Oh man it’s a book that shouldn’t have worked but somehow did. Pretty sure she’s the only writer who could pull that off.
LOVED your AWP panel on this btw — you all were extremely entertaining. And I learned a ton!
Yes, great hanging out! Thanks, and subscribed too. Here’s hoping you get some good news soon about your novel!
Book 16: Refuse to Be Done, by Matt Bell
One of my favorite ways writing is like running is that one of the best jokes applies to both:
Q: How can you tell if someone is (writing a novel / running a marathon)?
A: Wait five seconds, and they’ll tell you.
😅
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There are more people reading books and fewer people staring at phones at the O'Hare gate to Baltimore than I've seen in a long, long time.
Must be going to a writer's conference. 😍
See you soon #AWP26!
A question for the woman doing obedience training with her dog in the park that has “no dogs” signs posted everywhere.
Who really needs the obedience training? 🤔
Book 15: King Sorrow, by Joe Hill
I’m on a “friendship through the years” kick lately, and this long book is definitely that…but with a murderous dragon!
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#booksky
I'll be posted up at Table T746 most of the week -- come say hello!
The @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social has your 12 must-read books for March -- including REPLICA, the debut poetry collection by our Curriculum Coordinator Lisa Low!!!
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This is such a rarity! They mostly just ignore each other 😂
It’s been a week, man.
TONIGHT! Join us for our free panel with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social celebrating the publication's 10 years. Panelists will discuss what makes a good review, the importance of book coverage these days, and how you can improve your chances to get your work reviewed.
Register: buff.ly/aBC7HDS
We got all in our feelings in the week's StoryStudio newsletter. 😅
Read:
✍🏼 Why the hard work of writing is better with community
✍🏼 Meet StoryBoard faculty member Denne Michele Norris!
✍🏼 TODAY is the Novel In A Year deadline
✍🏼 Much more!
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Tomorrow night, we ride…
What's your strategy when a not-paying-attention young person staring at their phone walks right into you or your dog on the sidewalk? It's happened three times this week lol. I don't want to be a cranky old man and yell "Look up!" but maybe that's what it's come to?
Tonight! The first 2-hour class in Carmen Maria Machado's four-session workshop, Speculative Nonfiction happens tonight at 6:30 pm CT.
Lectures are all presented live, but also recorded -- so when you register, if you miss one, you can watch on your own time!
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Really excited for this! Come here us talk about books and the importance of books coverage (eff you, Bezos), and writing, and more.
From a friend at Winter Institute — new Chad Harbach this fall. Literally gasped!
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We are counter-programming the State of the Union with a fundraising telethon featuring everyone’s favorite Bluesky posters doing short presentations and sketches on stuff they are passionate about. Will stream on YouTube starting at 8:30pm EST
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This whole thing has "Grandpa told a racist joke at dinner and none of us had the courage to tell him to shut up" energy
Just a reminder as we look forward to this weekend...
We're going to win. There's a ton of hard work ahead of us & a lot more really bad days, but we've won before, with less resources & more capable foes. So we will win again.
Every reader of every age will have access to the books they need.
The mere fact they're claiming Hammond is a "20-minute drive" from Soldier Field shows how little they understand any of this. Maybe in the middle of the night doing 80 mph, it's 20 minutes.
"A lot of us writers are hermits by nature. But I don't think writing has to be a solitary, anguished profession." -- Dave Eggers on our Pub Crawl keynote conversation just now.
And here is exactly why we're working so hard to build a writing community! 🤩
My first thought was that this seemed premature, but 2026 has been about 18 months long already....
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The New Yorker's best books of 2026 so far...
Book 14: So Old, So Young, by Grant Ginder
My advice is to first read this terrific book. Then, send it to your college friend group and fire up the group chat about which character you all think you all are. And then hope you're still all friends. 😅
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OH at the Bears' board meeting: Okay, how can we totally kill the good vibes we created with a great season?
Truly incredible (and important) words by @mbwwelch.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social!!!
