Luke Epplin

Yes, my book is still the lead review in the Wall Street Journal, but that’s nothing compared to the joy that’s evident in this photo.

Like everyone else, I loved "Atonement" but then drifted away from Ian McEwan over the following decade. Well, I just finished his latest, "What We Can Know," and I'm back on the McEwan train. It's wonderful--weird, lovely, pulpy, heartbreaking. Pure McEwan stuff.

For folks of a certain age, it's still somewhat unthinkable that the Slam Dunk Contest would be such a nonevent.

Even the cards arrived!

Here’s how I know it’s been a good day: my review made my sister’s fridge.

Nice! Hope you like it.

You should buy Luke's book about Philly basketball legends

Gotta break that rule!

Thanks! If you ever get around to reading it, let me know what you think.

I've felt the shrinkage of book coverage from "Our Team" to "Moses and the Doctor," so I'm not taking this for granted. It's a major stroke of fortune to get a featured review in print like this.

Awesome! Let me know what you think of it

I know. Crazy.

Lead review in the Wall Street Journal weekend edition. Couldn't ask for better placement than this. What a blessing.

What a week. How often in my life am I going to publish a book? I have to remember to stop fretting and enjoy this moment.

This was really good! Gonna have to pick up his book soon

Went over to Astoria Bookshop to sign books, and one purchaser requested that I write "Dr. J is the coolest man who ever lived" on her copy. She's not wrong....

Did I ever imagine that I would read a passage about Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins during my first NYC book event? No, no I did not.

I moved to NYC from the Midwest two decades ago. I came to be a writer. It took a while, but last night I did my first book reading in my adopted city. Guess I finally made it.

My basketball knowledge is hermetically sealed with an end date about 20 years ago — I’m still able to nail a trivia q with the answer “Caldwell Jones” — so I’m pumped for Luke’s book, as I enjoyed his one on the 1948 Cleveland Indians. Good times hearing Luke discuss his book with the Squawkers

Whoa!

Thanks!

First copy I’ve seen in the wild, at Greenlights Bookstore in Brooklyn.

TONIGHT AT DSK 7PM

TIX: www.eventbrite.com/e/squawkin-s...

Absolutely. I mean, heck, there's an argument for Hal Greer over Wilt (or Barkley, for that matter).

Just got a request to appear on the local news in Wichita, and I can't tell you how delighted I am at that.

No, fewer sections. One page of sports, no arts section. It's a skeleton that's missing bones even.

Wilt, Dr. J, AI. Malone played only four seasons in Philly. Barkley played more and had and continues to have more cultural impact.

At my event in Philly on Tuesday, an audience member asked me for my Mount Rushmore of Philadelphia 76ers, and I chose Charles Barkley over Moses Malone. I stand by it.

I bought a physical newspaper today for the first time in ages and I was taken aback by how slight it is. I guess that I have muscle memory of newspapers feeling so much more substantial in my fingers.

I sent the reviewer a thank-you note and he mentioned that he originally had a line that said "Epplin writes prose the way that Maurice Cheeks played the point for the Sixers," but he and the editor worried that no one would know what that meant. Hey, I get it. Big compliment.