Drew Broussard

HAHAHA oh jeez sometimes you gotta wonder about how some booksellers make the shelving decisions they do.... (I'm sure people are also saying that about me at my store lol)

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

Small, local news stations that serve rural areas will be seriously affected by CPB closures.

Some stations, like KCUW in Pendleton, Oregon, KUHB in St. Paul, Alaska, and WVLS in Monterey, Virginia, rely on CPB for 90% of their funding, according to Axios.https://trib.al/qWwG899

I was forewarned when I visited so I went in ready to juuuust browse til something leapt out at me but the whole vibe of the shop made my wife so anxious that she had to leave

okay this does make sense to me (related: have you heard of this shop in London called Libreria? I shall say nothing else about it but examine at your own peril lol)

dear people who don't look for a book on the shelf before coming to the counter to ask if we have it... why?

(genuine question! not trying to dunk, although I do find it lightly irritating behavior!)

You are allowed to be proud of your creative work and feel good about it. You don’t need to cringe or apologise for making art. This is true regardless of skill level and especially true if you want to make better art next time.

if you voted for trump you have to join the post-trump WPA and like, plant trees in former strip mines or become a home health aide or replumb jackson and flint while enjoying unsalted vegan cuisine

man, it's a fuck of a lot easier to destroy than to build, and I suspect this country is going to be reminded of that pretty much every day for the rest of my life.

To me the message from any and all Democrats should be: "When we win power back we will match their destructive ambition with our creative ambition. We will build back 10 fold what they have destroyed."

And I do mean *every* single person who voted for Trump, or a Republican, at every single level from local to the Presidency. Yeah, Dems aren't *much* better but they sure are better than this wanton destruction of every good and beautiful thing

I try so hard not to actively wish ill on people but every single person who voted for this deserves to never know the taste of their favorite food ever again. They deserve to always get sunburned. They deserve to sit in traffic, to miss their flights, to never get the reservations they want.

fuck

My god......mmmm its alive!!!!

This year, the Sealey Challenge is raising funds for Gaza. This August, you can read poems and support Palestine thanks to the Sealey Challenge and The Sameer Project. The Sealey Challenge is a month-long project where participants read a book of poetry ev…

The Sealey Challenge, a month-long project where participants read a book of poetry every day during August, is donating all money collected to The Sameer Project.

primary all of 'em. every single one.

"I'm not running for governor, also here's my book about how I pulled off an insane 107 sprint towards the White House and got closer than anybody expected!" really sounds like laying the 2028 groundwork to me and I just.... wish she wouldn't, honestly. From both a book and a politics perspective.

sound quality on Tidal is genuinely lightyears better than Spotify, and not in the "you only notice on good headphones" way but in a genuine "oh holy shit Spotify sound quality sucked" way (and more $ to artists, and so far no other obvious ethical issues)

this sucks

Editors, readers, please do not fall for Loeb's bullshit. You will see him crop up in headlines as "Harvard astronomer." It means nothing. Idk if he's just out for fame or believes himself, but he's def not doing good science.

man this is such a bummer, on both counts — it's got my wheels turning about weirdo little publishers who might want this sort of thing, the culture needs a new EC novel!!

Hopefully everyone already knows this, but probably don't upload your license and passport or scan your face to the app that's CEO now owns an A I-powered military drone company.

There are many other music streaming apps, and most of them pay artists better and also aren't invested in murder drones

Alexandra Romanoff's BIG FAN absolutely rocks for a bunch of reasons but one of the best is the subtle ripping of milquetoast Democrats who shy away from popular ideas like UBI because they are too afraid to take a bold stance and be loud about what's good and right.

surprise surprise, the walking McKinsey focus group is willing to sell out trans kids!

(seriously, if you for one fucking second still take this guy seriously as a presidential candidate, gtfoh as he does not have anything remotely resembling the juice)

What a sick-ass archive pull.

this album (if that's what it is?!) is great and also this listening experience is frankly delightful in its throwback-y weirdness

(Which isn't to say there shouldn't be QC, lord knows there's many tons of self-published dreck to prove that)

oof I'm so intrigued by this!! because while you might be right, it might have been just totally off the mark... I can't help but wondering how many great books have been left to rot simply because publishers didn't want to take the risk, you know?

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Open letter to the Portland Book Festival
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Knowing the general quality of your work, I have to wonder if it's about the intermediary step, you know? Are agents and publishers still too unwilling to take a shot on weird stuff, are they getting *more* willing now that the last couple years have seen a bump in weird stuff? But also idk too!!