Drew Broussard
@drewsof.bsky.social
he/him
writer
bookstore manager, Rough Draft Bar & Books
podcasts editor at Literary Hub & host of The Lit Hub Podcast
"His manners are as bad as his grasp of the issue involved" — some rando in the LH comments section
writer
bookstore manager, Rough Draft Bar & Books
podcasts editor at Literary Hub & host of The Lit Hub Podcast
"His manners are as bad as his grasp of the issue involved" — some rando in the LH comments section
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In better news, I want to share the 2025 bestseller lists from Rough Draft, because they really blew my mind when we ran them. Check out the top twenty fiction and non-fiction titles we sold in 2025, then read on (if you want) for some musings about the state of it all.
Oh shit I didn't realize Carmen Maria Machado won a Nobel Peace Prize but honestly I support it even as I wonder what she's doing in Venezuela instead of working on her next book.
(source: nymag.com/intelligence...)
(source: nymag.com/intelligence...)
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Oh shit I didn't realize Carmen Maria Machado won a Nobel Peace Prize but honestly I support it even as I wonder what she's doing in Venezuela instead of working on her next book.
(source: nymag.com/intelligence...)
(source: nymag.com/intelligence...)
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You know that book everyone was waiting for in December? We have it now.
Signed,
A Bookstore That Is Drowning in Deliveries That Should Have Been Here Three Weeks Ago
Signed,
A Bookstore That Is Drowning in Deliveries That Should Have Been Here Three Weeks Ago
January 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM
You know that book everyone was waiting for in December? We have it now.
Signed,
A Bookstore That Is Drowning in Deliveries That Should Have Been Here Three Weeks Ago
Signed,
A Bookstore That Is Drowning in Deliveries That Should Have Been Here Three Weeks Ago
been thinking about this a lot re: the Stranger Things extra-ep mania and how a generation of viewers has been trained to look for 'secrets' or try to 'figure out an easter egg' or believe incorrect things about 'method acting' instead of just enjoying the simple pleasures of a well-built show/film.
ok something I’ve noticed in fan response generally is a total unwillingness to believe that writers, directors, actors, designers etc did anything on purpose
January 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
been thinking about this a lot re: the Stranger Things extra-ep mania and how a generation of viewers has been trained to look for 'secrets' or try to 'figure out an easter egg' or believe incorrect things about 'method acting' instead of just enjoying the simple pleasures of a well-built show/film.
Everybody (rightly!) talks about the sexual tension between Hannibal and Will in HANNIBAL but I don't see enough people talking about the sexual tension between Patty Hughes and Ellen Parsons in DAMAGES.
January 10, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Everybody (rightly!) talks about the sexual tension between Hannibal and Will in HANNIBAL but I don't see enough people talking about the sexual tension between Patty Hughes and Ellen Parsons in DAMAGES.
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I am going to go for a walk, try to rediscover my serenity, and enter the weekend. No forgiveness for or reconciliation with these wicked people or their supporters ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Love to the rest of you!
January 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I am going to go for a walk, try to rediscover my serenity, and enter the weekend. No forgiveness for or reconciliation with these wicked people or their supporters ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Love to the rest of you!
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reading books
January 9, 2026 at 7:51 PM
reading books
I'm starting to get excited about Winter Institute! If you are going to be there and we tolerate each other, let me know so that I might say hello to you or buy you a drink or have a meal with you or something!!
January 9, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I'm starting to get excited about Winter Institute! If you are going to be there and we tolerate each other, let me know so that I might say hello to you or buy you a drink or have a meal with you or something!!
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as part of Sabbatical Year I'm reading magazines instead of subbing to them. first off is the newest Lady Churchill's, with a great back cover...
January 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
as part of Sabbatical Year I'm reading magazines instead of subbing to them. first off is the newest Lady Churchill's, with a great back cover...
Today is the liminal day, the one between Bowie's birth day and death day. Behave accordingly.
January 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Today is the liminal day, the one between Bowie's birth day and death day. Behave accordingly.
whoa apparently Octavia Butler's SURVIVOR is coming back into print later this year?!
January 9, 2026 at 2:49 AM
whoa apparently Octavia Butler's SURVIVOR is coming back into print later this year?!
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So my favourite thing I learned today is that there's a YouTube book club for This Year, by John Darnielle @themountaingoats.bsky.social ! Visit the song mentioned in the book for that day and people are commenting. I was enjoying the book and songs anyway but this is a fun new dimension.
January 8, 2026 at 10:28 PM
So my favourite thing I learned today is that there's a YouTube book club for This Year, by John Darnielle @themountaingoats.bsky.social ! Visit the song mentioned in the book for that day and people are commenting. I was enjoying the book and songs anyway but this is a fun new dimension.
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Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.
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Pretend to have read a different book, maybe.
January 7, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Pretend to have read a different book, maybe.
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"dismantle and prosecute" IS the moderate position
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
"dismantle and prosecute" IS the moderate position
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Love to @sjbsmama.bsky.social and anyone else who feels like they need to do more, I’m just saying from years of sad experience that exposing yourself to images of death is a bad idea and makes you feel bad and less capable of action.
January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Love to @sjbsmama.bsky.social and anyone else who feels like they need to do more, I’m just saying from years of sad experience that exposing yourself to images of death is a bad idea and makes you feel bad and less capable of action.
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it's evil, just evil. all of it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
it's evil, just evil. all of it.
A reminder, in case you're just checking in today, that you can and should turn off auto-play for videos in the settings tab of this here website.
January 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
A reminder, in case you're just checking in today, that you can and should turn off auto-play for videos in the settings tab of this here website.
there are so many MORE books that I'm also anticipating that didn't make it onto this list because (and I quote) "you maniac, you've already picked more than forty" but what can I say, it's gonna be a crazy-good year for books!!!
Not sure what to read this year? Maybe consider the 313 books we’re most looking forward to in 2026.
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026
After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…
buff.ly
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
there are so many MORE books that I'm also anticipating that didn't make it onto this list because (and I quote) "you maniac, you've already picked more than forty" but what can I say, it's gonna be a crazy-good year for books!!!
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Trying not to worry about the world. But how can you not? Deep breath.
January 6, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Trying not to worry about the world. But how can you not? Deep breath.
not to get really bleak about it but where do we go from here? the grabbings continue & AT BEST destroy the global economy when the rest of the world decouples from the $ to try to bring him to heel? AT BEST! or, they stop & we're isolated til enough of these freaks die that we can be trusted again?
January 6, 2026 at 12:21 AM
not to get really bleak about it but where do we go from here? the grabbings continue & AT BEST destroy the global economy when the rest of the world decouples from the $ to try to bring him to heel? AT BEST! or, they stop & we're isolated til enough of these freaks die that we can be trusted again?
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the line is running
January 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
the line is running
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I aspire for my criticism to one day not sound like "old white guy griping" and instead to sound like Fran Lebowitz artfully destroying everything the object of my attack and their ill-considered aesthetics have ever stood for freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/hating-str...
January 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I aspire for my criticism to one day not sound like "old white guy griping" and instead to sound like Fran Lebowitz artfully destroying everything the object of my attack and their ill-considered aesthetics have ever stood for freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/hating-str...
Excellent review of an excellent novel of last year, a work of city-fantasy that stands boldly alongside the titanic locales of my imagination like Ambergris, New Crobuzon, Ravicka, and the locales of Tchaikovsky's TYRANT PHILOSOPHERS series.
Synesthetic, Uncapturable, Uninterpretable, Irreproducible: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social reviews Hiron Ennes' THE WORKS OF VERMIN (@torbooks.bsky.social)
Synesthetic, Uncapturable, Uninterpretable, Irreproducible: Review of Hiron Ennes’s The Works of Vermin
Zachary Gillan Under Review:The Works of Vermin. Hiron Ennes. Tor Books, October 2025. “In the true work of art”, Walter Benjamin once wrote, “pleasure can be fleeting, it can live in the moment, i…
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January 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Excellent review of an excellent novel of last year, a work of city-fantasy that stands boldly alongside the titanic locales of my imagination like Ambergris, New Crobuzon, Ravicka, and the locales of Tchaikovsky's TYRANT PHILOSOPHERS series.