Luke Epplin
@lukeepplin.bsky.social
Author of MOSES AND THE DOCTOR (coming February 2026) and OUR TEAM (on Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller) lukeepplin.com Contact: [email protected]
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Luke Epplin
@lukeepplin.bsky.social
· Jun 2
All right, listen up: "Moses and the Doctor" is now available for pre-order. It's got Dr. J, Moses Malone, the ABA, playground basketball, Philly, Houston, Bird and Magic, and much more. It comes out on February 10, 2026. Let's go. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moses-and-...
*furiously googles how to get "Moses and the Doctor" into Mamdani's hands*
New from me -- after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani plugged "Heated Rivalry" in his snow day press conference, downloads through the New York Public Library surged.
NYPL tells me downloads of the eBook and audio book increased by 529% Sunday after the mayor spoke.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/a...
NYPL tells me downloads of the eBook and audio book increased by 529% Sunday after the mayor spoke.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/a...
After Mamdani’s snow day plug, ‘Heated Rivalry’ book downloads surge at NY Public Library
The New York Public Library saw a 529% spike in “Heated Rivalry” downloads after Mamdani plugged the book during his snow storm press conference.
www.nydailynews.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:01 AM
*furiously googles how to get "Moses and the Doctor" into Mamdani's hands*
Doing what every author does two weeks before publication--looking up Questlove's mailing address.
January 27, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Doing what every author does two weeks before publication--looking up Questlove's mailing address.
For this week's newsletter, I wrote about the homestretch, the final two weeks before a book that I first started four years ago finally goes on sale: lepplin.substack.com/p/the-homest...
The Homestretch
Two weeks until publication
lepplin.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:14 AM
For this week's newsletter, I wrote about the homestretch, the final two weeks before a book that I first started four years ago finally goes on sale: lepplin.substack.com/p/the-homest...
Did anyone see "Is This Thing On?" Is that movie worth the two hours?
January 27, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Did anyone see "Is This Thing On?" Is that movie worth the two hours?
Oh, those new polls must be *really* bad....
"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports
January 27, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Oh, those new polls must be *really* bad....
I know that this is a minority opinion, but I liked the new Bruce Springsteen movie. Maybe that's because I loved the book it's based on, "Deliver Me from Nowhere"--and don't get me wrong, the book is *so* much better.
January 26, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I know that this is a minority opinion, but I liked the new Bruce Springsteen movie. Maybe that's because I loved the book it's based on, "Deliver Me from Nowhere"--and don't get me wrong, the book is *so* much better.
The thing that has surprised me the most about the GOP over the past decade is how few people actually are saying and doing what this guy just did.
Minnesota GOP leader Chris Madel: "I can’t look my daughters in the eye and say I’m running as a Republican, when they’re pulling over Hispanics and Asians because of the color of the skin and what they look like. I did not sign up for that.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Lawyer for the Agent Who Shot Renee Good Thinks ICE Has Gone Too Far
GOP candidate Chris Madel is dropping out of the Minnesota’s governor’s race, saying national Republicans “have made it nearly impossible.”
www.wsj.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The thing that has surprised me the most about the GOP over the past decade is how few people actually are saying and doing what this guy just did.
First ever snow day as a parent in which I also have to work. Let's see how good my juggling skills are....
January 26, 2026 at 3:12 PM
First ever snow day as a parent in which I also have to work. Let's see how good my juggling skills are....
My daughter just tried hot chocolate for the first time and her life appears forever changed.
January 25, 2026 at 9:35 PM
My daughter just tried hot chocolate for the first time and her life appears forever changed.
At that stage in pre-publication process where I'm trying to figure out ways to get the book into the hands of Questlove, Kevin Hart, and Bradley Cooper. Being an author nowadays can often be strange....
January 25, 2026 at 8:45 PM
At that stage in pre-publication process where I'm trying to figure out ways to get the book into the hands of Questlove, Kevin Hart, and Bradley Cooper. Being an author nowadays can often be strange....
Speaking solely as a writer, I find the fact that the president attended the premiere of his wife's $40 million documentary on the day that another citizen was killed in Minnesota to be such a great detail for a book--the kind of thing that I'd structure a chapter around.
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Speaking solely as a writer, I find the fact that the president attended the premiere of his wife's $40 million documentary on the day that another citizen was killed in Minnesota to be such a great detail for a book--the kind of thing that I'd structure a chapter around.
Timeline cleanser: twenty-two months old.
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Timeline cleanser: twenty-two months old.
It's fascinating how the president is managing to bend his party's stances, at least in public, toward his own peculiar NYC-in-the-80s worldview: abortion agnostic, second amendment skeptical, law-and-order maximalist, bunkered-against-the-world reflexiveness.
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 PM
It's fascinating how the president is managing to bend his party's stances, at least in public, toward his own peculiar NYC-in-the-80s worldview: abortion agnostic, second amendment skeptical, law-and-order maximalist, bunkered-against-the-world reflexiveness.
This is unsustainable. All of it.
January 24, 2026 at 8:23 PM
This is unsustainable. All of it.
On year 11 of folks defending the indefensible, even as the bar goes lower and lower....
January 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
On year 11 of folks defending the indefensible, even as the bar goes lower and lower....
There’s no excuse for what’s happening in Minnesota.
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
There’s no excuse for what’s happening in Minnesota.
It's eighteen days until my book is published, and I feel simultaneously that I've saturated everyone with publicity while simultaneously not done nearly enough to raise awareness. Publication anxiety--it's a real thing.
January 23, 2026 at 5:47 PM
It's eighteen days until my book is published, and I feel simultaneously that I've saturated everyone with publicity while simultaneously not done nearly enough to raise awareness. Publication anxiety--it's a real thing.
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Best way to ride out snowmageddon is contemplating sunny Los Angeles w/@yaronweitzman.bsky.social book on LeBron’s Lakers. All in prep for 2/12 @squawkinsports.bsky.social where @davidjroth.bsky.social & I also feature the new @lukeepplin.bsky.social ‘83 Sixers jawn! LFGSNOW!
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January 23, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Best way to ride out snowmageddon is contemplating sunny Los Angeles w/@yaronweitzman.bsky.social book on LeBron’s Lakers. All in prep for 2/12 @squawkinsports.bsky.social where @davidjroth.bsky.social & I also feature the new @lukeepplin.bsky.social ‘83 Sixers jawn! LFGSNOW!
www.shawnfury.com/bio
www.shawnfury.com/bio
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For this week's newsletter, I wrote about the swirl of emotions I had while unboxing "Moses and the Doctor." This is a personal one: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Boxing the Unboxing
Or Why I'll Never Be a Social Media Standout
substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:37 PM
For this week's newsletter, I wrote about the swirl of emotions I had while unboxing "Moses and the Doctor." This is a personal one: substack.com/home/post/p-...
For this week's newsletter, I wrote about the swirl of emotions I had while unboxing "Moses and the Doctor." This is a personal one: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Boxing the Unboxing
Or Why I'll Never Be a Social Media Standout
substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:37 PM
For this week's newsletter, I wrote about the swirl of emotions I had while unboxing "Moses and the Doctor." This is a personal one: substack.com/home/post/p-...
I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I did make a good decision to prioritize concerts by older musicians when I came to NYC. In the 00s, I saw Chuck Berry, Ben E. King, Les Paul, Pete Seeger, Ralph Stanley, Charlie Watts, Willie Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Darlene Love.
January 21, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I did make a good decision to prioritize concerts by older musicians when I came to NYC. In the 00s, I saw Chuck Berry, Ben E. King, Les Paul, Pete Seeger, Ralph Stanley, Charlie Watts, Willie Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Darlene Love.
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Philly! Join me on February 10 at the Barnes and Noble in Rittenhouse to chat with @lukeepplin.bsky.social about his exceptional new book, Moses and the Doctor. You have my personal guarantee that this will be a lot of fun. www.eventbrite.com/e/luke-eppli...
January 21, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Philly! Join me on February 10 at the Barnes and Noble in Rittenhouse to chat with @lukeepplin.bsky.social about his exceptional new book, Moses and the Doctor. You have my personal guarantee that this will be a lot of fun. www.eventbrite.com/e/luke-eppli...
A reminder: There are 10 days left to enter the contest we're running on Goodreads. At the end of the month, thirty winners will receive a hardcover copy of "Moses and the Doctor." www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
January 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
A reminder: There are 10 days left to enter the contest we're running on Goodreads. At the end of the month, thirty winners will receive a hardcover copy of "Moses and the Doctor." www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Reposted by Luke Epplin
I also don't know what I'd do if we won that first one since '48. If you haven't, you should read @lukeepplin.bsky.social's book on that team: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Our Team
The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s wo...
us.macmillan.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
I also don't know what I'd do if we won that first one since '48. If you haven't, you should read @lukeepplin.bsky.social's book on that team: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...