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-...
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!
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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...
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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...
I often complain to my wife that there are hardly any good TV shows about the area of the country I grew up in (the rural Midwest). I stand corrected: There's at least one. We just finished "Somebody Somewhere" and it's a delight.
January 21, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I often complain to my wife that there are hardly any good TV shows about the area of the country I grew up in (the rural Midwest). I stand corrected: There's at least one. We just finished "Somebody Somewhere" and it's a delight.
To be fair, Greenland and Iceland look almost identical. Impossible to tell them apart on a map.
January 21, 2026 at 2:52 PM
To be fair, Greenland and Iceland look almost identical. Impossible to tell them apart on a map.
Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltran, and Andruw Jones feels like one of those making-up-for-lost-time Hall of Fame classes....
January 21, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltran, and Andruw Jones feels like one of those making-up-for-lost-time Hall of Fame classes....
We're only a year in. Can't even fathom what the next three might bring.
January 20, 2026 at 2:50 PM
We're only a year in. Can't even fathom what the next three might bring.
These two match surprisingly well. Similar sort of design that’s reflective of their respective time periods. I’m blessed to have had such great cover designers.
January 19, 2026 at 10:03 PM
These two match surprisingly well. Similar sort of design that’s reflective of their respective time periods. I’m blessed to have had such great cover designers.
I'm two generations removed from the farm, but if we ever had to return, my daughter is ready. She knows more about farm animals and their sounds than pretty much anything else.
January 19, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I'm two generations removed from the farm, but if we ever had to return, my daughter is ready. She knows more about farm animals and their sounds than pretty much anything else.
For MLK Day, I read the last volume of Taylor Branch's America in the King Years trilogy, and it was the most interesting, those last few years of King's life when he slowly and then suddenly started to seem out of step with the Black Power movement surging through the country.
January 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
For MLK Day, I read the last volume of Taylor Branch's America in the King Years trilogy, and it was the most interesting, those last few years of King's life when he slowly and then suddenly started to seem out of step with the Black Power movement surging through the country.
You know what's a great movie? "Blue Moon." Kudos to Richard Linklater, who had the ability and audacity not only to get a chamber piece on Lorenz Hart greenlit but also to make you feel sympathy for him, his glaring flaws notwithstanding. Highly recommended.
January 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM
You know what's a great movie? "Blue Moon." Kudos to Richard Linklater, who had the ability and audacity not only to get a chamber piece on Lorenz Hart greenlit but also to make you feel sympathy for him, his glaring flaws notwithstanding. Highly recommended.
Honestly can't understand how supporters of the president prevent themselves from keeling over with embarrassment....
January 19, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Honestly can't understand how supporters of the president prevent themselves from keeling over with embarrassment....
I don’t watch football anymore, but I’m back for the Bears.
January 19, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I don’t watch football anymore, but I’m back for the Bears.
Just finished Jeffrey Eugenides's "The Virgin Suicide" and experienced something I hadn't felt in a while: I wished to the heavens that I could write like that. What a writer.
January 19, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Just finished Jeffrey Eugenides's "The Virgin Suicide" and experienced something I hadn't felt in a while: I wished to the heavens that I could write like that. What a writer.
Just got word that a major national newspaper will run a review of "Moses and the Doctor" and that floors me like nothing else. I'll do any and all podcasts, but I'm an old-school guy at heart. I love newspapers and magazines and legacy media.
January 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Just got word that a major national newspaper will run a review of "Moses and the Doctor" and that floors me like nothing else. I'll do any and all podcasts, but I'm an old-school guy at heart. I love newspapers and magazines and legacy media.