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]
We're down to the wire for "Moses and the Doctor." This is the last weekend that you can preorder from Astoria Bookshop and receive a signed copy along with the custom cards that we made featuring Dr. J and Moses Malone. Do it before Tuesday! www.astoriabookshop.com/item/koW0Owl...
February 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
We're down to the wire for "Moses and the Doctor." This is the last weekend that you can preorder from Astoria Bookshop and receive a signed copy along with the custom cards that we made featuring Dr. J and Moses Malone. Do it before Tuesday! www.astoriabookshop.com/item/koW0Owl...
Clear-cut evidence that Charlie Brown will grow up to be a copy editor. Poor guy.
February 6, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Clear-cut evidence that Charlie Brown will grow up to be a copy editor. Poor guy.
The "Peanuts" strip for today, which shows just how old the comic strips is, now that both newspapers and phones are no longer part of our world.
February 4, 2026 at 5:44 PM
The "Peanuts" strip for today, which shows just how old the comic strips is, now that both newspapers and phones are no longer part of our world.
As a reminder, you've got six days to preorder the book from Astoria Bookshop. Each preorder will come signed and with custom cards of Dr. J and Moses Malone. www.astoriabookshop.com/item/koW0Owl...
February 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
As a reminder, you've got six days to preorder the book from Astoria Bookshop. Each preorder will come signed and with custom cards of Dr. J and Moses Malone. www.astoriabookshop.com/item/koW0Owl...
Lionel Trilling in 1940 on the New Yorker short story--brutal yet incredibly incisive. This is from an excellent long article on the invention and evolution of the "New Yorker short story." Worth a read. www.woman-of-letters.com/p/money-and-...
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Lionel Trilling in 1940 on the New Yorker short story--brutal yet incredibly incisive. This is from an excellent long article on the invention and evolution of the "New Yorker short story." Worth a read. www.woman-of-letters.com/p/money-and-...
Got about a fourth of the way through this until my daughter realized something was amiss.
February 2, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Got about a fourth of the way through this until my daughter realized something was amiss.
This is it--the final day that you can enter the Goodreads contest to win a hardcover copy of "Moses and the Doctor." Thirty entrants will win. Visit this link to enter before midnight. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
January 31, 2026 at 6:45 PM
This is it--the final day that you can enter the Goodreads contest to win a hardcover copy of "Moses and the Doctor." Thirty entrants will win. Visit this link to enter before midnight. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Anyway, here’s my daughter opening a box of “Moses and the Doctor,” mainly so that she can stand on them.
January 30, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Anyway, here’s my daughter opening a box of “Moses and the Doctor,” mainly so that she can stand on them.
Well, at least the new Melania film is giving film critics permission to be catty again. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Well, at least the new Melania film is giving film critics permission to be catty again. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Final reminder: You've got three more days to enter the contest that we're running on Goodreads. At the end of the month, we'll pick thirty winners, who will receive a free hardcover copy of "Moses and the Doctor." Enter to win here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
January 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Final reminder: You've got three more days to enter the contest that we're running on Goodreads. At the end of the month, we'll pick thirty winners, who will receive a free hardcover copy of "Moses and the Doctor." Enter to win here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
A reminder: If you buy "Moses and the Doctor" through my favorite independent bookstore, Astoria Bookshop, it will come signed and with custom-made cards of Dr. J and Moses Malone. You have to purchase before the on-sale date for this: www.astoriabookshop.com/item/koW0Owl...
January 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM
A reminder: If you buy "Moses and the Doctor" through my favorite independent bookstore, Astoria Bookshop, it will come signed and with custom-made cards of Dr. J and Moses Malone. You have to purchase before the on-sale date for this: www.astoriabookshop.com/item/koW0Owl...
We're now two weeks away from when "Moses and the Doctor" goes on sale. I can't wait for everyone to get immersed into basketball in Philadelphia in the 1970s/80s. If you'd like me to appear on your podcast or show or whatever, I'm game. My email is in my bio.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM
We're now two weeks away from when "Moses and the Doctor" goes on sale. I can't wait for everyone to get immersed into basketball in Philadelphia in the 1970s/80s. If you'd like me to appear on your podcast or show or whatever, I'm game. My email is in my bio.
Timeline cleanser: twenty-two months old.
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Timeline cleanser: twenty-two months old.
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...
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.
If my next book were to follow the same pattern, it would be set in the early 2000s and have a design like this. Funnily enough, I have an idea that would fit exactly in this time period, so who knows?
January 20, 2026 at 1:12 AM
If my next book were to follow the same pattern, it would be set in the early 2000s and have a design like this. Funnily enough, I have an idea that would fit exactly in this time period, so who knows?
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.
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.
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.
I bought a new Cardinals hat this week and another member of the household immediately commandeered it.
January 18, 2026 at 2:48 AM
I bought a new Cardinals hat this week and another member of the household immediately commandeered it.
All right, let’s do one more photo. Me holding the first copy of “Moses and the Doctor.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:22 PM
All right, let’s do one more photo. Me holding the first copy of “Moses and the Doctor.”
Ok, fine, here’s an unboxing picture.
January 16, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Ok, fine, here’s an unboxing picture.
And of course I couldn’t ask for a better back cover.
January 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM
And of course I couldn’t ask for a better back cover.