So sorry to hear this, Ben.

Same. Just a box of snakes

We grew up in the golden age of 30-minute toy commercials. The kids will never know the glory

“I live in the ancestral lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe along the southern Canadian border.”

Rad to see fantastic novel by @jonvhickey.bsky.social getting praise in the alumni mag On Wisconsin. I read the book and met the author at reading at Sausalito library. Super gracious and thoughtful person getting well-deserved recognition. Get the book, it’s good!

Also Midwest Federal. They closed suddenly in 1989 during the Savings and Loan Crisis. It’s giving me the nostalgia because my grandparents did their banking there. But I also miss the style (and the old midway!)

The old Midwest Federal S&L…

[casual devil horns and a head nod]

Did my brother and I know, as we watched this air in 1998, that we would refer to it in roughly 50% of our conversations nearly 30 years later? Yes, yes we did

Some of the best indie presses out there are from, yup, Minnesota

Come one, come all! I'll be reading alongside @jonvhickey.bsky.social, Sommer Schafer, and Tomas Moniz at BaiT's January 30 event at the Sausalito Public Library. I hope to see you there 📚

Debutiful's MOST

BIG CHIEF is one of Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2025!

BIG CHIEF is on @debutiful.bsky.social’s Best Debuts of 2025! Check out this list!

BIG CHIEF is one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2025!

Off to Austin for the Texas Book Festival! Come see me talking BIG CHIEF with Brandon Hobson (his novel THE DEVIL IS A SOUTHPAW JUST CAME OUT) and Deb Olin Unforth at the Kirkus Tent!

The Blue Jays took on a team with some of the greatest players to have ever played the game and they took them to seven, and that one was a duel until the end. So much respect

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

If you haven’t read Big Chief by @jonvhickey.bsky.social yet, you need to! It’s a political thriller that takes place on a reservation in Wisconsin. Powerful themes on what it means to belong. Couldn’t put it down, couldn’t stop thinking about it. Highly recommend! 📚

Talking BIG CHIEF at the Central Wisconsin Book Festival in Wausau. And gesticulating wildly apparently.

tonight I gloriously end my tour in San Francisco at green apple @booksonthepark.bsky.social at 7 pm!!!!!!!!!!! in conversation with @jonvhickey.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!! I demand your presence

Thank you! Love to hear it!

So excited to be included jn this! Thanks to @pw.org!

In our 25th annual #FirstFiction feature, we spotlight five debut fiction writers you’ll want to know! Delve into the captivating literary worlds of Sarah Yahm, @jonvhickey.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social, and @jemmawei.bsky.social: at.pw.org/FirstFiction2025

What’s on Your Summer Reading List? | KQED We’ll talk about new releases, old favorites and classics that have earned their place on your bookshelf.

Our own event manager, Kar Johnson, will be on @kqedforum.bsky.social tomorrow morning to talk summer reading recs! Tune in at 9am!
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Eye test aside, best seat in the house.

The Best Debut Books of 2025 (So Far)

debutiful.net/2025/06/16/t...

😂 seems normal

This sounds like the heavily researched book version of every conversation I’ve had with my brothers over the last 35 years

Eight titles spread on a table, from top left: Tilt by Emma Pattee, Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie by James Lee Burke, Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen volumes 1-5, Big Chief by Jon Hickey, Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire, Banned Together edited by Ashley Hope Perez, Come as You Are by Dahlia Adler, and This Moth Saw Brightness by A.A. Vacharat.

Eight books spread on a table, from top left: The Good Death by Suzanne B. O'Brien, RN, Empty Vessel by Ian Kumekawa, Help! My Kid Hates Writing by Julie Bogart, In the Bone-Cracking Cold by M. Bartley Seigel, New Camp Cookbook On the Trail by Emily Vikre, The Adult Chair by Michelle Chalfant, Permission by Elissa Altman, and Great American Marine Corps Stories edited by Tom McCarthy.

Five picture books spread on a table from top left: Rap It Up! by Carole and Jeffrey Boston Weatherford with Ernel Martinez, Another Word for Neighbor by Angela Pham Krans with Thai My Phuong, Kitty Camp by Drew Brockington, Cousins! by Laura Lavoie with Luisa Leal, and Bear and Bird The Cave and Other Stories by Jarvis.

Eight graphic novels on a table from top left: Power Rangers Prime volume one, Moonshadow, Polar Vortex (5 copies for upcoming bookclub), in the center is Family Force V volume 1, bottom row from left starts with Thundercats Cheetara, Boruto Two Blue Vortex volumes one and two, and Tokyo Alien Bros. volume two.

Gotta ❤️ ANOTHER #newbooksday at the library! #librarylife 💙📚
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Amazing rec! Thanks @judicialjunkie.bsky.social!