The NBCC is proud to announce that the winners of the Toni Morrison Achievement Award are NPR and PBS!

San Antonio music legend Augie Meyers dies at 85 The Vox organist helped shape the sound of South Texas as a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and later the Texas Tornados.

RIP to the king of San Antonio: www.tpr.org/arts-culture...

I'm super excited!

he's Har-BACK

New Novel by Chad Harbach Coming This Fall | Kirkus Reviews Little, Brown will publish the author’s follow-up to ‘The Art of Fielding’ in October.

Chad Harbach has a follow-up to "The Art of Fielding" coming in October. We've got the exclusive at Kirkus: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Love this guy and can’t wait for his new book

Keith Emerson Moogmogged Rick Wakeman. I am almost certainly going to delete this

The secret to feeling young as a 48-year-old is to early vote at a retirement community’s pro shop

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet

Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Goodbye to Dan McQuade The absolute Best of Philly

I wrote about Dan
open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...

It's more than 125 years old, it had to have lost a ton of its potency by now

Moby Dick (2026)

"Call me Ishmael," I smile.
"Okay," Queequeg frowns.
"Anyways," I get up from my chair and move to the window, "being highkey broke and lowkey bored, I got sailpilled."
Queequeg moves behind me, "Where did you go?"
I smirk, "The watery part of the world."

This is such a fascinating, beautifully written essay

Damn, the Dallas Stars are gay as hell

I was honored to join my friends Tom Beer and Megan Labrise to talk about 2025 in books for Kirkus Reviews' Fully Booked podcast: www.kirkusreviews.com/podcast/2025...

Secret Santa (You Could Be The One) YouTube video by Six Cents and Natalie - Topic

Almost forgot to post my favorite indie-pop Christmas song. Happy holidays! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0P...

the meet-cute of DREAMS

Year in Review: Our Favorite Book News of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews In a year full of distressing news stories, these weird dispatches from the literary world kept us entertained.

I wrote about my favorite book news of 2025 for Kirkus Reviews, including Colleen Hoover's "Reminders of Forgetting to Remember That It Ended With Them," which does not technically exist. Also, MrBeast makes an appearance because nothing matters anymore: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Right? Someone didn’t get the memo.

Oddly, everything I need to know I learned from a restroom, not Roald Dahl

me, as a child: *walks into the kitchen covered in my own blood holding a rabbit I fought from a hawk*

my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone

A terrific experience to chair the @bookcritics.bsky.social nonfiction committee, with the amazing @gwinnma.bsky.social, @michaelschaub.bsky.social, Jacob Appel, Colette Bancroft, Iris Dunkle, Jonathan Leal. Congrats to all longlisted authors and all writers whose work we read during the last year!

Joe Ely - All Just To Get To You - Music Video 1997 YouTube video by Dan Powers

The pride of Texas. Rest in peace, Joe Ely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOH...

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

This adds up

Excited to continue serving on the NBCC board with a bunch of incredible people!

This person’s name sounds like a really drunk person trying to remember who wrote “Song of Solomon”

Steve Cropper Plays Femme Fatale YouTube video by The Paranoid Style - Topic

"He will command his angels in front of you / There was this one time Steve Cropper played with Lou" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEoB...

Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84

Rest in peace to one of the greatest guitarists in history: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...