Michael Schaub

@michaelschaub

Book critic (), reporter (), vice president, nervous, sleepy. mschaubtx@gmail.com.

Georgetown, Texas
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Joined January 2009
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  1. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    We're having a literary celebration THIS SUNDAY, and you're invited! We'll be honoring our 2019 award winners, and announcing the finalists for our 2020 awards, on Jan. 24 at 7 pm EST. Please register at this link:

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    Jan 21

    knowing how to burn CDs means that members of gen Z consider you the equivalent of a blacksmith

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  3. Jan 21

    🥔 📚😎

    . now owns the library potato beat.
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  4. Jan 20

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  5. Jan 20

    He wants to really really really wants to zig-a-zig ah

    My take: Inaugural Address: What Joe Biden Really Wants
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  6. Jan 20

    OK I was told there would be taco trucks on every corner, what gives

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  7. Jan 19

    The closer we get to Biden's inauguration, the more worried I am that we're not going to get a moving, bittersweet montage of footage from the last four years set to Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"

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  8. Jan 19

    The new short story collection by Allan Gurganus is him at his finest. I wrote about it for NPR:

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  9. Jan 18

    "Books still matter during this time. We still matter to each other." This is one of the coolest stories I've ever been lucky enough to write. Kwame Alexander is the best.

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  10. Jan 15

    Everyone's confused about why sea shanties are a new social media craze, but when you think about in terms of the pandemic and quarantine, the reason is actually obvious: it's just to annoy me personally

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  11. Jan 13

    Hey, I'm sorry, but I made one of those monkey's-paw wishes that Twitter wouldn't just be 100% politics, and that's why we all have to read about fucking sea shanties now. My bad

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  12. Jan 12

    Kevin Barry's "That Old Country Music" is an outstanding short story collection that proves he has a touch of the romantic in him. I wrote about it for NPR:

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  13. Jan 10

    This is the town where I live and I really want to be friends with Cuddle Quack

    Pet duck “Cuddle Quack” is enjoying his first snow here in Georgetown. ⁦⁩
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  14. Jan 10

    I tell people that it's the Challenger disaster, but it's actually the Teapot Dome scandal

    What’s the first major news event you actually remember being cognisant about?? I genuinely can’t remember what mine was
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  15. Jan 9

    Honestly, the Twitter banning Trump thing is more like "Animal Farm" than "1984." There's a bunch of livestock, and they talk. I think there's a donkey that's supposed to be Stalin or whatever? I never read it

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    Jan 8

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 9

    gonna be a real tough case

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  18. Jan 8

    Your move, Friendster

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 7

    Betsy DeVos will now retreat to her home, which looks like it belongs to a villainous hamster in a Richard Scarry book

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  20. Jan 7

    It’s not all bad news

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