Noah Broyles

Author of "The House of Dust."

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

Copies from the second printing of THE HOUSE OF DUST are shipping out to retailers, and they feature a brand new cover!

Once again the incredible work of @dissectdesigns. Never imagined my book could get one such great cover, let alone two.

[Roland Gunn 🇺🇸 @RolandGunnTN]

RIP to a Tennessee Queen

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

Hey, House of Dust on a books list!
https://t.co/NDiAiCdrj5

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

Søren Kierkegaard on the Importance of Walking

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

[λυδία @oh_tuntun]

Milwaukee airport has a big used bookshop inside?! What the hell. I didn't even know you could do that. All airports should have one of these, I wouldn't complain about a long layover ever again.

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Ian Fleming’s typical day at his estate in Jamaica where he wrote all his James Bond stories, need to emulate this

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

This should be a novel or something.

(Newport, TN)

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Roland Gunn 🇺🇸 @RolandGunnTN]

There is a trend around “Appalachian gothic,” people talking about spooky stuff, monsters, ghosts etc. We are visiting GG’s fam high up in North Georgia right now and this is not the energy I get here at all. Vibes are much lighter to me, the veil is thin but in an ethereal, faerie kind of way.

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

@PopBase She's reading Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt in the first photo.

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

Never disappointing to find your book on a B&N endcap.

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

@BDisgusting @THR Very cool. Congrats @MrGaunt!

[Bloody Disgusting @BDisgusting]

John Langan's award winning horror novel THE FISHERMAN is getting a film adaptation.

David Lowery (A Ghost Story, The Green Knight, Mother Mary) will direct for Focus Features.

A tale of dark pacts, buried secrets, and a mysterious figure known as the Fisherman.

Source: @THR

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

The sheer bizarreness of these old covers:

Tolkien cackling in the sky above above (maybe?) the dwarves chilling after escaping the Woodland Realm.

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

Perfect.

Tinder executive becomes Tangled executive.

Hookup culture has become bookup culture.
https://t.co/ujtvLuoKfn

[dan @aristophaneet]

the YA slopification of penguin book covers is a really sad sight to see

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

@dustinkittle @TNLandLiberty Anything an average person can do to to help at this point?

[Noah Broyles @NoahEBroyles]

@Chase_Steely Goodreads is always confusing these guys.

[Dustin Kittle @dustinkittle]

The Snow Creek Valley

Santa Fe, Tennessee 🇺🇸

[☭No Fascist USA ⚒︎ @Now_we_Revolt]

The only data centers we need

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

University of Tennessee, Knoxville just received between 16,000-18,000 books from Cormac McCarthy’s personal library. Cormac owned 20,000 volumes total: Texas State University received 2,000 in December of last year (the ones CM used regularly).