NEW review from ALA_Booklist: My book, “They Came for the Schools,” is a “frightening but all too real piece of reporting” that “belongs in every library.” Preorder today! 👉 mikehixenbaugh.com

HOUSTON! I've missed you. I'll be back in town on May 20. Come see me at Blue Willow Bookshop and pick up a signed copy of "They Came for the Schools." RSVP here: bluewillowbookshop.com/event/hixenbau…

Come see me on the “They Came for the Schools” book tour! With special guests Yamiche Alcindor, Robert Downen, Valerie Koehler, Talia Richman and Dylan Goforth. Tickets required in Grapevine. You can purchase those here: talkinganimalsbooks.com/products/they-…

This morning in Air Mail: An essay about the time some moms in Katy, Texas, threatened to report me to the police as a child sexual predator—and what it told me on the widespread attacks on LGBTQ authors, teachers and librarians. Read it here: airmail.news/issues/2024-5-…

My book "They Came for the Schools" is out today. It tries to make sense of America's school board wars by showing how & why that fight exploded in one Texas suburb. To really understand the anti-DEI backlash, I needed to uncover a much longer history. Here's what I found🧵

"I started writing about what I knew intimately, and that was the desert, the plants and the heat. It’s like another planet." 🌵 love this conversation with @zoebossiere in L.A. Times Books. CACTUS COUNTRY is out next Tuesday! ABRAMS Books latimes.com/entertainment-…

So glad to announce #TheLastHumanJob book tour! Can't wait to talk to all of you about the real connections that matter, a new definition of burnout, and what we're *still* not talking about when we talk about AI Princeton University Press

"This razor-sharp book is the masterful culmination of years of reportage … a work of compassion, one that never fails to center the vulnerability or the dignity of students." wapo.st/3WKpV2Q

So excited for Friday! Come see me in conversation with the great Carolyn Hax about #TheLastHumanJob @PorterSqBooks. We'll talk about the power of seeing each other, and what's at risk when we automate relationship

So exciteeeeddddd for this!!

To outsiders, the Charro Days festival in Brownsville, Texas, may "seem like a caricature of Mexican culture," Cecilia Ballí writes. But Brownsville natives see a time for pride and joy, "in a country where it sometimes feels difficult to do so." Read: nyti.ms/45eF1jk

FINALLY this review is up! 🔥🔥🔥

“It’s important to protect children from sexual abuse — on that, I agree.” Great talking with Chris Hayes tonight about Robert Morris, Gateway Church and what it means to protect kids.

This is such such SUCH a good interview 🤌

I love it too! 🎧

Happy to see #TheLastHumanJob at #asa2024! Some good conversations re: what counts as enough impact for sociologists? Naming what's at risk (connective labor) for the already worried? Or changing the tech evangelist's mind re human interactions? Coming to the Bay Area in 7 wks!

“They Came for the Schools” is one of the most popular nonfiction books of the year, according Goodreads members. Find the full list here: goodreads.com/blog/show/2818…

I'm writing a book. After years of reporting, I realized we've come to expect too much from policy. CAPABLE is about how a well-intentioned distrust of agency has gone too far—sapping our prospects for structural change, and undermining well-being in the process.