Hoot Brooks Books

What they’re saying about Mostly True Stories I Told in Bars :  

“That reassuring tone is still there. Telling me, yes, the world is odd
and unexpected and all the more interesting for it.”
                       -Julia R, script reader, writer

“He has an amazing gift for explaining things,
sometimes in the most unusual ways.”
                        -Shelley S, educator

“If [Hoot] wrote US history textbooks,
it would become students’ favorite subject.
(I was an eager student and still wanted to put
my history texts through the woodchipper.)”
                       – Amanda C, editor

“Amazing writing as always and thanks for sharing.”
                      – Jon C, comedian, broadcaster

“These are great stories with terrific twists. As I read,
I could imagine them being narrated over simple animation…”  
                      -Blair R, attorney once hugged by Conan O’Brien

 

What they’re saying about
Mostly True Stories I Told in Bars :

“That reassuring tone is still there. Telling me, yes, the world is odd and unexpected and all the more interesting for it.”
– Julia R, script reader, writer

“He has an amazing gift for explaining things, sometimes in the most unusual ways.”
– Shelley S, educator

“If [Hoot] wrote US history textbooks,
it would become students’ favorite subject. (I was an eager student and still wanted to put my history texts through the woodchipper.)”
– Amanda C, editor

“Amazing writing as always and thanks for sharing.”
– Jon C, comedian, broadcaster

“These are great stories with terrific twists. As I read, I could imagine them being narrated over simple animation…”  
– Blair R, attorney once hugged by Conan O’Brien

Storyteller “Hoot Brooks” is a former data professional who escaped from a three-letter-acronym company. He is the author of Mostly True Stories I Told In Bars. He creates an occasional substack column Hoot Brooks’s Hoots and a bimonthly substack page Double Secret which highlights history that some folks would rather leave untold.