Emily Adrian
@adremily.bsky.social
Author of SEDUCTION THEORY (Little, Brown 2025). Stories in Granta, The Point, and Joyland. Editor at Great Place Books.
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wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review
That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...
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February 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
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January 20, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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wrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
You Are Who Eats You | Justin Taylor
Dunn was quite possibly the last writer anyone would have expected to resurface, after nearly two decades of silence, with the 1989 bestseller and as a finalist for the National Book Award.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
wrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
No one is saying you HAVE to read Muriel Spark this year…
January 20, 2026 at 1:21 AM
No one is saying you HAVE to read Muriel Spark this year…
Sorry to only post promo on this website. The truth is I have a beautiful baby whom I look at more than Bluesky.
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Sorry to only post promo on this website. The truth is I have a beautiful baby whom I look at more than Bluesky.
@greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark.
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Reading Muriel Spark with Emily Adrian — Great Place Books
Join author and GPB cofounder Emily Adrian in reading the dazzling fiction of Muriel Spark. This class will meet four times to discuss four of Spark’s most original, ambitious, and tightly constructed...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:17 PM
@greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark.
www.greatplacebooks.com/spark
www.greatplacebooks.com/spark
Want to take a workshop with me? We’ll read Joy Williams and Denis Johnson and YOU!
Teaching fiction @92ndstreety.bsky.social in the new year! Join us! www.92ny.org/class/spring...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Want to take a workshop with me? We’ll read Joy Williams and Denis Johnson and YOU!
Teaching fiction @92ndstreety.bsky.social in the new year! Join us! www.92ny.org/class/spring...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Teaching fiction @92ndstreety.bsky.social in the new year! Join us! www.92ny.org/class/spring...
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Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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"Fiction, through artifice, can arrive at truth. Artifice isn’t incidental but essential to the task."
@tonydomestico.bsky.social on @adremily.bsky.social, Tom Wolfe, and the campus novel:
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@tonydomestico.bsky.social on @adremily.bsky.social, Tom Wolfe, and the campus novel:
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Genre Seductions
In his August booknotes column, Anthony Domestico writes on the seductions of the campus novel.
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August 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"Fiction, through artifice, can arrive at truth. Artifice isn’t incidental but essential to the task."
@tonydomestico.bsky.social on @adremily.bsky.social, Tom Wolfe, and the campus novel:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/emily-adrian...
@tonydomestico.bsky.social on @adremily.bsky.social, Tom Wolfe, and the campus novel:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/emily-adrian...
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Always wanted to buy a brilliant friend’s book at an airport and now thanks to @adremily.bsky.social i can!
August 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Always wanted to buy a brilliant friend’s book at an airport and now thanks to @adremily.bsky.social i can!
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Emily Adrian’s SEDUCTION THEORY is a clever, layered tale that pokes fun at academia, particularly at the rituals and eccentricities of a graduate creative-writing program.
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August 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Emily Adrian’s SEDUCTION THEORY is a clever, layered tale that pokes fun at academia, particularly at the rituals and eccentricities of a graduate creative-writing program.
If you’re in NYC next week, come to my launch at Books Are Magic! I’ll be in convo with the brilliant Megan Nolan.
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In-Store: Emily Adrian: Seduction Theory w/ Megan Nolan
"I was completely hooked from the first page, and couldn't sleep until I finished it." —Andrew Martin, author of Early Work
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August 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
If you’re in NYC next week, come to my launch at Books Are Magic! I’ll be in convo with the brilliant Megan Nolan.
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-e...
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‘I hated myself for being alone, for being fertile or not fertile.’
Fiction by Emily Adrian.
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Fiction by Emily Adrian.
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Retrieval
‘Those days I was prone to bouts of socially inappropriate laughter that veered into even less appealing sobs. I wasn’t ashamed.’ A short story by Emily Adrian.
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July 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
‘I hated myself for being alone, for being fertile or not fertile.’
Fiction by Emily Adrian.
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Fiction by Emily Adrian.
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Go beyond the cover (and see how this book cover trend started) with SEDUCTION THEORY. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...
The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere
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June 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Go beyond the cover (and see how this book cover trend started) with SEDUCTION THEORY. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...
Psyched about this Kirkus 🌟
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SEDUCTION THEORY | Kirkus Reviews
A pretentious academic couple engenders the wrath of a jealous grad student at an elite college in upstate New York.
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June 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Psyched about this Kirkus 🌟
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These are the novels we think you should read this summer (a list entirely compiled by humans)!
22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer
It may be the summer of slop, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some great books out there. Here are the novels coming out this summer that the humans on the Literary Hub staff have re…
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May 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The Globe's Summer Reading list includes fiction by @kashana.bsky.social, @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social, @megiddings.bsky.social, @adremily.bsky.social, @shteyngart.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky.
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75 new books to add to your summer reading list - The Boston Globe
Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.
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May 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Globe's Summer Reading list includes fiction by @kashana.bsky.social, @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social, @megiddings.bsky.social, @adremily.bsky.social, @shteyngart.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky.
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wrote about dogs in the work of Joy Williams, Kelly Reichardt, and Alex Colville (plus some of my own personal dogs):
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Three Dogs
plus a few more
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February 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
wrote about dogs in the work of Joy Williams, Kelly Reichardt, and Alex Colville (plus some of my own personal dogs):
emilyadrian.substack.com/p/three-dogs...
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I wrote about...vomiting. A lot.
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On Morning Sickness
(It lasts all day)
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January 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I wrote about...vomiting. A lot.
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