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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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:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/emily-adrian...
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.
granta.com/retrieval/
Fiction by Emily Adrian.
granta.com/retrieval/
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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.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/a...
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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.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/a...
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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...
emilyadrian.substack.com/p/three-dogs...
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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We have a couple of spots left in this class starting January 8!
GPB has two new classes on offer in early 2025! First up is READING JOY WILLIAMS co-taught by @adremily.bsky.social and @alexhigley.bsky.social
Register here:
greatplacebooks.com/joy
Register here:
greatplacebooks.com/joy
December 12, 2024 at 5:26 PM
We have a couple of spots left in this class starting January 8!
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Dogs on a walk look so happy. Some look like they're working and they're really proud of the job they're doing, some look like they just got out of work and they're off snowboarding for the weekend, and some look like they just got engaged and they're still too emotional to speak.
December 7, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Dogs on a walk look so happy. Some look like they're working and they're really proud of the job they're doing, some look like they just got out of work and they're off snowboarding for the weekend, and some look like they just got engaged and they're still too emotional to speak.
7yo, as we drive past a store called SOUP GIRL: watch out Mama. They're gonna boil you.
December 5, 2024 at 3:09 PM
7yo, as we drive past a store called SOUP GIRL: watch out Mama. They're gonna boil you.
"I don't like it any more than you do." - my husband after I weepingly explained the Free Willy whale's irl fate to him
December 3, 2024 at 7:43 PM
"I don't like it any more than you do." - my husband after I weepingly explained the Free Willy whale's irl fate to him
My new book has a cover and some wonderful blurbs. Seduction Theory comes out August 12 and you can preorder her now!
December 3, 2024 at 5:13 PM
My new book has a cover and some wonderful blurbs. Seduction Theory comes out August 12 and you can preorder her now!
Men love to solemnly admit they can't drive stick
December 1, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Men love to solemnly admit they can't drive stick
biggest lie I ever told my husband was neglecting to mention that the rescue from which we adopted our Great Pyr speculated he might be mixed with Newfoundland
December 1, 2024 at 10:13 PM
biggest lie I ever told my husband was neglecting to mention that the rescue from which we adopted our Great Pyr speculated he might be mixed with Newfoundland
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Need to pad out your 2024 books read pile? Here are four great (and very short) translated novels I enjoyed this year
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Four Translated Novels I Enjoyed This Year
Recommending some lovely and strange translated novels published in the last couple years.
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December 1, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Need to pad out your 2024 books read pile? Here are four great (and very short) translated novels I enjoyed this year
countercraft.substack.com/p/four-trans...
countercraft.substack.com/p/four-trans...