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Literary agent at CAA. Alias Molly. Social media minimalist.
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Maria Reva, @schreibersnaturarium.de, and @edyong209.bsky.social discuss the inspiration of snails, ecological grief, and why “nihilism is a luxury we truly cannot afford right now.”
How One Snail Inspired Two Novels on Two Different Continents
What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, to…
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September 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Andrew Martin’s new novel, DOWN TIME, unpacks age-old, universal desires. In his terribly funny book about five friends growing older, Martin tells People that he sought to capture the feeling of being “on the verge of ‘midlife’ in our current era." Preorder DOWN TIME for March 10. bit.ly/415Jhkm
August 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Beyond thrilled to see ENDLING by Maria Reva make the Booker longlist!
July 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Love seeing both "Clam Down" and "Endling" on this list!
June 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"In his smart, smooth debut, Baird delivers a tragicomedy that examines the nature of belief...and the limits of human perception."

@marisa-wright.com 's review of “The Nimbus” by Robert P. Baird (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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On Robert P. Baird’s “The Nimbus: A Tragicomedy Examining the Nature of Belief - Chicago Review of Books
If you let the pervasiveness of religion in Robert P. Baird’s debut novel, The Nimbus, scare you away, you’re sure to miss out. Sure, this novel is steeped in theology. It’s set at a Divinity School a...
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June 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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“She could plaster over her past memories with this new memory in which the territory belonged to her alone.” Anelise Chen looks at the memories that chase us during the holiday season.
The Loneliest Time of the Year: On the Memories That Chase You During the Holiday Season
The clam never celebrated holidays before she got married. Her parents had worked through all of them—Thanksgiving, Christmas, even Chinese New Year—so when she went to college, she did the same. S…
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June 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It's here!
She’s in her AUTHOR ERA!

It’s publication day for LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes!

As a forever book nerd, I had so much fun writing this-I hope you have fun reading it! Get it at your local bookstore today!! bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...
May 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Congratulations to Ana Raquel Minian! ✨🎉 IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY is the WINNER of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction!

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4iXuG0e
May 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Happy publication day to this brilliant novel!
April 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A rare treat: new fiction from Anelise Chen!
“And I wonder how you’ll explain to everyone why you’re spending your birthday weekend with her, not with me.”

In a new short story, Anelise Chen explores infatuation and mirage:
Bird Strike
A short story
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February 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Adam Ehrlich Sachs has officially earned his own adjective. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s Exhibitions of Absurdity
In Gretel and the Great War, an antic epistolary novel set in early 20th-century Austria, the writer tries to make sense of a society gone mad.
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January 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM