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Aragi, Inc. is a New York City-based literary agency founded by Nicole Aragi. // Instagram @aragiauthors
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Margaret Killjoy's debut novel, THE SAPLING CAGE, has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! 🤩

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Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction
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June 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Thrilled to see Maria Zoccola's HELEN OF TROY, 1993 on Debutiful's list of the best debuts of 2025 so far! 🤩

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The Best Debut Books of 2025 (So Far)
We’re halfway through the year, and it’s time to check in on the books that left the most significant impact on me. Every year, I keep a running list that leads to the Best Of lists. Some are title…
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June 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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"These poems expand, complicate and enrich. . . . threading the Iliad into something wholly new."

Maria Zoccola's HELEN OF TROY, 1993 is one of NPR's favorite reads of 2025 so far!

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Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems
Poems
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June 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The film adaptation of Denis Johnson's novella TRAIN DREAMS will debut on Netflix on November 21st, following a run in select theaters!

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Netflix Sets Prime Oscar Season Release Date For Sundance Acquisition ‘Train Dreams’ With Joel Edgerton And Felicity Jones
Netflix announces key Oscar Season release date in theatres and streaming in November for Sundance Acquisition 'Train Dreams' with Joel Edgerton
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June 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS has been longlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards! 📕

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PBA 2025: Longlist announced in a landmark year for Palestinian voices - Palestine Book Awards
Middle East Monitor is proud to host the annual award ceremony to celebrate the best books written in English on the subject of Palestine.
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June 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Out in 15 days! 🦎 Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/watc...
June 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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"I was swept up within the first few pages of this tender and richly told novel of marriage and family, connection and community. . . . A monumental achievement." —Lauren Brown, @thebookseller.com

Patrick Ryan's BUCKEYE is out 9/2!📘

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June 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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"Sayaka Murata is an all-time undefeated champ at exploring taboo, and her latest novel does not disappoint." —Alexis Ong, Reactor Magazine

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Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World Might Give You Nightmares - Reactor
Vanishing world is set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.
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June 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Thrilled to see Tommy Orange and Danzy Senna on the longlist for the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award! 🤩🤩

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June 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Ocean Vuong's THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS and Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS are on TIME Magazine's list of the 14 best books of 2025 so far! 📙📕

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The 14 Best Books of 2025 So Far
From Amy Griffin's The Tell to Katie Kitamura's Audition, these are the best books of the year so far
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June 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The novel everyone will be talking about this fall! 🤩 We're so excited for Patrick Ryan's BUCKEYE, available September 2nd. Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/buck...
June 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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"The collection is, ultimately, a story familiar to nearly everyone: an unhappy woman, a marriage in trouble, an affair, a community full of gossip. Pantheon of gods not included" — @mariazoccola.bsky.social on HELEN OF TROY, 1993

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Ancient Myth Meets Modern Poetry in “Helen of Troy, 1993”
An interview with poet Maria Zoccola about her debut collection.
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May 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Listen to Maria Zoccola on the Sewanee Review podcast talking about her debut poetry collection HELEN OF TROY, 1993 and more: thesewaneereview.com/media/podcas... @mariazoccola.bsky.social

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Maria Zoccola
In which Maria Zoccola sweetens the pill.
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May 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Read Margaret Killjoy's short story in this anthology edited by Lee Mandelo, out this week with Erewhon Books!

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Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
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May 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Congrats to our beloved client Francesca Marciano on her 2025 David di Donatello award for Best Adapted Screenplay for THE ART OF JOY 🤩
May 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"As Murata writes, 'Normality is the creepiest madness there is.' What feels at first like a fascinating thought experiment — a sexless world — slowly seeps into your skin, itchy and confounding." — @washingtonpost.com

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These books prove worldbuilding is vital to sci-fi and fantasy
New books by Nova Ren Suma, Neon Yang, Emily Tesh and Sayaka Murata revel in the ways that speculative fiction rewrites reality.
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May 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Congrats to our beloved author Danzy Senna, winner of the 90th Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction! 🤩📺

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2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Announced, Celebrating 90 Years of Literary Excellence
CLEVELAND — Four groundbreaking works have been named winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the nation’s only endowed juried prize dedicated to literature that deepens our understanding of r...
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May 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"Cruelty and indifference packaged in the language of care are what he cannot stand."

A review of Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS in @dissentmag.bsky.social

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Moral Limits - Dissent Magazine
Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.
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May 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The @nytimes.com calls Elizabeth Kaufman's thriller RUTH RUN "funny and suspenseful"!

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3 Nerve-Shredding New Thrillers
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May 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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"A delightful reminder of the deep bonds between grandparents and grandchildren."

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Edwidge Danticat's children's book WATCH OUT FOR FALLING IGUANAS, illustrated by Rachel Moss, is out on July 1st! 🦎🦎

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Watch Out For Falling Iguanas by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Rachel Moss
Watch Out For Falling Iguanas by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Rachel Moss. Akashic Books, 2025. 9781636142326 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3.5 Format: Hardcover picture b…
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May 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Edwidge Danticat's WE'RE ALONE is a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Awards!

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Firecracker Awards - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
Celebrating the Best of Independently Published Literature The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given annually to celebrate the books and magazines that make a signif...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Claire Vaye Watkins speaking with Karen Russell about her novel GOLD FAME CITRUS for Alta Journal's California Book Club 📙

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May 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Min Jin Lee giving her speech as the 2025 distinguished alumn at the One Story Mag literary debutante ball! 💫

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May 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Margaret Killjoy's novel THE SAPLING CAGE was longlisted for the 2024 Otherwise Award!

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The Sapling Cage
Check out The Sapling Cage - <p><strong>In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-inventio...
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May 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"The book that I recommend over and over again..."

Rebecca Makkai's THE GREAT BELIEVERS recommended by Glennon Doyle in ELLE Magazine: www.elle.com/culture/book...

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Glennon Doyle on the Book That Made Her ‘a Better Writer’
The We Can Do Hard Things author and podcaster takes ELLE’s literary survey.
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May 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM