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Ashton Politanoff
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Dad Had a Bad Day @astrahousebooks 5.19.26 / You’ll Like it Here @dalkey_archive / rep: Chris Fischbach
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Dad Had a Bad Day arrives 5/19/26 right before Roland Garros!

Here is the cover and a link for more info:

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Galleys of my book DAD HAD A BAD DAY have arrived! 🎾

Dad is having a good day.

Official US publication date is 5/19/26

astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dad-...
November 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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“When Teresa first arrived, about a year back, she’d tried to smuggle in cocaine stuffed inside a ball of knitting yarn.” Read from @delaneynolan.bsky.social’s new novel, Happy Bad.
Happy Bad
When Teresa first arrived, about a year back, she’d tried to smuggle in cocaine stuffed inside a ball of knitting yarn. No success! Kicks, shrieks. Sobriety. Headaches. Ravenous hunger, aversion to…
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October 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Dad Had a Bad Day arrives 5/19/26 right before Roland Garros!

Here is the cover and a link for more info:

astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dad-...
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Il s'appelle donc ROCK$TAR, est sensiblement plus court que son prédécesseur, a nécessité quatre ans de travail, et s'accompagnera d'une bande-son originale à sa sortie le 2 septembre prochain, chez Quidam Editeur. Mais on se reparle d'ici là.
June 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thrilled to share that my novel DAD HAD A BAD DAY will be published by Astra House! I’m excited to work with Emily Bell & the team at Astra House. Thank you to my wonderful agent Chris Fischbach @fishmpls.bsky.social
for making this happen!
March 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Conference funding request approved: I’ll be at AWP this year
February 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Attention AWP attendees! 🗣️ This offsite reading is coming in HOT!

See you on March 27th. I can't WAIT to hear these readers.

@henryhoke.bsky.social / @josehernandezdz.bsky.social / @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social / @ctsalazar.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Stop. Be present. Focus on the little things.

Let Nathan Dragon show you how 🙏

From our winter issue: Read IF YOU'RE WATCHING southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
If You’re Watching
By Nathan Dragon
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February 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
February 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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January 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I've given you a few days to get over the glut of end-of-year lists, so now you can take a look at my books of the year 2024.

tinycamels.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/b...
Books of the Year 2024
My novel of the year (published in hardback in 2023, in paperback in 2024) was The Wren, The Wren, by Anne Enright. I read it on holiday, and it is just hit all my personal novel-reading buttons as…
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January 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better.

Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.

neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
January 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I've been obsessed with this manuscript for years & I can't wait to have it out in the world

Help spread the word if you can & follow @pizamapress.bsky.social for more updates.

Pub. date is May 27 & you can pre-order it NOW (I mean, just look at that cover!)

neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
January 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY

poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi

out on May 27, 2025

pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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In today's newsletter, I write about three big books: Robert A. Caro's THE POWER BROKER, Leslie Marmon Silko's ALMANAC OF THE DEAD, and Marguerite Young's MISS MACINTOSH, MY DARLING. Nothing but the hits!

Read it here & subscribe if you like:
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December 13, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Thank you to the editors at Post Road for the Pushcart Nomination!
November 26, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Listen to the guru. Trust the guru. 🧘

Read SOMETHING ELSE by Ashton Politanoff from our latest issue. southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
Something Else | Ashton Politanoff
From the Magazine
southwestreview.com
June 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Karen Yamashita is moving to Graywolf Press!
January 29, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Thank you @shimmer.bsky.social and @necessaryfiction.bsky.social for the kind words about my book!
December 22, 2023 at 5:25 PM
Good mail day @babakl.bsky.social
December 6, 2023 at 6:53 PM
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You can pre-order Spent Light @CBeditions ahead of publication on 23 January 2024! www.cbeditions.com/Pawson2.html
December 2, 2023 at 11:18 AM
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New newsletter is out! In it, I recommend books about nuns, names, and the predations of Ancestry dot com: Antonia White's FROST IN MAY, Ben Robinson's THE BOOK OF BENJAMIN, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's FRA KEELER.

You can read it here:
bit.ly/3RkhDve
November 29, 2023 at 4:14 PM
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Hey all, I'm teaching an online publishing class in January. Sign up for yourself or pass it on to anyone who might be interested!

larksongwritersplace.org/Classes/Onli...
November 3, 2023 at 4:15 PM
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In this month's newsletter, I recommended Martha Baillie's THERE IS NO BLUE, Jordan Abel's NISHGA, and Hanne Ørstavik's LOVE (trans. Martin Aitken), with a fourth recommendation of Elspeth Barker's O CALEDONIA sneaking in there. You can read it here: bit.ly/46MixG7
October 26, 2023 at 3:02 PM
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Kathryn Scanlan and I reading stories and discussing writing with Emma Flynn, January 2021 for Fallow Media, with music by Mémi. fallowmedia.com/errans/
October 24, 2023 at 11:18 PM