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Anyone want to know what I think when I think of it...
Trump to Reuters about the midterm elections: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Anyone want to know what I think when I think of it...
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Frances finishes it, I begin! Our next @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode.
January 5, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Frances finishes it, I begin! Our next @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode.
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Save the date for MEDIUM RARE’s launch @strandbooks.com in NYC on MARCH 4 alongside two of the best writers alive @somers.bsky.social & Elizabeth Winkler
After my debut events were all on Zoom in 2021, I could not be more excited for this 🏀🪽
@melvillehouse.bsky.social
After my debut events were all on Zoom in 2021, I could not be more excited for this 🏀🪽
@melvillehouse.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Save the date for MEDIUM RARE’s launch @strandbooks.com in NYC on MARCH 4 alongside two of the best writers alive @somers.bsky.social & Elizabeth Winkler
After my debut events were all on Zoom in 2021, I could not be more excited for this 🏀🪽
@melvillehouse.bsky.social
After my debut events were all on Zoom in 2021, I could not be more excited for this 🏀🪽
@melvillehouse.bsky.social
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Twelve wonderful books I read for #NYRBWomen25 this year.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Twelve wonderful books I read for #NYRBWomen25 this year.
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On Christmas Day, @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. Happy Christmas everyone! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...
Episode 122: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2025, Part II
On Christmas Day, we bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
On Christmas Day, @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. Happy Christmas everyone! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...
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Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
2025 in 99 books. — alina Ştefănescu
Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’ — Tristan Tzara, ...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
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“I wish to God you could pay more money.”
I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.
I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.
When F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish came true
The Pat Hobby stories about a washed-up writer in Hollywood were written to make money fast — they are also the final flowering of Fitzgerald’s eccentric genius
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December 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“I wish to God you could pay more money.”
I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.
I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.
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Our new episode is out! We talk about our most anticipated books of 2026 and there are some great ones on the way!
Out running errands? Hiding away from it all? Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2026 episode makes for good company no matter what you're up to this season.
We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
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We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
onebrightbook.com/2025/12/11/e...
Episode 41: In Conversation With Sam Sacks About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, …
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December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Our new episode is out! We talk about our most anticipated books of 2026 and there are some great ones on the way!
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Recording our annual "Books We are Excited for Next Year" episode tomorrow, with special guest @ssacks.bsky.social !
Whoever decided we could only choose 3 titles each... well, I want a word with that person....
Whoever decided we could only choose 3 titles each... well, I want a word with that person....
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Recording our annual "Books We are Excited for Next Year" episode tomorrow, with special guest @ssacks.bsky.social !
Whoever decided we could only choose 3 titles each... well, I want a word with that person....
Whoever decided we could only choose 3 titles each... well, I want a word with that person....
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I very much enjoyed my conversation with the brilliant @bradlisti.bsky.social
@josephoneill.bsky.social's novel GODWIN is available now in trade paperback from @vintagebooks.bsky.social.
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, GODWIN is an absorbing and richly imagined novel about a man named Mark Wolfe, a very bright technical writer... 1/
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, GODWIN is an absorbing and richly imagined novel about a man named Mark Wolfe, a very bright technical writer... 1/
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I very much enjoyed my conversation with the brilliant @bradlisti.bsky.social
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I'm finding it almost impossible to engage with social media these days. But a couple of recent releases have arrived over the past week or so courtesy of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I'm finding it almost impossible to engage with social media these days. But a couple of recent releases have arrived over the past week or so courtesy of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
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me waking up and opening this app
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
me waking up and opening this app
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Publication day (paperback @pantheonbooks.bsky.social):
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Publication day (paperback @pantheonbooks.bsky.social):
Sooo looking forward to reading this. Loved THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR!
Here is the beautiful cover for my new novel, MEDIUM RARE, dropping March 3, 2026 from @melvillehouse.bsky.social
You can preorder it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813956...
You can preorder it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813956...
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Sooo looking forward to reading this. Loved THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR!
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The Literary Arts Fund is an unprecedented effort to dramatically increase support for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field for the next five years toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers: literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Literary Arts Fund is an unprecedented effort to dramatically increase support for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field for the next five years toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers: literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...
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A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...
PANIC IN THE GIFTSHOP
On Michael Clune's 'Pan' and against the verb 'to gift'
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October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...
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After over a century, Oscar Wilde’s borrowing privileges have finally been restored.
How Oscar Wilde finally got his library card back.
This weekend, the British Library issued a century-late apology to Oscar Wilde in the form of a brand new library card. The Irish poet-novelist-playwright was the toast of 19th-century Anglo letter…
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October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
After over a century, Oscar Wilde’s borrowing privileges have finally been restored.
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Zoe Dubno, author of HAPPINESS AND LOVE, interviewed in VOGUE.
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Zoe Dubno on ‘Happiness and Love,’ Her Wickedly Funny Debut Novel Skewering New York’s Creative Class
The author talks to Vogue about the distinctive style (and playful humor) of her breakout novel—and why fashion played a surprisingly bring role in bringing the world she depicts to life.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Zoe Dubno, author of HAPPINESS AND LOVE, interviewed in VOGUE.
https://bit.ly/47VPYtn
https://bit.ly/47VPYtn
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard. Read it.
October 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard. Read it.
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I talked to @timrelf.bsky.social about my forthcoming novel, TIME BEING, for @saltpublishing.com's House Magazine. Out September 2026, folks. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...
Jude Cook discusses his new novel, Time Being
by Tim Relf With the countdown on to publication of Jude Cook’s ‘existential’ literary thriller, Time Being, House catches up with the acclaimed author to find out what makes him tick 1. Tell us a lit...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I talked to @timrelf.bsky.social about my forthcoming novel, TIME BEING, for @saltpublishing.com's House Magazine. Out September 2026, folks. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...
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An homor and pleasure to be in conversation with Brandon Taylor one of the contemporary novelists I most admire. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
An homor and pleasure to be in conversation with Brandon Taylor one of the contemporary novelists I most admire. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...