Emma Copley Eisenberg
@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
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Newsletter (paid): Summer book recommendations that are real books! Feat. @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social @catherinelacey.bsky.social @miamckenzie.bsky.social + more buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
Summer Reading Recommendations That Are Real Books
In case you missed literary drama among the many other far graver, existential dramas and traumas of yesterday the TLDR is that The Chicago Sun Times and at...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Newsletter (paid): Summer book recommendations that are real books! Feat. @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social @catherinelacey.bsky.social @miamckenzie.bsky.social + more buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
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This was so fun! I talked about Tone-Bone by @bleakhousing.bsky.social Darryl by @jackieess.bsky.social and Housemates by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
Your boi is gonna be back on @thegailyshow.org tomorrow with heartthrob @rpmirabella.bsky.social. Listen live at 3:30p ET or the following day on Spotify!
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This was so fun! I talked about Tone-Bone by @bleakhousing.bsky.social Darryl by @jackieess.bsky.social and Housemates by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
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TODAY! I will be finishing my coffee, packing a bag, and heading to Philadelphia for a reading with the glorious and wise @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social at Wooden Shoe Books! 7 PM, Philadelphia friends please come through; I am excited to see you!
April 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
TODAY! I will be finishing my coffee, packing a bag, and heading to Philadelphia for a reading with the glorious and wise @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social at Wooden Shoe Books! 7 PM, Philadelphia friends please come through; I am excited to see you!
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Important questions and research from @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social about the future of the Free Library, and literary community, in Philly.
Why are none of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Author Events free anymore? | Opinion
Though the costs may seem cheap, the fees and other changes create an unnecessary barrier to entry for one of the library’s most popular and widely accessible programs.
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April 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Important questions and research from @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social about the future of the Free Library, and literary community, in Philly.
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TODAY: in which I travel north on the A/S/L tour to Brattleboro VT and Brooks Memorial Library, where I will be talking to Imogen Binnie <3 and also visiting the excellent Everyone's Books! And maybe going for a nice run! We will see! Anything can happen; I will be listening to B. S.'s "Tracks"
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
TODAY: in which I travel north on the A/S/L tour to Brattleboro VT and Brooks Memorial Library, where I will be talking to Imogen Binnie <3 and also visiting the excellent Everyone's Books! And maybe going for a nice run! We will see! Anything can happen; I will be listening to B. S.'s "Tracks"
Adrien Brody’s face is v handsome but his speech was SO BORING and milque toast and self indulgent imho
March 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Adrien Brody’s face is v handsome but his speech was SO BORING and milque toast and self indulgent imho
on the house hunt in south philly, looking at the houses we don’t want that are going under contract like, good for you little ugly house, every house deserves love
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
on the house hunt in south philly, looking at the houses we don’t want that are going under contract like, good for you little ugly house, every house deserves love
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Here's our newest book review! It's of Emma Copley Eisenberg's novel HOUSEMATES. This was written by our student intern Van Dang. Read it here:
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Also, give Emma a follow @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social!
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Also, give Emma a follow @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social!
If The City Could Talk: A Tribute to Queer Love, Art, and Philadelphia - Write Now Philly
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Housemates is a charming and extrospective dissection of what it means to connect with others—through love, through art, through walls. The novel follows Bernie and Leah, a pai...
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February 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Here's our newest book review! It's of Emma Copley Eisenberg's novel HOUSEMATES. This was written by our student intern Van Dang. Read it here:
writenowphilly.com/if-the-city-...
Also, give Emma a follow @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social!
writenowphilly.com/if-the-city-...
Also, give Emma a follow @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social!
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@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social talks to @paullisicky.bsky.social about Joni Mitchell and the relationship between songwriting and nonfiction.
Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction
What a life-giving joy is a new book from Paul Lisicky! People say that flippantly all the time but in this case it’s really true: life-giving because Lisicky’s work is an aliveness factory, pumpin…
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February 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social talks to @paullisicky.bsky.social about Joni Mitchell and the relationship between songwriting and nonfiction.
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Starting my week with a conversation between two of my favorite writers, @paullisicky.bsky.social and @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social.
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Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction
What a life-giving joy is a new book from Paul Lisicky! People say that flippantly all the time but in this case it’s really true: life-giving because Lisicky’s work is an aliveness factory, pumpin…
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February 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Starting my week with a conversation between two of my favorite writers, @paullisicky.bsky.social and @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social.
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alas I have quit writing sad fictions to become a nail tech
February 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
alas I have quit writing sad fictions to become a nail tech
I cannot overstate how revelatory I found Liz Moore being willing to talk about her regrets over the way she wrote the fat character in her second novel. To see a writer at this level acknowledge harm caused. Plus her thoughts on plot changed everything for me
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Liz Moore has not lost the plot
The master of literary mysteries talks constructing a story and how she would write the fat character in her second novel differently now.
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February 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I cannot overstate how revelatory I found Liz Moore being willing to talk about her regrets over the way she wrote the fat character in her second novel. To see a writer at this level acknowledge harm caused. Plus her thoughts on plot changed everything for me
open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...?
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The ultimate white woman struggle is “I hate bangs!” And then two months later “I miss my bangs!”
February 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The ultimate white woman struggle is “I hate bangs!” And then two months later “I miss my bangs!”
Everyone in Philly signing every email “go birds” is giving me life. “Here is your contract, go birds!”
February 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Everyone in Philly signing every email “go birds” is giving me life. “Here is your contract, go birds!”
Question for the parental pals: is there a best/better time of year as a mom/parent to leave your kid for a week for a writing retreat? Or times to avoid? I’m guessing not summer…
February 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Question for the parental pals: is there a best/better time of year as a mom/parent to leave your kid for a week for a writing retreat? Or times to avoid? I’m guessing not summer…
I am the only person on the planet I guess who thinks Severance the TV show is…not good? I just don’t understand it’s appeal! Feels so cold and lifeless to me with poorly developed characters
January 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I am the only person on the planet I guess who thinks Severance the TV show is…not good? I just don’t understand it’s appeal! Feels so cold and lifeless to me with poorly developed characters
Why hello it’s ebook season for rotting on the couch and Housemates is only $1.99 today on all e book platforms. Personally I’m a kobo girlie but you do you
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Housemates ebook by Emma Copley Eisenberg - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Housemates A Novel" by Emma Copley Eisenberg available from Rakuten Kobo. **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly o...
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January 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Why hello it’s ebook season for rotting on the couch and Housemates is only $1.99 today on all e book platforms. Personally I’m a kobo girlie but you do you
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If I never again hear the phrase “lays bare” it will be too soon
January 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
If I never again hear the phrase “lays bare” it will be too soon
I wrote about a certain kind of Jewish white woman not okayness. It’s me, we’re not ok
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The Jewish American Princess 👑 is not ok
I read "The Official J.A.P. Handbook" so you don't have to
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January 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about a certain kind of Jewish white woman not okayness. It’s me, we’re not ok
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Finally in my Tori Amos era
January 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Finally in my Tori Amos era
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I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives.
Eee!
Eee!
January 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives.
Eee!
Eee!
Who has written the great American novel about teeth/the dentist or will I have to do everything myself
January 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Who has written the great American novel about teeth/the dentist or will I have to do everything myself
this winter, may I be like Frederick
January 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
this winter, may I be like Frederick
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Here are my favorite reads of 2024. I would also include the Kafka I read this year, but I'll probably make a post just about that sickly little complainer soon. I read so many knockouts this year. It was such a comfort. I love books. Thank you to all these fabulous writers.
December 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Here are my favorite reads of 2024. I would also include the Kafka I read this year, but I'll probably make a post just about that sickly little complainer soon. I read so many knockouts this year. It was such a comfort. I love books. Thank you to all these fabulous writers.