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New York City-based literary agency, representing books that matter since 1977.
HUGE congratulations to Jeremy Atherton Lin on his book DEEP HOUSE being a @publisherswkly.bsky.social top 10 book of 2025!
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Best Books 2025: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly
Best Books 2025, Staff Picks, Top 10 Best Books, Katie Kitamura, Stephen Graham Jones, John Cassidy, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Solvej Balle, Vauhini Vara, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Jeff Chang, Jordan Thomas, H...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
HUGE congratulations to Jeremy Atherton Lin on his book DEEP HOUSE being a @publisherswkly.bsky.social top 10 book of 2025!
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In a @teenvogue.com excerpt from POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT from @princetonupress.bsky.social, Josh Clark Davis reveals how police departments illegally spied on civil rights activists—and then burned the records. www.teenvogue.com/story/police...
Police Departments Surveilled Activists in the 1960s and 70s — and Erased The Records
"Just as police tracked civil rights, Black Power, feminist, and anti-war protesters in the 1960s and ‘70s, today they snoop on organizers taking a stand against ICE, Israel’s war on Palestine, and At...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In a @teenvogue.com excerpt from POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT from @princetonupress.bsky.social, Josh Clark Davis reveals how police departments illegally spied on civil rights activists—and then burned the records. www.teenvogue.com/story/police...
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The visionary novelist behind YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES is back with his most expansive, impassioned novel yet‼️
NOW I SURRENDER by Álvaro Enrigue (translated to English by Natasha Wimmer) is part epic, part alt-Western, and 100% can't-be-missed. Learn more and pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/47kMhgv
NOW I SURRENDER by Álvaro Enrigue (translated to English by Natasha Wimmer) is part epic, part alt-Western, and 100% can't-be-missed. Learn more and pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/47kMhgv
August 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The visionary novelist behind YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES is back with his most expansive, impassioned novel yet‼️
NOW I SURRENDER by Álvaro Enrigue (translated to English by Natasha Wimmer) is part epic, part alt-Western, and 100% can't-be-missed. Learn more and pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/47kMhgv
NOW I SURRENDER by Álvaro Enrigue (translated to English by Natasha Wimmer) is part epic, part alt-Western, and 100% can't-be-missed. Learn more and pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/47kMhgv
Happy publication day to IOSI: THE REMORSEFUL SPY by Miriam Lewin, out from Seven Stories Press!
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Iosi, the Remorseful Spy
A gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires.
An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the milita...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Happy publication day to IOSI: THE REMORSEFUL SPY by Miriam Lewin, out from Seven Stories Press!
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WORK NIGHTS is longlisted for the Center for Fiction Prize! Congratulations Erica!
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Announcing The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize Longlist | The Center for Fiction
We are pleased to announce the longlist for The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize. This year, we received 185 submitted titles with U.S. publication dates between January 1 and December 31, 20...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
WORK NIGHTS is longlisted for the Center for Fiction Prize! Congratulations Erica!
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Great to see Kate Broad’s debut novel GREENWICH featured by @peoplemag.bsky.social as a best book of July!
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PEOPLE’s Best Books of July 2025: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Bombshell Biography, A Tina Turner Photo Book and More
See PEOPLE's picks for the best new books of July 2025, including new novels, celebrity memoirs and more.
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July 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Great to see Kate Broad’s debut novel GREENWICH featured by @peoplemag.bsky.social as a best book of July!
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Happy publication day to MOTHER OF METHADONE by @melodyglenn.bsky.social, now out from @beaconpress.bsky.social !
July 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy publication day to MOTHER OF METHADONE by @melodyglenn.bsky.social, now out from @beaconpress.bsky.social !
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Honored for "Mother of Methadone" to be included in @debutiful.bsky.social's list of books to read in July! @beaconpress.bsky.social @penparentis.bsky.social @goldinagency.bsky.social debutiful.net/2025/07/11/2...
28 debut books to discover in July 2025
Here are the debut books that caught Debutiful’s eye this month. We think readers will find plenty to love among them. To see our curated list of standout titles, check out our “12 Noteworthy Debut…
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July 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Honored for "Mother of Methadone" to be included in @debutiful.bsky.social's list of books to read in July! @beaconpress.bsky.social @penparentis.bsky.social @goldinagency.bsky.social debutiful.net/2025/07/11/2...
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The wise @rainalips.bsky.social on #Mamdani's win: “You don’t get anywhere responding to the racist, fascist, aggression of ppl like Donald Trump w a defensive crouch. You can only win by standing up for yourself, by being brave & uniting w other ppl.” ⬇️ @versobooks.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE: Writer @Raina Lipsitz joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to discuss Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.
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Raina Lipsitz on Mamdani, DSA, and the Rise of a New Left
Writer Raina Lipsitz joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Lipsitz explains how Mamdani,…
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July 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The wise @rainalips.bsky.social on #Mamdani's win: “You don’t get anywhere responding to the racist, fascist, aggression of ppl like Donald Trump w a defensive crouch. You can only win by standing up for yourself, by being brave & uniting w other ppl.” ⬇️ @versobooks.bsky.social
A red-hot happy publication day to Kelly Ramsey and her memoir WILDFIRE DAYS: A WOMAN, A HOTSHOT CREW, AND THE BURNING AMERICAN WEST, which publishes today with @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
Read an excerpt at @newsweek.com !
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Read an excerpt at @newsweek.com !
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Inside the life of a woman hotshot battling blazes in the American West
A female hotshot firefighter's inside look at battling the ever-hotter and more frequent wildfires in America's West
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June 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A red-hot happy publication day to Kelly Ramsey and her memoir WILDFIRE DAYS: A WOMAN, A HOTSHOT CREW, AND THE BURNING AMERICAN WEST, which publishes today with @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
Read an excerpt at @newsweek.com !
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Read an excerpt at @newsweek.com !
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In the @latimes.com, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, author of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, writes incisively on MONSTRIFYING undocumented migrants, an age-old strategy used through history to dehumanize & normalize campaigns to strip individuals of human rights. @ucpress.bsky.social
Contributor: Why 'monstrify'? Look at who benefits when few are considered fully human
The category of 'human' is shrinking as politicians, tech bros and right-wing pundits divide the world into two groups: You're a cis-het white man, or you're a monster.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In the @latimes.com, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, author of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, writes incisively on MONSTRIFYING undocumented migrants, an age-old strategy used through history to dehumanize & normalize campaigns to strip individuals of human rights. @ucpress.bsky.social
Thank you to @latimes.com for this q & a with Kelly Ramsey, author of WILDFIRE DAYS: A WOMAN, A HOTSHOT CREW, AND THE BURNING OF THE AMERICAN WEST in advance of its publication on 6/17 !
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She became a ‘hotshot’ wilderness firefighter to write about being on the front lines
Author Kelly Ramsey details how her new book, 'Wildfire Days,' chronicles her time fighting some of California's most dangerous wildfires. We also check in with Diesel, A Bookstore.
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June 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Thank you to @latimes.com for this q & a with Kelly Ramsey, author of WILDFIRE DAYS: A WOMAN, A HOTSHOT CREW, AND THE BURNING OF THE AMERICAN WEST in advance of its publication on 6/17 !
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Maggie Nelson on @michelletea.bsky.social’s raucous, remarkable classic VALENCIA — “a missive sent straight from the mayhem” — celebrating its 25th anniversary this June with beautiful new editions from Seal Press and Serpent’s Tail www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...
A Missive Sent Straight from the Mayhem: On Michelle Tea’s Valencia by Maggie Nelson
May 21, 2025 – "I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, being in love, and becoming a writer—and how that rush feels when these thing...
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May 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Maggie Nelson on @michelletea.bsky.social’s raucous, remarkable classic VALENCIA — “a missive sent straight from the mayhem” — celebrating its 25th anniversary this June with beautiful new editions from Seal Press and Serpent’s Tail www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...
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"Mother of Methadone advocates a range of ways that the medical and social justice worlds can work together... [and] presents a cogent argument against the continued criminalization of drug use." @newpages.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social @goldinagency.bsky.social @methadonelib.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Mother of Methadone advocates a range of ways that the medical and social justice worlds can work together... [and] presents a cogent argument against the continued criminalization of drug use." @newpages.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social @goldinagency.bsky.social @methadonelib.bsky.social
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We could not be more excited to welcome Lucy Cleland to @goldinagency.bsky.social--a truly brilliant agent and a lovely friend of the agency, now turned colleague! She had a fairly low key first day yesterday in the form of, uh, her client winning a Pulitzer, so we'll count it as an auspicious start
May 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We could not be more excited to welcome Lucy Cleland to @goldinagency.bsky.social--a truly brilliant agent and a lovely friend of the agency, now turned colleague! She had a fairly low key first day yesterday in the form of, uh, her client winning a Pulitzer, so we'll count it as an auspicious start
We’ve been sitting on this news for a minute and are so delighted to FINALLY share that the brilliant Lucy Cleland has joined The Frances Goldin Agency as VP and Senior Agent! We are enormously lucky to have her on the team 🎉
May 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We’ve been sitting on this news for a minute and are so delighted to FINALLY share that the brilliant Lucy Cleland has joined The Frances Goldin Agency as VP and Senior Agent! We are enormously lucky to have her on the team 🎉
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get to drop some more good @goldinagency.bsky.social news today I think 😎
May 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
get to drop some more good @goldinagency.bsky.social news today I think 😎
The collected works of Essex Hemphill were published by New Directions last week! Here is an excerpt of this incredible volume:
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John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life
Throughout Essex Hemphill’s poetry, what we registered was his attentiveness to craft as well as statement, to the possibilities of performance, of form, of the line, and to the expressive content,…
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March 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The collected works of Essex Hemphill were published by New Directions last week! Here is an excerpt of this incredible volume:
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A rare spot of good news in these times—read about the recovery center DEMON COPPERHEAD helped build
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Barbara Kingsolver Uses ‘Demon Copperhead’ Royalties to Build Rehab Center
Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.
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February 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A rare spot of good news in these times—read about the recovery center DEMON COPPERHEAD helped build
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So excited to see USPS’s official announcement of their new line of postage stamps inspired by the illustrations from GOODNIGHT MOON!
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‘Goodnight Moon’ and ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ stamps to be issued later this year - Newsroom - About.usps.com
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today announced two more stamps it will release in 2025. Additional stamps will be announced in the coming weeks and months. These designs are preliminary and may ...
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January 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So excited to see USPS’s official announcement of their new line of postage stamps inspired by the illustrations from GOODNIGHT MOON!
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to the extent it's possible to have TOO good of a time designing an agency holiday card, that's... absolutely what happened at @goldinagency.bsky.social this year
December 19, 2024 at 5:55 PM
to the extent it's possible to have TOO good of a time designing an agency holiday card, that's... absolutely what happened at @goldinagency.bsky.social this year
Wishing you all a magical holiday season, delightful readings (both tarot and otherwise), and more pentacles than swords!
December 19, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Wishing you all a magical holiday season, delightful readings (both tarot and otherwise), and more pentacles than swords!
Nice to see Sarah Viren’s “To Name the Bigger Lie” on this list of six books that genuinely surprise -- “that transform in such unexpected ways, that their readers should aim to approach them with no information about what’s to come.”
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Read These Six Books—Just Trust Us
Each title richly rewards readers who come in with little prior knowledge.
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December 13, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Nice to see Sarah Viren’s “To Name the Bigger Lie” on this list of six books that genuinely surprise -- “that transform in such unexpected ways, that their readers should aim to approach them with no information about what’s to come.”
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Can you match the Taylor Swift song to the poem from INVISIBLE STRINGS, the collection of Swift-inspired poetry edited by Kristie Daugherty? Find out in this fun
@nytimes.com quiz!
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@nytimes.com quiz!
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Match the Taylor Swift Song to the Poem Inspired By Her Music
Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift's music. Can you match the poem to the song?
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December 13, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Can you match the Taylor Swift song to the poem from INVISIBLE STRINGS, the collection of Swift-inspired poetry edited by Kristie Daugherty? Find out in this fun
@nytimes.com quiz!
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@nytimes.com quiz!
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RULES FOR GHOSTING by @shellyjayshore.bsky.social is one of @nytimes.com’s Best Romances of 2024!
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The Best Romance Books of 2024
Here are the novels our columnist loved most.
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December 5, 2024 at 10:16 PM
RULES FOR GHOSTING by @shellyjayshore.bsky.social is one of @nytimes.com’s Best Romances of 2024!
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