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Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.
🆕 on Lab Games: An essay by Marlin M. Jenkins on playing video games during the summer of 2020, and the hope in the voice of video game actor Billy Kametz. Read it here:
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December 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: An essay by Marlin M. Jenkins on playing video games during the summer of 2020, and the hope in the voice of video game actor Billy Kametz. Read it here:
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We spy @maxdelsohn.bsky.social's CRAWL!
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We spy @maxdelsohn.bsky.social's CRAWL!
Editor Anni Liu's backlist recommendation is Christopher Gilbert's TURNING INTO DWELLING, which brings together his award-winning ACROSS THE MUTUAL LANDSCAPE and a never-before-published last manuscript written before his death in 2007.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Editor Anni Liu's backlist recommendation is Christopher Gilbert's TURNING INTO DWELLING, which brings together his award-winning ACROSS THE MUTUAL LANDSCAPE and a never-before-published last manuscript written before his death in 2007.
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www.graywolfpress.org/books/turnin...
We spy I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARD DARKNESS 🎉🎉
"Fans of A24 folk horror will devour this slim, gorgeous, and prickly novel set in the isolated mountains of northeastern Spain."
"Fans of A24 folk horror will devour this slim, gorgeous, and prickly novel set in the isolated mountains of northeastern Spain."
For Esquire, I updated my list of 2025's best books to include 8 more titles.
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The 35 Best Books of 2025
Whether you’re looking for a compelling nonfiction mystery, a charming fantasy escape, or a suspenseful science fiction thriller, this year's literary slate has something for everyone.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We spy I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARD DARKNESS 🎉🎉
"Fans of A24 folk horror will devour this slim, gorgeous, and prickly novel set in the isolated mountains of northeastern Spain."
"Fans of A24 folk horror will devour this slim, gorgeous, and prickly novel set in the isolated mountains of northeastern Spain."
Keeping literature alive is a revolutionary act. In a moment of increasing pressure towards uniformity, a donation of any size supports the publishing of new, innovative, and often overlooked voices. Support Graywolf today:
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December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Keeping literature alive is a revolutionary act. In a moment of increasing pressure towards uniformity, a donation of any size supports the publishing of new, innovative, and often overlooked voices. Support Graywolf today:
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The @graywolfpress.bsky.social spring catalog: real good. www.graywolfpress.org/spring-2026-...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The @graywolfpress.bsky.social spring catalog: real good. www.graywolfpress.org/spring-2026-...
🆕 on Lab Games: three interactive visual poems by
@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social. Explore here:
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@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social. Explore here:
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December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: three interactive visual poems by
@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social. Explore here:
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@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social. Explore here:
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Join us in congratulating Raksha Vasudevan! We can't wait to publish EMPIRES BETWEEN US 🎉🎉
Congratulations to Raksha Vasudevan, recipient of a 2025 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress for EMPIRES BETWEEN US! Read more about her work here: www.whiting.org/content/raks...
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Join us in congratulating Raksha Vasudevan! We can't wait to publish EMPIRES BETWEEN US 🎉🎉
🆕 on Lab Games: @bijan.bsky.social's interactive piece "The Art of Choosing," a kind of choose-your-own-adventure journey through narrative. Explore here:
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December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: @bijan.bsky.social's interactive piece "The Art of Choosing," a kind of choose-your-own-adventure journey through narrative. Explore here:
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Sometimes you read a short piece and it just hits like a punch in the gut. Wow. "You Start with Three Languages" by Rae Delane (via the @graywolfpress.bsky.social Lab site)
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You Start with Three Languages
Rae Delane SetupWelcome, Player One.Your starter pack includes three languages, five vowels, and the assumption that you will not need all of them. You are brown-skinned, quick-tongued, and too lou…
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December 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Sometimes you read a short piece and it just hits like a punch in the gut. Wow. "You Start with Three Languages" by Rae Delane (via the @graywolfpress.bsky.social Lab site)
graywolflab.org/2025/11/21/y... #literature #writing #booksky 💙📚
graywolflab.org/2025/11/21/y... #literature #writing #booksky 💙📚
#SneakPeek 👀 Serena Chopra's memoir-in-poems A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES is out 6/23/26. Available for preorder now:
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December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
#SneakPeek 👀 Serena Chopra's memoir-in-poems A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES is out 6/23/26. Available for preorder now:
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The gift that keeps on giving! Subscribe a loved one to the Graywolf Galley Club and they'll receive six books (before they're out to the public!) throughout the year, exclusive author content, and more 🎁📚️
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December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The gift that keeps on giving! Subscribe a loved one to the Graywolf Galley Club and they'll receive six books (before they're out to the public!) throughout the year, exclusive author content, and more 🎁📚️
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Then I'm reading poetry w @catfitzpatrick.net & @monsteryoun.bsky.social at KGB Bar on Mon. Dec. 8: www.fabnyc.org/kgb-bar-and-... Please consider attending! NB @graywolfpress.bsky.social
KGB Bar and Red Room – FABnyc
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December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Then I'm reading poetry w @catfitzpatrick.net & @monsteryoun.bsky.social at KGB Bar on Mon. Dec. 8: www.fabnyc.org/kgb-bar-and-... Please consider attending! NB @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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Brandon Kilbourne, Natural History: poems / @graywolfpress.bsky.social ;
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Brandon Kilbourne, Natural History: poems
On the trail of oblivion’s beasts, their lives now nothing more than tales sealed down in deposits of bones sown epochs ago, we have trave...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Brandon Kilbourne, Natural History: poems / @graywolfpress.bsky.social ;
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It's #GivingTuesday! As a nonprofit, Graywolf relies on the radical generosity of readers like you to bring daring, transformative books to life. The first 75 donors who give $75 or more by Dec. 3 at 11:59pm CT will receive a limited-edition tote bag!
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December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It's #GivingTuesday! As a nonprofit, Graywolf relies on the radical generosity of readers like you to bring daring, transformative books to life. The first 75 donors who give $75 or more by Dec. 3 at 11:59pm CT will receive a limited-edition tote bag!
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Happy pub. day to Maggie Nelson's THE SLICKS, a keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath.
Get your copy!
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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Happy pub. day to Maggie Nelson's THE SLICKS, a keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath.
Get your copy!
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Get your copy!
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🆕 on Lab Games: Rae Delane's essay "You Start with Three Languages," which explores multilingual and multicultural identity and the invisible games we learn to play.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: Rae Delane's essay "You Start with Three Languages," which explores multilingual and multicultural identity and the invisible games we learn to play.
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Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Bojan Louis’s SINKING BELL “depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism.”
Read a short fiction collection from @graywolfpress.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth:
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Read a short fiction collection from @graywolfpress.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth:
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Sinking Bell | Graywolf Press
An ex-con hired to fix up a school bus for a couple living off the grid in the desert finds himself in the middle of their tattered relationship. An electrician’s plan to take his young nephew on a…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Bojan Louis’s SINKING BELL “depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism.”
Read a short fiction collection from @graywolfpress.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth:
www.graywolfpress.org/books/sinkin...
Read a short fiction collection from @graywolfpress.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth:
www.graywolfpress.org/books/sinkin...
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“Looking for the treasure, my friend. I lost something in this country, and I can’t figure out where, what city.”
An excerpt from FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/false-war/
An excerpt from FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/false-war/
False War - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Miami Beach
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November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Looking for the treasure, my friend. I lost something in this country, and I can’t figure out where, what city.”
An excerpt from FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/false-war/
An excerpt from FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/false-war/
It's Give to the Max Day! Keep literature alive by making a gift to Graywolf today. The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag. #GTMD25
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November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's Give to the Max Day! Keep literature alive by making a gift to Graywolf today. The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag. #GTMD25
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I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!
‘The High Heaven’ Is A Beautifully Grounded Debut Novel | Defector
We first meet Izzy Gently, the protagonist of Joshua Wheeler’s captivating debut novel, The High Heaven, as a child. She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen t...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!
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Carmen Maria Machado is one of the brilliant authors participating in this year’s Postcard Auction! Bid now for a personalized postcard from the author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) at the link below!
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November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Carmen Maria Machado is one of the brilliant authors participating in this year’s Postcard Auction! Bid now for a personalized postcard from the author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) at the link below!
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Maybe the densest novel under 200 pages I've ever read. I was lost, found, then lost again. This book contains some of the most stunning lines. A frenzy of magical grotesque beauty. Two dozen folktales packed in a cabin in the woods. I'm already craving more.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Maybe the densest novel under 200 pages I've ever read. I was lost, found, then lost again. This book contains some of the most stunning lines. A frenzy of magical grotesque beauty. Two dozen folktales packed in a cabin in the woods. I'm already craving more.
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
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If anyone else is doing mermaids for the holidays this year I do have a relevant book @graywolfpress.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If anyone else is doing mermaids for the holidays this year I do have a relevant book @graywolfpress.bsky.social
3️⃣ days until #GTMD25! The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag 🐺📚 Support Graywolf with a gift:
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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
3️⃣ days until #GTMD25! The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag 🐺📚 Support Graywolf with a gift:
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