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EDINBURGH Literary Festival — MY LAST STAG DANCE BOOK EVENTS EVER (until, eventually, I write another book)

Sat 16 Aug 17:45 - 18:45 Courtyard Theatre

Thurs Aug 14, 20:00 -21:00 Edinburgh Futures
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1. You may have heard of book bans before, but the new one in Alabama takes the cake.

The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people.

The hearing is next month. Public comment is open.

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"Positive Depictions" Of Trans People Banned In Alabama State Libraries Proposal
The code change that has been proposed does not ban negative depictions of transgender people, however. Public comment is open until October 14.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Okay, get this: a supreme court lawyer, a pulitzer-prize winning critic, and some chick obsessed with lumberjacks walk into a bar...
September 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Hey, queer Baltimore: one of the free books in Pratt Library's summer giveaway this year is Torrey Peters' brand-new "Stag Dance". It's great. Not every branch has it but I saw it today at the Canton & Highlandtown branches and at Orleans St last week. Just show your library card to get a free copy.
August 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
A TWO DOLLAR STAG DANCE. 1.99 to be specific. On Bookshop.org which supports locals.

bookshop.org/p/books/stag...
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
A Novel & Stories
bookshop.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Impressed by this magazine—both the actual making of it and the writing it contains.
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Segunda edición de «Detransition, Baby» ya lista y cargada para dinamitar vuestro club de lectura o para que hagáis el mejor regalo del verano. ✨🔥🥰
July 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
EDINBURGH Literary Festival — MY LAST STAG DANCE BOOK EVENTS EVER (until, eventually, I write another book)

Sat 16 Aug 17:45 - 18:45 Courtyard Theatre

Thurs Aug 14, 20:00 -21:00 Edinburgh Futures
June 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Audible named Stag Dance as one of the BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF THE YEAR (so far), and while I feel mixed on these lists--I really want to highlight the four voice actors Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan, and Pyrrha Nicole, who brought PERFORMANCES to what could have been just a reading.
June 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I would like to send protesters in L.A. sandwiches and drinks and whatever support they need to stay out. Is there a way to do stuff like that?
June 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
waking early to read Grapes of Wrath--which, somehow, I always thought would be hokey--but the dustbowl descriptions are gorgeous and terrifying, the capitalist anger feels righteous, and when I look up from the page the sun comes up red behind smoke and dust from Canada.
June 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Weil mich "Detransition, Baby" von Torrey Peters sehr fasziniert hat schlage ich ihr neues Buch "Stag Dance" vor.
www.ullstein.de/werke/stag-d...
Stag Dance - Hardcover
Bestellen Sie Stag Dance als Hardcover jetzt günstig im ULLSTEIN Online-Shop! ✓ Sichere Zahlung ✓ Gratis-Versand ab 9,00 Euro ✓ Vorbestellen möglich
www.ullstein.de
June 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Lovely shoutout for @torreypeters.bsky.social letter today from @emilygouldnymag.bsky.social in @nymag.com’s Dinner Party newsletter. “Essential reading for all writers.” !!! #1000wordsofsummer
June 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I wrote a letter for Jami Attenberg's 1000 words of summer-- in which Jami invites guest authors (so far, Kristen Arnett and Karen Russell) to offer writing advice to people who commit to trying to write 1000 words a day for the summer to complete a book. Mine is on the pleasure of being insulted.
June 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I'm not quite done reading Torrey Peters's Stag Dance, but I love it so much. Just a fabulous collection. All of y'all who love short stories should get a copy if you don't already have one.
May 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Just finished STAG DANCE by @torreypeters.bsky.social — hot damn that was a funny, devastating, beautiful, entirely original work of art.
May 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Helllo. I am in Auckland. I have four events here! You can come to one, all, or none of these events, because, apparently, New Zealand is a free country. Weird concept, but okay, go off Kiwis.

www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
Torrey Peters • Auckland Writers Festival
www.writersfestival.co.nz
May 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Stag Dance charts the self’s slow, fluid continuum, unpicking the shame that haunts so many of us, across centuries.
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters review – deliciously filthy genderfuckery
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May 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So glad Bookforum still exists. I somehow missed this review—it focuses on a bunch of things that were important to me in ways that I hadn’t seen in other pieces.

www.bookforum.com/print/3104/l...
Lumberjack Flash
A story collection finds multiple ways to explore and explode gender identity – Fiona Maazel
www.bookforum.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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It's 1st May, which can only mean one thing:

@torreypeters.bsky.social in Manchester talking about Stag Dance.

I bloody loved this book and can't wait to hear about it in her words. And hear Torrey read from it!

6.30pm, The Whitworth Gallery. Be there.

There is no 'or'.
May 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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This was the coolest venue I’ve ever read in
Our event with @torreypeters.bsky.social and @zinovievletter.bsky.social in conversation about Stag Dance is kicking off now in front of 120 people
April 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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In her second guest column on TFR, @rozmilner.bsky.social takes us on a tour of @torreypeters.bsky.social's latest blockbuster novel Stag Dance, while meditating on what it means to write while trans along the way 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌
Book Review: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
In her second guest column, Roz Milner tackles Torrey Peter’s blockbuster novella collection Stag Dance and the impossible standards of writing-while-trans.
thetransfemininereview.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM