Ella Gordon
@ellasgordon.bsky.social
currently: acting publisher at brazen books | usually: editorial director @wildfirebooks | books + other things | views my own
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Pub day for 'The Women Are Not Fine' is TODAY! So grateful for the warm welcome on my UK tour - thank you to Brazen books + @hachetteuk.bsky.social + Romilly Morgan + @agentbal.bsky.social + @ellasgordon.bsky.social + the team who made this possible!
Order here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Order here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
July 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Pub day for 'The Women Are Not Fine' is TODAY! So grateful for the warm welcome on my UK tour - thank you to Brazen books + @hachetteuk.bsky.social + Romilly Morgan + @agentbal.bsky.social + @ellasgordon.bsky.social + the team who made this possible!
Order here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Order here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Charmed as ever by @taffyakner.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: ‘A novel is where you can go to be indecent’
The Fleishman Is in Trouble author on the freedom of writing fiction, the perils of telling stories about Jewishness right now – and why she’s happy to write anywhere from the car to the sofa
observer.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Charmed as ever by @taffyakner.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.
We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?
Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?
Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.
We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?
Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?
Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
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I know there are many trans and non-binary people who will be feeling deeply worried today, caught in the midst of a media storm as they try to simply live their lives. Please know that I stand with you - today, tomorrow and always.
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
April 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I know there are many trans and non-binary people who will be feeling deeply worried today, caught in the midst of a media storm as they try to simply live their lives. Please know that I stand with you - today, tomorrow and always.
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
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I wrote about my friend's father, a Holocaust survivor, and how the stories you run the fastest from end up being the only ones that you were inevitably bound to write in the first place. I'm sorry for the delay. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...
The Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write
For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I wrote about my friend's father, a Holocaust survivor, and how the stories you run the fastest from end up being the only ones that you were inevitably bound to write in the first place. I'm sorry for the delay. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...
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I had a delightful time taking to @schreiberland.bsky.social on the brilliant We Can Be Weirdos podcast. I can't remember exactly what I said but subjects covered involved doomsday, ghost architecture, JFK, locked room mysteries, and scarves from parallel universes pod.link/1687199754
We Can Be Weirdos
Prepare to plunge into the peculiar as Dan Schreiber, professional fact-hunter, uncovers the wild beliefs, ideas and theories of some of the most remarkable people on planet earth.
As well as delvin...
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March 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I had a delightful time taking to @schreiberland.bsky.social on the brilliant We Can Be Weirdos podcast. I can't remember exactly what I said but subjects covered involved doomsday, ghost architecture, JFK, locked room mysteries, and scarves from parallel universes pod.link/1687199754
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My book is OUT TODAY! It is about the apocalypse. Buy it now, before it becomes even more uncomfortably topical! Discover why all the critics* are raving about it!
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*2 critics
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*2 critics
February 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My book is OUT TODAY! It is about the apocalypse. Buy it now, before it becomes even more uncomfortably topical! Discover why all the critics* are raving about it!
linktr.ee/endofthefcki...
*2 critics
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*2 critics
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For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps.
This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]
This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]
February 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps.
This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]
This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]
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Had the pleasure of reviewing the long-awaited debut novel by Chris McQueer.
Read the review HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
Read the review HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
'Powerful and unflinching'
Hermit by Chris McQueer reviewed
heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
(1/3)
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Hermit by Chris McQueer reviewed
heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
(1/3)
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February 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Had the pleasure of reviewing the long-awaited debut novel by Chris McQueer.
Read the review HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
Read the review HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
Great to see Chris, man of many talents and also haircuts, being interviewed about his gorgeous debut novel HERMIT in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social this week
“I wasn’t ready to do that. I wasn’t mature enough. I lost my mind, I lost my way & I fell out of love with writing for a while." I interviewed Chris McQueer whose touching, darkly funny debut novel Hermit is out on February 27. Online today and in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social mag on Saturday.
Acclaimed Scottish author says: 'I lost my mind, I lost my way'
Growing up in Glasgow’s East End with his single mum, Tracy, Chris McQueer had a firm idea about the type of man he wasn’t going to be. “There…
www.heraldscotland.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Great to see Chris, man of many talents and also haircuts, being interviewed about his gorgeous debut novel HERMIT in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social this week
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Apologies that I will become insufferable for the next few months, but: my new book is now officially A REAL THING THAT EXISTS.
It's a history of the apocalypse. It's out on February 25 in the UK. Really hoping that... well, the apocalypse doesn't happen before then.
It's a history of the apocalypse. It's out on February 25 in the UK. Really hoping that... well, the apocalypse doesn't happen before then.
January 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Apologies that I will become insufferable for the next few months, but: my new book is now officially A REAL THING THAT EXISTS.
It's a history of the apocalypse. It's out on February 25 in the UK. Really hoping that... well, the apocalypse doesn't happen before then.
It's a history of the apocalypse. It's out on February 25 in the UK. Really hoping that... well, the apocalypse doesn't happen before then.
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Fifty-one of women's worst nightmares are going to prison. Countless other nightmares remain at large.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Gisèle Pelicot rape trial: ex-husband jailed for 20 years as all 51 men found guilty
Gisèle Pelicot addresses other sexual violence victims after the verdicts, saying outside court: ‘We share the same fight’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Fifty-one of women's worst nightmares are going to prison. Countless other nightmares remain at large.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Luv 2 see HERMIT in this gorgeous stack, thanks Alice!!
I don’t always share everything I read in a month, but November was non-stop bangers so here you go: Butter was a reread for my office bookclub, and Hermit, I Make My Own Fun, This Immaculate Body and Pig are all out next year.
December 4, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Luv 2 see HERMIT in this gorgeous stack, thanks Alice!!
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And good morning to this great news that the home team found my book notable! Thank you, @nytimes.com Books, I love you! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
100 Notable Books of 2024
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:33 PM
And good morning to this great news that the home team found my book notable! Thank you, @nytimes.com Books, I love you! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Crying over here! Thank you, @washingtonpost.com! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...
50 notable works of fiction from 2024
Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Crying over here! Thank you, @washingtonpost.com! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...
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We’re very pleased to reveal the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize longlist. Comprised of seven novels and seven non-fiction titles, they cover a broad spectrum of opinions, style and content, interrogating what it means to be Jewish in multiple ways.
December 2, 2024 at 9:01 AM
We’re very pleased to reveal the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize longlist. Comprised of seven novels and seven non-fiction titles, they cover a broad spectrum of opinions, style and content, interrogating what it means to be Jewish in multiple ways.
Huge congratulations to the wonderful @taffyakner.bsky.social for hitting the Wingate Prize longlist!
The 2025 longlist has been announced for the Wingate Prize, which is for a title that represents the Jewish experience
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December 2, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Huge congratulations to the wonderful @taffyakner.bsky.social for hitting the Wingate Prize longlist!
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The ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif make clear that to continue selling arms to Israel is to aid and abet war crimes. It is utterly indefensible.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander
International Criminal Court judges say there are “reasonable grounds” they bore
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 1:17 PM
The ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif make clear that to continue selling arms to Israel is to aid and abet war crimes. It is utterly indefensible.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise.
August 3, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise.
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First post! @jrf-uk.bsky.social I've been thinking about how paid & unpaid care intertwine, and so how any future care system will rely on unpaid care.
Very excited about new work we're funding from Emily Kenway deepening our understanding of how & why we can't design out unpaid care 👇
Very excited about new work we're funding from Emily Kenway deepening our understanding of how & why we can't design out unpaid care 👇
Unpaid carers provide an essential but often invisible service
New research is filling the evidence gap around why people are unpaid carers, and building understanding of their essential role alongside paid care services.
www.jrf.org.uk
October 22, 2024 at 3:43 PM
First post! @jrf-uk.bsky.social I've been thinking about how paid & unpaid care intertwine, and so how any future care system will rely on unpaid care.
Very excited about new work we're funding from Emily Kenway deepening our understanding of how & why we can't design out unpaid care 👇
Very excited about new work we're funding from Emily Kenway deepening our understanding of how & why we can't design out unpaid care 👇