Emily Doyle
@emilydoyle.bsky.social
✨PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BODY forthcoming from Bloomsbury✨
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“If you ask people about their dreams, you’re going to hear all kinds of stories that science cannot explain.”
Emily Doyle interviewed Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel.
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Emily Doyle interviewed Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel.
@emilydoyle.bsky.social
@lailalalami.com
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/pun...
May 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“If you ask people about their dreams, you’re going to hear all kinds of stories that science cannot explain.”
Emily Doyle interviewed Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel.
@emilydoyle.bsky.social
@lailalalami.com
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/pun...
Emily Doyle interviewed Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel.
@emilydoyle.bsky.social
@lailalalami.com
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/pun...
Had to take an author photo for my debut book, so here’s the photo, niece-approved (“I like blue jacket”)!
March 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Had to take an author photo for my debut book, so here’s the photo, niece-approved (“I like blue jacket”)!
A book of poems that my friend gave me, that I needed.
December 23, 2024 at 10:11 PM
A book of poems that my friend gave me, that I needed.
What a perfect book.
December 2, 2024 at 12:56 AM
What a perfect book.
Well I received THE DREAM HOTEL yesterday and I expect to finish it today because I simply can’t stop reading. @lailalalami.bsky.social you’re doing something terrifying and beautiful with this one.
November 22, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Well I received THE DREAM HOTEL yesterday and I expect to finish it today because I simply can’t stop reading. @lailalalami.bsky.social you’re doing something terrifying and beautiful with this one.
Went tidepooling for my bday✨
November 20, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Went tidepooling for my bday✨
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Started a starter pack!
November 16, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Started a starter pack!
When the gift guide is itself a gift
I channeled my post-election sad/anxious energy into a giant holiday Gift Guide for writers and readers! Maybe there's something here you want www.maureenlangloss.com/maureens-gia...
Maureen’s Giant Gift Guide - Maureen Langloss
I started writing a post about the profound and overwhelming sadness I’ve felt since the election. But writing that post felt too profoundly and overwhelmingly sad! Impossible even. Then, somehow, I e...
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November 19, 2024 at 6:08 PM
When the gift guide is itself a gift
Earlier this week I received an acceptance to a DREAM lit journal. I’ve spent the rest of the week convincing myself that it’s real. (Is it though???)
October 15, 2023 at 5:29 PM
Earlier this week I received an acceptance to a DREAM lit journal. I’ve spent the rest of the week convincing myself that it’s real. (Is it though???)
I attended one of Glück’s readings about six years ago, and she was terrifying and wonderful. I hope that wherever she is she’s striking fear and awe in equal measure.
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October 14, 2023 at 7:50 PM
I attended one of Glück’s readings about six years ago, and she was terrifying and wonderful. I hope that wherever she is she’s striking fear and awe in equal measure.
Cookin up good things with @shortstorytoday.bsky.social ✨
October 12, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Cookin up good things with @shortstorytoday.bsky.social ✨
Been researching for a story and now know facts that feel elicit because I was a Christian home school kid: 1) Neanderthals had bigger brains than us, 2) they had a similar physical capacity for speech, 3) we had sex with them at every opportunity.
September 30, 2023 at 11:09 PM
Been researching for a story and now know facts that feel elicit because I was a Christian home school kid: 1) Neanderthals had bigger brains than us, 2) they had a similar physical capacity for speech, 3) we had sex with them at every opportunity.
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"To write as a marginalized writer is to face, sooner or later, questions of authenticity and imagination." My review of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's Goncourt-winning novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men, appears in the Washington Post today. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/0...
Review | An ambitious, stinging novel inspired by a real-life literary scandal
“The Most Secret Memory of Men,” by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, won France’s top literary prize and has now been translated into English.
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September 30, 2023 at 7:39 PM
"To write as a marginalized writer is to face, sooner or later, questions of authenticity and imagination." My review of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's Goncourt-winning novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men, appears in the Washington Post today. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/0...
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me on academic motherhood & Sophie Turner:
“I hope she’s surrounded by family and friends that will tell her she deserves it all, even if all doesn’t feel quite like what we were promised.”
electricliterature.com/in-defense-o...
“I hope she’s surrounded by family and friends that will tell her she deserves it all, even if all doesn’t feel quite like what we were promised.”
electricliterature.com/in-defense-o...
In Defense of Sophie Turner, It’s Nearly Impossible to Be a “Good Mother” - Electric Literatur...
The expectation of erasing oneself and sacrificing everything for your children is crushing
electricliterature.com
September 30, 2023 at 2:39 PM
me on academic motherhood & Sophie Turner:
“I hope she’s surrounded by family and friends that will tell her she deserves it all, even if all doesn’t feel quite like what we were promised.”
electricliterature.com/in-defense-o...
“I hope she’s surrounded by family and friends that will tell her she deserves it all, even if all doesn’t feel quite like what we were promised.”
electricliterature.com/in-defense-o...
Not me spending an hour recording one of my stories for a lit mag only to IMMEDIATELY delete the recording (and then recover it, thank god). Undergoing Trials and Tribulations by my own hand.
September 28, 2023 at 12:20 AM
Not me spending an hour recording one of my stories for a lit mag only to IMMEDIATELY delete the recording (and then recover it, thank god). Undergoing Trials and Tribulations by my own hand.
Oh my god I did the same thing
The gmail folder where I keep submissions-related stuff is still named in a discreet way from many years ago when I couldn’t admit even to myself that I thought I was good enough to be submitting stories to journals. But I still submitted.
September 22, 2023 at 4:37 AM
Oh my god I did the same thing
And for my first trick: A PHOTO OF MY LIZARD TAKING A BATH
September 20, 2023 at 11:28 PM
And for my first trick: A PHOTO OF MY LIZARD TAKING A BATH