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Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.
Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.
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I am so pleased to share the cover of my debut story collection, I Am the Ghost Here, out 2/24/26 (now available for preorder).
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I am so pleased to share the cover of my debut story collection, I Am the Ghost Here, out 2/24/26 (now available for preorder).
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Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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📵 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📵 We are so excited to share the cover of NO CONTACT: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo ⭐
NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now:
books.catapult.co/books/no-con...
NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now:
books.catapult.co/books/no-con...
October 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📵 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📵 We are so excited to share the cover of NO CONTACT: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo ⭐
NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now:
books.catapult.co/books/no-con...
NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now:
books.catapult.co/books/no-con...
So excited to be working with @amystuber.com !! ✨✨
I printed up a big chunk of my in-progress novel, and it felt like something! So it seems like a good time to say that I'm so happy and grateful to be working with
@mlwyd.bsky.social on this and any other projects! (@tridentmediagroup.bsky.social)
@mlwyd.bsky.social on this and any other projects! (@tridentmediagroup.bsky.social)
September 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So excited to be working with @amystuber.com !! ✨✨
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Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Friendly Nazis Next Door
Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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‘Here she was at sixty-one still groping in the dark, dodging calls from her daughters and seeking comfort from her driver, a man with insufficient expectations, a man with no expectation beyond the day ahead.’
Fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
granta.com/trying-times/
Fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
granta.com/trying-times/
Trying Times
‘As a good investor, she could compare patterns and connect links that others might overlook. And now, in the matter with her daughters, she was applying the same skills she brought to her investments...
granta.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
‘Here she was at sixty-one still groping in the dark, dodging calls from her daughters and seeking comfort from her driver, a man with insufficient expectations, a man with no expectation beyond the day ahead.’
Fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
granta.com/trying-times/
Fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
granta.com/trying-times/
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"'Where Are You Really From' sparkles in the way it infuses dark concepts with whimsy and detail."
@ansonjtong.com's review of "Where Are You Really From" by Elaine Hsieh Chou (@penguinpress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/19/a...
@ansonjtong.com's review of "Where Are You Really From" by Elaine Hsieh Chou (@penguinpress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/19/a...
A Lack of Shared Reality in Elaine Hsieh Chou’s "Where Are You Really From" - Chicago Review of Books
We rarely ask someone directly, “Who are you?” but there are certainly attempts to triangulate an answer—What do you do? Where do you live? Where are you from? The assumptions based on their response ...
chireviewofbooks.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"'Where Are You Really From' sparkles in the way it infuses dark concepts with whimsy and detail."
@ansonjtong.com's review of "Where Are You Really From" by Elaine Hsieh Chou (@penguinpress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/19/a...
@ansonjtong.com's review of "Where Are You Really From" by Elaine Hsieh Chou (@penguinpress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/19/a...
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Tonight!
At Skylight: Kashana Cauley presents THE PAYBACK w/ Rufi Thorpe
When Jada Williams is relentlessly pursued by the Debt Police, she is left with no choice but to take down her student loan company with the help of two mall coworkers—from the author of the “lethally...
www.discoverlosangeles.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Tonight!
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The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.
July 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.
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Ha ha, I wrote a novel that got the NYT to support Luigi
A Spicy Heist Story for the Student Loan Era
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Ha ha, I wrote a novel that got the NYT to support Luigi
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Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT
Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...
Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton - Interview with the Author
YouTube video by Itinerant Literate Books
www.youtube.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT
Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...
Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...
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The Payback got a very nice review in the LA Times.
Review: Messy L.A. millennial plots deliverance from her student loan debt in 'The Payback'
The former 'Daily Show With Trevor Noah' writer takes aim at a vexing problem — student loan debt — in 'The Payback,' a female-driven satire set in L.A.
www.latimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Payback got a very nice review in the LA Times.
👀👀👀
Very happy to share The Renovation's US cover! Out from @fsgbooks.bsky.social February 10th.
May 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
👀👀👀
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It is a dream to be included in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social alongside so many wonderful writers.
May 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It is a dream to be included in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social alongside so many wonderful writers.
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Thanks, NYT! “Three down-on-their-luck mall workers, on the lam from a draconian new force known as the Debt Police, hatch a plan to live many a millennial’s dream: an “Ocean’s Eleven”-esque heist of their student loan company to erase their debts and exact revenge.”
31 Novels Coming this Summer
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Thanks, NYT! “Three down-on-their-luck mall workers, on the lam from a draconian new force known as the Debt Police, hatch a plan to live many a millennial’s dream: an “Ocean’s Eleven”-esque heist of their student loan company to erase their debts and exact revenge.”
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HENRY HENRY is now in PAPERBACK!
It's the debauched party you don't want to miss. Available anywhere books are sold and at unnamedpress.com
It's the debauched party you don't want to miss. Available anywhere books are sold and at unnamedpress.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
HENRY HENRY is now in PAPERBACK!
It's the debauched party you don't want to miss. Available anywhere books are sold and at unnamedpress.com
It's the debauched party you don't want to miss. Available anywhere books are sold and at unnamedpress.com
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Pumped that The Payback made it into Publishers Weekly’s Summer 2025 Fiction picks: “The class war is on in Cauley’s blistering heist novel.”
Summer Reads 2025 from Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly
Best Books 2024, Ayşegül Savaş, Yasmin Zaher, Clyo Mendoza, Sally Rooney, Richard Price, Maxim Loskutoff, Joseph Earl Thomas, Vinson Cunningham, Alan Hollinghurst, Fernanda Trías, Alexis Wright, Tony ...
best-books.publishersweekly.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Pumped that The Payback made it into Publishers Weekly’s Summer 2025 Fiction picks: “The class war is on in Cauley’s blistering heist novel.”
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Revealing the new paperback cover for HENRY HENRY by Allen Bratton!
An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new talent
15 May 2025
An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new talent
15 May 2025
March 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Revealing the new paperback cover for HENRY HENRY by Allen Bratton!
An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new talent
15 May 2025
An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new talent
15 May 2025
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We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
January 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
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Deal announcement! BROKEN FREE: WRITERS ON #ESTRANGEMENT will be published in 2026. I’m thrilled to work with @catapultbooks.bsky.social on this important book, with an amazing list of contributors. So grateful to my agent @mlwyd.bsky.social and everyone who has supported this project. 1/
December 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Deal announcement! BROKEN FREE: WRITERS ON #ESTRANGEMENT will be published in 2026. I’m thrilled to work with @catapultbooks.bsky.social on this important book, with an amazing list of contributors. So grateful to my agent @mlwyd.bsky.social and everyone who has supported this project. 1/
Congrats to @kimsamek.bsky.social 👻!!!
My debut short story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE will be published by Dial Press in 2026! I’m so thrilled to be working with the amazing Katy Nishimoto and the entire team at Dial Press. Many thanks to @mlwyd who shared a vision with me and got us there.
December 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Congrats to @kimsamek.bsky.social 👻!!!