Elaine Szewczyk

Arundhati Roy’s Rebel Yell In her first memoir, the Booker Prize winner explores her relationship with her volatile mother and living life on her own terms.

Here's my @publisherswkly.bsky.social profile of bad ass Booker winner Arundhati Roy. Her memoir is out Sept/Scribner. Roy discusses her mom, who had the "edginess of a gangster"; running off to Delhi at 16; fending off jail threats; & keeping it real. ❤️
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Kiran Desai’s Labor of Love The Booker Prize winner has devoted the past two decades of her life to writing The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a novel that weighs in at 688 pages

NBCC member @elaineszewczyk.bsky.social profiled Kiran Desai for Publishers Weekly:

Kiran Desai’s Labor of Love The Booker Prize winner has devoted the past two decades of her life to writing The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a novel that weighs in at 688 pages

Here's my @publisherswkly.bsky.social profile of Kiran Desai. Her novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, took 20 years to write & is about star-crossed lovers in a globalized world. We talked India, loneliness & her fierce devotion to writing.
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David Levithan: Music Man David Levithan collaborated with Swedish musician Jens Lekman on a dream project—a novel about a wedding singer featuring original songs.

NBCC member @elaineszewczyk.bsky.social‬ profiled David Levithan for Publishers Weekly:

David Levithan (author of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Boy Meets Boys, etc.) teamed up with Swedish musician and wedding singer Jens Lekman on a novel about a wedding singer that features 16 original songs that readers can listen to as they read the book...

David Levithan: Music Man David Levithan collaborated with Swedish musician Jens Lekman on a dream project—a novel about a wedding singer featuring original songs.

David Levithan (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) collaborated w/ Swedish musician Jens Lekman
on a novel about a wedding singer featuring original songs. Songs for Other People’s Weddings is out in August/Abrams Books. My @publisherswkly.bsky.social piece:
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Holly Smale Is Living Out Loud For Holly Smale, being diagnosed with autism at age 39 changed her life and reshaped her fiction

NBCC member @elaineszewczyk.bsky.social‬ profiled British novelist Holly Smale, whose YA "Geek Girl" series inspired a Netflix show, for Publishers Weekly:

Holly Smale Is Living Out Loud For Holly Smale, being diagnosed with autism at age 39 changed her life and reshaped her fiction

Here's my @publisherswkly.bsky.social profile of lovely Holly Smale, co-creator of the Geek Girl @netflix.com
series. Holly discusses being autistic, selling millions of novels & writing I Know How This Ends (out this August). @harpercollins.bsky.social
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There and Back with Wally Lamb For his first novel in nine years, Wally Lamb draws on his battles with self-doubt and addiction.

Wally Lamb's The River is Waiting was just picked by Oprah for her book club. Here's my @publisherswkly.bsky.social
profile of Wally Lamb. We discuss Oprah, addiction, and the pressure of writing fiction...
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@keirgraff.bsky.social Congrats on your new book Chicago's Fine Arts Building: Music, Magic, and Murder. You said murder, right...?! 🕵️

Helen Schulman Is Nobody’s Fool The new collection from the acclaimed author spans three decades of her stories about the pitfalls of life and love.

NBCC member Elaine Szewczyk profiled Helen Schulman for Publishers Weekly:

Love, foolish love. Here's my @publisherswkly.bsky.social
profile of Helen Schulman. Helen's new story collection, Fools for Love, is out in July. Her last book, Lucky Dogs, has been optioned by Kaia Gerber/Library Science.

Reviews of New Food: Pringles Hot Ones Los Calientes Rojo Crisps Have you ever wanted to use gasoline as lipstick? Or wished someone would start a campfire up your nose? That’s what it feels like to eat the new P...

My new piece in @mcsweeneys.net!
"Have you ever wanted to use gasoline as lipstick? Or wished someone would start a campfire up your nose? That’s what it feels like to eat the new Pringles Hot Ones...."
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Reviews of New Food: Pringles Hot Ones Los Calientes Rojo Crisps Have you ever wanted to use gasoline as lipstick? Or wished someone would start a campfire up your nose? That’s what it feels like to eat the new P...

I've started collecting and curating my favorite McSweeney's pieces and this piece by @elaineszewczyk.bsky.social just shot up to my all-time number one spot. its so perfect. devastatingly elegant and hilarious. A literal masterpiece 👨🏻‍🍳👌

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Christine Pride’s Second-Chance Romance The author dated the same two men in her 20s and in her 40s—and used the experience as fuel for her first solo novel.

NBCC member Elaine Szewczyk profiled Christine Pride for Publishers Weekly:

André Aciman: Hopeless Romantic In three collected novellas, the celebrated author explores some favorite subjects: love, loss, and the heart’s secret desires.

NBCC member Elaine Szewczyk profiled André Aciman for Publishers Weekly:

Christine Pride’s Second-Chance Romance The author dated the same two men in her 20s and in her 40s—and used the experience as fuel for her first solo novel.

Christine Pride dated the same two men in her 20s and in her 40s and used the experience as fuel for her first solo novel—All the Men I’ve Loved Again, which will out in July from Atria Books. Here’s my @publisherswkly.bsky.social
profile of Christine...
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André Aciman: Hopeless Romantic In three collected novellas, the celebrated author explores some favorite subjects: love, loss, and the heart’s secret desires.

Exciting and terrible love. Here’s my @publisherswkly.bsky.social profile of André Aciman. Room on the Sea, three novellas about love & loss, is out in June @fsgbooks.bsky.social. Aciman also wrote Call Me By Your Name (made into a film w/Timothée Chalamet). www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Binnie Kirshenbaum Knows Life Is Stranger Than Fiction After losing her husband to dementia, the author turned to fiction—and wrote the most difficult book of her career.

It's pub day for Binnie Kirshenbaum's tragicomic novel Counting Backwards, about a woman whose husband begins to experience strange hallucinations...
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There and Back with Wally Lamb For his first novel in nine years, Wally Lamb draws on his battles with self-doubt and addiction.

Here's my @publisherswkly.bsky.social profile of Oprah's Book Club fave Wally Lamb. His gripping novel The River Is Waiting--about an addict who's sent to jail after causing the accidental death of his child--is out in May from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social.
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Here's my profile of Lydia Millet for Publishers Weekly. Lydia discusses her dilapidated Arizona writing studio--there are snakes & pack rats!; the fun of satirizing bad men; & the beauty of living among nature--snakes and all. Lydia's story collection Atavists is out in April @wwnorton.bsky.social.

A Visit to Shel Silverstein’s Archives PW was recently invited by the Silverstein family for an exclusive tour of prolific author-illustrator Shel Silverstein's archives in Chicago—which are closed to the public.

I was recently invited by the Shel Silverstein Estate to visit Silverstein's private archives. Silverstein's brain was always on: he wrote on bags & napkins & filled journals with cute drawings for kids. @publisherswkly.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
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Morgan Jerkins’s Epic Love The author’s latest novel spans more than 150 years of Black history and was inspired by a letter written during the Civil War

Here's my Publishers Weekly profile of @mjerkins.bsky.social. Morgan's novel, Zeal, a multigenerational historical romance, spans 150+ years of Black history and was inspired by a letter written during the Civil War. Zeal is out in April. Love this book! ❤️
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