@islemcelroy.bsky.social
Author of The Atmospherians and People Collide. 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
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Loved writing the afterword for the reissue of Jacqueline Harpmanβs ORLANDA, a brilliant leap of a body swap novel. A sexy, smart, and beguiling companion to her hit I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN. Pick up a copy on September 30!
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In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...
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Some thoughts on Weapons and a lecture about empathy in fiction I delivered at Tin House
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Thank you!
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I wrote about Sorry, Baby and some thoughts on teachers sleeping with students open.substack.com/pub/thescoop...
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Isle McElroy is the author of the novels People Collide and The Atmospherians. They wrote the Best Sex I've Ever Read Column for Vulture and taught a class on Desire and Sex Writing at the Sarah Lawrence MFA program.
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Isle McElroy is the author of the novels People Collide and The Atmospherians. Their criticism and essays regularly appear in Vulture, The Atlantic, Esquire, and elsewhere. They are a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute and currently teach in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College.
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At 34, writer Leah Rae Hulgin learned that being single and being widowed are not quite the same thing. She and her husband Evan met in their early 20s. After eight years of marriage, Evan was diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer at 30 years old. Seven months after his diagnosis, Evan died.
02.07.2025 18:02 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Wet Leg is so proud
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I wrote about how to have better sex for @thecut.com
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Illustration in muted greens, reds and neutral browns. A quiet, empty and boarded up town is dominated by the giant figure of a teenager sprawling, oversized, across the landscape towards the horizon, their body in forced perspective with their ankle laid through the center of town square, red and throbbing and covered in tendril like arteries. In the distance, they hang their head over a small lit cabin, a trail of smoke coming from its chimney.
An e-mail from someone asking about my work sent me on a little trip down memory lane and I remembered this piece for Hazlitt that I still like for a short story by Isle McElroy
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For @vulture.com, I anticipated some summer books www.vulture.com/article/new-...
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Excited to be named a 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. Iβll be living in Vegas for 9 months, working on my 3rd novel, Iβm So Happy Youβre Here. www.unlv.edu/news/release...
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