Isle McElroy

Thursday, I’m teaching a class on how to write compelling novel openings. You can sign up here! @shipmanagency.bsky.social

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The latest round of @nymag.com's Best Books of 2025 includes SAD TIGER! Thanks to @islemcelroy.bsky.social for their thoughtful writeup.

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The Channel is a Publisher’s Weekly Book Deal of the Week!

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Announcement that novelist Isle McElroy has sold their next book, called The Channel.

Very excited to share that @islemcelroy.bsky.social has just sold their next novel and I can NOT wait!!!

Very excited to be publishing my 3rd novel, THE CHANNEL, with Lindsey Schwoeri at Viking!! Coming to you summer 2027.

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps) Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

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-...

Loved writing the afterword for the reissue of Jacqueline Harpman’s 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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The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Published Eleven writers weigh in. Plus, my book's sales: exposed!

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...

With this Isle McElroy announced themselves as a compelling writer who can write a stunning gender swap/mystery novel from multiple points of view. I think it’s a tour de force

Weapons Rips. Empathy Slips. Zach Cregger's new film and my Tin House Summer Workshop lecture on the limits of empathy.

Some thoughts on Weapons and a lecture about empathy in fiction I delivered at Tin House

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Loser Shit On Sorry, Baby and The Loser Component

I wrote about Sorry, Baby and some thoughts on teachers sleeping with students open.substack.com/pub/thescoop...

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.

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.

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.

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27 Ways to Have Much Better Sex We asked real-life hot people and other experts about how to have a better time boning.

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

28 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer Whether you want to make sense of reality or escape it — through climate fiction, searing memoirs, and tight thrillers.

For @vulture.com, I anticipated some summer books www.vulture.com/article/new-...

Black Mountain Institute Announces 2025–26 Fellows UNLV’s literary institute launches two new fellowship programs.

Excited to be named a 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. I’ll be living in Vegas for 9 months, working on my 3rd novel, I’m So Happy You’re Here. www.unlv.edu/news/release...