My belated but profound thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running this excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl. 🩵🌊
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@emilyskaja.bsky.social's BLACK LAKE—a frank new book about the devastation of recurring pregnancy loss, by the author of the award-winning BRUTE—is out September 1. Preorder:
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Karen Tei Yamashita's tour for QUESTIONS 27 & 28 kicks off next month!
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Epic book mail from @invisibooks.bsky.social @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social and Peirene and New Directions!
Beware of scams featuring emails impersonating Graywolf Press staffers—don’t trust communications that appear to be sent from Graywolf but use an email address that’s not the graywolfpress.org domain.
Email any questions to: suspectedfraud@graywolfpress.org
See these three authors on tour!
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Happy pub. day to Dorothy Tse's CITY LIKE WATER (trans. by Natascha Bruce), Carolina Ebeid's HIDE, and the paperback edition of Deborah Baker's CHARLOTTESVILLE 📚
Michelle Chan Schmidt reviews CITY LIKE WATER ( @graywolfpress.bsky.social ) by Dorothy Tse (tr. Natascha Bruce), considering the way it explores memory and censorship in the aftermath of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
“Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl displays radical thinking at its critical heights.”
Thank you so much for this shoutout, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social, author of, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (@graywolfpress.bsky.social), shares how she found some of the noteworthy journals that have published her prose on marine animals over the years, including Talk Vomit and Digging Press Journal. at.pw.org/MandySuzanneWong
Hooray for TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE! 🎉🎉 @linkinglionking.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social
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A. Igoni Barrett's WHYTEFACE—a pointed satire about a Nigerian on vacation in Europe, into the heart of whiteness—is out August 4, 2026. Preorder here!
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It was a pleasure to spend time with AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON – a magnificent documentary novel by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated polyphonically from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney – and to write about it for ASYMPTOTE. @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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So excited to dive into the box of new and forthcoming titles @graywolfpress.bsky.social just sent me.
Just flipped open Larry Levis's collected poems and what a perfect one for today.
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📢 Job alert! Graywolf Press is seeking a Publishing Operations Assistant to join our team. This is a full-time position and requires physical presence in Graywolf's Minneapolis office Monday–Friday. Apply here:
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Thank you @pw.org for including me in Literary MagNet! It was a lot of fun to talk about some of the great literary magazines I’ve had the honor to work with.
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![“Mesmerizing. . . . Relentlessly empathetic, these essays reframe nonhuman beings as individuals worthy of respect. Readers will be moved.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“A passionate paean to life’s wonders.”
—KIRKUS
“[Mandy-Suzanne Wong] has made sea snails totally present on the page, magically uncurling their opaque inner worlds, making them resonant subjects of marvel and love. . . . Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl is up there with some of my favorite animal writing of the past decade.”—Ania Szremski, 4COLUMNS
“Wong’s investigations undulate, beckoning an embrace of the unknowable, and with it a call to better coexistence.”—ORION](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2dvcxog5z5vkps6l2rekxmh3/bafkreifehxq6m4cvojmevp444wbwoi3n2sznfu62hsoprrjacn3nwubpte)
Happy pub. day to @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social's DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL, seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living 🐌🐙🪼🐚 Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore today!
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Read a @graywolfpress.bsky.social poetry collection this #BlackHistoryMonth!
In REGAINING UNCONSCIOUSNESS, Harryette Mullen “confronts the imminent dangers of our present to sound an alarm for our future, to wake us out of our complicity and despondency.”
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Join us in congratulating Jim Moore, whose collection ENTER is a finalist for the 2026 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry! 🎉🎉 Meet Jim at the free Meet the Finalists event on March 21, and celebrate at the Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony on May 6.
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“How might we thread the needle between devising open-ended questions to learn more and filling in the blanks with images generated by a poetical human brain?”
Huge thanks to Barbara J. King for this review of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl!
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Slightly overawed that Outcast will be published in the USA by the legends at @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Preorders, to give the book its best possible American life, very welcome. Released 7 July! www.graywolfpress.org/books/outcast
Ania Szremski at 4Columns calls Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl "fiercely imaginative and poem-like, though technically nonfiction (speculative nonfiction, perhaps?), essays...[that make] sea snails totally present on the page."
🙏
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I’ll have the honor of discussing, at NYU SCRIBE’s Lecture Series, 6 Mar, 4 pm EST on Zoom: Bermuda, books (including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl & The Box), publishing, elasticizing English, & rethinking “heritage.” @graywolfpress.bsky.social
Free registration: engage.nyu.edu/event/12206840
“In some languages the word for dream / is the same as for music // is the kind of thing poets like to say / to prove they’re on your side” —
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‘Swirl & Vortex’, the collected poems of Larry Levis, just published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social is an immense gift to readers. A lyric, attentive, voyaging, truth-speaking poet who, as his editor David St. John wrote, held “a kind of passport of otherness”.
Many thanks to the editors at @necessaryfiction.com for the opportunity to review FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, polyphonically translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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A thousand thanks to the editors of @longreads.com ads for publishing "The Endless Self," an excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, which comes out on 17 Feb from @graywolfpress.bsky.social ess.
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“Radically reimagining the ideal of 'the self' through coexistence with other species...to cherish the many other life forms while knowing we will never fully understand them.”
What an honor for Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl! Thank you @electricliterature.com! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
Read Jacinda Townsend’s TRIGGER WARNING (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) this #BlackHistoryMonth!
This novel explores “the possibility, after incredible trauma, of reconnecting to what makes us feel alive.”
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It's pub. day for two incredible books: @criveragarza.bsky.social's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON (trans. by Christina MacSweeney) and Larry Levis's SWIRL & VORTEX. Pick up copies from your local indie today!
