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Happy pub. day to Maggie Nelson's THE SLICKS, a keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath.

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🆕 on Lab Games: Rae Delane's essay "You Start with Three Languages," which explores multilingual and multicultural identity and the invisible games we learn to play.

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Sinking Bell | Graywolf Press An ex-con hired to fix up a school bus for a couple living off the grid in the desert finds himself in the middle of their tattered relationship. An electrician’s plan to take his young nephew on a…

Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Bojan Louis’s SINKING BELL “depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism.”

Read a short fiction collection from @graywolfpress.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth:
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False War - Pittsburgh Review of Books Miami Beach

“Looking for the treasure, my friend. I lost something in this country, and I can’t figure out where, what city.”

An excerpt from FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/false-war/

It's Give to the Max Day! Keep literature alive by making a gift to Graywolf today. The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag. #GTMD25

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‘The High Heaven’ Is A Beautifully Grounded Debut Novel | Defector We first meet Izzy Gently, the protagonist of Joshua Wheeler’s captivating debut novel, The High Heaven, as a child. She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen t...

I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!

Carmen Maria Machado is one of the brilliant authors participating in this year’s Postcard Auction! Bid now for a personalized postcard from the author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) at the link below!
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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem

Maybe the densest novel under 200 pages I've ever read. I was lost, found, then lost again. This book contains some of the most stunning lines. A frenzy of magical grotesque beauty. Two dozen folktales packed in a cabin in the woods. I'm already craving more.

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If anyone else is doing mermaids for the holidays this year I do have a relevant book @graywolfpress.bsky.social

3️⃣ days until #GTMD25! The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag 🐺📚 Support Graywolf with a gift:

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🆕 on Lab Games: Katy Whitehead's essay "Escaping the Family," about escape rooms, family vacations, and the "infinite puzzles" of marriage and parenthood. 🖇️ Read it here:

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Natalie Diaz, whose 2020 "Postcolonial Love Poem," won the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's foremost contemporary poets. She also happens to be one of the authors featured in our annual postcard auction.

Bid on a personalized note from Diaz today.
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New Poets of Native Nations | Graywolf Press New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Editor Heid E. Erdrich has…

Read a @graywolfpress.bsky.social anthology this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!

NEW POETS OF NATIVE NATIONS “gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry.”
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#SneakPeek 👀 chaun webster's WITHOUT TERMINUS—a dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning author—is out June 2, 2026. Preorder:

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We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.

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Congratulations to CLMP member @graywolfpress.bsky.social for winning the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize!

Ready, Set, Bid! Manuel Muñoz is joining this year’s postcard auction, and you could walk away with a personalized note from the author of The Consequences (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). Don’t miss your chance! buff.ly/YcTTczg

Huge congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel FLESH has won the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🎉 Did you know Graywolf published Szalay's previous novels ALL THAT MAN IS (a Booker finalist), LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST, and SPRING? Stock up:

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You can hear Brandon Kilbourne read from Natural History this Wednesday at the U's @bellmuseum.bsky.social! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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New Poetry Titles (11/4/25) Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/4 from Texas Review Press, The Song Cave, Clemson University Press, Indiana University Press, Bordighera Press, White Pine Press, City Lights Publishers, ...

New #poetry #books from Texas Review Press, The Song Cave, Clemson University Press, Indiana University Press, City Lights Publishers, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, CavanKerry Press, Green Writers Press, Penguin Books & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Forget Nostalgia: The Exiles in This Dreamlike Novel Are Angry

Read a review of FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez (out this month with @graywolfpress.bsky.social , tr. Natasha Wimmer) in @nytimes.com!

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“Few other poets today operate in this genre of poetics, specifically eco-poetics and Anthropocene poetics.“

Excerpt from review of Natural History by Brandon Kilbourne, new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social .

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Postcolonial Love Poem | Graywolf Press Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering…

Read @graywolfpress.bsky.social poetry this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!

Natalie Diaz’s POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM “demands that every body carried in its pages ... be touched and held as beloveds.”
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THE YEAR OF THE WIND, responsibility, grief, reconciliation in strife-riven 80s Peru THE YEAR OF THE WIND KARINA PACHECO MEDRANO (tr. Mara Faye Lethem) Graywolf Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.99 ebook, av...

THE YEAR OF THE WIND by KARINA PACHECO MEDRANO and translated by Mara Faye Lethem via @graywolfpress.bsky.social is a meditation on responsibility, grief, reconciliation set in strife-riven 80s Peru. #Booksky
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Exclusive Cover Reveal of "Earth 7" by Deb Olin Unferth - Electric Literature An isolated rocket zooms over deep, watercolor blues of outer space, reflecting the loneliness, diversity, and resilience of our planet

I'm so thrilled we can finally share the beautiful cover for Earth 7 by @debolinunferth.bsky.social featuring luminous art by @ehaidle.bsky.social. @electricliterature.com has the scoop and @graywolfpress.bsky.social has the book!

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We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King @linkinglionking.bsky.social, ed. Yuka Igarashi, pub. Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social!

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BOOK REVIEW “The collective isolation captured in False War is told via nearly two dozen voices desperate for some sort of comfort or compassion—whether from the touch of another’s body, the oblivion of illicit drugs, the sound of a familiar accent, or the recognition of common experience—whatever can get them through one more night.”“'An Inexpressible Void': Exile and Longing in Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s 'False War'" by Cory Oldweiler. Image: Book Cover

@coryoldweiler.bsky.social examines FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez. In this choral novel, characters navigate a purgatory of displacement and existential uncertainty, akin to the DIVINE COMEDY. Read Oldweiler’s book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

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Cubans Outrun the Logic of Power in “False War” - Chicago Review of Books Our review of Carlos Manuel Álvarez's new book, "False War," translated by Natasha Wimmer.

"A modern search for meaning, but also an escape from the oppressive logic of power."

Joe Stanek's review of “False War” by Carlos Manuel Álvarez (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is out now.
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Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.

“Music merges you and keeps you separate.” On the heels of the NYC Marathon, Ben Ratliff reflects on Run the Song—his new book about running, listening, and how music helps us find form. @graywolfpress.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.

“I really do think that as music changes us, we change music.” Mighty critic Ben Ratliff on how his running practice revealed new ways of hearing Sade, Arsenio Rodriguez, Thelonius Monk, and more. His new book, RUN THE SONG, is out from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...