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Brandon Kilbourne on tour for Natural History: 11/17 @ 3:30 PM | Lawrence, KS University of Kansas w/ Carlton Shield Chief Gover 11/18 @ 7 PM | Lawrence, KS University of Kansas Location TBA 11/20 @ 6:30 PM | Houston, TX Brazos Bookstore w/ Julia Guez 11/29 @ 7 PM | Berlin, Germany Cave Canem Prize Reading Haus für Poesie

Brandon Kilbourne on tour for Natural History: 11/12 @ 7 PM | St. Paul, MN Bell Museum w/ Sushma Reddy 11/14 @ 4 PM | Chicago, IL 57th Street Bookstore w/ Eric Elshtain 11/6 @ 7 PM | New York, NY Cave Canem Prize Reading The New School w/ Natasha Trethewey

See Brandon Kilbourne on tour for NATURAL HISTORY, winner of the Cave Canem Prize!

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Happy pub. day to Joshua Wheeler's THE HIGH HEAVEN and Donika Kelly's THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! 🎉🎉

"It should be possible to both write good and live good. Go see your friends. Be with your family. Taste something new." In this week's #TenQuestions, Joshua Wheeler shares a look at the writing process for his new novel, The High Heaven, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. at.pw.org/10qwheeler

“This collection offers a halting, cautious, and ultimately mature vision of personal healing.“

Excerpt from review of The Natural Order of Things by @donikakelly.bsky.social , new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Read the full review at the link below:

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Donika Kelly on tour for The Natural Order of Things: 10/7 @ 7 PM | Iowa City, IA Iowa City Book Festival, at the Iowa City Public Library 10/10 @ 7 PM | Des Moines, IA Storyhouse Bookpub w/ Melissa Febos 10/14 @ 7:30 PM | Atlanta, GA Charis Books w/ Jericho Brown 10/23 @ 5:30 PM | Providence, RI Brown University (McCormack Family Theater, Room 132) 10/25 @ 7:30 PM | Madison, WI Wisconsin Book Festival, at the Arts + Literature Laboratory w/ Elizabeth Bradfield, Keetje Kuipers, & Sadia Hassan 10/27 @ 7 PM | Los Angeles, CA Skylight Books w/ Jennifer Espinoza

Donika Kelly on tour for The Natural Order of Things: 11/1 @ 3 PM | Palm Springs, CA Pride on the Page Book Festival, at the Palm Springs Cultural Center w/ Meredith Maran & Melissa Febos 11/8 @ 10:15 AM | Austin, TX Texas Book Festival co-presented by Torch Literary Arts w/ Tiana Clark 11/8 @ 1:45 PM | Austin, TX Texas Book Festival w/ Cecily Parks, moderated by Jennifer Chang 11/13 @ 7:30 PM | New York, NY NYU MFA Reading Series, at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House w/ Melissa Febos 11/14 @ 5 PM | Bronxville, NY Sarah Lawrence College w/ Melissa Febos 11/15 @ 2:30 PM | New York, NY P&T Knitwear w/ Ama Codjoe, Marie Howe, & Ladan Osman, hosted by Melissa Febos

Catch @donikakelly.bsky.social on tour this fall for THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! Details:

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CRAWL TOUR COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU

Electric Geographies Ander Monson in conversation with Yuts, creator of NORCO I first encountered NORCO last year teaching a course on narrative games. It’s a throwback-style point-and-click video game released in 2022…

"You commit to something, and you just become the incubator for the work."

My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...

#SneakPeek 👀 Karen Tei Yamashita's QUESTIONS 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II—is out April 28, 2026. Preorder:

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Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl: 10/21 @ 6:30 PM | New York, NY P&T Knitwear w/ Dana Spiotta 10/24 @ 6:30 PM | Portland, OR Always Here Bookstore w/ Callum Angus 10/25 @ 7 PM | Seattle, WA Elliott Bay Book Company w/ Corinne Manning 10/27 @ 7 PM | Los Angeles, CA North Figueroa Bookshop co-launch w/ Sara Jaffe 10/29 @ 6 PM | Takoma Park, MD People’s Book w/ Luke Sutherland

Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl: 10/30 @ 7 PM | Brookline, MA Brookline Booksmith w/ Maria Marchinkoski 11/1 @ 6 PM | Syracuse, NY Parthenon Books w/ Jonathan Dee 11/4 @ 6 PM | Austin, TX Alienated Majesty w/ Deb Olin Unferth & DJ set by Olivia Shea 11/5 @ 7 PM | Seattle, WA Seattle Public Library co-presented by Third Place Books 11/11 @ 6:30 PM | Ann Arbor, MI Literati Bookstore w/ Marne Litfin

Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl: 11/12 @ 6 PM | Madison, WI A Room of One’s Own Bookstore w/ Emily Mills 11/13 @ 7 PM | Chicago, IL Jarvis Square Books w/ Riley Yaxley 12/6 @ 7 PM | Las Vegas, NV The Writer’s Block w/ Maile Chapman

📢 Don't miss @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on tour this fall! Details:

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My Heavenly Favorite | Graywolf Press A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It…

Lucas Rijneveld’s MY HEAVENLY FAVORITE—translated by Michele Hutchison—is “an unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms.”

@graywolfpress.bsky.social fiction from our #TranslationMonth reading list: www.graywolfpress.org/books/my-hea...

The cover of Mai Der Vang’s Primordial: a photonegative in dark aqua wash of a bi-horned quadruped standing in the jungle

(61/61) “Say to the animal: heavy is / an apology inside the wind.” — @maidervang.bsky.social, “Death in Captivity, a Surrender” (Primordial) @graywolfpress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

From Jennifer Grotz's book, Still Falling.

Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social.

#poem #books #writing

Intriguing autumn harvest of ARCs to consider for VerseCurious. Thanks to @akashicbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social and @tinhouse.bsky.social/ @zandoprojects.bsky.social for sending!

“What I Might Sing” “Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”

"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post.
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There's still time to get tickets to this year's literary salon on Thursday! Gather with fellow book lovers and enjoy a special program with authors Chloé Caldwell, Joshua Wheeler, and chaun webster ✨

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🆕 on Lab Games: nine writing exercises from Lucy Ives's forthcoming book "three six five: prompts, acts, divinations," a collection of a year’s worth of these prompts (out from Siglio Press in March 2026, available for preorder now).

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📢 Chicago wolves, join us! 📢 This special fundraising party will feature a social hour, dinner, drinks, and literary program w/ Dobby Gibson & Carmen Giménez. All proceeds benefit the visionary work of Graywolf Press. Tix ⬇️

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Get your copy here: www.graywolfpress.org/books/shy-0

Critics are already raving about STEVE, the film adapted from Max Porter’s beloved novel SHY and starring the brilliant Cillian Murphy. In select theaters tomorrow (9/19) and on Netflix October 3, which means there’s still time to read the book before streaming the movie! 🎬 📚

Event graphic with the green cover of Triggered Warning and headshots of Lauren Francis Sharma and Jacinda Townsend and a green stamp that reads “event postponed” across the top.

Friends! Tonight’s event with @laurenfsharma and jacindatownsendthewriter is postponed due to a power outage!!! If it ain’t one thing it’s another 🤦🏽‍♀️. But! We will be rescheuling so stay tuned for a new date and we hope to see you soon! 💙

2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

Just lovely to see that Ben Ratliff's thoughtful, generous, sui generis RUN THE SONG: Writing About Running About Listening made the National Book Awards Long List for Nonfiction. Go Ben! @graywolfpress.bsky.social #nationalbookaward #booksky
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You can’t beat Reddit An Interview with Author Mark Doten

I Interviewed Author and Editor Mark Doten about reddit, Johnny Gosh, and his new book of short stories; Whites. @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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Writing advice from author & editor Mark Doten from my interview with him about his new book WHITES (out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Interview here: open.substack.com/pub/dreamsof...

M Lin's THE MEMORY MUSEUM—an expansive debut story collection exploring the complex lives of women in China and the Chinese diaspora—is out April 21, 2026.⁠ #SneakPeek

Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2025 shortlists for the following prizes:

🏆ALTA First Translation Prize
🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award
🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award

Congrats to all on these lists! buff.ly/tVFTq3h

ARCs!!

Much gratitude to the team at @graywolfpress.bsky.social

🌊🪼🦑🐙💙

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Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS—winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Alberto Ríos—is out April 7, 2026.⁠ @poetsorg.bsky.social

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Mark your calendars! Joshua Wheeler is taking his debut novel THE HIGH HEAVEN on tour 🌙

Details: www.graywolfpress.org/events?field...

Happy pub. day to Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's ALGARABÍA and the pbk edition of Edwidge Danticat's WE'RE ALONE! Pick up copies from your local indie today 📚

The cats jumped from the counter to the floor, made their way to the window where they took up posts as lookouts. The bookseller's job was to sell books but really her job was to carefully read books and then quickly read people and then improvise a high form of mental alchemy that resulted in a definitive alteration of a customer's worldview through exposure to ideas or emotions or beauty or savagery or any experience previously unknown or even fathomed by the customer before the purchase of any book she recommended. This man wanted to fix strangeness but she was primarily in the business of purveying strangeness.

Quote of the Day, from THE HIGH HEAVEN by Joshua Wheeler, forthcoming from @graywolfpress.bsky.social.