Books read in February:
Union Street - Pat Barker
Dad Had a Bad Day - Ashton Politanoff
May We Feed the King - Rebecca Perry
The Silver Book - Olivia Laing
Seven - Joanna Kavenna
A Complicated Women - Rebecca Lucy Taylor
Cycle of the Werewolf - Stephen King
All good stuff!
#BookSky
This July, we publish @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social's DAD HAD A BAD DAY. Recently unemployed Ned spirals into an obsession with tennis, putting everything else in his life at risk. Darkly comic, increasingly unhinged, this is a brilliant exploration of sport and masculinity. Cover by Luke Bird.
Galleys of my book DAD HAD A BAD DAY have arrived! 🎾
Dad is having a good day.
Official US publication date is 5/19/26
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“When Teresa first arrived, about a year back, she’d tried to smuggle in cocaine stuffed inside a ball of knitting yarn.” Read from @delaneynolan.bsky.social’s new novel, Happy Bad.
Dad Had a Bad Day arrives 5/19/26 right before Roland Garros!
Here is the cover and a link for more info:
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Il s'appelle donc ROCK$TAR, est sensiblement plus court que son prédécesseur, a nécessité quatre ans de travail, et s'accompagnera d'une bande-son originale à sa sortie le 2 septembre prochain, chez Quidam Editeur. Mais on se reparle d'ici là.
Excited to receive the latest issue
Thank you!
Thank you!!
Thrilled to share that my novel DAD HAD A BAD DAY will be published by Astra House! I’m excited to work with Emily Bell & the team at Astra House. Thank you to my wonderful agent Chris Fischbach @fishmpls.bsky.social
for making this happen!
Conference funding request approved: I’ll be at AWP this year
Attention AWP attendees! 🗣️ This offsite reading is coming in HOT!
See you on March 27th. I can't WAIT to hear these readers.
@henryhoke.bsky.social / @josehernandezdz.bsky.social / @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social / @ctsalazar.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social
Stop. Be present. Focus on the little things.
Let Nathan Dragon show you how 🙏
From our winter issue: Read IF YOU'RE WATCHING southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
Ashton Politanoff
@ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social / @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
I've given you a few days to get over the glut of end-of-year lists, so now you can take a look at my books of the year 2024.
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I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better.
Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.
neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
I've been obsessed with this manuscript for years & I can't wait to have it out in the world
Help spread the word if you can & follow @pizamapress.bsky.social for more updates.
Pub. date is May 27 & you can pre-order it NOW (I mean, just look at that cover!)
neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY
poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
out on May 27, 2025
pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
Reading Lori Ostlund’s collection Are You Happy? & hoping to watch Anora!
In today's newsletter, I write about three big books: Robert A. Caro's THE POWER BROKER, Leslie Marmon Silko's ALMANAC OF THE DEAD, and Marguerite Young's MISS MACINTOSH, MY DARLING. Nothing but the hits!
Read it here & subscribe if you like:
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Thank you!
Thank you to the editors at Post Road for the Pushcart Nomination!
Listen to the guru. Trust the guru. 🧘
Read SOMETHING ELSE by Ashton Politanoff from our latest issue. southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
Karen Yamashita is moving to Graywolf Press!
Aw thank you! That means a lot.
I hear you on the reading front…I have a stack here, but then randomly remembered a Nathaniel Hawthorne reference this morning in the film The Departed. This led me to the library where I checked out more books (including Hawthorne) that I undoubtedly will not read.
Have you started it? I have a copy but haven’t read it yet.
Thank you @shimmer.bsky.social and @necessaryfiction.bsky.social for the kind words about my book!
Good mail day @babakl.bsky.social
This sounds great!
