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Morgan Talty

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Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024) Founder & Director of Talty Literary morgantalty.com

5,540 Followers  |  102 Following  |  15 Posts  |  Joined: 04.07.2023  |  1.9938

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I haven’t been on here in I don’t know how long…maybe when you needed an invite?

Damn this place is so bright feels like I just woke up.

Anyway, sup peeps

29.04.2025 23:39 — 👍 49    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0
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Join us in welcoming @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social to present OLD SCHOOL INDIAN with @morgantalty.bsky.social ! They will be here at Print on Wednesday, May 7 at 7pm!

"A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man’s reluctant return home and what it takes to heal."

28.04.2025 15:01 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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@morgantalty.bsky.social is the author of one novel, the 2024 hit Fire Exit, and one critically lauded a multi-prize-winning short story collection, Night of the Living Rez.

We're delighted that he's teaching the online Fiction workshop at StoryBoard 2025.

Apply by April 30!

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24.04.2025 19:46 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We tell ourselves stories | TLS Charles, the narrator of Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, does not know when exactly his daughter, Elizabeth, was born. For days, he sat on the riverbank, staring at a darkened house on the othe...

‘In Fire Exit, the stories “that make us” refuse to clarify into neat narratives.’

Philippa Conlon reviews Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social in the new @thetls.bsky.social 🔥

24.04.2025 13:02 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉Congrats @morgantalty.bsky.social !

Longlisted for the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award!

18.04.2025 17:37 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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💐Congratulations @morgantalty.bsky.social!

🏆Finalist for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize!

@newliteraryproject.bsky.social

Read more: www.newliteraryproject.org/2025-jco-fin...

11.03.2025 15:38 — 👍 32    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you man! Means a shit ton to hear your kind words

29.04.2025 23:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Night of the Living Rez cover

Night of the Living Rez cover

Great fucking book by @morgantalty.bsky.social & the most elegant reference to Romero’s work I’ve ever seen.

18.02.2025 22:56 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

#readindies month

A selection of self-published and independently published books.

Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social
(@andotherstories.bsky.social)

“We are made of stories, and if we don't know them ... how can we ever be who we really are?”

#Booksky 💙📚
#Books 📚
#Literaturesky

12.02.2025 06:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“A poignant story about the secrets of a white man raised on a Penobscot Reservation examines the bonds of family and the definition of heritage.”

American Library Association names 🔥Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social a 2025 Notable Book, Fiction!

rusaupdate.org/2025/01/2025...

27.01.2025 15:02 — 👍 29    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2
Image of the book Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin which is longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.

Image of the book Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin which is longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.

Image of the book Fire Exit by Morgan Talty which is longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.

Image of the book Fire Exit by Morgan Talty which is longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.

Thrilled to see two Scribe books on the excellent 2025 @dublinlitaward.bsky.social longlist!

VLADIVOSTOK CIRCUS by Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) and FIRE EXIT by @morgantalty.bsky.social — out in Australia next month!

Congratulations to all the longlisted authors & translators.

16.01.2025 05:26 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Collage of covers of the books I rated 5 stars this year.

@thestorygraph.com users, I'm looking to connect w/ others there @wormsinmysalad.

My favorites I read this yr were by #LouiseErdrich, #RufiThorpe, #HelenSimonson, #FredrikBackman,
@morgantalty.bsky.social @katemanne.bsky.social, @angiethomas.bsky.social and @madelinemiller.bsky.social

#BookSky💙📚

01.01.2025 12:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Best of 2024: @morgantalty.bsky.social

Listen: www.writersbone.com/podcastsarch... @tinhouse.bsky.social

29.12.2024 16:50 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Fire Exit a book by Morgan Talty From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life--...

For your sandwich generation eldest sibling with two family group chats (one for everyone, and one to process the the dysfunction of the other) who wants to start a book club because they can't find a therapist in their rural town: Fire Exit, by @morgantalty.bsky.social

bookshop.org/p/books/fire...

18.12.2024 19:09 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Fire Exit – Morgan Talty A TIME, The New Yorker, ELLE, NPR, Harper’s Bazaar Best Book of the Year. Finalist 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award. Longlisted for 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. “Utterly consuming. . . . Fire Exit absolutely smolders.”—Tommy Orange.

Today's Book: Fire Exit - Morgan Talty
@Morgan_J_Talty
@morgantalty.bsky.social
@Tin_House
@BNBuzz
#bookoftheday

12.12.2024 05:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s almost Thanksgiving, and we’re getting in the Turkey Day mood with this story by Morgan Talty (@morgantalty.bsky.social): www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-...

#NarrativeMagazine #Narrative #holidayread #holidaywriting #holidaystory #Thanksgivingstory

27.11.2024 17:40 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Green background featuring the And Other Stories ampersand logo and a quote, in black text, from Michael Donkor's Guardian review of Morgan Talty's novel Fire Exit. The quote reads: 'Lean, serious impressive ... Talty's prose is exacting and balanced.'

Green background featuring the And Other Stories ampersand logo and a quote, in black text, from Michael Donkor's Guardian review of Morgan Talty's novel Fire Exit. The quote reads: 'Lean, serious impressive ... Talty's prose is exacting and balanced.'

‘Lean, serious, impressive … Talty’s prose is exacting and balanced … it bristles with fiercely internalised feeling and enigmatic tension.’

Michael Donkor reviews Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social for @theguardian.com.

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

26.11.2024 11:12 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Books We Love Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

❤️🔥Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social is one of @npr.org's Best Books of the Year!

"Saying goodbye to these characters was like waving goodbye to a friend after a too-short visit: wistful but grateful for the time together."

apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

25.11.2024 15:14 — 👍 33    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Anthologies from @shanehawk.com and @morgantalty.bsky.social and @sgj.bsky.social and @tvayyyy.bsky.social and more!

25.11.2024 14:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies

‘The heart-wrenching tale of a man’s exile from his community. What makes a culture, the book asks: is it blood, or the bonds of love and protection?’

Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social is one of the best books of 2024, as chosen by @economist.com 🔥

25.11.2024 12:30 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Fire Exit by Morgan Talty review – secrets and lies in Maine The virtues of truth-telling are explored in this tale of one man’s need to confront and reveal his past

‘Lean, serious, impressive … Talty’s prose is exacting and balanced … it bristles with fiercely internalised feeling and enigmatic tension.’

Michael Donkor reviews Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social for @theguardian.com ✨
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

19.11.2024 11:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Fire Exit Giveaway Win an advanced readers copy of Fire Exit by Morgan Talty A Harpers Bazaar Best Book of 2024 • An Electric Literature Best Book of Spring • A Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, Debutiful, Th…

Check out LitHub for a chance to win an early galley of
🔥 FIRE EXIT by @morgantalty.bsky.social !

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07.05.2024 14:15 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Love seeing two Tin House titles on Electric LIt's Best Books of Spring According to Indie Booksellers — The Skunks by Fiona Warnick & Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social!🩷❤️

electricliterature.com/the-best-boo...

12.04.2024 14:52 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Want to read an early copy of debut novel 🔥FIRE EXIT by @morgantalty.bsky.social?

Goodreads has a giveaway right now -- enter here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

18.03.2024 18:40 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tommy Orange Refuses to Be Your Tour Guide to Native Life The author of 'Wandering Stars' goes deep with Esquire on addiction, telling true stories through fiction, and writing against "literary tourism."

More non Natives talking about Wandering Stars than Natives. But here’s Tommy and I talking about his book—two of the many indigenous writers out there telling the necessary stories.

Thanks Esquire!

www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

04.03.2024 04:17 — 👍 45    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Love seeing Summer titles Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social + Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams on Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024!⭐

lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

04.01.2024 15:19 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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Santa came!

25.12.2023 18:20 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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👀Our Summer 24 catalog is here!

Check out our upcoming May - August 2024 titles!

Featuring: #FionaWarnick #Shze-HuiTjoa @morgantalty.bsky.social #ClaireFuller #JoyWilliams
@alering.bsky.social #SaraHerchenroether @lenavalencia.bsky.social @cerena.bsky.social

✨Read more: bit.ly/TinHouseSumm...

27.11.2023 18:25 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Are you there, Bluesky? It’s me, Morgan.

02.11.2023 01:07 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a great book!!!

02.11.2023 01:06 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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