Hear about DESPERATE BODIES from the author herself!
Introducing DESPERATE BODIES by Lydia Mathis ☁️
With surprising turns and a touch of the supernatural, DESPERATE BODIES shines a light on what we’re willing to do to ourselves and to others in service of our desires.
Out 9/15!
https://groveatlantic.com/book/desperate-bodies/
Quan Barry fans, mark your calendars now for Saturday, April 18 at 5:30 PM! She's attending Sun Library Foundation's Love Your Library Gala ❤️
RSVP here:
https://bit.ly/412TihA
Dennis Cooper's award-winning cult classic, CLOSER, now has a gorgeous new cover and an introduction by cultural critic Lynne Tillman!
This reissue comes out 5/26.
More info here: https://groveatlantic.com/book/closer-dennis-cooper/
Proud! Lauren Francis-Sharma’s brilliant CASUALTIES OF TRUTH makes the list! 🎉🎉🎉 @laurenfsharma.bsky.social @groveatlantic.bsky.social
293: How Do Words Get into the Dictionary?
@stefanfatsis.bsky.social, author of ‘Unabridged,' shares with Bob Garfield a little-known, rigorous process — that has no guarantee of success.
🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic...
#lexiconvalley #podcast @groveatlantic.bsky.social
4/9 at 7:30 PM | In her latest book, environmental journalist Terry Tempest Williams introduces readers to The Glorians – overlooked bits of nature that teach us about the importance of wonder in the seemingly ordinary.
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/NyNpYlo
"After reading this, you’ll look for more Glorians.” @latimes.com on Terry Tempest Williams new book, THE GLORIANS.
Prepare to be thoroughly entertained by this amazing Q&A with Terry Tempest Williams, author of THE GLORIANS, in @orionmagazine.bsky.social!
We are absolutely thrilled that HEART THE LOVER has been selected as a finalist for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!
"[A] big-hearted, off-center novel . . . Despite the screwball setup, The Hitch is, as much as anything, a moving meditation on loneliness, longing and familial short leashes." @wsj.com
THE GLORIANS (out now) is "a guide for how to live in today’s tumultuous times" in this BookPage review.
Come see @oliverradclyffe.bsky.social on an LGBTQIA Life Panel with Komail Aijazuddin, Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Chloé Caldwell, and Jerry Portwood for @opensecretsmag.bsky.social Live!
May 2nd at 11:10am.
Tickets below:
https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-open-secrets-live
We are deeply saddened by the death of António Lobo Antunes, a brilliant author whose innovative and experimental work often reflected the internal rot of Portuguese colonialism and the ruling class.
Book lovers and wordsmiths, mark your calendars! @stefanfatsis.bsky.social, author of UNABRIDGED, is lecturing for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle on July 10th at 2pm.
Get your tickets now!
JOHN OF JOHN is included in @nytimes.com list of spring books they're excited about! We love to see it ❤️
292: Look It Up! The Story of the Dictionary
‘Unabridged’ author @StefanFatsis.bsky.social and Bob Garfield on lexicography and the heiress with history’s best collection of dictionaries.
🎧Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic...
#lexiconvalley #podcast @groveatlantic.bsky.social
Keep your eyes peeled for this recently acquired debut novel 👀 THIS IS MY IDEA OF FUN by Georgia Elander explores obsession, shame, and chosen family!
33 PLACE BRUGMANN is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards in the Book Club Award category! 🥳
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/75th-national-jewish-book-award-winners
"Winterson uses her imagination to offer us a world better than our own."
Read the full review of Jeanette Winterson's ONE ALADDIN TWO LAMPS in @wirobooks.bsky.social here:
"Crackling with incendiary themes and theses, this account of life under authoritarian siege is fiercely local and incontestably universal, harrowing and mutinously entertaining: a sure-fire Booker contender."
@theguardian.com on REBEL ENGLISH ACADEMY!
“One of the most original and important books on Africa in years. Especially in the dazzling first section, almost every page bristles with ideas and challenges to lazy (often prejudiced) thinking.”
Excellent review of HOW AFRICA WORKS in @financialtimes.com!
"A panoramic account of the fight to end slavery."
Fantastic review of THE GREAT RESISTANCE by @carriegibson.bsky.social in @theguardian.com!
Clea Simon on James Lee Burke's latest, "The Hadacol Boogie." @groveatlantic.bsky.social. At times shambolic, this rich, rambling novel hits on many themes that will be familiar to fans of the 89-year-old author.
artsfuse.org/324006/book-...
Two decorated detectives must put their careers on the line to find the link between three seemingly-unrelated homicides in LEO by @deonmeyer.bsky.social – the latest thriller in the No.1 internationally bestselling #BennyGriessel series.
Out now in paperback from @groveatlantic.bsky.social!📚🦁
This Black History Month is a great time to explore authors as well as books, so we asked the questions everyone wants to know in this Q&A with @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, David Wright Faladé, and @tochitruestory.bsky.social!
"Love is at its essence the effort of dignity, and dignity you must give, to the best of your ability, and to the very last."
Stephanie Sy-Quia, author of A PRIVATE MAN, on love and caregiving 💜 read it here:
Happy Valentine's Day! To celebrate, you should read this amazing article that Lily King wrote on love ❤️
