Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction
Margaret Killjoy's debut novel, THE SAPLING CAGE, has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! 🤩
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The Best Debut Books of 2025 (So Far)
We’re halfway through the year, and it’s time to check in on the books that left the most significant impact on me. Every year, I keep a running list that leads to the Best Of lists. Some are title…
Thrilled to see Maria Zoccola's HELEN OF TROY, 1993 on Debutiful's list of the best debuts of 2025 so far! 🤩
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Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems
Poems
"These poems expand, complicate and enrich. . . . threading the Iliad into something wholly new."
Maria Zoccola's HELEN OF TROY, 1993 is one of NPR's favorite reads of 2025 so far!
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"I was swept up within the first few pages of this tender and richly told novel of marriage and family, connection and community. . . . A monumental achievement." —Lauren Brown, @thebookseller.com
Patrick Ryan's BUCKEYE is out 9/2!📘
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Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World Might Give You Nightmares - Reactor
Vanishing world is set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.
"Sayaka Murata is an all-time undefeated champ at exploring taboo, and her latest novel does not disappoint." —Alexis Ong, Reactor Magazine
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Thrilled to see Tommy Orange and Danzy Senna on the longlist for the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award! 🤩🤩
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The 14 Best Books of 2025 So Far
From Amy Griffin's The Tell to Katie Kitamura's Audition, these are the best books of the year so far
Ocean Vuong's THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS and Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS are on TIME Magazine's list of the 14 best books of 2025 so far! 📙📕
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The novel everyone will be talking about this fall! 🤩 We're so excited for Patrick Ryan's BUCKEYE, available September 2nd. Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/buck...
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Ancient Myth Meets Modern Poetry in “Helen of Troy, 1993”
An interview with poet Maria Zoccola about her debut collection.
"The collection is, ultimately, a story familiar to nearly everyone: an unhappy woman, a marriage in trouble, an affair, a community full of gossip. Pantheon of gods not included" — @mariazoccola.bsky.social on HELEN OF TROY, 1993
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Maria Zoccola
In which Maria Zoccola sweetens the pill.
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Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
Read Margaret Killjoy's short story in this anthology edited by Lee Mandelo, out this week with Erewhon Books!
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Congrats to our beloved client Francesca Marciano on her 2025 David di Donatello award for Best Adapted Screenplay for THE ART OF JOY 🤩
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These books prove worldbuilding is vital to sci-fi and fantasy
New books by Nova Ren Suma, Neon Yang, Emily Tesh and Sayaka Murata revel in the ways that speculative fiction rewrites reality.
"As Murata writes, 'Normality is the creepiest madness there is.' What feels at first like a fascinating thought experiment — a sexless world — slowly seeps into your skin, itchy and confounding." — @washingtonpost.com
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Moral Limits - Dissent Magazine
Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.
"Cruelty and indifference packaged in the language of care are what he cannot stand."
A review of Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS in @dissentmag.bsky.social
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3 Nerve-Shredding New Thrillers
The @nytimes.com calls Elizabeth Kaufman's thriller RUTH RUN "funny and suspenseful"!
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Claire Vaye Watkins speaking with Karen Russell about her novel GOLD FAME CITRUS for Alta Journal's California Book Club 📙
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Min Jin Lee giving her speech as the 2025 distinguished alumn at the One Story Mag literary debutante ball! 💫
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Glennon Doyle on the Book That Made Her ‘a Better Writer’
The We Can Do Hard Things author and podcaster takes ELLE’s literary survey.
"The book that I recommend over and over again..."
Rebecca Makkai's THE GREAT BELIEVERS recommended by Glennon Doyle in ELLE Magazine: www.elle.com/culture/book...
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09.05.2025 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our Favorite Books for Every Type of Mom
Need a last-minute Mother's Day gift? Check out Maria Zoccola's HELEN OF TROY, 1993 or Camilla Barnes's THE USUAL DESIRE TO KILL, both on this list of New York Times picks 💐
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The Italian edition of Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS (UN GIORNO TUTTI DIRANNO DI ESSERE STATI CONTRO) is forthcoming from Feltrinelli Editore.
Out on June 4.
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These 2 funny books give readers a reason to smile in tough times
Dorothy Parker's posthumously published collection is Poems; Camilla Barnes' debut novel is The Usual Desire to Kill. Both affirm: sharp humor can be grounded in pain.
"Droll, psychologically astute. . . The constant pleasure of reading THE USUAL DESIRE TO KILL is Barnes' unexpected language. . . very funny." — Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air @npr.org
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07.05.2025 18:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enter Desert: ‘Gold Fame Citrus’
In this newsletter, California Book Club host John Freeman writes about landscape, echoes of the past, and Claire Vaye Watkins’s radical debut novel, the May selection.
Join @altajournal.bsky.social on May 15 at 5 p.m. Pacific time, when novelist Claire Vaye Watkins will sit down with CBC host John Freeman and guest Karen Russell to discuss GOLD FAME CITRUS ✨
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07.05.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrate Mother's Day with one of these great books 💐
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