Martha Wydysh

Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.

🥹congrats again, Allen!! So deserved!!

I am so pleased to share the cover of my debut story collection, I Am the Ghost Here, out 2/24/26 (now available for preorder).

Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

📵 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📵 We are so excited to share the cover of NO CONTACT: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo ⭐

NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now:
books.catapult.co/books/no-con...

So excited to be working with @amystuber.com !! ✨✨

The Friendly Nazis Next Door Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w...

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Trying Times ‘As a good investor, she could compare patterns and connect links that others might overlook. And now, in the matter with her daughters, she was applying the same skills she brought to her investments...

‘Here she was at sixty-one still groping in the dark, dodging calls from her daughters and seeking comfort from her driver, a man with insufficient expectations, a man with no expectation beyond the day ahead.’

Fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.

granta.com/trying-times/

A Lack of Shared Reality in Elaine Hsieh Chou’s "Where Are You Really From" - Chicago Review of Books We rarely ask someone directly, “Who are you?” but there are certainly attempts to triangulate an answer—What do you do? Where do you live? Where are you from? The assumptions based on their response ...

"'Where Are You Really From' sparkles in the way it infuses dark concepts with whimsy and detail."

@ansonjtong.com's review of "Where Are You Really From" by Elaine Hsieh Chou (@penguinpress.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/19/a...

At Skylight: Kashana Cauley presents THE PAYBACK w/ Rufi Thorpe When Jada Williams is relentlessly pursued by the Debt Police, she is left with no choice but to take down her student loan company with the help of two mall coworkers—from the author of the “lethally...

Tonight!

The Payback, a novel, by Kashana Cauley

The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.

A Spicy Heist Story for the Student Loan Era

Ha ha, I wrote a novel that got the NYT to support Luigi

YouTube video by Itinerant Literate Books Henry Henry by Allen Bratton - Interview with the Author

Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT

Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...

Review: Messy L.A. millennial plots deliverance from her student loan debt in 'The Payback' The former 'Daily Show With Trevor Noah' writer takes aim at a vexing problem — student loan debt — in 'The Payback,' a female-driven satire set in L.A.

The Payback got a very nice review in the LA Times.

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It is a dream to be included in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social alongside so many wonderful writers.

31 Novels Coming this Summer

Thanks, NYT! “Three down-on-their-luck mall workers, on the lam from a draconian new force known as the Debt Police, hatch a plan to live many a millennial’s dream: an “Ocean’s Eleven”-esque heist of their student loan company to erase their debts and exact revenge.”

HENRY HENRY is now in PAPERBACK!
It's the debauched party you don't want to miss. Available anywhere books are sold and at unnamedpress.com

Summer Reads 2025 from Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly Best Books 2024, Ayşegül Savaş, Yasmin Zaher, Clyo Mendoza, Sally Rooney, Richard Price, Maxim Loskutoff, Joseph Earl Thomas, Vinson Cunningham, Alan Hollinghurst, Fernanda Trías, Alexis Wright, Tony ...

Pumped that The Payback made it into Publishers Weekly’s Summer 2025 Fiction picks: “The class war is on in Cauley’s blistering heist novel.”

Revealing the new paperback cover for HENRY HENRY by Allen Bratton!

An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new talent

15 May 2025

The finalists for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction are Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Godwin by Joseph O'Neill (Pantheon), James by Percival Everett (Doubleday), My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House), and Us Fools by Nora Lange (Two Dollar Radio).

We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction! Congratulations to all of the finalists.

Deal announcement! BROKEN FREE: WRITERS ON #ESTRANGEMENT will be published in 2026. I’m thrilled to work with @catapultbooks.bsky.social on this important book, with an amazing list of contributors. So grateful to my agent @mlwyd.bsky.social and everyone who has supported this project. 1/

Congrats to @kimsamek.bsky.social 👻!!!

If you haven't yet, give a listen to the new episode of the Granta podcast, featuring my conversation with Josie Mitchell and Leo Robson about Henry Henry and the massive continuity of dukes