Jenny Mustard @jennymustard

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE by @jennymustard.bsky.social was chosen as a @nytimes.com editor's choice pick for the week!

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10.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

‘What a Time to Be Alive’? In Fact It Is, Two New Novels Say.

"A nuanced look at the uneven playing fields of friendship and love."

@nytimes.com reviewed WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE by @jennymustard.bsky.social! 🔥

07.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you @irishtimes.com & Doreen Finn!

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05.09.2025 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New York!

Come celebrate the US launch of What A Time To Be Alive with me and the one and only @katiekitamura.bsky.social

Tickets:
www.strandbooks.com/event11225-2...

@strandbookstore.bsky.social

07.08.2025 08:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

New podcast episode – with my brilliant friend & novelist extraordinaire @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social

We discuss our new novels, voice-driven literature & the forever thorny subject of unlikeable female characters

Find iton all major podcast apps or here:
open.spotify.com/episode/3BLI...

04.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Chairing the launch of @elainefeeney.bsky.social ’s spectacular new novel Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, I talked to so many intelligent people I felt my brain swell by osmosis.

Thank you @foylesforbooks.bsky.social for having us!

23.05.2025 13:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Tomorrow!
I’m interviewing the formidable @elainefeeney.bsky.social !

Tickets:
www.foyles.co.uk/events/elain...

@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social

20.05.2025 16:10 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

For Stylist, I wrote about female friendships on the verge of romance:

www.stylist.co.uk/relationship...

@sceptrebooks.bsky.social

12.05.2025 12:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Love to see this, thank you Rick!

09.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rick O’Shea: One of America’s smartest political minds makes a brave admission about Israel Don’t ever let anyone tell you that turning 50 is hard; turning 50 is a doddle. For me, it involved an eight-month series of arm-chancing trips to New York, Portugal and Iceland after I made sad puppy...

This week in the column, I rattle on a lot about theatre and art, hoping my editor would let me get way with it.

He did.

Recent reading includes new novels from Seán Hewitt and @jennymustard.bsky.social and the most recent series of essays from Ta-Nehisi Coates.

In Saturday's @independent.ie or:

09.05.2025 12:38 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1

Day 4 of my 7-day birthday extravaganza:
Ridiculously long brunch, crossword puzzles, two pots of Earl Grey, Swedish '40s music

05.05.2025 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tomorrow!

Nice weather, good company, a glass of wine why not

Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/its-hardba...

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30.04.2025 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thrilled to be a guest on one of my favourite podcasts:
Monocle Radio’s MEET THE WRITERS with the wonderful @georginagodwin.bsky.social

Listen to the episode:
open.spotify.com/episode/0522...

@sceptrebooks.bsky.social

29.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Tonight!
Foyles Charing Cross Road!

www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny...

@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social

28.04.2025 09:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And this is the best compliment I’ve got this year Rick!!

24.04.2025 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of the best things I've read this year. Loved it!

24.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

You are too kind Rónán thank you!

24.04.2025 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I loved this. Funny and real and interesting.

24.04.2025 14:25 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

It’s my publication day!

What a time to be alive, indeed

@sceptrebooks.bsky.social

24.04.2025 13:40 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2

So kind Rick, thank you!

22.04.2025 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is one of the best things I have read this year.

@jennymustard.bsky.social's novel of a young woman's early student life in Stockholm as she desperately wants to escape unhappy years of bullying in a small town and find meaningful relationships is exquisitely observed.

Loved it.

#BookSky

22.04.2025 12:07 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

May 1st!
With wonderful It’s Hardback Out There at favourite bookshop Libreria

Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/its-hardba...

15.04.2025 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For the Evening Standard, I wrote about Stockholm:
www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/tr...

@thelondonstandard.bsky.social

15.04.2025 08:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Join me and Dakota Warren at Foyles Charing Cross!

Tickets: www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny...

@foylesforbooks.bsky.social

14.04.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Life, eh?

variety.com/2025/film/gl...

04.04.2025 12:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

foyles charing cross! april 28th!

hope to see you:
www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny...

@foylesforbooks.bsky.social

@sceptrebooks.bsky.social

03.04.2025 16:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thank you gabriel! ✨

17.03.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it hasn’t happened until it’s on publishers marketplace

because yes! overjoyed to share that WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE will be published in the US by Pegasus this october!

heartfelt thanks to Pegasus, & to my smashing agent Peter Straus at RCW

17.03.2025 14:23 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

thank you @vintagebooks.bsky.social for sending

out in may

26.02.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i loved maggie nelson’s new book (to no one’s surprise).

written with more or less perfect emotional pitch: melancholia balanced with humour, grief and pain tempered by joy. full of warmth, wisdom, and weirdness.

26.02.2025 13:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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