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Emma Copley Eisenberg

@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
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writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Newsletter (paid): Summer book recommendations that are real books! Feat. @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social @catherinelacey.bsky.social @miamckenzie.bsky.social + more buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
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Summer Reading Recommendations That Are Real Books
In case you missed literary drama among the many other far graver, existential dramas and traumas of yesterday the TLDR is that The Chicago Sun Times and at...
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This was so fun! I talked about Tone-Bone by @bleakhousing.bsky.social Darryl by @jackieess.bsky.social and Housemates by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
TODAY! I will be finishing my coffee, packing a bag, and heading to Philadelphia for a reading with the glorious and wise @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social at Wooden Shoe Books! 7 PM, Philadelphia friends please come through; I am excited to see you!
A/S/L tour continues April 4 in Philadelphia at Wooden Shoe Books on conversation with Emma Copley Eisenberg!

Next is MICHIGAN dear friends in Kalamazoo and the Ann Arbor regions please be on notice!
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Stephanie Feldman @sbfeldman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Important questions and research from @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social about the future of the Free Library, and literary community, in Philly.
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Why are none of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Author Events free anymore? | Opinion
Though the costs may seem cheap, the fees and other changes create an unnecessary barrier to entry for one of the library’s most popular and widely accessible programs.
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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
TODAY: in which I travel north on the A/S/L tour to Brattleboro VT and Brooks Memorial Library, where I will be talking to Imogen Binnie <3 and also visiting the excellent Everyone's Books! And maybe going for a nice run! We will see! Anything can happen; I will be listening to B. S.'s "Tracks"
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Adrien Brody’s face is v handsome but his speech was SO BORING and milque toast and self indulgent imho
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
on the house hunt in south philly, looking at the houses we don’t want that are going under contract like, good for you little ugly house, every house deserves love
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Write Now Philly @writenowphilly.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Here's our newest book review! It's of Emma Copley Eisenberg's novel HOUSEMATES. This was written by our student intern Van Dang. Read it here: writenowphilly.com/if-the-city-... Also, give Emma a follow @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social!
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If The City Could Talk: A Tribute to Queer Love, Art, and Philadelphia - Write Now Philly
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Housemates is a charming and extrospective dissection of what it means to connect with others—through love, through art, through walls. The novel follows Bernie and Leah, a pai...
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social talks to @paullisicky.bsky.social about Joni Mitchell and the relationship between songwriting and nonfiction.
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Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction
What a life-giving joy is a new book from Paul Lisicky! People say that flippantly all the time but in this case it’s really true: life-giving because Lisicky’s work is an aliveness factory, pumpin…
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Kathy Daneman @kathy-daneman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Starting my week with a conversation between two of my favorite writers, @paullisicky.bsky.social and @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social. lithub.com/paul-lisicky...
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Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction
What a life-giving joy is a new book from Paul Lisicky! People say that flippantly all the time but in this case it’s really true: life-giving because Lisicky’s work is an aliveness factory, pumpin…
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
alas I have quit writing sad fictions to become a nail tech
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I cannot overstate how revelatory I found Liz Moore being willing to talk about her regrets over the way she wrote the fat character in her second novel. To see a writer at this level acknowledge harm caused. Plus her thoughts on plot changed everything for me open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...?
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Liz Moore has not lost the plot
The master of literary mysteries talks constructing a story and how she would write the fat character in her second novel differently now.
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The ultimate white woman struggle is “I hate bangs!” And then two months later “I miss my bangs!”
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Everyone in Philly signing every email “go birds” is giving me life. “Here is your contract, go birds!”
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Question for the parental pals: is there a best/better time of year as a mom/parent to leave your kid for a week for a writing retreat? Or times to avoid? I’m guessing not summer…
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I am the only person on the planet I guess who thinks Severance the TV show is…not good? I just don’t understand it’s appeal! Feels so cold and lifeless to me with poorly developed characters
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Why hello it’s ebook season for rotting on the couch and Housemates is only $1.99 today on all e book platforms. Personally I’m a kobo girlie but you do you www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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Housemates ebook by Emma Copley Eisenberg - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Housemates A Novel" by Emma Copley Eisenberg available from Rakuten Kobo. **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly o...
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If I never again hear the phrase “lays bare” it will be too soon
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I wrote about a certain kind of Jewish white woman not okayness. It’s me, we’re not ok open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...
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The Jewish American Princess 👑 is not ok
I read "The Official J.A.P. Handbook" so you don't have to
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Finally in my Tori Amos era
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives. Eee!
Publishers Marketplace deal report for my novel, BEINGS, being published by Bloomsbury. It reads:
Author of ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS Ilana Masad's BEINGS, braiding together an account of the first American alien abductees, who claimed to have encountered ETs in the New Hampshire mountains in 1961, with the letters of a forgotten lesbian science-fiction writer and the frantic observations of a modern-day archivist obsessed with both these stories, to Mo Crist at Bloomsbury, for publication in fall 2025, by Eric Simonoff at William Morris Endeavor (NA).
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Who has written the great American novel about teeth/the dentist or will I have to do everything myself
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
this winter, may I be like Frederick
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Here are my favorite reads of 2024. I would also include the Kafka I read this year, but I'll probably make a post just about that sickly little complainer soon. I read so many knockouts this year. It was such a comfort. I love books. Thank you to all these fabulous writers.
Me holding a tall stack of books and smiling. The list of books will be in a reply to the post. Me holding up Nate Lippens's novel RIPCORD
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Hehe 🎀 Emma’s List of 2024 Bookish Superlatives 🎀. Most Opinionated, Funniest, Saddest, Most Disappointing, & Most Fatphobic For Literally No Reason are categories!! 👀 open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...
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Superlatives
My "most" (but NOT best) books of 2024
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 06/12/2024
The moment you’ve all been waiting for: EL’s best novels of 2024! This year’s list includes books from Marie-Helene Bertino, @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social , Kaveh Akbar, and more! electricliterature.com/electric-lits-best-novels-of-2024
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Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2024 - Electric Literature
Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Kaveh Akbar, and Emma Copley Eisenberg are among this year’s most celebrated novels
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Loving how @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social approaches the year end list (but now I have, again, way too many books I want to read!!) open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...
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Superlatives
My "most" (but NOT best) books of 2024
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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
💛 Don't miss out on our 2024 Postcard Auction, featuring bestselling authors like Emma Copley Eisenberg (@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social), author of HOUSEMATES and THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL! 🌈 Bid on Eisenberg or another favorite author at buff.ly/3CLIlZ6
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Kathy Daneman @kathy-daneman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Essays @awestenfeld.bsky.social published by my authors in Esquire in the past year or so. 1) How “Right” and “Wrong” Ways to Be Queer Are Changing Fiction by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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How “Right” and “Wrong” Ways to Be Queer Are Changing Fiction
Correcting and policing queer virtuousness has become all too common. But in books, queer writers exhausted by this morality are having fun pushing back.
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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Today & Tomorrow! I'm at the Miami Book Fair chatting with the incredible Nico Lang (American Teenager) on "Portraits of Life in a Gendered Body" Sat at 1pm, then Sun at 11am catch "Coming of Age & Coming Out" with @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social & August Thompson!
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I and everyone I know are not at the end of our ropes because there is no rope! Instead there is just a trampoline and someone keeps bouncing on it as we lie on our backs and get catapulted into the air over and over again
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Adam Vitcavage @vitcavage.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you ever re-Sky one of my Blues, this is it! THE BEST DEBUT BOOKS OF 2024 Click this link 👉 debutiful.net/2024/11/18/t...
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you
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Andrea Lawlor @anderlawlor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
TONIGHT! 11/18 @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social in conversation with @susanstinson.bsky.social at Forbes Library. 6:30pm Eastern. Also on youtube! forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/129326... 2/6
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"Housemates" - Author Emma Copley Eisenberg in conversation with Susan Stinson
Forbes Library welcomes Emma Copley Eisenberg for discussion of her book Housemates as well as embodiment and fat liberation in fiction. She will be joined in conversation by Susan...
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’m participating in The Common’s author postcard auction! This auction helps support the magazine, which publishes writing with a strong sense of place and nurtures emerging writers. Bid on a handwritten note from me here <3 event.auctria.com/954315bb-5c3...
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Can someone explain why every book, including nonfiction, is now “a novel”? Journalists, students etc…
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Not me putting up my christmas tree now just to feel something
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
💞😭💞😭
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Now is not the time to abandon our creative projects about ideas and people that make the world richer and more truthful and more reflective of our communities. They want us to do that, that is their goal. We will not do it.
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What is the therapy I need for the rush I feel when helping old people do technology
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
"In areas in which you are very smart you might try writing history or criticism; where you are kind of dumb, perplexed, write a story or a novel, depending on the depth and breadth of your dumbness.” -- Grace Paley
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Being in Florida hits different now
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Thrilled to see Housemates named a Kirkus Best Book of 2024! Tysm to all their editors incl @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2024...
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Best of 2024 | Kirkus Reviews
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Do you or someone you know have a book out in 2025 that has a Philly connection? (Author lives here or is from here, the book is set here) <3
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
Thrilled to have been able to talk to @frumpenberg.bsky.social about her gorgeous first book of fiction, HOUSEMATES, for the LA Review of Books. We had such an incredible talk <3 lareviewofbooks.org/article/noth...
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Nothing Happens Nowhere | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ilana Masad interviews Emma Copley Eisenberg about her first novel, “Housemates.”
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Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
we had to reschedule, BUT we’ve got a new date! on monday, 7/1 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, i’ll be talking to our beloved @frumpenberg.bsky.social on Show Us Your Desk, ✨live✨ from @therumpus.bsky.social IG! mark yer cals and join us for yet another jolly convo 💚
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cmcrockford.bsky.social @cmcrockford.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
Blue Stoop summer classes with @frumpenberg.bsky.social @kristenarnett.bsky.social @merrittk.com Kay Gabriel and way more!
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Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Have reached part of book tour where I have 11 seltzers open at all times and am finally listening to brat???
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