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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 10/03/2026
Happy pub day to @tkiramadden.bsky.social! “I hope reading it feels like staring at the sun,” Madden says about her new novel, Whidbey (@marinerbooks.bsky.social) “I want it to feel unbearable at times because I think that is truer to how life is…” at.pw.org/CrimeAndCompassion
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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
HELL YES: "The Shape of Color," an article (WITH CRAFT PROJECT) I wrote for @paperairplane.pub's inaugural issue, has been chosen for this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology! Many thanks to guest editor @xkcd.com, @jaimealyse.bsky.social, and @marinerbooks.bsky.social!
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Paper Airplane Vol. 1 was the magazine's special debut issue, an all-volunteer collaboration by writers, artists, photographers, and puzzlemakers to raise money for USCRI (Refugees.org). The donation-...
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Cindy Crosby @phrelanzer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Happy Whipped Cream Wednesday! Lovely nonfiction account of a summer spent on a remote Norwegian island w/women who care for declining populations of eider ducks. Pair it w/java topped w/whip & cinnamon (don’t forget the cookie!) & have a great week. #coffee #books @marinerbooks.bsky.social #nature
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Devi S. Laskar @devislaskar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thrilled & grateful to see my third novel MIDNIGHT, AT THe WAR, out now! Thank you @marinerbooks.bsky.social #RakiaClark @briandef.bsky.social #ReikoDavis
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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Orphan Train author Christina Baker Kline offers a daring and deeply empathetic tale of the sisters who married conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874). It’s remarkable. @marinerbooks.bsky.social
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The Foursome by Christina Baker Kline
Orphan Train author Kline offers a daring and deeply empathetic tale of the sisters who married conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bu...
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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
WHIDBEY by debut novelist T. KIRA MADDEN via @marinerbooks.bsky.social comes out tomorrow: #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/03/whid...
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WHIDBEY, evoking a planet-scale beauty spot to soothe and smooth the pain of victimhood
WHIDBEY T. KIRA MADDEN Mariner Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, preorder now for delivery on 10 March 2026 Ra...
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Mona Angéline @creativerunnings.com · 26/01/2026
A story about the damage our youth incurs when we prioritize competition over mental and physical health. Thank you @harpercollins.bsky.social and @marinerbooks.bsky.social for the #ARC. creativerunnings.com/books/this-is-not-about-running-mary-cain #BookReview #BookRecommendations #amreading
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Miguel Peck @miguelpeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Okay… so this was awesome. #AnnieBot #SierraGreer @marinerbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
NEW PODCAST EPISODE! Listen to Anna Kovatcheva discuss her debut novel, SHE MADE HERSELF A MONSTER, with @vitcavage.bsky.social wherever you get your podcasts from. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/08vt... @marinerbooks.bsky.social
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
dug out these photos of little me at the Palisades home I was born into, lived in until I was around five, and that burned down in the Palisades Fire. in FIRESTORM I write all about my memories of the house and seeing it in ruins, but I hadn’t found these photos until last week.
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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
★ The propulsive debut novel from T Kira Madden, author of the memoir 'Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls', explores the aftermath of child sexual abuse. This is unforgettable. @marinerbooks.bsky.social buff.ly/XxWyVNc
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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I reviewed Alex Hutchinson's THE EXPLORER'S GENE (@marinerbooks.bsky.social) for The Turned Page Review; Hutchinson digs into why we explore, why we should explore, and what it means to explore; thanks to @nowatnpl.bsky.social: turnedpagereview.substack.com/p/review-of-...
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Review of Alex Hutchinson's The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
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Victor De Anda @victordeanda.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Grateful and honored to be part of this great collection. Makes a great gift for the mystery/suspense/noir reader in your life! Big thanks to @donwinslow.bsky.social, @stephcha.bsky.social and @edridgley.bsky.social. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social Get your copy today: bit.ly/4drzg5P
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BookPage @readbookpage.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
In his riveting FIRESTORM, NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff recounts his time reporting on the front lines of the 2025 LA wildfires. @marinerbooks.bsky.social
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Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Very excited to have received my copy of the new book by @brookenewman.bsky.social Already deep into this timely, deeply researched and truly significant work.
Picture of the cover of the book The Crown’s Silence, by Brooke Newman,
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Mariner Books @marinerbooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Just dropping this source material here for anyone paying attention. bit.ly/4qPvI2Y
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
some thoughts on the release of my new book, FIRESTORM. jacobsoboroff.substack.com/p/firestorm
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Firestorm
My new book.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
thank you Spotify. listen to FIRESTORM now: open.spotify.com/genre/0JQ5IM...
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I spy the US cover of Louise Wallace's Ash, out in May 26 from @marinerbooks.bsky.social! www.harpercollins.com/products/ash...
US cover of Louise Wallace's debut novel, Ash
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Aahh it’s release day for BASFF! Look at this gorgeous cover 😍 Thanks again to @gavingrant.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social for pubbing ”The Witch Trap” in LCRW, and to @johnjosephadams.com and @nnedi.bsky.social for selecting it for this book 😭🥹🩵 @marinerbooks.bsky.social
The cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Nnedi Okorafor: lots is colorful circles on a black background. The book open to the page that contains my story, “The Witch Trap”
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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 21/10/2025
BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025, edited by me and guest editor @nnedi.bsky.social is now available! See the cover and full TOC in the attached image. This is volume 11 (!!!) of BASFF. www.harpercollins.com/products/the... @marinerbooks.bsky.social
2025 Table of Contents

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 contains the following stories.
FANTASY

    Look at the Moon by Dominique Dickey
    from Lightspeed
    The Witch Trap by Jennifer Hudak
    from Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
    Ushers by Joe Hill
    from Amazon Original Stories
    Country Birds by Kij Johnson
    from Sunday Morning Transport
    The Wonders of the World by ‘Pemi Aguda
    from Ghostroots: Stories
    Also, the Cat by Rachel Swirsky
    from Reactor
    What Happened to the Crooners by Russell Nichols
    from Nightmare
    The River Judge by S.L. Huang
    from Reactor
    A Stranger Knocks by Tananarive Due
    from Uncanny
    An Ode to the Minor Arcana in a Triplet Flow by Xavier Garcia
    from Death in the Mouth, Vol. 2

SCIENCE FICTION

    The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics by Adam-Troy Castro
    from Lightspeed
    The Weight of Your Own Ashes by Carlie St. George
    from Clarkesworld
    We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read by Caroline M. Yoachim
    from Lightspeed
    Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
    from Clarkesworld
    The Forgetting Room by Kathryn H. Ross
    from FIYAH
    The Audit by Olivie Blake
    from Januaries
    Yarns by Susan Palwick
    from Asimov’s
    Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune
    from In the Lives of Puppets
    Fuck Them Kids by Tatiana Obey
    from FIYAH
    The Sort by Thomas Ha
    from Clarkesworld
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1977khv.bsky.social @1977khv.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Today’s furlough read Thank you!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social @tim-weiner.bsky.social @shaneharris.bsky.social
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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025 (eds @nnedi.bsky.social & @johnjosephadams.com) is out today! Link: tinyurl.com/3asj9f26 This volume includes my IGNYTE-AWARD WINNING story "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" @marinerbooks.bsky.social
On the right, a book (w/text: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2025, edited by Nnedi Okorafor) with geometric dot pattern design on the cover. On the left, text that says "Featuring my story "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" On Sale October 21"
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It’s truly a dream to have my story “Angelo” selected by Celeste Ng for this year’s edition of Best American Short Stories! Special thanks to Nicole Lamy and @marinerbooks.bsky.social and to Laila Lalami and Ladette Randolph for selecting it for @pshares.bsky.social (where it first appeared)!
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xavier garcia @xaviergarcia.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Yooooo I can't believe this day is finally here! A story of mine is going to be in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 by @marinerbooks.bsky.social of HarperCollins! One of the Big 5! I'm tripping out, man! Buy the book and read my horror love letter to hip hop!
Best American Sci fi and Fantasy - featuring my story!
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Carlie St. George @mygeekblasphemy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It’s Publication Day for BASFF 2025! So grateful to be included in such an amazing anthology with so many fantastic writers. Thank you to Nnedi Okorafor and John Joseph Adams, and also to Neil Clarke for first publishing this story in @clarkesworldmagazine.com @marinerbooks.bsky.social
My copy of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 stands next to Marlowe, a black cat with green eyes who is cat loafed on the carpet. (My cats weren’t being not being terribly cooperative models today, but I tried.)The first page of my science fiction story “The Weight of Your Own Ashes” in BASFF.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Happy pub day to this year’s edition of Best American Science & Nature Writing, out now from @marinerbooks.bsky.social. Thanks to editors extraordinaire Susan Orlean and @jaimealyse.bsky.social for including my @smithsonianmag.bsky.social feature on the art and science of wildlife tracking.
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Khalil Abusharekh @kabusharekh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Available for sale now. I love how it felt in my hand. Many more stories to come. @yourimpossiblevoice.com @marinerbooks.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi
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Jodie | That Happy Reader @thathappyreader.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Can’t Wait Wednesday - Whidbey by T. Kira Madden @tkiramadden @tkiramadden.bsky.social @marinerbooks @marinerbooks.bsky.social @harperaudio #Whidbey #CantWaitWednesday bluemoodcafe.com/2025/10/22/c...
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Can’t Wait Wednesday – Whidbey by T. Kira Madden @tkiramadden @tkiramadden.bsky.social @marinerbooks @marinerbooks.bsky.social @harperaudio #Whidbey #CantWaitWednesday
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have…
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Victor De Anda @victordeanda.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Big congrats to all the great authors who made the BAMS '25 Distinguished List! Get your copy today: bit.ly/4drzg5P @marinerbooks.bsky.social #bams25
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We're thrilled to see so many HarperCollins titles among Amazon Editors’ Best Books of the last 25 years. Explore the collection: bit.ly/3WUcDPW
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
hi from the studio — recording the audiobook for FIRESTORM, out January 6 and available for preorder now. cannot wait for you to read or listen. preorder now: a.co/d/j9eGjHv
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
My new book -- AUTOCRATS VS DEMOCRATS -- is out next week! I write about the struggle between autocrats and democratic forces between countries and within them. Preorder now and save a few dollars: www.harpercollins.com/products/aut...
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Autocrats vs. Democrats
\"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by C...
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Mariner Books @marinerbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Congratulations to Angela Flournoy! Her novel, The Wilderness, has been longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction. bit.ly/angelaflourn...
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
In this week’s PEN Ten, Yiming Ma tells us about his debut novel, These Memories Do Not Belong to Us (@marinerbooks.bsky.social, 2025), which is set in a distant future and follows a narrator who inherits a collection of memories banned by the government. Read more: pen.org/yiming-ma-pe...
Photo of author Yiming Ma alongside the cover of his book "These Memories Do Not Belong to Us", accompanied by a quote about the importance of shared memory and resistance. PEN America logo appears at bottom right.
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Birds. Words finished and edited! And we have a title now... Coming May-June 2026! @marinerbooks.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social
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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Our latest podcast episode features Yiming Ma discussing THESE MEMORIES DO NOT BELONG TO US! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Vh6... @marinerbooks.bsky.social
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
An appreciation for a book of nonfiction with a novel's sense of scene, setting, and character: Home of the Happy by Jordan LaHaye Fontenot (@marinerbooks.bsky.social). Read @lisaampleman.bsky.social 's thoughts about it on our site. Link in first comment:
White text on a black and gray background: "What We're Reading." The cover of the book Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie, with a bayou at sunset, is on the left, and the CR logo in white on the bottom right. Just above that is this quote in a white rectangle:
"Though the focus is on a murder, the investigation, and the court charges, Home of the Happy goes further than the typical true-crime book, with careful attention to scene, setting, and character."
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Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
My @ala-booklist.bsky.social review of Picket Line, a "lost novella" by the great Elmore Leonard. @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Written in 1970 and unpublished until now, this “lost novella” from Elmore Leonard (1925–2013) finds the author continuing a transition from Westerns to contemporary crime fiction. The story, which involves a clash between a Texas melon farm owner and a violent union operator, is vintage Leonard: the writing is unadorned, the dialogue sparse, and the characters richly detailed. The book is as good as anything Leonard wrote later in his career, when he was turning out one classic after another. This isn’t a curiosity, published simply to trade on the author’s name; this is a work of fiction that demands to be read. The fascinating introduction, written by Leonard biographer C.M. Kushins (Cooler than Cool, 2025), explores the novella’s rather tortuous history and answers some key questions, such as why Picket Line bears more than a passing similarity to Mr. Majestyk, the 1974 Charles Bronson film for which Leonard wrote the screenplay (and also the novelization). A gift for Elmore Leonard’s fans, and a wonderful introduction to the author—in case there’s anyone left who hasn’t read his work.
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A master biographer tells her own poignant story. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/a... @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky
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Victor De Anda @victordeanda.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Grateful to be part of this TOC! Friendly reminder that my story "Bad Man Down" is part of BAMS2025 from @marinerbooks.bsky.social and is available for pre-order now: bit.ly/4drzg5P
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I summarize my new book, AUTOCRATS VS. DEMOCRATS in 90 seconds here: www.facebook.com/reel/8119804...
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AUTOCRATS VS. DEMOCRATS by FSI Director Michael McFaul comes out this October! 📕 Learn more and pre-order here: https://ow.ly/JlEo50WEMN2 | Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
AUTOCRATS VS. DEMOCRATS by FSI Director Michael McFaul comes out this October! 📕 Learn more and pre-order here: https://ow.ly/JlEo50WEMN2.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Like this review of Autocrats vs. Democrats from Kirkus Reviews Money line: "An insightful and vigorous argument for democracy in a world of new threats—not all foreign." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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AUTOCRATS VS. DEMOCRATS | Kirkus Reviews
Democracy now, more than ever.
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HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
From cozy rom-coms to moving memoirs, explore our collection of highly anticipated books to add to your fall reading list. 🍁📖 bit.ly/3WSsLBd
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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Journalist Jeff Chang recounts the life of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in this panoramic biography. This definitive account cements Chang as a preeminent chronicler of Asian American history. @marinerbooks.bsky.social
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Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang
Journalist Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop) recounts the life of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in this panoramic biography. Bo...
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Samuel Jensen @samuelmjensen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
drenched in sweat to announce that my debut novel, MARCH OF THE WAR PRIESTS, is forthcoming from @marinerbooks.bsky.social. utmost thanks to @hafizah.bsky.social and Maya and Caroline at Mariner
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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We’re exactly 6 months out from the US launch of THE CROWN’S SILENCE with @marinerbooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social —available for pre-order now. I know the world is a mess but at least we have books 📚, & this one is a decade in the making. More here: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Cover of THE CROWN’S SILENCE
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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Elmore Leonard was a “one-man writing factory,” says biographer C. M. Kushins. “Famously, he spent the first decade of his career getting up at five in the morning and writing at least one page of fiction before he’d even allow himself to have a cup of coffee.” @marinerbooks.bsky.social
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“His Own Sense of Higher Justice”: C. M. Kushins on the Freewheeling Career of Elmore Leonard - Library of America
There are few experiences in American literature more thrilling than a sequence of Elmore Leonard dialogue. With an ear tuned to the unpretentious poetry and crackling rhythms of everyday speech, Leon...
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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
See the cover for SHE MADE HERSELF A MONSTER by Anna Kovatcheva - out February 10, 2026, from @marinerbooks.bsky.social! debutiful.net/2025/07/28/s...
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See the cover for She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva
Anna Kovatcheva’s debut novel, She Made Herself a Monster, will be published by Mariner Books on February 10, 2026. The novel is available for pre-order. Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and receive…
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