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Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The best nonfiction book I've read in a looooooong time. Book awards were invented for books like this. Scholars, take note...this is a book that unites academia and storytelling in the most thoughtful and rigorous way! Great editing from @katekilla.bsky.social and h/t @bostonglobe.com

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Another starred review! Big thanks to the anonymous Publishers Weekly reviewer who read with such attention and thoughtfulness. “Majumdar proves once again that she is a master of the moral dilemma.”

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Jessica Francis Kane @jfkane.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

New book trend: the unboxing still life. #booksky

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Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We interrupt all this dire news to announce that I HAVE A COVER OF MY NEW BOOK. It will pub in March 2026 with the @uminnpress.bsky.social . So happy to work with this great press again. And you will be happy to know that the title is not misleading--there are REAL GHOSTS in this book.

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I just read and highly recommend Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social! Ilana Masad brilliantly weaves together three stories from the early 1960s to present day about people surviving at the margins of society, alien sightings, and memory. Out in September. islandbooks.com/book/9781639...

Galley of Beings on the front counter at Island Books. The cover shows a flying saucer hovering over trees and a car.

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

First review is in and it's a starred Kirkus! Thank you to the anonymous reviewer for reading with such care and generosity, and bringing so much to the pages

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Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Rob's right: this is a sharp and thoughtful book. I'm excited to talk with Ben about it when he visits Point Reyes on August 9. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0...

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Ben Weissenbach | North to the Future

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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and I couldn’t be happier about it 🧡

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Joseph Lee @josephvlee.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

My book, Nothing More of This Land, is out today! It’s an exploration of Indigenous identity from my Wampanoag homelands on Martha’s Vineyard to Indigenous land around the world. Get yours at your favorite bookstore or via the link in my bio!! 🌊🐋

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nicole brinkley | bookseller @nebrinkley.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

hello, deeply organized and events-minded people who love independent bookstores! NAIBA is hiring a new executive director, filling the VERY BIG shoes that will be left behind by our darling eileen dengler. take a peek and see if you want to apply: www.naiba.com/news/naiba-e...

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NAIBA: Executive Director - New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It's my birthday which means everyone who likes me should pre-order my novel, BEINGS, and everyone who doesn't like me should please just not tell me that they don't like me so I can have one day where I don't have to be anxious about that www.bloomsbury.com/us/beings-97...

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Beings

From the celebrated author of All My Mother's Lovers, a new novel based on true events asks whether extraterrestrial life might be what ties us to one another,…

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Come see me on tour? Starting next week!

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My new novel, A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF, will be published by @aaknopf.bsky.social in Oct 2025! It is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. Cover design gratitude to Tyler Comrie!

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Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 02/06/2025

It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨ Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky! In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires. Thanks for being here 🙌🏽

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Shannon Palus @shanpalus.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I'm looking for pitches for science & health features for Slate! Pieces that will shift/challenge how readers see the world and how it works . My email is shannon.palus@slate.com.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Do you live in or near the Hudson Valley/NYC (or traveling-distance therefrom) and have a book coming out this fall? Do you want to read from it at a bookstore reading series? Hit me up if you do! (Will not be able to reply to every request, be forewarned)

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Love how this sentence doesn't say "TV" but you can see the TV glow on the man all the same and more vividly electricliterature.com/circular-mot...

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Very cool tidbit about the name: 'Clemens published his first piece under the byline “Mark Twain” — a call used on riverboats to indicate a safe depth of water — in 1863, when he was 27.' www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...

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A New Biography of Mark Twain Doesn’t Have Much of What Made Him Great

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Hardcovers have crash landed in a bookstore near you!

hardcover book of Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel on a granite countertop.

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Publishers in Japan host writers in their offices and give them a room to write in?! What a cool idea. From Elif Batuman's great profile of Sayaka Murata in the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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katie yee @emergencychampagne.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

baby’s first (starred!) review!! thanks to kirkus for calling MAGGIE “a funny, stirring novel about resilience.” ✨ www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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MAGGIE; OR, A MAN AND A WOMAN WALK INTO A BAR | Kirkus Reviews

A light and nimble debut novel about some of life’s most devastating events.

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

somehow, Meet Me at the Crossroads received a starred Kirkus Review

a screenshot of a starred review of meet me at the crossroads from Kirkus (a top five percent hater in the business), the tagline is a brilliant, magical tale of grief and growth. It begins "A girl contends with family, faith, and loss in a world with doors to other realms. No one knows where the doors came from. They just appeared one day, seven doors around the world that open to a magical, confusing world. Some people go through them and find wonders: plants with druglike properties, the ghosts of loved ones, healing powers. Some go through and immediately "pop." The rest can be read here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/megan-giddings/meet-me-at-the-crossroads/

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

If you’ve loved Evicted and Invisible Child. Wrenching, enthralling reporting and storytelling following an uprooted Indigenous family who must figure out life in a city settlement. I think this book is a triumph

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

New Eula Biss in @orionmagazine.bsky.social and it's (of course) a marvel, about gardening and resistance writ large orionmagazine.org/article/forc...

It isn’t easy, gardening. Any force applied to the project of making something grow is met with an array of opposing forces. This, the sensation of force meeting force, is invigorating in its way, or at least edifying. When else do you feel it, the palpable pressure of an ecosystem, the weight of other kinds of life bearing down on your own, the limits of your own will?

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This line from Michael Cunningham's DAY, so gorgeous and memorable: "The owl flies away, so effortlessly that it seems not to beat its wings at all but merely to consent to flight."

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This book sounds so intriguing chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/01/1...

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Nina McConigley @ninamcconigley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My novel HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER. January 2026 with @pantheonbooks.bsky.social

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The specific menace and danger here, the vigor of the prose on parenting and being parented. Trying to stay in a place of “public influence” to avoid violence at home. And the pair of twists at the end. I was completely captivated by this book.

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Thomas Curwen @tcurwen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thrilled to be moderating a Saturday panel @latimes.com Festival of Books. Come join me & @genoways.bsky.social & @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social & Victoria Blanco as we sleuth out these family histories.

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 26th! A fine time — a fine enough for me!! — to consider once again the value of this quirky little store. Not dollars & cents value, of course. But the sort of value that endures all the many come what mays of life. mailchi.mp/ebbookseller...

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 23/04/2025

Reminder that Personal Narrative and The Commuter are OPEN for submissions! Get your submissions in while you still can! buff.ly/znX5yZY

blue background with yellow & gold highlighting. Text: Electric Lit Submissions Call: The Commuter & Personal Narrative. Open 4/21 - 4/27 or until cap is reached. Each capped at 750 submissions. More info on EL's Submittable page

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22/04/2025

If you are in and around Washington Heights today, the neighborhood’s new indie bookstore, Fountain Bookshop & Gifts & Ice Cream, is hosting a local authors signing (including me!) at 5 PM as part of its Grand Opening week! Details in the flyer:

Poster for Fountain Bookshop’s Local Authors signing event on Tuesday, April 22 from 5-7 PM Eastern

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

in case you are in nashville this weekend i will be in conversation with lydi conklin at parnassus books this friday!!!!! come hang out

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hello––my book Underland has been adapted into a feature film & the world premiere is at Tribeca in June. It's taken 4.5 years––& the team’s created something astonishing. A documentary that's groundbreaking in form, voice & tone. I hope you might see it one day. Full account on IG (@robgmacfarlane)

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Listen to this week's podcast, “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social. buff.ly/7tok7pX

A wide expanse of a beach beside the ocean with pools of water and a barnacle-encrusted tree stump in the foreground with a tree-covered hump in the distance surrounded by further tree stumps in the sand.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 15/04/2025

Wishing the happiest of pub days to EL's own Denne Michele Norris (@thedennemichele.bsky.social), who's as wonderful as a writer as she is an editor-in-chief. If you haven't already, get yourself a copy of her amazing book here: buff.ly/nerDdxT

photo of Denne Michele Norris's When the Harvest Comes in Rough Draft bookstore

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

More from the Electric Lit archives, this is @helencphillips.bsky.social on HUM. I found this such a fascinating thought electricliterature.com/helen-philli...

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I think a lot of folks who generally dig my recommendations will enjoy this. It's not for everyone, but you'll know from the description if it's not for you. (Honestly, nothing that tries to be "for everyone" ends up any good anyway)

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This Lynn Freed story published by @bombmag.bsky.social in 1998 is absolutely haunting, if you read it once you might have to come back to it every now and then bombmagazine.org/articles/199...

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BOMB Magazine | Under The House

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

perhaps you might be interested that STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE is a today show spring pick???????? www.today.com/today/amp/rc...

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April 2025 Book Recs From Jasmine Guillory, Isaac Fitzgerald

Romances, romps and more.

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

One thing I remember loving about this book—Kalanithi took us through his comprehension of how medicine and literature/ surgery and beauty/etc were only different vocabularies for the same unified experience of life... I thought that was so moving in a memoir written in one's last months

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Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The level of attention and examination in this story is such a delight to read. By Angie Sijun Lou over at the Iowa Review iowareview.org/from-the-iss...

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