Lisa

whoevenreads.comReview: Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel: Whiteness in Speculative FictionAny kind of imagined future where White people are still the racial majority in the United States is inherently unrealistic. But you can’t, as a White author, just insert a bunch of Black and brown ch...

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ICYMI I CANCELED EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL ONLINE 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/speculative-...

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whoevenreads.comReview: Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel: Whiteness in Speculative FictionAny kind of imagined future where White people are still the racial majority in the United States is inherently unrealistic. But you can’t, as a White author, just insert a bunch of Black and brown ch...

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Been having this experience a lot where I’m disappointed by authors whose work I’ve enjoyed for years and I’ve discovered it’s just that my tolerance for White nonsense has diminished 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/speculative-...

defector.comCatapult Elizabeth Koch Into The Sun | DefectorI don’t know if Elizabeth Koch would fashion herself a personal essayist, but she has certainly dabbled in the form. In an 11-part essay published in Smith Magazine in 2007, the billionaire’s daughter...

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“Perhaps it is a fitting legacy that the daughter of Charles Koch, a man who intended to and succeeded in destroying much of the world, would go on to destroy other little worlds of her own.” 🔥🔥🥵🥵

Sabrina Imbler@sabs.bsky.social

I wrote about the end of Catapult defector.com/catapult-eli...

whoevenreads.comReview: Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel: Whiteness in Speculative FictionAny kind of imagined future where White people are still the racial majority in the United States is inherently unrealistic. But you can’t, as a White author, just insert a bunch of Black and brown ch...

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I am tired of White speculative fiction authors who don’t engage with the politics of Whiteness. Here is my review of Exit Party, in which I encourage Emily St. John Mandel to do the work 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/speculative-...

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Make sure to subscribe to Who Even Reads, I’m publishing something mean about a very popular author tomorrow 📚💙 whoevenreads.com

publishersweekly.comCatapult to Be Sold, End OperationsThe independent publisher, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was told “continued empl...

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whoevenreads.comAn Interview with Patricia Lockwood: "You make a little space for yourself as a weirdo""Citadels, stacks, rat piles of books": We talk to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker, her new double poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, her novel Will There Ever Be Another You, and m...

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ICYMI please treat yourself to this interview we did with Patricia Lockwood, it’s the gift that keeps on giving: “If you want to see me go insane again, I’ll have a cappuccino and a tuna fish sandwich and you’ll see me exit reality” 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/you-make-a-l...

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Elisabeth

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whoevenreads.comBooks We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in October 2026It's fall! We look at new releases from friend-of-the-site Patricia Lockwood, Franny Choi, Jane Schoenbrun, and more.

🎉🎉It’s Tuesday! It’s pub day! 🎉🎉 I am currently reading The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford. A treat for me if there ever was one. Click to see all of our picks for October @nafissa.bsky.social 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Really interesting article. AND IF YOU LIKE TASTEMAKERS SUBSCRIBE TO WHO EVEN READS. Seriously, no one pays us to cover the books we cover and we’ve been working in the industry for 20 years so we know what’s good 📚💙 whoevenreads.com

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social

I spoke about corporate consolidation and how sales teams across imprints are told which books to prioritize. And also book coverage in general interest outlets -- where once these publications were tastemakers, now they want to talk about a book only once everyone's already talking about it.

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at one point in the judging process I just started going into bookstores and asking what’s the best thing you got and like three of the books they recommended ended up on the shortlist hahaha

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social

I spoke about corporate consolidation and how sales teams across imprints are told which books to prioritize. And also book coverage in general interest outlets -- where once these publications were tastemakers, now they want to talk about a book only once everyone's already talking about it.

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whoevenreads.comAn Interview with Patricia Lockwood: "You make a little space for yourself as a weirdo""Citadels, stacks, rat piles of books": We talk to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker, her new double poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, her novel Will There Ever Be Another You, and m...

“A treat for me” has permanently entered our lexicon to mean “a book that is around 200 pages.” If you haven’t done so already, please read our interview with Patricia Lockwood 📚💙

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social

Here it is! We talked to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker Prize, her new poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, Will There Ever Be Another You and the latest round of Covid denialism, and much more @tricialockwood.bsky.social 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/you-make-a-l...

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whoevenreads.comAn Interview with Patricia Lockwood: "You make a little space for yourself as a weirdo""Citadels, stacks, rat piles of books": We talk to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker, her new double poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, her novel Will There Ever Be Another You, and m...

We're in queer media, so... 📚💙

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social

Here it is! We talked to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker Prize, her new poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, Will There Ever Be Another You and the latest round of Covid denialism, and much more @tricialockwood.bsky.social 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/you-make-a-l...

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Kristin Grogan

@kristingrogan.bsky.social

bostonreview.netYou Wince Like a GirlMore of Sylvia Plath’s writing is available than ever before. Can you take it?

I wrote a long piece about the new Sylvia Plath books and the fantasies that still swirl around her, for the new @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/you...

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Elisabeth

@cookschicken.bsky.social

whoevenreads.comAn Interview with Patricia Lockwood: "You make a little space for yourself as a weirdo""Citadels, stacks, rat piles of books": We talk to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker, her new double poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, her novel Will There Ever Be Another You, and m...

This interview was very fun and includes mentions of: - Tricia's cats - Sylvia Plath - choosing a book cover while on mushrooms - the lesbian bar discourse and @mldavies.bsky.social's excellent piece on Covid literature - Judging for the Booker and bad sex writing #booksky

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social

Here it is! We talked to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker Prize, her new poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, Will There Ever Be Another You and the latest round of Covid denialism, and much more @tricialockwood.bsky.social 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/you-make-a-l...

whoevenreads.comAn Interview with Patricia Lockwood: "You make a little space for yourself as a weirdo""Citadels, stacks, rat piles of books": We talk to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker, her new double poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, her novel Will There Ever Be Another You, and m...

Read about how cool I was in high school! 📚💙

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social

Here it is! We talked to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker Prize, her new poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, Will There Ever Be Another You and the latest round of Covid denialism, and much more @tricialockwood.bsky.social 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/you-make-a-l...

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it’s punkin time

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Maris Kreizman

@maris.bsky.social

publishersweekly.comFaber Halts Sally Rooney’s U.K. Sales, Citing Counterterrorism LawThe publisher and Irish author mutually agreed to pull Rooney’s books after the U.K. banned financial support of Palestine Action, to which Rooney previously pledged to donate her royalty earnings.

Absolutely deranged. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Other subjects touched on include the lesbian bar discourse, how Lisa and Tricia were part of something as teenagers in Cincinnati that Tricia refers to as the Lesbian Wolf Pack (new lore!), and other gay shit like rocks and bicycles and French bookbinding #booksky

Lisa@runtalien.bsky.social

Also subscribe if you like AUTHOR INTERVIEWS because we have a real doozy with Patricia Lockwood publishing on Friday. SHOCKING BEHIND THE SCENES BOOKER PRIZE DRAMA, etc. etc. Don’t miss it 📚💙

And the friendly neighborhood dinosaur🪶

#squirrelwiththinginitsmouth

Instead of an earnest post about Autobiography of Red I should have just posted this on Anne Carson Nobel Day

ANNE CARSON. If you haven’t read Autobiography of Red may I recommend you rectify that. It changed my life 📚💙

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whoevenreads.comBooks We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in October 2026It's fall! We look at new releases from friend-of-the-site Patricia Lockwood, Franny Choi, Jane Schoenbrun, and more.

ICYMI yesterday, it’s Books We Like the Looks Of for October, feat new T. Geronimo Johnson, Jane Schoenbrun’s debut, and @tricialockwood.bsky.social’s double poetry collection Agate Head/Stone Soup 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

She can’t read 🥲📚💙@tricialockwood.bsky.social

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eventbrite.comPatricia Lockwood + Grace Byron: Agate Head/Stone SoupJoin us for a release event with notable author Patricia Lockwood, discussing her new poetry collection AGATE HEAD/STONE SOUP.

there are still tickets available for my october 9th event with grace, come out!

Tricia Lockwood@tricialockwood.bsky.social

I’ll be appearing with the redoubtable grace byron at the strand on october 9th, tickets are available here

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ExpendableMudge (he/him)

@expendablemudge.bsky.social

expendablemudge.blogspot.comTHE OCCIDENTAL BOOK OF THE DEAD: A (really long) NovelTHE OCCIDENTAL BOOK OF THE DEAD: A Novel T. GERONIMO JOHNSON William Morrow ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $16.99 ebook, preorder...

THE OCCIDENTAL BOOK OF THE DEAD: A (really long) Novel by T. GERONIMO JOHNSON via William Morrow is OUT TODAY: #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

whoevenreads.comBooks We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in October 2026It's fall! We look at new releases from friend-of-the-site Patricia Lockwood, Franny Choi, Jane Schoenbrun, and more.

Worth noting that this three out of five books on the National Book Award shortlist for fiction were picked for Books We Like the Looks Of. SUBSCRIBE TO WHO EVEN READS 📚💙

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social

🎉🎉It’s Tuesday! It’s pub day! Books We Like the Looks Of for October includes Jane Schoenbrun’s debut novel, essays by Franny Choi, and @tricialockwood.bsky.social’s double feature poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup 🎉🎉📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

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whoevenreads.comBooks We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in October 2026It's fall! We look at new releases from friend-of-the-site Patricia Lockwood, Franny Choi, Jane Schoenbrun, and more.

🎉🎉It’s Tuesday! It’s pub day! Books We Like the Looks Of for October includes Jane Schoenbrun’s debut novel, essays by Franny Choi, and @tricialockwood.bsky.social’s double feature poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup 🎉🎉📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

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penguinrandomhouse.comAgate Head / Stone Soup by Patricia Lockwood: 9780143139485 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA new collection of poetry from Booker Prize finalist Patricia Lockwood, FINALLY! "A modern word witch." —The New York Times Book Review Many have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the...

it is AGATE HEAD/STONE SOUP DAY!!!

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Seven Stories Press

@sevenstories.bsky.social

Please don’t buy our books on Amazon. If you can’t afford to buy them from a real bookstore or from us directly, pirate them from Anna’s Archive like God intended.

whoevenreads.comMy Life and Other Unfinished Business: Dolly Parton's MemoirI bring you here ten of my favorite quotes and anecdotes from this remarkably funny and moving story of Dolly’s life, as she chose to tell it. She is magnanimous and generous, and she gives away exact...

Read my article about Dolly Parton’s memoir and her lifelong “friendship” with her softball loving “friend” “Judy” 📚💙

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social

Did you miss our look at the best quotes from Dolly Parton’s out of print 1994 memoir on Dolly Day? Well good news, every day is Dolly day if you’re GAY 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/gay-quotes-f...

It’s FALL 🧡🎃🍺🍁🐈

This book really should win every award #thedisappearers 📚💙

She never used to be like this, I’m so glad she’s come around 🐈

whoevenreads.comReview: The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw | Who Even ReadsThere is something infectiously appealing in Schar’s self-interest, in her daring to dream of what the church can do for her, and in the frankness and self-awareness she brings to the role of First La...

Check out Elisabeth’s review of The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social! If you love Real Housewives-esque drama but still want to appear intellectual by reading a book, this one is for you. Srsly tho, very clever and fun 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/deesha-phily...

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whoevenreads.comReview: The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw | Who Even ReadsThere is something infectiously appealing in Schar’s self-interest, in her daring to dream of what the church can do for her, and in the frankness and self-awareness she brings to the role of First La...

As promised, here is Elisabeth’s review of @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social’s The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman! This book has everything! Pageantry! Church drama! The Bible’s sex parts! And the main character is a Virgo, the best sign 💙📚 www.whoevenreads.com/deesha-phily...

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