My book is out in two weeks. That sounds crazy but it is true. Come to Herculine. www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-byro...

Ash went and started one of those all-trans, gun-carrying rural communes. Can it be better than New York City? In the eyes of the recently unemployed protagonist of new fiction from @emotrophywife.bsky.social, it just might.

An excerpt of my debut novel Herculine is in @thebaffler.com about trans anarchists, female small business owners, exorcisms, Biblically accurate angel emojis, dissociating during sex, pantsuits, and cults. thebaffler.com/fiction/fema...

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

I profiled Samin Nosrat for Vogue. www.vogue.com/article/sami...

Important Herculine infographics

Make sure to grab your ticket to see me and @torreypeters.bsky.social on October 6th. www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-byro...

ICYMI: @emotrophywife.bsky.social on her debut novel and cultural criticism. studyhall.xyz/free-newslet...

Hi, just a reminder that I’m still very actively looking for stable work — any leads, etc. appreciated. www.elizabethpurchell.com

come hang! i am going on the book tour of my dreams. @scumbelievable.bsky.social @reproutopia.bsky.social @torreypeters.bsky.social @hzeavin.bsky.social @katewagner.wehwalt.net @lydiakiesling.bsky.social

Chatted with @emotrophywife.bsky.social for @studyhall.bsky.social about her wonderful new book, cultural criticism, and her online class (this Friday) ! studyhall.xyz/free-newslet...

I am recapping TASK for @vulture.com the follow up to Mare of Easttown that thinks through the male loneliness epidemic. www.vulture.com/article/task...

Seems like a miracle to see this published in a major outlet. Thank you @emotrophywife.bsky.social

For @newyorker.com I wrote about the censorship of trans art. I spoke to many of my favorite artists from Puppies Puppies to Creighton Baxter, thought about strategic opacity, Amy Sherald, and whether or not we have had great trans artists. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A music teacher in Gaza teaches children in the camps to harmonize to the ever-present sound of Israeli drones. (Source video: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT67WnFWe/)

This Bandcamp Friday it would mean the world if you considered getting a copy of my band’s debut album, “pink balloons” ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/pink-b...

Teaching a class on Sept 12 for Study Hall on criticism and freelancing! courses.outvoice.com/products/cou...

Just finished Herculine by @emotrophywife.bsky.social coming soon from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social “unflinching examination of trans life beyond simplistic narratives of either tragedy or triumph” Get a copy here amzn.to/41uMTN1

On @emotrophywife.bsky.social's excellent and upsetting Herculine, and the false dichotomies of being a trans woman: cchelmetgirl.substack.com/p/laying-per...

I wrote about the delectable, incredible new novel by @tricialockwood.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com and the "Covid novel," Joe Brainard, Joy Williams, posting through it, and whether or not Twitter is a form of poetry. newrepublic.com/article/1983...

The 1994 Vogue assistant editor oral entrance exam. I teach a class on magazine writing / publishing every fall (in which the students make a magazine) and am going to have them create their own, updated, Gen Z equivalent.

"The crab I picked up seemed worse for the wear. Its little legs were still as I lifted it out of the water, and a large portion of its shell was missing." @emotrophywife.bsky.social @parisreview.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08...

If you sign up for Grace’s course you get 3 months of Study Hall free! Study Hall subscribers: please check the latest newsletter for a 50% discount code. 🫡

I am teaching a class on writing criticism with @studyhall.bsky.social where I previously wrote a few pieces. Sign up is open now. My work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, New York Magazine, LARB, The Nation, Bookforum, and elsewhere. courses.outvoice.com/products/cou...

"We walk through the woods looking at birds in order to catch them all, like these animals are Pokémon. Collecting pictures and rummaging for mementos. This is different from witnessing, the act of taking things in without judgement." Love this.

I have a personal essay on horsehoe crabs and love in @parisreview.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08...

“Jenny’s misfortunes were more or less about how she came into the world. Mine were about wanting to get out of it.” Read new fiction by Grace Byron (@emotrophywife.bsky.social) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/prin...

For @harpersbazaarus I wrote about WEAPONS by Zach Cregger, suburban horror, McMansions, www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...

Can’t wait to start @emotrophywife.bsky.social ‘s demon novel HERCULINE. Perfect hot day for it!

Herculine is out in less than two months. Pre-order it! bookshop.org/p/books/herc...

My book launch is on October 6th with @torreypeters.bsky.social at the Strand. Join us. www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-byro...

why aren't there more revolutions? how do societies metabolize mass death? what identifications, desires and fears shape group cohesion? and what's a "libidinal economy" anyway? enrollment for my October Psychoanalysis and Politics course is live! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

It's always funny when a white guy is like, "no one is talking about this thing or how to solve it!" And it's something about which bell hooks wrote extensively. Tee hee.

my new book is out today. it's about separatism and utopia and bodily autonomy and cults and capital and love and revolution and nature and sex and all the things we owe to each other. I'm so proud and excited and nervous for you to read it. i hope you do. simplicitybook.xyz

today’s the day it’s mattie mtuesday buy SIMPLICITY now simplicitybook.xyz

happy SLOPLICITY week everyone 🍻👙🌿👁️🤝

what is it about the male psyche that makes it believe it has discovered god in the computer

Shoplifting From Brandy Melville, an essay from SLOPPY about, well, exactly what it says on the label, appears today in @thecut.com!

“Reviews, far from being conservative, are the most inherently progressive mode of arts writing . . . In downgrading reviews, publications yield to the temptation of corporatized impersonality.”

A week from tonight with @emotrophywife.bsky.social !!!! simplicity.eventbrite.com

If the (wildly popular) governor of Kentucky can say this with his whole chest then what excuse does the (wildly unpopular) governor of California have?

wrote about Eddingon, a post-woke stab at Do the Right Thing for the Covid era that ends up becoming a vacant thinkpiece-as-film without a thesis for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-am...

Have now received 3 cold email pitches from companies claiming that they can help me market my book more effectively (no). I hope that other debut authors with a little less book biz experience than I happen to have are not getting scammed.

also suggest Dreams, Ran, High and Low, Dersu Uzala, and Dodes'ka-den

hello BROOKLYN i am doing an EVENT for my BOOK in a COUPLE WEEKS!! i'll be chatting with THE @emotrophywife.bsky.social!!! simplicity.eventbrite.com

“In taut, opaque compositions, Stockton’s poems toil over the painful ecstasy of desire and pleasure in a world overburdened by capitalist exploitation.” —from @emotrophywife.bsky.social's review of Fuel www.thebeliever.net/a-review-of-...

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Begging all of my queer horror-appreciating oomfies to read Cuckoo

honored to have Herculine on here