Mila esker, Nick, for these kind words! You are among my ideal readers, so this means a lot. A thousand thanks!

What We Tried To Bury Grows Here is now an audiobook! Gary Tiedemann and Raquel Beattie have turned in powerful performances! Many thanks to them and everyone else at Tantor involved in this production. You can purchase it wherever audiobooks are sold. May it be your song of the summer!

Mila esker to Scott Schomburg for this thoughtful review in Harvard Review of my novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here (@twodollarradio.bsky.social)! www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

I don’t often drink blackcurrant sours, but when I do, I drink A Life Anew…a beer brewed by Hot Plate Brewing Co. and inspired by my story in @onestorymag.bsky.social, which appears in a modified form in What We Tried to Bury Grows Here (@twodollarradio.bsky.social). Stay thirsty, my friends.

Fantastic article on my publisher @twodollarradio.bsky.social, who is celebrating their 20th anniversary this weekend! Here's to the next twenty! (and the twenty after that) matternews.org/culture/word...

The Honors College's @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social was recently on the PRX/GBH radio show The World with Marco Werman, where he discussed the anniversary of the bombing of Gernika & his debut novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here. You can listen to the segment here: theworld.org/segments/202...

Gernika was bombed 88 years ago this week by German and Italian air forces at the behest of Franco, and laid bare for all the world to see the ultimate conclusion of fascism. WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author— @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social —was on @theworld.org👇 theworld.org/segments/202...

If you're anywhere in/near LA, I'll be in conversation with three incredible authors at the LA Times Festival of Books at 10:30 this morning.

Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Gernika. It was bombed by German & Italian air forces at the behest of General Franco and laid bare for all the world to see the ultimate conclusion of fascism. I was on @theworld.org with Marco Werman to discuss it & my novel. theworld.org/segments/202...

I read for this contest. Send them your best! salamandermag.org/contests

🌹WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author Julian Zabalbeascoa will be at the LA Times Book Prizes Awards Ceremony & the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend — April 25 & 27! Peep all of @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social ‘s upcoming events ⬇️ 🔗 www.julianzabalbeascoa.com/tour

Time was no friend of mine at Bookshop West Portal. The hour with @mrhwm.bsky.social passed in a few minutes. Could have kept it going into the early morning. Many thanks to the Basque Educational Organization for sponsoring the event and to all those who attended!

We're delighted to announce that we've acquired @twodollarradio.bsky.social, the Midwest's finest publisher of adventurous, boundary-pushing books.

the cat is indeed out of the bag. meow. 💖 @sevenstories.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

For those in the Bay Area, I will be at the SF Basque Cultural Center today, April 13, presenting on & signing copies of my novel at 2:30 pm. Then, tomorrow, I'm over at Book Shop West Portal at 7 pm, where I'll be in conversation with @mrhwm.bsky.social!

Join us Thursday, 5/1 for a virtual reading with our Literary Debutantes hosted by @debutiful.bsky.social, featuring readings from Nini Berndt, @kermichele.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, Lucas Schaefer, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Lauren K. Watel, and @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social. bit.ly/4j7bCxA

Catch WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social on the West Coast soon! 🔗 www.julianzabalbeascoa.com/tour

A new interview is up at @onestorymag.bsky.social! Thank you to one of America's greatest literary journals and @mjyidani.bsky.social for the conversation! one-story.com/2025/03/31/s...

Canary hightails it out of the coal mine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Basque Educational Organization has chosen WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE as their next book club pick, and I'll be joining the conversation! This takes place virtually on Monday, March 31, 5:30-6:30 PDT. Join the party here: www.basqueeducational.org/event/book-c...

ICYMI: TC Fiction Contributor Julian Zabalbeascoa's debut novel, WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE, was published in November! Check out his conversation with Blake Hammond to go behind the scenes:

"Spain’s fate in the 1930’s need not be ours." Issue 22 contributor Julian Zabalbeascoa unpacks his approach to historical fiction in a new conversation with Blake Hammond, live now at TC online. buff.ly/bsgxD04

I'm at Southern New Hampshire University today chatting it up with the amazing David Moloney ("Barker House"). If you're in the neighborhood, pop on by!

WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social interviewed by Blake Hammond for @commonmag.bsky.social It’s honest and inspiring — check it out! ❤️‍🔥 thecommononline.org/finding-hope...

I was interviewed by the incredibly talented Blake Hammond for @commonmag.bsky.social, where we discussed writing about heritage, riffing on research, and empathizing with loathsome characters. @twodollarradio.bsky.social thecommononline.org/finding-hope...

What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a @latimes.com Book Prize finalist! Mila esker to the LA Times Book Prize, their panel of writers, and the team at @twodollarradio.bsky.social for making this possible. And congratulations to my fellow nominees. I’m honored & overjoyed to be in their company.

⚡️ BREAKING NEWS: What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize! 🔗 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Thank you, Brad L of @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for making What We Tried to Bury Grows Here a Staff Pick! www.harvard.com/book/9781953...

Survived the year’s first big storm. Proof of life? Me with Alida Becker’s review of What We Tried to Bury Grows Here in today’s New York Times Book Review. Mila esker, Alida Becker, @nytimes.com, and all at @twodollarradio.bsky.social!

"Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era.... stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

A novel about the Spanish Civil War I'd like to read by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social reviewed in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

An incredible book by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social from @twodollarradio.bsky.social Sprawling, vivid, beautifully rendered and painfully realistic stories and characters each with its own voice, own vision, own cadence.

Editors of The New York Times Book Review recommend WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social

A dream! What We Tried to Bury Grows Here (@twodollarradio.bsky.social) is featured in Alida Becker’s @nytimes.com column on the latest releases in historical fiction, a column that's long informed what novel I’d be seeking out next. Mila esker, Alida Becker! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social is featured in Alida Becker’s new and fantastic historical fiction column for The New York Times. Check it out! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

Lovely to see WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social on this list ✨

I'd be satisfied with simply 1% of them picking up my novel. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Not that you need another reason to be disgusted and disappointed by the Hegseth appointment, but here's an excellent essay by @philklay.bsky.social to underline it all: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

Happy book-anniversary to Melanie Finn’s incredible literary thriller THE HARE, published this day in 2021 ✨ 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/hare

Big News! Nora Lange’s US FOOLS makes the short list for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction:

On a day that promises to be one gut punch after the next, here is an essay I wrote the morning after the 2024 election and that @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social published the next week. We're operating within a broken system, but the remedy continues to be hope. chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/14/b...

Thank you, @wendyjfox.bsky.social & @electriclit.bsky.social for shining a light on small press titles, including my novel WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE, a "compelling and hauntingly prescient novel." @twodollarradio.bsky.social electricliterature.com/15-small-pre...

Had a lot of fun talking with Jason Jeffries for the Bookin' podcast about WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE! Listen here: bookin.podbean.com/e/321-bookin...

About halfway through @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social @twodollarradio.bsky.social harrowing and incredibly powerful novel. Blown away by the scale and structure of this book, as well as the authenticity and empathy. More to come.

Final day/hours to get two @TwoDollarRadio paperbacks and my novel (hardcover) for only $35.

Julian Zabalbeascoa chats with Adam Vitcavage and reads from What We Tried to Bury Grows Here for Debutiful's "First Taste" podcast: debutiful.net/2024/12/30/f...

Had great fun reading from WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE (@twodollarradio.bsky.social) and talking with @vitcavage.bsky.social for @debutiful.bsky.social's First Taste Reading Series! Give it a listen here 👇

Take control of Christmas et al. Pick up the hardcover of my novel - What We Tried to Bury Grows Here - and two @twodollarradio.bsky.social paperbacks for only $35!

Got my first @twodollarradio.bsky.social subscription mailing today!

I'm suspicious of any year-end best of list that doesn't include The Borrowed Hills by @scottprestonauthor.bsky.social and Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon.