I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

🎭Calling all playwrights! If you’re looking for a space to pen your next (or first!) script, The DC Writers Room is the place for you. Quiet, organized, and convenient, our studio offers a distraction-free escape from the busy theater scene.

TWO WEEKS from today is @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social US theatrical opening at Film Forum NYC! Join us opening weekend (7pm, Oct 3rd and 4th) for Q&A's with director Kim A Snyder and special guests filmforum.org/film/the-lib...

Very much looking forward to speaking the University of Kentucky in person next month, and my first visit to Kentucky! At this stage of my career, sharing my unique perspective with deep insight into the value of independent publishing and multiple markets, outside of New York, is especially vital.

Very much looking forward to speaking the University of Kentucky in person next month, and my first visit to Kentucky! At this stage of my career, sharing my unique perspective with deep insight into the value of independent publishing and multiple markets, outside of New York, is especially vital.

“I didn’t have anything, really, besides this harrowing anti-life and lightweight clerical job that I escaped to five days a week, smiling and befuddled, in order to escape my cramped, depressing apartment.” Read new fiction by David Nutt on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/slat...

DUET FOR ONE ( @regalhouse.bsky.social) author and @penfaulkner.bsky.social board member @marthaannetoll.bsky.social will launch the Foundation’s new series, The Big Idea, in partnership with Goethe-Institut DC next month. Tickets are free with registration: www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/st...

DUET FOR ONE ( @regalhouse.bsky.social) author and @penfaulkner.bsky.social board member @marthaannetoll.bsky.social will launch the Foundation’s new series, The Big Idea, in partnership with Goethe-Institut DC next month. Tickets are free with registration: www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/st...

Weird thing to finally post about late night Friday but guess what I went from Deputy Food Editor to Food Editor @inquirer.com

Fatima Shaik, writing for @veritenews.org, features Rosey Lee in “Lit Louisiana: ‘A Gardin Wedding’ takes readers on an emotional journey about family life”: veritenews.org/2025/09/16/l...

“UNCLE jungle DAUGHTER doctor” Read ten new poems by Craig Dworkin on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/ten-...

Almost 10 years ago, I founded @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social to serve as a forum for literature in the Midwest. Today, I’m launching Alderbrink — a new online magazine and the first ever dedicated solely to fine press books. alderbr.ink/2025/09/17/w...

Join me for @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social's monthly writing series, Write Now, hosted at the Goethe-Institut in Washington. www.eventbrite.com/e/write-now-...

Q&A with Deborah Brown English about her new book, TIME'S BREATH. tinyurl.com/58ukdku2

“When I went into the fridge next, I took a cucumber. I drank a glass of water. I read five pages of a book. I held a plank for seventy-three seconds.” Read three new stories by Hannah Applebaum on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

"This notion of turning to art in times of struggle has remained a cornerstone of my own artistic vision even when everything else argues against it."

Save the date: October 8 fallforthebook.org/oct7schedule/

“Just one thing more I promise. Do you have rain too? Drainpipes and waterfalls? (Did you tell me already?)” Read two new poems by Charles North on R&R, the poet that James Schuyler called “the most stimulating poet of his generation.” www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...

Do I have any Baltimore connects who would be interested in helping promote an AWP reading in March?

Margie Ticknor @libraryjournal.bsky.social on @margarethutton.bsky.social‘s IF YOU LEAVE (@regalhouse.bsky.social, 10/21): www.libraryjournal.com/review/if-yo...

“A great book review can be just as rich, entertaining, and insightful as a great short story.” What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US. @thefrontlist.org‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

The only reason to hire a critic, instead of giving a megaphone to the crowd, is that creative work—books most of all—isn’t processed as a collective. People make sense of art as individuals, and their experiences of the work differ individually, too. @nathanheller.bsky.social, @newyorker.com, 2017

If you are a Black or Asian author debuting in winter 2025 or spring 2026, drop your title! I wanna know!

My interview with Deb English, author of “Time’s Breath”, for Baltimore Fishbowl is now available to read. Join us at The Ivy Bookshop on 9.18 for the launch event. www.theivybookshop.com/event/book-l...

“I felt like I was reading a newly discovered mythological text when I opened the cover to Deborah Brown English’s Time’s Breath: An Odyssey in Words and Pictures.” @marthaannetoll.bsky.social, Baltimore Fishbowl baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/an-o...

And the first review of the season is in! “When I received a review copy of Deborah Brown English’s new book Time’s Breath, An Odyssey in Words and Pictures, it transported me back to that golden age of publishing.” — Jack Livingston, @bmoreart.bsky.social bmoreart.com/2025/09/book...

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

First day of the fall season and I’m thrilled to be working on these books — three cheers for independent small presses and the vibrant talent they spotlight, the bookstores that stock their titles, and the critics and readers that seek them out! It is a passion to which I have dedicated my life.

First day of the fall season and I’m thrilled to be working on these books — three cheers for independent small presses and the vibrant talent they spotlight, the bookstores that stock their titles, and the critics and readers that seek them out! It is a passion to which I have dedicated my life.

“Same poet, more in focus historically competent with pretty words rarely short-tempered, 5 foot 6 aggressively interested in football but that was always true.” Read four new poems by Isaac Jarnot: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

"More people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living," says @roncharles.bsky.social. For @worldlittoday.bsky.social, I spoke with freelance and full-time book critics about the vanishing professional market for book reviews. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

“eBay collectors spend thousands on dollar bills with printing errors” Read three new poems by Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

When I was writing my fourth book and reached out to an historian about the limits of depicting slavery in fiction and he told me straight up that anything that I could think of that might've happened during slavery, most likely it happened. That was the most horrific statement I've ever heard.

The Washington Monthly’s annual award celebrates the best in nonfiction book reviewing and honors the memory of Kukula Kapoor Glastris, the magazine’s beloved books editor. Read online about this year's winners: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/20/t...

“The course unfolds as a series of dialogues. I’m the host. The idea is to combine academic rigor with the conversational vitality of a great podcast.“ Check out our friend @bradlisti.bsky.social on @deepdive.audio with @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/14/a...

Congratulations to the Schooner's editor in chief Timothy Schaffert on earning the University of Nebraska's Outstanding Research and Creativity Award! engl.unl.edu/news/schaffe...

“The course unfolds as a series of dialogues. I’m the host. The idea is to combine academic rigor with the conversational vitality of a great podcast.“ Check out our friend @bradlisti.bsky.social on @deepdive.audio with @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/08/14/a...

I’m curating an exhibition to go alongside my new novel, The Two Roberts (join me for the launch Aug 21 Southbank). It’ll have pictures that have never been shown before. And it’ll feature their pals too, Minton & Co. Tickets on sale today! www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...

Congratulations to my friend @bradlisti.bsky.social, who has used his years of experience talking with authors & publishing pros on his foundational literary podcast, Otherppl, to inform his new company, which launches today: @deepdive.audio, and its first course, "How to Write a Novel"—Bravo, Brad!

Check out our very own Ann Kjellberg, founder and editor of Book Post, on Beyond the Zero pod! 🎧 Learn about her insider takes on the book industry, including her time spent working for Joseph Brodsky and Susan Sontag. Listen here→ open.spotify.com/episode/3rJR...

Hey folks, we’re hiring a managing editor here at Mysterious Enterprises/Penzler Publishers. See below for a view of our picturesque offices. More details here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/pages/job-op...

Congratulations to my friend @bradlisti.bsky.social, who has used his years of experience talking with authors & publishing pros on his foundational literary podcast, Otherppl, to inform his new company, which launches today: @deepdive.audio, and its first course, "How to Write a Novel"—Bravo, Brad!

IF YOU LEAVE author and debut novelist as well as artist @margarethutton.bsky.social ( @regalhouse.bsky.social, 10/21) will give a talk on writers who paint at the Washington Studio School in DC this week: www.washingtonstudioschool.org/events/8-13-...

🚀 We have liftoff! DeepDive is live! Check out our debut course, ‘How to Write a Novel’— 50+ hours of insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today’s most celebrated contemporary authors. www.deepdive.audio

the transcript for the conversation with Martha Anne Toll is up: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...

IF YOU LEAVE author and debut novelist as well as artist @margarethutton.bsky.social ( @regalhouse.bsky.social, 10/21) will give a talk on writers who paint at the Washington Studio School in DC this week: www.washingtonstudioschool.org/events/8-13-...

"From the moment THREE MUSES was accepted for publication, it has been a dream—no fantasy—to be interviewed by @davidnaimon.bsky.social on his podcast 'Between the Covers.'” @tinhouse.bsky.social marthaannetoll.substack.com/p/between-th...

Debut author Deborah Brown English will be in conversation with @marthaannetoll.bsky.social at the Ivy Bookshop— save the date & join us if you’re in the area on 9/18, and tune in to WBJC TODAY to hear DBE on the famed & fabulous Booknotes with Judith Krummeck at 5:15pm! www.wbjc.com/our-programs...

Duet for One ( @regalhouse.bsky.social, out now) by @marthaannetoll.bsky.social appears on Bostonia’s summer reading list of @bostonu.bsky.social “alumni fiction and nonfiction that caught our eye” www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Duet for One ( @regalhouse.bsky.social, out now) by @marthaannetoll.bsky.social appears on Bostonia’s summer reading list of @bostonu.bsky.social “alumni fiction and nonfiction that caught our eye” www.bu.edu/articles/202...