Attn Writers: Willem Marx talks to Peter Orner for @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/writing-the-...

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Your Sunday long read ☀️: Novelist Peter Orner used our 2007 profile of Irv Kupcinet in his research for 'The Gossip Columnist's Daughter'. The piece ran after the legendary Chicago Sun-Times gossip columnist passed away, exploring his six decades of work. buff.ly/RMD2H7e

It's gratifying to see people actually talking about the value of criticism, saddening that it's because people are losing their jobs, and frustrating that I can't talk publicly about big parts of it because it involves my own workplace. But one thing I can say (I think!) is...

I hate to be a contrarian, but for small and midsize publishers like us, reviews in major newspapers do sell books!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

NINERS WINNNN!!!

“Full Of Flavor, But Losing Its Shape” 😘Happy birthday @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social 🎂  open.substack.com/pub/glynnism...

Over the last 18 months I wrote a newsletter about what I learned by surrounding myself with interesting people. One of those people is @zoekeating.com I was psyched to tell that story. Now, I'm also trying to turn that into a book. Please pre-order and help! www.kickstarter.com/projects/roc...

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

My goodness, she’s a beauty.

Totally understand why A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF by Megha Majumdar is on the Kirkus Prize list. I was blown away by this story- definitely one of my top reads this year. Super thought provoking and deeply human. #ewgc

“@lailalalami.com’s latest novel takes place in the kind of dystopian near-future that feels like it's converging with our current timeline more & more every day. It's a terrible place to be, & yet reading The Dream Hotel felt cathartic? Maybe because the writing is so sharp and the pacing so fast…”

$3.25m for 10 (ten?!) SF Bay Area bookstores?! Oy.

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

I went long on Arundhati Roy and the monsters of 1980s NYC in my latest newsletter. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

📣 This only happens once a year! 📣 The Yale Review is now open for general submissions through September 30. Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations. For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.

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💔 x a million (but attention cookbook publishers, GET IN THERE) apple.news/Agpgqhi0OQZi...

Poitras film at Venice spotlights Seymour Hersh's battles with US power reut.rs/4lUoOXf

Make America Dumb and Boring Again. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

Almost every day, I tell a writer to trust their intuition and they will never be wrong. This piece is a 🎯. “It took time for me to develop both the character and the confidence to be better able to say “NO” to things that gave me the ick or that seemed iffy.” ryanholiday.net/you-are-what...

@davidulin.bsky.social in @nytimes.com Los Angeles Is Contaminated Now www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

Today, Kirkus Reviews announced the 18 finalists for the 2025 Kirkus Prize, in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature.

www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202... Co-founder of one of my favorite bookstore...

EVERYBELLY, written and illustrated by Thao Lam, is a 2025 Kirkus Prize FINALIST! 🏆 Congratulations to Thao Lam! You can buy a copy of EVERYBELLY from your favourite bookstore here: houseofanansi.com/products/eve... 🫧🥽

Mother Mary Comes to Me and Flesh are Kirkus Prize finalists! Congratulations, David Szalay and Arundhati Roy!

🎉🎉🎉 @peoplemag.bsky.social on the 2025 Kirkus Prize Finalists! people.com/kirkus-award...

We’re thrilled to share that THE INCREDIBLY HUMAN HENSON BLAYZE by #SerendipityLit author Derrick Barnes is a finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature! View the nominees here: www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2025/?...

Behold the 2025 Kirkus Prize finalists! lithub.com/here-are-the...

Congrats Nicholas Boggs, whose BALDWIN (FSG) is a $50,000 Kirkus Book Prize finalist and an instant national bestseller: #7 on the L.A. Times bestseller list and #8 on the Washington Post bestseller list! 🎉🎉🎉

The finalists for the 2025 Kirkus Prize have been announced! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Honored to be a Kirkus Prize finalist in such amazing company. A huge thanks to everyone who has been in THE SLIP’s corner at @simonbooks.bsky.social, to the readers who have championed the book, and of course to Kirkus Reviews 🥊🥊🥊

💥💥💥💥💥 2025 Kirkus Prize Finalists are Announced! 💥💥💥💥💥 lithub.com/here-are-the...

We’re announcing the 2025 Kirkus Prize finalists tomorrow. All 18 of em! Watch this space! www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/

Book People: Let the @apnews.com know your thoughts about their nutsoball decision to stop running book reviews at this online form: www.ap.org/contact-us/

In 'The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter', author Peter Orner melds fictional characters with true Chicago events — namely, the 1963 murder of Karyn “Cookie” Kupcinet.

Peter Orner, the best kept literary secret from Chicago no longer? https://www.europesays.com/us/163601/ Peter Orner keeps a small writing studio inside an old hotel on the Connecticut River, where Vermont meets…#Chicago #ChicagoNews #us #news #usnews

📅 Mon. 8/25 @ 7PM: We welcome Peter Orner in store for a discussion of his new novel "The Gossip Columnist's Daughter", in which the cold case of a Hollywood starlet’s death sets a contemporary writer on an epic quest. He will be joined by bestselling author Tova Mirvis. Learn more: buff.ly/BMjn3Az

👏👏👏 “Book reviews are not advertisements, and books are not merely products. They are not commodities, and they are not consumables that get used up and thrown away, like face cream or paper towels. We should not judge the worth of book criticism by whether or not it moves book sales."

In Laila Lalami’s new novel, a “pre-crime law” lands innocent citizens in “retention centers.” “Perhaps by chance,” Sue Halpern writes, “real life caught up with Lalami’s imagination.”

PW ⭐️ for @somers.bsky.social!

from The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers.

you may be tempted to read this and find it sad or pitiful but I’m going to have to disagree and suggest that it is actually fucking hilarious

My current reads: THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST'S DAUGHTER by Peter Orner & ORIGIN STORIES by Corinna Vallianatos. 📚 #fiction #writinglife

Another review in this Sunday's @bostonglobe.com is @hamiltoncain.bsky.social's smart take on THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST'S DAUGHTER by the masterful Peter Orner. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/a...

“I know it, that all the nights, all the forgettable nights make up whatever time we’re granted, and if you think this is nothing, then life itself isn’t anything.” Peter Orner, THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST’S DAUGHTER #sundaysentence

Sheriff's deputies showed up w/"shields & batons" to roust the Edinburgh Castle Pub from its Tenderloin premises on Aug. 6, says its owner, who owed a goodly sum to the bank. The venerable San Francisco dive bar is now no more, & has closed for good. missionlocal.org/2025/08/edin...