Joining me on this episode is Matthew Pearl, author of the novel “The Award.” If you're a writer or want to be a writer or are curious at all about writers, it's a book for you. Who knew writing was such a fraught and deadly occupation? tinyurl.com/m38yekuw

Read #5 of 2026: 5/5 stars to The Award by Matthew Pearl My first 5-star read of the year! Loved every second of it. Review to come. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

NEW EPISODE: Bestselling and award-winning writer @matthewpearlauthor.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new novel The Award. Pearl explores imposter syndrome, external validation, and cultural prizes. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/matthew-pear...

In Matthew Pearl’s novel, an ambitious writer finds that the editor downstairs is more hindrance than help. on.wsj.com/44QM82p

This Staff Pick Sunday, Rona recommends The Award by Matthew Pearl. You can read her full review on our website! www.bookmarkbeach.com/staff-picks/...

Thanks to critic @olinecog.bsky.social for sharing her review of Matthew Pearl's The Award, at @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social's blog. Signed books available. #BookSky #BookReview. bit.ly/3L5l9JM

@matthewpearlauthor.bsky.social Loved “The Award”! A great page-turner!

I’m obsessed with my new b&w #Kindle & my books. I have read some amazing #BlueSky #authors: 1. @kevin-gallant.bsky.social - “Beyond The Mark” 2. @janusstone.bsky.social - “I am God” 3. @matthewpearlauthor.bsky.social “The Award” 4. @robgotobed.bsky.social “Captain Apollo..” Happy Reading! #booksky

🖊️A young writer navigating a cutthroat literary world 🏆Drama behind literary awards 🔎Tom Ripley novels 📚Historical to contemporary It's all here in our latest #10Qs with Matthew Pearl, author of THE AWARD (@librarylovefest.bsky.social). Read the entire interview now: bit.ly/4qcpdGT

Matthew Pearl has great fun in THE AWARD, an unapologetically cynical novel about the clash of a hopeful would-be writer and a churlish established author.

Excited to share @newyorker.com write up! Hope you'll pick up #TheAward for yourself or your favorite (or least favorite) reader

I’m excited to share my first editorial illustration for The Boston Globe! 🩵 This was for a book review of “The Award” by Matthew Pearl. I really enjoyed illustrating this one. #art #drawing #illustration #editorialillustration

@matthewpearlauthor.bsky.social is one of my favorite authors, so this just made the #TBR list! bookmarks.reviews/reviews/the-... #TheAward #BookSky 📚 💙

So honored! #booksky

Being new here, I want to dispel the rumor that I would use entreating dog eyes to get your attention that I have a new novel, #TheAward, from @harpercollins.bsky.social and that Petey and Honey will only be happy if you read this book that's being called "spellbinding." I would never! #BookSky

Grateful! #booksky

Shipwrecked on a remote Pacific atoll: bad. Encountering a murderer on that atoll: You gotta be kidding. I reviewed Matthew Pearl’s new nonfiction book Save Our Souls for The Boston Globe. This shipwreck business, it’s just no fun. But the book is.

Boston-based writer Matthew Pearl's new book is nonfiction that reads like an adventure novel. @chrisvognar.bsky.social reviewed Save Our Souls for me at the @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/a...

Thanks for this, Jerry! So glad you enjoyed #SaveOurSouls

Thanks Levent! Just joined here and so appreciative that you'd share your thoughts on #TheDanteClub

I've just joined here, in time to bug everyone to think about checking out my new novel #TheAward from @harpercollins.bsky.social! Thank you to my super-reader @krisr101.bsky.social for suggesting I check out @bsky.app

Run to your nearest bookstore to pickup Matthew Pearl’s literary gem. This story of the cutthroat world of authors is suspenseful, eye opening, & gripping. I read it in a few hours. The realistic storyline makes me wonder about the author’s past. He did say some of it was real. 😳😉 #BookSky 💙📚

Love this! #SaveOurSouls

Matthew Pearl satirizes writers and the elite literary world in #TheAward. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/a...

The first New Release Tuesday of the month is upon us! ❄ These books hit our shelves today: 🏠 HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT, a collection of literary short stories by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) 📚 THE AWARD, a darkly humorous satirical novel by Matthew Pearl 💙📚

5-STAR REVIEW🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟: THE AWARD by Matthew Pearl harpercollins.bsky.social 👉THE AWARD delivers a flawed main character caught up in a maelstrom of poor decisions. bit.ly/4ixegwV #bookreview #booksky #darkhumor #satire #psychologicalfiction #books #book #reading #booklover #bookworm

"It’s a primal form of storytelling: 'Let me tell you what happened right on this spot a long time ago.'" Via @neimanstory http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/matthew-pearl-and-into-the-shadows-filed-under-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up/