Newsletter (paid): Summer book recommendations that are real books! Feat. @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social @catherinelacey.bsky.social @miamckenzie.bsky.social + more buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

This was so fun! I talked about Tone-Bone by @bleakhousing.bsky.social Darryl by @jackieess.bsky.social and Housemates by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social

TODAY! I will be finishing my coffee, packing a bag, and heading to Philadelphia for a reading with the glorious and wise @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social at Wooden Shoe Books! 7 PM, Philadelphia friends please come through; I am excited to see you!

Important questions and research from @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social about the future of the Free Library, and literary community, in Philly.

TODAY: in which I travel north on the A/S/L tour to Brattleboro VT and Brooks Memorial Library, where I will be talking to Imogen Binnie <3 and also visiting the excellent Everyone's Books! And maybe going for a nice run! We will see! Anything can happen; I will be listening to B. S.'s "Tracks"

Adrien Brody’s face is v handsome but his speech was SO BORING and milque toast and self indulgent imho

on the house hunt in south philly, looking at the houses we don’t want that are going under contract like, good for you little ugly house, every house deserves love

Here's our newest book review! It's of Emma Copley Eisenberg's novel HOUSEMATES. This was written by our student intern Van Dang. Read it here: writenowphilly.com/if-the-city-... Also, give Emma a follow @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social!

@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social talks to @paullisicky.bsky.social about Joni Mitchell and the relationship between songwriting and nonfiction.

Starting my week with a conversation between two of my favorite writers, @paullisicky.bsky.social and @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social. lithub.com/paul-lisicky...

alas I have quit writing sad fictions to become a nail tech

I cannot overstate how revelatory I found Liz Moore being willing to talk about her regrets over the way she wrote the fat character in her second novel. To see a writer at this level acknowledge harm caused. Plus her thoughts on plot changed everything for me open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...?

The ultimate white woman struggle is “I hate bangs!” And then two months later “I miss my bangs!”

Everyone in Philly signing every email “go birds” is giving me life. “Here is your contract, go birds!”

Question for the parental pals: is there a best/better time of year as a mom/parent to leave your kid for a week for a writing retreat? Or times to avoid? I’m guessing not summer…

I am the only person on the planet I guess who thinks Severance the TV show is…not good? I just don’t understand it’s appeal! Feels so cold and lifeless to me with poorly developed characters

Why hello it’s ebook season for rotting on the couch and Housemates is only $1.99 today on all e book platforms. Personally I’m a kobo girlie but you do you www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

If I never again hear the phrase “lays bare” it will be too soon

I wrote about a certain kind of Jewish white woman not okayness. It’s me, we’re not ok open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...

Finally in my Tori Amos era

I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives. Eee!

Who has written the great American novel about teeth/the dentist or will I have to do everything myself

this winter, may I be like Frederick

Here are my favorite reads of 2024. I would also include the Kafka I read this year, but I'll probably make a post just about that sickly little complainer soon. I read so many knockouts this year. It was such a comfort. I love books. Thank you to all these fabulous writers.

Hehe 🎀 Emma’s List of 2024 Bookish Superlatives 🎀. Most Opinionated, Funniest, Saddest, Most Disappointing, & Most Fatphobic For Literally No Reason are categories!! 👀 open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...

The moment you’ve all been waiting for: EL’s best novels of 2024! This year’s list includes books from Marie-Helene Bertino, @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social , Kaveh Akbar, and more! electricliterature.com/electric-lits-best-novels-of-2024

Loving how @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social approaches the year end list (but now I have, again, way too many books I want to read!!) open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...

💛 Don't miss out on our 2024 Postcard Auction, featuring bestselling authors like Emma Copley Eisenberg (@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social), author of HOUSEMATES and THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL! 🌈 Bid on Eisenberg or another favorite author at https://buff.ly/3CLIlZ6

Essays @awestenfeld.bsky.social published by my authors in Esquire in the past year or so. 1) How “Right” and “Wrong” Ways to Be Queer Are Changing Fiction by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Today & Tomorrow! I'm at the Miami Book Fair chatting with the incredible Nico Lang (American Teenager) on "Portraits of Life in a Gendered Body" Sat at 1pm, then Sun at 11am catch "Coming of Age & Coming Out" with @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social & August Thompson!

I and everyone I know are not at the end of our ropes because there is no rope! Instead there is just a trampoline and someone keeps bouncing on it as we lie on our backs and get catapulted into the air over and over again

If you ever re-Sky one of my Blues, this is it! THE BEST DEBUT BOOKS OF 2024 Click this link 👉 debutiful.net/2024/11/18/t...

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you

TONIGHT! 11/18 @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social in conversation with @susanstinson.bsky.social at Forbes Library. 6:30pm Eastern. Also on youtube! forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/129326... 2/6

I’m participating in The Common’s author postcard auction! This auction helps support the magazine, which publishes writing with a strong sense of place and nurtures emerging writers. Bid on a handwritten note from me here <3 event.auctria.com/954315bb-5c3...

Can someone explain why every book, including nonfiction, is now “a novel”? Journalists, students etc…

Not me putting up my christmas tree now just to feel something

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Now is not the time to abandon our creative projects about ideas and people that make the world richer and more truthful and more reflective of our communities. They want us to do that, that is their goal. We will not do it.

What is the therapy I need for the rush I feel when helping old people do technology

"In areas in which you are very smart you might try writing history or criticism; where you are kind of dumb, perplexed, write a story or a novel, depending on the depth and breadth of your dumbness.” -- Grace Paley

Being in Florida hits different now

Thrilled to see Housemates named a Kirkus Best Book of 2024! Tysm to all their editors incl @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2024...

Do you or someone you know have a book out in 2025 that has a Philly connection? (Author lives here or is from here, the book is set here) <3

Thrilled to have been able to talk to @frumpenberg.bsky.social about her gorgeous first book of fiction, HOUSEMATES, for the LA Review of Books. We had such an incredible talk <3 lareviewofbooks.org/article/noth...

we had to reschedule, BUT we’ve got a new date! on monday, 7/1 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, i’ll be talking to our beloved @frumpenberg.bsky.social on Show Us Your Desk, ✨live✨ from @therumpus.bsky.social IG! mark yer cals and join us for yet another jolly convo 💚

Blue Stoop summer classes with @frumpenberg.bsky.social @kristenarnett.bsky.social @merrittk.com Kay Gabriel and way more!

Have reached part of book tour where I have 11 seltzers open at all times and am finally listening to brat???