@somers.bsky.social on extra marital affairs, directionless dudes, complicated pita chips, and why she stays off BookTok humanpursuits.substack.com/p/erin-somer...

Saturday! Come out LA!!

Thank you Wall Street Journal!!

Happy Halloween, everyone. And, uh, some spooky personal news: 👀👻🏚️😱

This book is funny, astute, real and sexy. I think I had an affair with it? 10/10 no regrets. You should try it.

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here's a gift link to read the Defector interview with @somers.bsky.social about her new book the Ten Year Affair defector.com/erin-somers-...

I talked Nicholas Russell @defector.com about The Ten Year Affair!!

Come out and see me tonight at B&N in Brooklyn with @ambersparks.bsky.social

ICYMI, had a blast making playlist for the book!!

"These are the songs I would listen to during the crucial sanity walk between drafting sessions to try to invoke the right mood." @somers.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel The Ten Year Affair at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/26/e...

Started reading @somers.bsky.social’s new book last night (after holding a newborn for a four-hour stretch) and I’m loving it.

Toggling between Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate and @somers.bsky.social The Ten Year Affair as one does. Rodrick Industries scores both 12/10. READ. www.erinsomers.com/books

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @claudiarowe.bsky.social, @somers.bsky.social, @sarafredman.bsky.social, @bartona104.bsky.social, @jatomic.bsky.social, @audioflux.bsky.social, @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social, Tat Bellamy-Walker... niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/24/s...

I talked to Emily Gould for NY Mag!! link.nymag.com/view/636d507...

If you live in DC, come out and see me read tomorrow with Rachel Vorona Cote and Natasha Joukovsky, two people who are smarter than me!!

The Ten Year Affair is an NYT Editors’ Choice!

enjoyed this immensely, esp the formal stuff about dialogue/summation. good reminder to pick up THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR

“If a comedic work is successful, you probably can’t see the effort. If it’s very successful, it will seem almost off-the-cuff, like it was created that moment. This is why a lot of ponderous books end up over-praised." - @somers.bsky.social countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

new newsletter! it includes an apology to readers, some quick thoughts on @somers.bsky.social excellent new novel, a take on “roofman,” and more:

“Here was how it worked in the world of the affair: there was a big, anonymous hotel one town away.” Read from @somers.bsky.social’s new novel, The Ten Year Affair.

Honored to be a Thank You Books Firstie!!

happy pub day to @somers.bsky.social ! cc @thankyoubooks.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kristeni...

Happy pub day to brilliant, **briefly noted** hottie, @somers.bsky.social !! You MUST read this smart, poignant, sexy book. And DC — come out to @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social on 10/24, where @joukovsky.bsky.social and I will be in conversation with her! www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/2025/...

This was a great interview haha

Happiest of pub days to @somers.bsky.social!!

Today’s newsletter post is a conversation with @somers.bsky.social, whose book THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR is out today! shanders-red-eye.beehiiv.com/p/interview-...

🎉🎉🎉HAPPY PUB DAY @somers.bsky.social & THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 An Affair to Remember — Except It Never Actually Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

Ok wow! TTYA in the New Yorker!!

I went on All Things Considered and talked about The Ten Year Affair!!

Great, smart review in the NYT this morning!!! “Somers’s crisp writing makes for a humane, frequently funny and very readable novel that captures something not just about how we live now, but about choices, compromises, sacrifice, being a parent, getting older.”

Great talk with Daniel! Listen!!!

Sometimes I come across a recipe that suggests I use a vegetable—a squash for ex.—as a “boat.” Flatly no. I’m not doing a boat. Obscene suggestion

Very excited to read this, obviously

I answered — you might say candidly— @literaryhub.bsky.social’s very fun group questionnaire lithub.com/lit-hub-asks...

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

Thank you @michaelschaub.bsky.social for including WITHOUT CONSENT in the OC Register’s Fall Books Preview!

Delighted to see Erin Somers on the cover of today's Bookseller ahead of her new novel THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR coming out in January! canongate.co.uk/books/5417-t...

I have not stopped thinking about The Ten Year Affair since I finished it months ago (humblebrag), and I am so extremely honored to be one of Erin’s conversation partners! Come see us at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social on 10/24!!

Going on a book tour and talking to a bunch a very cool, smart people. Come out and see me!!

cont'd Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social in Citron Review Jen Shepherd in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social in @grantamag.bsky.social JS Apsley in @necessaryfiction.com Alice Ashe in CRAFT (2/3)

Reading about myself

Gm I am on the cover of The Bookseller @canongate.co.uk

Come see us in NYC!!

In “The Ten Year Affair,” the Beacon-based writer blends humor and heartbreak to examine infidelity, imagination and the search for meaning.

Who's writing middle-aged millennials better than @somers.bsky.social?

This @somers.bsky.social story in @grantamag.bsky.social is so good.

So good, all of it.

Thank you Vulture 🙏 www.vulture.com/article/new-...

Every time I hear "burrata" I'll think of this. Incredible story.