For Brad’s very cool and fun PTA series I wrote a little appreciation of—what else—INHERENT VICE

At last: a man writing about men www.vulture.com/article/jord...

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

i've long said that if i ever have enough money to start a press, i'd bring back full full-back-cover author photo. so glad to see this is coming back in style!

Hardcovers are here! Check out the back cover haha

Excited to be on this and moved to be read so thoughtfully

We are delighted to share the cover for the witty and emotionally-charged new novel The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers, available to pre-order now: buythebook.online/the-ten-year... 'Somers's wit is as cool, caustic and dry as liquid nitrogen' TONY TULATHIMUTTE 'Hilarious' BRANDON TAYLOR

very excited to announce a new series from this is a newsletter industries: thisisanewsletter.substack.com/p/coming-soo...

PW ⭐️ for @somers.bsky.social!

*first whispering, then grabbing you by the collar and yelling* This book is THE REAL DEAL

Okay I love this book. Somers first book, Staying Up with Hugo Best, was a fun read but this one is even better.

This rocks.

Starred PW review for The Ten Year Affair!!! www.publishersweekly.com/9781668081440

I'm in the NYT this week writing about weather balloons, AI forecasting, and what's going on at the National Weather Service. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/b...

Chewing gum and chomping into an apple both change a person’s personality for the better. I like how it makes ppl a little jaunty or overconfident

In a book review, I don’t mind wading through two grafs up front about whatever the fuck but I certainly can’t wade through five. Shut up about Constantinople and cut to the chase

Every article is like “we interviewed four just born babies (male) about how they plan to save literature”

Recently I was listening to some millennial music in the car and my daughter, 9, threw me the rare “this is good what is it?” It was Walcott by Vampire Weekend haha

Some friendships you’re the person who sends the links to the worst stuff in the world, and others you’re the person who receives the links. Yin yang type of thing beautiful

It's here, our second half of the year book preview!

Ten Year on LitHub’s Most Anticipated List 🙏 lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

Being diplomatic about a terrible book “it’s not for me but for the right person it is certainly the thing that it is”

Hudson Valley dispatch: I was at a party so woke over the weekend that they turned off the Juvenile song ‘Back That Azz Up’ for misogyny !!

This is a good one

People are always making some sweeping statement about American letters in decline when what they actually mean is they don’t like one or two guys

Wonderful characterization in the ten year affair by Erin Somers

My kid, guessing the capacity of Barclay’s Center after seeing a basketball game there: “100 people”

When Mitt Romney said “the trees are the right height”…I felt that, but about the visual size of certain paragraphs

Great interview with @somers.bsky.social today on Short Story, Long, by Brittney Uecker! About her great story, "Ten Year Affair," and her soon-to-be-out novel of the same name! ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/25-for-25-...

I finally got around to this (everyone I know has been talking about it nonstop and it inspired one of them to visit Twain’s grave????). Anyway it’s genius

Currently in a Sofia Coppola film at the end of the year ballet school party: Floral dresses, pink tube tops, enormous jeans, so much hair…’Linger’ is playing and they’re all singing along…occasionally someone pirouettes for no reason etc etc

Hey, SEE FRIENDSHIP has been out for three months, during which it has been purchased in many airport bookstores and spotted on many "new and noteworthy American fiction" displays — thank you for the support, and PLEASE tap in if you haven't already bookshop.org/p/books/see-...

Here’s Brittney Uecker’s 10 Favorite Stories of the 2000's (in no particular order). (I think Brittney’s “Dead Deer,” published in SSL, should prob be on someone’s list. Also, next week we’ll feature Brittney’s interview with Erin Somers about “Ten Year Affair”!)

A very cool project!

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Beautiful UK ARCs are in @canongate.co.uk

“Recession indicator”…lazy joke sorry

Well well well looks like you all suddenly love real people who work in book media. Thank you yes I am an American hero

Absolute classic last night as I completed my kids’ protracted bedtime ritual and attempted to sneak out of the room: “what was the fire bombing of Dresden?”

hastening to complete my little tasks so that I can dive back into a chair with The Ten Year Affair by @somers.bsky.social

Of all the types of publishing gossip my favorite is when I hear of someone acting Machiavellian

My daughter tells me the 4th grade’s simulation of colonial life was delayed a full hour yesterday “because Tommy refused to be the Tax collector.”

Hardcovers have crash landed in a bookstore near you!

reader i give this one six stars out of five @somers.bsky.social

The thing about “no young men in literature”…do no enterprising young gents see this as an opportunity rather than a reason to be discouraged? It’s a vacuum fellows, step up!!

LOOK MA, NO HANDS, @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON, @melissafebos.bsky.social I WANT TO BURN THIS PLACE DOWN, @maris.bsky.social THE TEN-YEAR AFFAIR, @somers.bsky.social

One of the local librarians encountered my husband outside the context of the library and remarked to him that we’re “big readers with varied interests.” HIPAA violation that’s our private health data

Anytime someone has a friend I’m like… dang it’s just like my novel

If you hear me reference the Fab Four this is who I mean

I like the part in Rosalita when Springsteen brags about getting a big advance