The editors at Kirkus recommend 20 New Books That Will Take You Places, including THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS by @nathaliaholt.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/2...

Ron Charles calls THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS by @nathaliaholt.bsky.social "a thrilling work of history that's wilder than fiction." www.cbsnews.com/news/the-boo...

FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY, says @barnesandnoble.com, is "a riveting read," and they invited @shadycharacters.co.uk to write about it for their blog. www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/keith-h...

Porchlight Books recommends @tvscreener.bsky.social's IT'S (ALMOST) ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA: "As thoughtful, provocative, and engaging as the show itself." www.porchlightbooks.com/blogs/new-re...

“THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS is @nathaliaholt.bsky.social's immersive, sometimes harrowing account of the siblings’ Himalayan adventure… Absorbing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...

Looking for something to read this weekend? The Shady Characters Periodic Table of Emoji (emoji.shadycharacter...) isn't just a visual experiment, but also documents what it takes to make a tool like this and where it might go in future.

"Emoji are not a language, that much is clear. They are something more intriguing and more disruptive than that." New on @longreads.com today: an excerpt of @shadycharacters.co.uk's new book, FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY (😂), which tells the entire history of emoji so far: longreads.com/2025/07/01/e...

Happy pub day to @tvscreener.bsky.social! IT’S (ALMOST) ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA is now on sale, from Gallery Books, wherever books and audiobooks are sold.

Happy pub day to @shadycharacters.co.uk! FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY 😂 is now on sale, from @wwnorton.com, wherever 📚 and audiobooks are sold.

Happy pub day to @nathaliaholt.bsky.social! THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS is now on sale, from One Signal/@atriabooks.bsky.social, wherever books and audiobooks are sold.

Three book birthdays today! In alphabetical order…

Vulture's Best Books Every Comedy Fan Should Read, including @saulausterlitz.bsky.social's KIND OF A BIG DEAL and @jmkarmstrong.bsky.social's SEINFELDIA. www.vulture.com/article/best...

For better productivity and focus, the NYT recommends "Deep Questions with Cal Newport" and five more podcasts: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/a...

THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS by @nathaliaholt.bsky.social is the #3 nonfiction book that NYT readers are most excited about this summer! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/b...

You can read a great excerpt of @tvscreener.bsky.social's new book, IT'S (ALMOST) ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA, courtesy of @avclub.com. (Book on sale 7/1.) www.avclub.com/its-almost-a...

Kirkus has named FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY by @shadycharacters.co.uk and THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS by @nathaliaholt.bsky.social among their 20 Best Books to Read in July. Of course I think they are *the* best... www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/2...

Want to read a bit about my stint writing eulogies for a living? My piece for @thefence.bsky.social is now available in shops and online! ⚰️ Especially fab for the piece to be also featured in @longreads.com longreads.com/2025/06/13/i... www.the-fence.com/i-write-eulo...

21 nonfiction books coming this summer--including THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS by @nathaliaholt.bsky.social, @atriabooks.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/b...

Folks @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s next book is a fucking banger.

PW talks with Anika Burgess: "Photography is, in a way, sort of a miracle. You can put the components together of chemicals and light, and you permanently freeze a moment in time and look at it and keep it with you." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Catch @shadycharacters.co.uk on 99% Invisible's emoji episode. Houston's forthcoming book FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY (in stores July 1) tells the whole story of emoji for the first time: wwnorton.com/books/face-w...

Enter to win a copy of @peterbrannen.bsky.social's THE STORY OF CO2 IS THE STORY OF EVERYTHING, coming in August from @eccobooks.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

ACES member @karenyin.bsky.social's brilliance shines through — as always — in her latest interview about her invaluable "Conscious Style Guide." "I’m never pushing just one set of words, which I don’t believe in. I don’t believe in banning words. I believe in being creative and being contextual."

Huge congrats to @rboyle31.bsky.social whose OUR MOON won the LA Times Book Prize in the science and technology category! www.latimes.com/about/pressr...

Introducing “Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji”! ‘😂’ will be published in July this year, and you can pre-order the paperback from all the usual places. Visit shadycharacters.co.u... to learn more. 1/5

SO happy that the amazing @oliviacampbell.bsky.social included Brave the Wild River on this list. ("unputdownable"!) Also--running to the bookstore now, because all these books look incredible! 💙📚

Enter to win a copy of @nathaliaholt.bsky.social's "beautiful and powerful" THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS, coming this July from OneSignal/@atriabooks.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

B&N has selected @shadycharacters.co.uk's THE BOOK as a Best Book of April. "If you’ve ever wanted *the* book about books, you need this one on your shelf." www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes...

Interesting piece about the agent's slush pile from Laura B. McGrath. At least half of my authors come from unsolicited email queries, including John Grogan (Marley & Me), Cal Newport (Deep Work), and Nathalia Holt (Rise of the Rocket Girls) laurabmcgrath.substack.com/p/textcrunch...

A group of students in Illinois created this adorable board game based on my book. I particularly love "no one fixes lunch, lose a turn." ❤️ @mattweiland.bsky.social @laurieabkemeier.bsky.social

Just learned the very kind people at Lowell Observatory named an asteroid after me! 🤩 Space nerd self is ... Can I say over the moon, or is that too much? (Me in the photo with comet hunter David Levy....)

See you at NYC City Hall at 2 p.m. today, Wednesday, 2/5? (Or wave from your home Capitol!)

I decided to run a hard mile... while pushing a stroller. And I break down the mental aspects of running HARD! -Where does your mind go? -Self-talk -Priming yourself to perform -What to focus on Check it out...and see what I ran on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6sz...

There are just a few more days left before The Grieving Body goes on sale. Barnes & Noble is offering 25% off the book for members, when you preorder today through February 7 on bn.com. You can visit the link to preorder now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-grievi...

LONDON, BABY! Yes, I may get annoying... youtu.be/jPq-ULNiDK0?...

🧶 (2/3) First stop in sending out my book proposal was my fab agent, @laurieabkemeier.bsky.social What I love about Laurie: I can trust her to tell me “Nope” if I have an idea that doesn’t work, and “Yes!” when I have an idea that does. She said “Yes!” to my idea for my 2nd book...

Cal Newport for The New Yorker --> What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok longreads.com/2025/01/20/w...

Looking for something hopeful today and found this emotional piece by Rukmini Callimachi www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/r...

If you have found the Conscious Style Guide to be useful, please consider donating to Karen’s gofundme.

Very excited about our second book together!

25 Highly-Anticipated Books to Read in 2025, including Mary-Frances O'Connor's THE GRIEVING BODY (HarperOne) bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/p/25-highly-...

Check out our forthcoming books and recent deals in DeFiore and Company's Winter 2025 newsletter: www.defliterary.com/newsletter

Heatmap has named @peterbrannen.bsky.social's THE STORY OF CO2 IS THE STORY OF EVERYTHING (Ecco, Aug 2025) as one of 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025. heatmap.news/culture/2025...

And this is a spread from ALL ABOARD THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN! Is it late in the season to be talking about this book again? Maybe. But it's never too late to support artists and buy books.

Love this terrific piece about Cam Bynum. What a story!