Delighted to see the wonderful DAD HAD A BAD DAY by Ashton Politanoff in this cracking list. www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...

Biblioracle: I devoured ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’ by Ashton Politanoff

New episode of Books Up Close is out now with @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social! We talk about Dad Had a Bad Day @dauntbookspub.bsky.social Was a really fun conversation. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

"I’m 41 now, but his delusion has stuck with me. I knew there was something to mine there." Michael Knapp talks to Ashton Politanoff about the masculinity and delusion of his new novel “Dad Had a Bad Day”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dad-had-bad-day-ashton-politanoff-tennis-masculinity/

It’s FRENCH OPEN SEASON, so why not get into the game with the wild new pitch black comedy novel by @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social, a book I loved about a stay-at-home-asshole I hated (and also kinda loved).

Ashton Politanoff’s ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’ is a sharp-etched, unrelenting portrait of a man’s search for purpose by returning to his juvenile moment of promise as a tennis champion. A compelling examination of destructive fatherhoods and their replication across generations. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

Love that @seventydys.bsky.social extracts the serious core of Ashton Politanoff's 'Dad Had a Bad Day':

"Acute isolation can lead to serious pathologies like substance abuse, self-harm, and the type of burning inner rage that convinces angry young men that there’s deep profundity in Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker dance." @pjsauer.bsky.social on Dad Had a Bad Day. www.thesecondserve.com/book-review-...

Thank you @shelf-awareness.com I wrote about some of my favorite reads here: www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

And over @the2ndserve.bsky.social I reviewed “Dad Had A Bad Day,” the fantastic new pitch black tennis novel about the worst SAHDman around by @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social. If Exley’s “A Fan’s Notes” is up your literary sports alley, you’ll dig this book. www.thesecondserve.com/book-review-...

Recommended some May books at @insidehook.bsky.social! www.insidehook.com/books/10-boo...

Don't think about books as objects or as units, or as products or by-products or results. Start by thinking about creation as performance and reading as experience.

Books read in February: Union Street - Pat Barker Dad Had a Bad Day - Ashton Politanoff May We Feed the King - Rebecca Perry The Silver Book - Olivia Laing Seven - Joanna Kavenna A Complicated Women - Rebecca Lucy Taylor Cycle of the Werewolf - Stephen King All good stuff! #BookSky

This July, we publish @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social's DAD HAD A BAD DAY. Recently unemployed Ned spirals into an obsession with tennis, putting everything else in his life at risk. Darkly comic, increasingly unhinged, this is a brilliant exploration of sport and masculinity. Cover by Luke Bird.

Galleys of my book DAD HAD A BAD DAY have arrived! 🎾 Dad is having a good day. Official US publication date is 5/19/26 astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dad-...

“When Teresa first arrived, about a year back, she’d tried to smuggle in cocaine stuffed inside a ball of knitting yarn.” Read from @delaneynolan.bsky.social’s new novel, Happy Bad.

Dad Had a Bad Day arrives 5/19/26 right before Roland Garros! Here is the cover and a link for more info: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dad-...

Il s'appelle donc ROCK$TAR, est sensiblement plus court que son prédécesseur, a nécessité quatre ans de travail, et s'accompagnera d'une bande-son originale à sa sortie le 2 septembre prochain, chez Quidam Editeur. Mais on se reparle d'ici là.

Thrilled to share that my novel DAD HAD A BAD DAY will be published by Astra House! I’m excited to work with Emily Bell & the team at Astra House. Thank you to my wonderful agent Chris Fischbach @fishmpls.bsky.social for making this happen!

Conference funding request approved: I’ll be at AWP this year

Attention AWP attendees! 🗣️ This offsite reading is coming in HOT! See you on March 27th. I can't WAIT to hear these readers. @henryhoke.bsky.social / @josehernandezdz.bsky.social / @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social / @ctsalazar.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social

Stop. Be present. Focus on the little things. Let Nathan Dragon show you how 🙏 From our winter issue: Read IF YOU'RE WATCHING southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...

Ashton Politanoff @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social / @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

I've given you a few days to get over the glut of end-of-year lists, so now you can take a look at my books of the year 2024. tinycamels.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/b...

I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

I've been obsessed with this manuscript for years & I can't wait to have it out in the world Help spread the word if you can & follow @pizamapress.bsky.social for more updates. Pub. date is May 27 & you can pre-order it NOW (I mean, just look at that cover!) neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi out on May 27, 2025 pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

In today's newsletter, I write about three big books: Robert A. Caro's THE POWER BROKER, Leslie Marmon Silko's ALMANAC OF THE DEAD, and Marguerite Young's MISS MACINTOSH, MY DARLING. Nothing but the hits! Read it here & subscribe if you like: bit.ly/49CoF6f

Thank you to the editors at Post Road for the Pushcart Nomination!

Listen to the guru. Trust the guru. 🧘 Read SOMETHING ELSE by Ashton Politanoff from our latest issue. southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...

Karen Yamashita is moving to Graywolf Press!

Thank you @shimmer.bsky.social and @necessaryfiction.bsky.social for the kind words about my book!

Good mail day @babakl.bsky.social

New newsletter is out! In it, I recommend books about nuns, names, and the predations of Ancestry dot com: Antonia White's FROST IN MAY, Ben Robinson's THE BOOK OF BENJAMIN, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's FRA KEELER. You can read it here: bit.ly/3RkhDve

Hey all, I'm teaching an online publishing class in January. Sign up for yourself or pass it on to anyone who might be interested! larksongwritersplace.org/Classes/Onli...

In this month's newsletter, I recommended Martha Baillie's THERE IS NO BLUE, Jordan Abel's NISHGA, and Hanne Ørstavik's LOVE (trans. Martin Aitken), with a fourth recommendation of Elspeth Barker's O CALEDONIA sneaking in there. You can read it here: bit.ly/46MixG7

Kathryn Scanlan and I reading stories and discussing writing with Emma Flynn, January 2021 for Fallow Media, with music by Mémi. fallowmedia.com/errans/

Don't miss today's conversation with Lydia Davis. Looking at these 143 new stories together it somehow becomes a deep conversation about poetry, nonfiction, translation, humor, insects, climate change, Amazon & more. Audio🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/lydi...