Very pleased to be on this list.

I’m so honored to see When the Tides Held the Moon included among WIROBooks’ Favorite books of 2025!! Thank you!!

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Thank you @wirobooks.bsky.social

Moments of brilliance brighten this otherwise overstuffed slog. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @penguinpress.bsky.social #booksky

It's here! It's here! @wirobooks.bsky.social's breathlessly awaited "51 Favorite Books of 2025"--oh so many to choose from. Is your favorite on here? Some that you've missed? Time to update that already-towering TBR list . . . www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...

Love to be on this list with such an incredible group of writers!

Also, I spy @ambersparks.bsky.social, who launched HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE deep in our national existential crisis, in an occupied city.

So, @wirobooks.bsky.social continues to be incredibly kind and creates lists that don't look like a lot of others. (Very grateful WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is on here.) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...

Our 51 Favorite Books of 2025! Congrats to @erikaswyler.bsky.social @americangwyn.bsky.social @imaniperry.bsky.social @nkolakowski.bsky.social @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social @melissafebos.bsky.social @venessakelley.bsky.social www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...

Our 51 Favorite Books of 2025! Congrats to @atriabooks.bsky.social @wwnorton.com @aaknopf.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @eccobooks.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...

Did Elizabeth I, on her deathbed, truly anoint a successor? www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @groveatlantic.bsky.social @tracyborman.bsky.social #booksky

ICYMI: A scintillating, sickening look at how we used to treat movie mounts. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @univnebpress.bsky.social #booksky

Grateful for this interview in @wirobooks.bsky.social. John Loonam was a great reader/question asker. @regalhouse.bsky.social

Cooking all week? Stop rolling that pie crust and talk books with us first! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-l... #booksky

Our Week in Reviews: 11/22/25. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... #booksky

The late author embraced machismo but revered poetry. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/d... @blackstonepub.bsky.social #booksky

On Poetry: November 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @nupress.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social #booksky

A fascinating assemblage of sites (intentionally) obscured. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @uchicagopress.bsky.social #booksky

Are you a BIPOC writer? Don't miss your chance to attend the 2026 Washington Writers Conference for free! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... #booksky

This micro press- based in DC - has a track record and a multi-talented publisher-- #writingcommunity #faith #LDS ✍️📚 Read on...

Meet a surprisingly influential woman you’ve likely never heard of. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/q... @pantheonbooks.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @timhirschelburns.bsky.social #booksky

Join @jonathantarleton.bsky.social at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social in DC tonight at 7 for a conversation with @sjccorn.bsky.social (THE LAST HOUSE ON THE BLOCK, @uchicagopress.bsky.social). It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/sha... #booksky

An Interview with Miriam Gershow. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @regalhouse.bsky.social @miriamgershow.bsky.social #booksky

A Caribbean boy learns to make peace with the living and the dead. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @robdelawrites.bsky.social #booksky

Children's Book Roundup: November 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/chi... @candlewickpress.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social #booksky

Why do we keep falling for - and electing - con men? A review of Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers & Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets & the Masses, by Moisés Naím & Quico Toro (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/c... @wirobooks.bsky.social

Strange Violin Editions has its roots in Mormonism. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-f... @cabockwrites.bsky.social #booksky

Why do we keep falling for — and electing — con men? www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/c... @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social @moisesnaim.bsky.social #booksky

Meet @tavaresbooks.bsky.social (DASHER AND THE POLAR BEAR, @candlewickpress.bsky.social) at @curiousiguana.com in Frederick, MD, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. today. It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/mee... #booksky

We are THRILLED to announce that our keynote speakers this year will be authors Margot Lee Shetterly (HIDDEN FIGURES) & Aran Shetterly (MORNINGSIDE)! Sign up for Super Early Bird pricing through 12/31! @aranshetterly.bsky.social #WashingtonWritersConference #DreamPitchConnect

Kick-off is early today, but we've still got time to talk books! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-l... #booksky

Our Week in Reviews: 11/15/25. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @littlebrown.bsky.social @liveright.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @flatironbooks.bsky.social #booksky

Honored to be part of this fantastic conference!

In her article with Washington Independent Review of Books, Charlotte Taylor Fryar considers the paradox of D.C. centered around the river. She discusses the beauty of the ecological community along the river coupled with its ties to the outrage of American racism. Read the article at link in bio!

Book Review: "Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics" by Jon Cohen 📖 (Washington Independent Review of Books‬) “Viruses do not care about borders…But humans, when it comes to protecting their own communities from pandemics, care about them too much.” #Covid19 #pandemic #superbug

Announcing Our 2026 Washington Writers Conference Keynote Speakers: Aran and Margot Lee Shetterly! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... @aranshetterly.bsky.social @dcwriterscon.bsky.social #booksky

You know the next superbug is out there somewhere. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p... @aaknopf.bsky.social @ehmcgowannews.bsky.social #booksky

So HAPPY for @keithdonohue.bsky.social's take on @ambersparks.bsky.social's new HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE. "a run-down apartment in a converted sanitorium. A handful of zany tenants...the adjacent graveyard." Yes! @wirobooks.bsky.social www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/h...

Good Books about Bad Men. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/goo... #booksky

A gripping #truecrime narrative recounted by a master storyteller. A review of Gilbert King's Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/b... @wirobooks.bsky.social @gilbertking.bsky.social

A mother and her estranged queer son attempt to talk it out. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p... @fsgbooks.bsky.social #booksky

Cathy Alter's questions about Lab Dog in @wirobooks.bsky.social were the best--including who would play me in the movie version. Ha! She writes, "Think Travels with Hammy but with heartbreaking glimpses through laboratory doors." 💙📚 #animalresearch, #dogs, #booksky

Podcast: Marcus J. Moore. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/aut... @biographersintl.bsky.social @wearedelasoul.com #booksky

A gripping true-crime narrative recounted by a master storyteller. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/b... @flatironbooks.bsky.social @gilbertking.bsky.social #booksky

An Interview with Melanie D.G. Kaplan. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social #booksky

This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”

The bighearted ghost story you didn’t know you needed. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/h... @liveright.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social @keithdonohue.bsky.social #booksky

How the Potomac helps tell the story of DC. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social #booksky

The esteemed South Carolina lawmaker honors his predecessors. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @littlebrown.bsky.social @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social #booksky