BIG CHIEF is on @debutiful.bsky.social’s Best Debuts of 2025! Check out this list!

BIG CHIEF is one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2025!

Off to Austin for the Texas Book Festival! Come see me talking BIG CHIEF with Brandon Hobson (his novel THE DEVIL IS A SOUTHPAW JUST CAME OUT) and Deb Olin Unforth at the Kirkus Tent!

The Blue Jays took on a team with some of the greatest players to have ever played the game and they took them to seven, and that one was a duel until the end. So much respect

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! If you haven’t read Big Chief by @jonvhickey.bsky.social yet, you need to! It’s a political thriller that takes place on a reservation in Wisconsin. Powerful themes on what it means to belong. Couldn’t put it down, couldn’t stop thinking about it. Highly recommend! 📚

Talking BIG CHIEF at the Central Wisconsin Book Festival in Wausau. And gesticulating wildly apparently.

tonight I gloriously end my tour in San Francisco at green apple @booksonthepark.bsky.social at 7 pm!!!!!!!!!!! in conversation with @jonvhickey.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!! I demand your presence

So excited to be included jn this! Thanks to @pw.org!

In our 25th annual #FirstFiction feature, we spotlight five debut fiction writers you’ll want to know! Delve into the captivating literary worlds of Sarah Yahm, @jonvhickey.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social, and @jemmawei.bsky.social: at.pw.org/FirstFiction2025

Our own event manager, Kar Johnson, will be on @kqedforum.bsky.social tomorrow morning to talk summer reading recs! Tune in at 9am! www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

The Best Debut Books of 2025 (So Far) debutiful.net/2025/06/16/t...

This sounds like the heavily researched book version of every conversation I’ve had with my brothers over the last 35 years

Gotta ❤️ ANOTHER #newbooksday at the library! #librarylife 💙📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com @vacharat.bsky.social @emmapattee.bsky.social @jonvhickey.bsky.social @deathbybadger.bsky.social @jmdematteis.bsky.social @angelaphamkrans.bsky.social @drewbrockington.bsky.social

Amazing rec! Thanks @judicialjunkie.bsky.social!

This week @ City Lights LIVE! 🟣 5/6, 7pm: @hzeavin.bsky.social w/ Juliana Spahr @mitpress.bsky.social 🔶 5/7, 6pm: @jonvhickey.bsky.social w/ @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social 🟦 5/8, 7pm: @sarahschulman.bsky.social w/ @caroderobertis.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social rounds up five iconic books edited by Toni Morrison.

BIG CHIEF slyly makes it into the Washington Post book review! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

www.netgalley.com/book/458262/... You're Disenrolled... #Books #BookSky @simonandschuster.bsky.social @jonvhickey.bsky.social

went to Barcelona & wrote about it for Travel + Leisure, & the piece is out in this month’s issue

“Once the Earth is toast, will someone rebuild it?” Our next letter in the mail comes from author @jonvhickey.bsky.social. Jon’s letter recounts a family vacation turned existential, and explores the roles of hope and writing in rebuilding the world. ➡️ buff.ly/3GxPD41

Check out Kyle Edwards writing about a small-town hockey tournament and his novel SMALL CEREMONIES! Then, you know, get the book too

BIG CHIEF got a nod from the New York Times Book Review!

BIG CHIEF hits the shelves in London at @waterstones.bsky.social!

I shared my TBR pile with Lit Hub!

IT'S HERE!!!! So incredibly happy for my old friend Jon Hickey! @jonvhickey.bsky.social

#BookBuying Absolutely had to get a copy of this one! @jonvhickey.bsky.social #BigChief "The great Native American political novel. A tremendous debut." #ScribnerBooks 💙📚

hello, the editors have picked my shortish GR essay about Polaroids and death for you to read

Means a lot from this guy, who was the cool writing guy I looked up to back in undergrad times (and still do 😀 but would never admit it)

Signing BIG CHIEF at City Lights! Dream come true!

Signing books at Green Apple in San Francisco!

BIG CHIEF is available NOW! Yes, NOW! How lovely it would be to be in your library. I thank everyone who made this possible, and I hope to see you out there on the BIG CHIEF World Tour!

As my friend David DeGusta says, BIG CHIEF IS OUT IN THE WORLD TODAY! Thank you so much!

Happy book birthday to @jonvhickey.bsky.social and BIG CHIEF! Jon is the best, and you could defintitely use a good book right now. Be kind to yourself and grab a copy! bookshop.org/p/books/big-...

Look at these upcoming Debuti-Pod conversation guests! You can subscribe on all the hot podcasting apps. Come listen to @vitcavage.bsky.social chat with @jonvhickey.bsky.social, @thedennemichele.bsky.social, @jemmawei.bsky.social, and Aaron John Curtis this spring.

Just a reminder that BIG CHIEF is launching next week! Green Apple Books on the Park, April 8th, 7pm!

"What Jon Hickey has created with “Big Chief” is a masterclass on identity and what it feels like to be at peace within our skin." Excellent review of @jonvhickey.bsky.social's debut novel. Catch him here for the launch next Tuesday! Details in thread. datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/big-ch...

First review of BIG CHIEF in San Francisco Chronicle and it’s a banger! datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/big-ch...

Love this podcast and excited to be on it next month!

Cover of the French translation of BIG CHIEF, coming in August from Éditions Gallmeister!

It’s true

There’s so much terrible, malicious, just plain awful garbage on the internet, but then there’s people like this and I’m glad they’re out there.

Today, AUGUST SWEENEY is loosed upon the world. I started working on this thing 12 years ago and I promise you people: it’s very fucking good. Thank you especially to @adamalsirgany.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social , and @sfwp.bsky.social. The gorgeous cover is by @bshaykin.bsky.social.

Just signed almost a thousand of these bookplates and yes that is my Steve McQueen in Bullitt playset behind my computer

And Happy Pub Day to @erikatwurth.bsky.social! Can’t wait to get into this novel!

One of those great writers who, when I was post-grad school, didn’t have to make time for me and my writing, but absolutely did. Don’t just check out J. Robert Lennon’s early books. He’s got a new one out now!

A wonderful and reasoned examination of the mysterious post-debut pre-sophomore book times from Xhenet Aliu, whose second novel is coming out!

I wrote about ghosts and hauntings open.substack.com/pub/ingridro...

Good one from Dan Sheehan

They’re here! Fresh off the printer, the first ever copies of a book I wrote. Preorder and get your own on April 8th!

STUPID TV, BE MORE FUNNY comes out in three months. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-... And if you're curious where Conan O'Brien got the idea for "Marge vs. the Monorail."👇