The best nonfiction book I've read in a looooooong time. Book awards were invented for books like this. Scholars, take note...this is a book that unites academia and storytelling in the most thoughtful and rigorous way! Great editing from @katekilla.bsky.social and h/t @bostonglobe.com

Another starred review! Big thanks to the anonymous Publishers Weekly reviewer who read with such attention and thoughtfulness. “Majumdar proves once again that she is a master of the moral dilemma.”

New book trend: the unboxing still life. #booksky

We interrupt all this dire news to announce that I HAVE A COVER OF MY NEW BOOK. It will pub in March 2026 with the @uminnpress.bsky.social . So happy to work with this great press again. And you will be happy to know that the title is not misleading--there are REAL GHOSTS in this book.

I just read and highly recommend Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social! Ilana Masad brilliantly weaves together three stories from the early 1960s to present day about people surviving at the margins of society, alien sightings, and memory. Out in September. islandbooks.com/book/9781639...

First review is in and it's a starred Kirkus! Thank you to the anonymous reviewer for reading with such care and generosity, and bringing so much to the pages

Some personal news… @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit

I don’t have a fancy tour card because it took forever for a lot of my events to be announced, but me and THE PAYBACK will be at: 7/15, Skylight Books, LA w/Rufi Thorpe 8/11, Franklin Park, Brooklyn, NY 8/23, San Diego Book Festival 9/6, National Book Festival, Washington DC 9/21 (secret)

Rob's right: this is a sharp and thoughtful book. I'm excited to talk with Ben about it when he visits Point Reyes on August 9. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0...

A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and I couldn’t be happier about it 🧡

My book, Nothing More of This Land, is out today! It’s an exploration of Indigenous identity from my Wampanoag homelands on Martha’s Vineyard to Indigenous land around the world. Get yours at your favorite bookstore or via the link in my bio!! 🌊🐋

hello, deeply organized and events-minded people who love independent bookstores! NAIBA is hiring a new executive director, filling the VERY BIG shoes that will be left behind by our darling eileen dengler. take a peek and see if you want to apply: www.naiba.com/news/naiba-e...

It's my birthday which means everyone who likes me should pre-order my novel, BEINGS, and everyone who doesn't like me should please just not tell me that they don't like me so I can have one day where I don't have to be anxious about that www.bloomsbury.com/us/beings-97...

Come see me on tour? Starting next week!

This looks like a cool job thebaffler.com/about/jobs/s...

My new novel, A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF, will be published by @aaknopf.bsky.social in Oct 2025! It is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. Cover design gratitude to Tyler Comrie!

This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...

It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨ Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky! In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires. Thanks for being here 🙌🏽

I'm looking for pitches for science & health features for Slate! Pieces that will shift/challenge how readers see the world and how it works . My email is [email protected].

Do you live in or near the Hudson Valley/NYC (or traveling-distance therefrom) and have a book coming out this fall? Do you want to read from it at a bookstore reading series? Hit me up if you do! (Will not be able to reply to every request, be forewarned)

Love how this sentence doesn't say "TV" but you can see the TV glow on the man all the same and more vividly electricliterature.com/circular-mot...

Very cool tidbit about the name: 'Clemens published his first piece under the byline “Mark Twain” — a call used on riverboats to indicate a safe depth of water — in 1863, when he was 27.' www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...

Hardcovers have crash landed in a bookstore near you!

Publishers in Japan host writers in their offices and give them a room to write in?! What a cool idea. From Elif Batuman's great profile of Sayaka Murata in the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

baby’s first (starred!) review!! thanks to kirkus for calling MAGGIE “a funny, stirring novel about resilience.” ✨ www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

somehow, Meet Me at the Crossroads received a starred Kirkus Review

If you’ve loved Evicted and Invisible Child. Wrenching, enthralling reporting and storytelling following an uprooted Indigenous family who must figure out life in a city settlement. I think this book is a triumph

New Eula Biss in @orionmagazine.bsky.social and it's (of course) a marvel, about gardening and resistance writ large orionmagazine.org/article/forc...

This line from Michael Cunningham's DAY, so gorgeous and memorable: "The owl flies away, so effortlessly that it seems not to beat its wings at all but merely to consent to flight."

This book sounds so intriguing chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/01/1...

My novel HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER. January 2026 with @pantheonbooks.bsky.social

The specific menace and danger here, the vigor of the prose on parenting and being parented. Trying to stay in a place of “public influence” to avoid violence at home. And the pair of twists at the end. I was completely captivated by this book.

Thrilled to be moderating a Saturday panel @latimes.com Festival of Books. Come join me & @genoways.bsky.social & @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social & Victoria Blanco as we sleuth out these family histories.

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 26th! A fine time — a fine enough for me!! — to consider once again the value of this quirky little store. Not dollars & cents value, of course. But the sort of value that endures all the many come what mays of life. mailchi.mp/ebbookseller...

Reminder that Personal Narrative and The Commuter are OPEN for submissions! Get your submissions in while you still can! buff.ly/znX5yZY

If you are in and around Washington Heights today, the neighborhood’s new indie bookstore, Fountain Bookshop & Gifts & Ice Cream, is hosting a local authors signing (including me!) at 5 PM as part of its Grand Opening week! Details in the flyer:

Jenny Minton Quigley on the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction winners (and three stories you can read right now!).

in case you are in nashville this weekend i will be in conversation with lydi conklin at parnassus books this friday!!!!! come hang out

Hello––my book Underland has been adapted into a feature film & the world premiere is at Tribeca in June. It's taken 4.5 years––& the team’s created something astonishing. A documentary that's groundbreaking in form, voice & tone. I hope you might see it one day. Full account on IG (@robgmacfarlane)

As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Listen to this week's podcast, “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social. buff.ly/7tok7pX

Wishing the happiest of pub days to EL's own Denne Michele Norris (@thedennemichele.bsky.social), who's as wonderful as a writer as she is an editor-in-chief. If you haven't already, get yourself a copy of her amazing book here: buff.ly/nerDdxT

More from the Electric Lit archives, this is @helencphillips.bsky.social on HUM. I found this such a fascinating thought electricliterature.com/helen-philli...

Very cool series of interviews about short stories that writers love to come back to and teach their students, and why, over at @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/3-short-stor...

I think a lot of folks who generally dig my recommendations will enjoy this. It's not for everyone, but you'll know from the description if it's not for you. (Honestly, nothing that tries to be "for everyone" ends up any good anyway)

This Lynn Freed story published by @bombmag.bsky.social in 1998 is absolutely haunting, if you read it once you might have to come back to it every now and then bombmagazine.org/articles/199...

perhaps you might be interested that STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE is a today show spring pick???????? www.today.com/today/amp/rc...

One thing I remember loving about this book—Kalanithi took us through his comprehension of how medicine and literature/ surgery and beauty/etc were only different vocabularies for the same unified experience of life... I thought that was so moving in a memoir written in one's last months

The level of attention and examination in this story is such a delight to read. By Angie Sijun Lou over at the Iowa Review iowareview.org/from-the-iss...