When the stargazing masses turned their attention to little green men. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @liveright.bsky.social @dhbaron.bsky.social #booksky

“Nkrumah is the most widely admired person on the African continent today, surpassing Nelson Mandela, who is much better known in the West.” - Howard W. French in his new @deborahkalb.bsky.social #book #author Q&A @liveright.bsky.social deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/q-wi...

Over at @theatlantic.com: "How Originalism Killed the Constitution, an excerpt of Jill Lepore's WE THE PEOPLE, in stores this Tuesday! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

THRILLED to be back at @liveright.bsky.social with @giaquinta.bsky.social for my next book! I'm convinced that if we're to retain our humanity in the face of mounting technocracies and forces that want to make us into little atomized profit units, we've got to re-engage with big, bold, communal art.

“A comprehensive history of one of the most stubborn documents in modern governance.... Lepore argues that the Constitution’s framers meant for it to be amended.” WE THE PEOPLE is one of @nytimes.com's Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...

Yrsa Daley-Ward's THE CATCH - the inaugural novel in Liveright's Well-Read Black Girl Books series curated by Glory Edim - has been optioned by Osun Group! Congrats to Yrsa on this distinguished honor! deadline.com/2025/09/yrsa...

We were thrilled to see WE THE PEOPLE, by Jill Lepore (@liveright.bsky.social), as a @libraryreads.bsky.social Notable Nonfiction pick for September! More info on the book here: wwnorton.com/books/978163...

Read an excerpt from “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide” by @hofrench.bsky.social. @liveright.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/a-po...

Happy publication day to Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, whose translation of THE AENEID (w/ introduction by THE ODYSSEY and THE ILIAD's @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social) is now available wherever epic works are sold! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

You can find this piece and others in my forthcoming collection ATRIA @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com Available for pre-order: bookshop.org/p/books/atri...

On to non-fic before I run out of time! You can tell I've missed a few #ewgc. THE GALES OF NOVEMBER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD by John U. Bacon (author of another fave, THE GREAT HALIFAX EXPLOSION), due out in October from @liveright.bsky.social @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social. Loved it

Excellent new translation from @liveright.bsky.social

A new song from artist "googly eyes" sharing the name of @kkdumez.bsky.social's seminal book JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE is, to our delight, catchy as hell! Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRM...

Check out our latest episode at The Convocation Unscripted. Epstein and QAnon, White Supremacists Memes at DHS, Hunger in Gaza. With: @robertpjones.bsky.social @jemartisby.bsky.social @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social @kkdumez.bsky.social youtu.be/ClJiHaiyATM?...

Thrilled to share the cover of ATRIA, out 2/17/26 @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

Thrilled to announce that I’ve inked a two-book deal with @liveright.bsky.social, a division of @wwnorton.com. The first book, THOSE FEARFUL DAYS, is a work of historical true-crime focused on the 1979–81 Atlanta youth murders. The second, THE PASSION OF MATTHEW SHEPARD, situates Shepard’s life 1/ 🗃️

Thrilled to share the cover of ATRIA, out 2/17/26 @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

was invited to a local book club, and my book just arrived 📚

In the mail: excellent haul, consisting of the ARC of Georgi Gospodinov's 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟 (just about out in the UK; coming to the US 10/2025, from @liveright.bsky.social ) wwnorton.com/books/978132... as well as ...

Discover the books that shaped Yrsa Daley-Ward's life with our new MY READING LIFE Q&A. Her debut novel, THE CATCH, is out now! debutiful.net/2025/06/13/m... @liveright.bsky.social

Control of the U.S. Constitution as a “living” and inevitably changing text has passed from the hands of the people to those of elites, argues this stylish and clear-eyed study. It’s a galvanizing and paradigm-shifting take on America’s slow descent into plutocracy. @liveright.bsky.social

Mail. Good on @liveright.bsky.social for putting the translator on the spine.

THE CATCH by Yrsa Daley-Ward - the first book in our Well-Read Black Girl Series - has been named July's @nytimes.com Book Review Book Club selection! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...

Congratulations too to FINALISTS Ukrainian novelist Tanja Maljartschuk and translator Zenia Tompkins for Forgottenness published by @bullaunpress.bsky.social in Ireland and @liveright.bsky.social ‬ in the US!

"Phil Melanson’s debut novel, 'Florenzer' is set in Renaissance-era Florence, and follows three ambitious men—a banker, a priest, and a gay painter named Leonardo. (Yes… that one.) For anyone who loves historical fiction, this is your summer must-read." #pride www.queerty.com/18-lgbtq-boo...

"[W/] a poet’s heart and attention to language [and] fresh ear for millennial humor and drama, Daley-Ward has penned a metaphysical experiment on grief, trauma, family and longing [w/] the excitement of a big summer read." —Danez Smith, @nytimes.com In stores *today*! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

“An epic twentieth-century story.” Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @hofrench.bsky.social & @liveright.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

A conversation with @davidgrann.bsky.social and Ross Halperin, author of BEAR WITNESS: THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE IN A VIOLENT LAND, from Harrison Public Library in Harrison, NY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96e...

In stores *today!*, Ross Halperin's BEAR WITNESS is a high-octane true-crime story: "a compelling tale and the perfect doorway into the complex inner workings of the poorest country in Latin America." (Carl Hoffman, Washington Post) Learn more: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Read J. M. Coetzee, Mother Tongue here → books.substack.com/p/diary-j-m-... @liveright.bsky.social

In the late teens, novelist J. M. Coetzee, who had by then written a dozen novels, began trying to write his books as though they were not written in English… Read here → books.substack.com/p/diary-j-m-... This post is adapted from Speaking in Tongues, his new book from @liveright.bsky.social.

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to Frank X. Walker, whose exceptional poetry collection LOAD IN NINE TIMES has been named *winner* of the 2025 @penamerica.bsky.social / Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

“What is the dictionary of a language, after all, but a map of the universe as the universe appears to the speakers of that language? From Speaking in Tongues, by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, which will be published this month by @liveright.bsky.social.

Rev. William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove are the authors of "WHITE POVERTY: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy". Learn more: wwnorton.com/books/white-...

"We are not taking a position with this opera, but it’s obviously going to be inflammatory to have the character of Donald Trump onstage.” A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF OPERA author (and Detroit Opera artistic director) Yuval Sharon : www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/a...

So excited about this one. And feel blessed to be repping the insanely talented David Ehrlich! @publisherslunch.bsky.social @liveright.bsky.social

"@peoplemag.bsky.social has an exclusive first look at the music legend’s forthcoming oral history, 'Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run'.... document[ing] McCartney’s time in his famed post-Beatles band, and the cover features plenty of Easter eggs for sharp-eyed fans." people.com/paul-mccartn...

I’m writing a book about A24. it’s going to glimpse deeper inside the mind of Charles Swan III than anyone has ever glimpsed before. coming 2027ish from Norton/Liveright.

Whooo! Great news for @liveright.bsky.social publisher of a fantastic book about the MCU, for snagging another @fitwr.bsky.social professional. Can’t wait to read it. My blurb will not be flashy enough, but I’ll try.

Coming November 4th, available now for preorder: 👐 “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run” 👐 tells the astonishing story of #PaulMcCartney and Wings, in a landmark work of soaring originality. Learn more: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Very excited to be reading Victorian Psycho. Heard so many good things. I'm 38 pages in and loving it. Strong voice with plenty of humor and dry wit. Big thank you to Henry, my book model.

Well, this was a WILD ride! I read Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito in one go last night in bed (it’s 197 pages, love a short book). It’s brilliant, like nothing else I’ve ever read, mad, funny, dark, DARK (not necessarily nightime reading). I’m off to grab a copy of her 1st book, Mrs March. 📚💙

“‘Children,’ I begin. ‘Can we honestly proclaim that they’re any better than their insufferable adult counterparts?’” There is no one I’d rather spend my weekend with than Winifred Notty. At a distance, of course. I don’t want my face licked. #booksky #victorianpsycho

This novel has some truly beautiful, flowing, gothic prose. The rest of it is an absolutely unhinged killing spree. It’s another story of generational trauma, the perfect blueprint for the perfect murder machine. You have to admire a book that goes this fucking hard. 📚🩸

Booklist suggests the chilling VICTORIAN PSYCHO, by Virginia Feito, to take to the beach this summer! @liveright.bsky.social

Join opera’s “disrupter-in-residence" Yuval Sharon for a 4/21 discussion on his book A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF OPERA, an intro to opera for the culturally curious and a manifesto for his fellow artists! Everyone is welcome, and registrants receive a recording of the event! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hey guys! I am in People Magazine! Rambling like a weirdo! And you can see my book cover! I’ve never had an exclusive before! This is so weird and cool tbh people.com/see-the-cove...

An old favorite, and a new one. Two must-reads for horror lovers! 🖤 @paultremblay.bsky.social @liveright.bsky.social

At people.com, @ambersparks.bsky.social reveals the cover to her forthcoming novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE, while discussing writing a mystery in response to the pandemic, and tearjerking *complicated feelings about moms* double features of Tarkovsky and "Frozen 2"! people.com/see-the-cove...