Wrote about the new Claire Vaye Watkins for @bookforum.bsky.social www.bookforum.com/print/3204/t...
Tortoise Trap
Claire Vaye Watkins gives voice to the desert – Emily Adrian
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Emily Adrian
@adremily.bsky.social
Author of SEDUCTION THEORY (Little, Brown 2025). Stories in Granta, The Point, and Joyland. Editor at Great Place Books.
Two spots left in this course! We’ll go deep on four Sparks from four different Spark eras. I’ll also give you feedback on your WIP. I love these classes and might be looking forward to this one most of all!
Great Place Books@greatplacebooks.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew class with @adremily.bsky.social Greatplacebooks.com/spark
wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review
That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...
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wrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
You Are Who Eats You | Justin Taylor
Dunn was quite possibly the last writer anyone would have expected to resurface, after nearly two decades of silence, with the 1989 bestseller and as a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Sorry to only post promo on this website. The truth is I have a beautiful baby whom I look at more than Bluesky.
@greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark. www.greatplacebooks.com/spark
Reading Muriel Spark with Emily Adrian — Great Place Books
Join author and GPB cofounder Emily Adrian in reading the dazzling fiction of Muriel Spark. This class will meet four times to discuss four of Spark’s most original, ambitious, and tightly constructed...
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Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
"Fiction, through artifice, can arrive at truth. Artifice isn’t incidental but essential to the task." @tonydomestico.bsky.social on @adremily.bsky.social, Tom Wolfe, and the campus novel: www.commonwealmagazine.org/emily-adrian...
Genre Seductions
In his August booknotes column, Anthony Domestico writes on the seductions of the campus novel.
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Always wanted to buy a brilliant friend’s book at an airport and now thanks to @adremily.bsky.social i can!
Such a thrill to read this review of my book 🥹 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/b...
A Steamy Campus Novel Rife With Infidelity
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Emily Adrian’s SEDUCTION THEORY is a clever, layered tale that pokes fun at academia, particularly at the rituals and eccentricities of a graduate creative-writing program.
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If you’re in NYC next week, come to my launch at Books Are Magic! I’ll be in convo with the brilliant Megan Nolan. www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-e...
In-Store: Emily Adrian: Seduction Theory w/ Megan Nolan
"I was completely hooked from the first page, and couldn't sleep until I finished it." —Andrew Martin, author of Early Work
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‘I hated myself for being alone, for being fertile or not fertile.’ Fiction by Emily Adrian. granta.com/retrieval/
Retrieval
‘Those days I was prone to bouts of socially inappropriate laughter that veered into even less appealing sobs. I wasn’t ashamed.’ A short story by Emily Adrian.
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Go beyond the cover (and see how this book cover trend started) with SEDUCTION THEORY. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...
The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere
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The Globe's Summer Reading list includes fiction by @kashana.bsky.social, @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social, @megiddings.bsky.social, @adremily.bsky.social, @shteyngart.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/a...
75 new books to add to your summer reading list - The Boston Globe
Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.
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wrote about dogs in the work of Joy Williams, Kelly Reichardt, and Alex Colville (plus some of my own personal dogs): emilyadrian.substack.com/p/three-dogs...
Three Dogs
plus a few more
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We have a couple of spots left in this class starting January 8!
Great Place Books@greatplacebooks.bsky.social · 2y agoGPB has two new classes on offer in early 2025! First up is READING JOY WILLIAMS co-taught by @adremily.bsky.social and @alexhigley.bsky.social Register here: greatplacebooks.com/joy
Dogs on a walk look so happy. Some look like they're working and they're really proud of the job they're doing, some look like they just got out of work and they're off snowboarding for the weekend, and some look like they just got engaged and they're still too emotional to speak.
7yo, as we drive past a store called SOUP GIRL: watch out Mama. They're gonna boil you.