LA friends, especially those on the west side!: join @gabriellekorn.bsky.social & me at b&n in santa monica today at 5:30!!!! we’ll be talking about gabrielle’s latest, LONG ISLAND GIRLS (one of my favorite books of the year!), and probs saying things that should remain in the group chat
What do @aptshadow.bsky.social, @jonathanswan.bsky.social, @danielkraus.com, @gabriellekorn.bsky.social, @doctorow.pluralistic.net, @alexandravasti.bsky.social, @megelison.bsky.social, @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social, & @kait.bsky.social have in common? Their new #books are among this week's best!
The Best New Books of the Week
Includes the latest books by Lisa Jewell, Beatriz Williams, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan, Daniel Kraus, Gabrielle Korn, Cory Doctorow, and more.
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My first completed book of 2026 is this sexy and hilarious lesbian novel of the millennial optimism era—by the brilliant Gabrielle Korn.
This list features, among others, @blipstress.bsky.social, @patrickcottrell.bsky.social, @gabriellekorn.bsky.social, @hughryan.bsky.social, @thatames.bsky.social, and @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social!
Ilana Masad@ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 10mo agoWrote about some of the books I'm most looking forward to next year for @them.us: www.them.us/story/most-a...
So grateful to @gabriellekorn.bsky.social and @autostraddle.bsky.social for this <3 "Masad blends meticulously well-researched history with lyrical invention, weaving a braided narrative that asks with urgency and tenderness: are any of us ever truly alone?" www.autostraddle.com/queer-histor...
Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad's Stunning New Novel 'Beings'
"I think having crushes can be really nice. It can remind you that you have a body that can reach out, that you have a nervous system capable of excitement as well as anxiety or stress or anger or enn...
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Author @gabriellekorn.bsky.social (THE SHUTOUTS) invites applications for the Pink Door Silverlake Residency, offering three nights’ accommodation in LA this month; deadline is Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pum...
What is gender anyway? Who gets to decide? I read and reviewed Yours for the Taking by @gabriellekorn.bsky.social creativewritingcenter.com/blog/beyond-...
In Western Mass? Meet @gabriellekorn.bsky.social at the Odyssey Bookshop, in conversation with Debra Jo Immergut on March 12: www.odysseybks.com/event/gabrie... "Strikes a persuasive balance between bleakness and hope." — @locusmag.bsky.social “It’s another winner from Korn.” — Publishers Weekly
LA-based author @gabriellekorn.bsky.social, whose new novel The Shutouts builds on the world of Yours for the Taking, is going on tour! Meet Gabrielle @symposiumbooks.bsky.social in her hometown, Providence, East End Books in Boston, and Odyssey Bookshop in Western MA. Media inquiries? DM me.
See @NussbaumAbigail’s review of THE SHUTOUTS by @Gabrielle_Korn (@gabriellekorn.bsky.social) : “Korn’s handling of these questions strikes a persuasive balance between bleakness and hope... leading her characters to a safe haven that feels fully earned.” locusmag.com/2025/01...
The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn: Review by Abigail Nussbaum
The Shutouts, Gabrielle Korn (St. Martin’s 978-1-2503-2348-4, $29.00, 304pp, hc) December 2024. As climate change has become an ever-growing and more insistent presence in our lives, it has also be…
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we had to reschedule this the first time around because neither of us was at our desk because we were too busy evacuating lolsob, BUT: my first guest of the year is none other than my friend, the incomparable @gabriellekorn.bsky.social, is joining me live from @therumpus.net IG this tues! 📝✍️💫✨
We are fostering a dog who is more like a cow that wants to be in your lap. I love her so
For Elle, I wrote about what this week has been like in LA, and what it means for the future of life on this planet www.elle.com/uk/life-and-...
The Reality Of Packing Up Your Life As Wildfires Rage
'Unless we confront the root causes of this destruction—climate change, capitalism, and the political cowardice that enables both—we’re just planting flowers in a pile of ash'
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Tune in Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 6 pm ET / 3 pm PT on Instagram LIVE for the latest Show Us Your Desk! Greg Mania's (@gregmania.bsky.social) next desk belongs to Gabrielle Korn (@gabriellekorn.bsky.social), author of The Shutouts (@stmartinspress.bsky.social). Join us on Insta at https://buff.ly/40iUEp1
It was 2:30am and the doorbell rang. Only, there was no one there, and it wasn’t the sound our doorbell makes.
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it was 2:30am and the doorbell rang. only, there was no one at the door, and it wasn't the sound our doorbell makes.
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"It’s scary—sometimes I feel like I stared into the void for too long and I wish I could unknow certain things—but being informed is always better." @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social talks with @gabriellekorn.bsky.social about her new novel "The Shutouts"
“If we don't help each other through this, we won't get through it at all”: an Interview with Gabrielle Korn - Chicago Review of Books
Doom is so thoroughly the vibe right now that a climate novel hardly seems an appropriate place to seek hope, but Gabrielle Korn’s The Shutouts peers down the dark tunnel of our unsettling present…
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Gabrielle Korn makes every conversation, even ones about doom, feel cozy. Her well-researched novel fills the end of the world with the warmth and joy of queer family and community. Read our talk on the power of prettiness, identity and climate change, and reading aloud @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
“If we don't help each other through this, we won't get through it at all”: an Interview with Gabrielle Korn - Chicago Review of Books
Doom is so thoroughly the vibe right now that a climate novel hardly seems an appropriate place to seek hope, but Gabrielle Korn’s The Shutouts peers down the dark tunnel of our unsettling present and...
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Over on the newsletter, I've rounded up 14 SF/F books that you should check out this December: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/december-202...
there’s always a reason to celebrate @gabriellekorn.bsky.social, and this week it’s the publication of her new book, THE SHUTOUTS—which also serves as a sequel to her last banger, YOURS FOR THE TAKING!! i can’t think of a better book to complement my holiday plans of being a shut-in 🤗💞🥂
I launched The Shutouts last night at Stories with all my friends. Feeling incredibly grateful that this queer cli-fi novel is out in the world and that my community in LA is so full of love and support ❤️
In honor of my new book, The Shutouts, which comes out today, I wrote about why queer sex belongs in climate fiction lithub.com/why-we-need-...
Why We Need More Queer Sex in Climate Fiction; Or, on Rereading Rachel Carson
Almost one hundred years ago, a young English major named Rachel Carson signed up for an intro-level biology class to fulfill her science requirements at the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pitts…
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The last Best New #Books post of the year is full of great reads, from acclaimed authors like Brandon Sanderson, Christopher Bollen, @rachelhowzell.bsky.social, Weike Wang, @alexsegura.bsky.social, @samanthaallen.bsky.social, @bethrevis.bsky.social, @gabriellekorn.bsky.social, & more!
Best New Books: Month of December 2024
Brandon Sanderson, Christopher Bollen, Rachel Howzell Hall, Weike Wang, Alex Segura, Samantha Allen, and more.
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A great piece on Carson and climate writing, very much after my own heart, from @gabriellekorn.bsky.social lithub.com/why-we-need-...
Why We Need More Queer Sex in Climate Fiction; Or, on Rereading Rachel Carson
Almost one hundred years ago, a young English major named Rachel Carson signed up for an intro-level biology class to fulfill her science requirements at the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pitts…
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Author interview!! 🎉 Gabrielle Korn @gabriellekorn.bsky.social shares with us her upcoming release THE SHUTOUTS, climate fiction, and her writing process at Sunny’s Journal. View full interview here: www.sunnysbookshop.com/sunnys-journ... Interviewed by @nikkimunozwrites.bsky.social 🤍
Gabrielle Korn Talks ‘The Shutouts,’ Climate Fiction, and Writing Process — Sunny's Bookshop
Author Gabrielle Korn – who was previously the Editor-in-Chief of Nylon Media – has created a dystopian, near-future world, in which the effects of climate change have irrevocably altered humanity's w...
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Some wonderful Thanksgiving mail. Looking forward to diving in during the MN January freeze. @gabriellekorn.bsky.social #bookmail
Another listicle! Featuring a whole bunch of excellent reads (a couple double-dips from my NPR picks) including: "The Shutouts" by @gabriellekorn.bsky.social "The Future Was Color" by Patrick Nathan and "Wire Mothers" by @ferrifrigida.bsky.social <3 <3 www.them.us/story/best-b...
16 LGBTQ+ Books That Defined 2024
From memoir to poetry to dystopian fiction, this year had something for every kind of queer reader.
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Three years ago we gay eloped and every year I consider being less insufferable online about it but given the current political situation I think I’m only going to ramp up? Anyway happy anniversary to my wife who I don’t think is even on Bluesky yet
