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Summer Reading Recommendations That Are Real Books

In case you missed literary drama among the many other far graver, existential dramas and traumas of yesterday the TLDR is that The Chicago Sun Times and at...

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This was so fun! I talked about Tone-Bone by @bleakhousing.bsky.social Darryl by @jackieess.bsky.social and Housemates by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social

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Your boi is gonna be back on @thegailyshow.org tomorrow with heartthrob @rpmirabella.bsky.social. Listen live at 3:30p ET or the following day on Spotify!

TODAY! I will be finishing my coffee, packing a bag, and heading to Philadelphia for a reading with the glorious and wise @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social at Wooden Shoe Books! 7 PM, Philadelphia friends please come through; I am excited to see you!

Important questions and research from @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social about the future of the Free Library, and literary community, in Philly.

Why are none of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Author Events free anymore? | Opinion

Though the costs may seem cheap, the fees and other changes create an unnecessary barrier to entry for one of the library’s most popular and widely accessible programs.

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TODAY: in which I travel north on the A/S/L tour to Brattleboro VT and Brooks Memorial Library, where I will be talking to Imogen Binnie <3 and also visiting the excellent Everyone's Books! And maybe going for a nice run! We will see! Anything can happen; I will be listening to B. S.'s "Tracks"

Adrien Brody’s face is v handsome but his speech was SO BORING and milque toast and self indulgent imho

on the house hunt in south philly, looking at the houses we don’t want that are going under contract like, good for you little ugly house, every house deserves love

Here's our newest book review! It's of Emma Copley Eisenberg's novel HOUSEMATES. This was written by our student intern Van Dang. Read it here: writenowphilly.com/if-the-city-... Also, give Emma a follow @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social!

If The City Could Talk: A Tribute to Queer Love, Art, and Philadelphia - Write Now Philly

Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Housemates is a charming and extrospective dissection of what it means to connect with others—through love, through art, through walls. The novel follows Bernie and Leah, a pai...

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@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social talks to @paullisicky.bsky.social about Joni Mitchell and the relationship between songwriting and nonfiction.

Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

What a life-giving joy is a new book from Paul Lisicky! People say that flippantly all the time but in this case it’s really true: life-giving because Lisicky’s work is an aliveness factory, pumpin…

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Starting my week with a conversation between two of my favorite writers, @paullisicky.bsky.social and @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social. lithub.com/paul-lisicky...

Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

What a life-giving joy is a new book from Paul Lisicky! People say that flippantly all the time but in this case it’s really true: life-giving because Lisicky’s work is an aliveness factory, pumpin…

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alas I have quit writing sad fictions to become a nail tech

I cannot overstate how revelatory I found Liz Moore being willing to talk about her regrets over the way she wrote the fat character in her second novel. To see a writer at this level acknowledge harm caused. Plus her thoughts on plot changed everything for me open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...?

Liz Moore has not lost the plot

The master of literary mysteries talks constructing a story and how she would write the fat character in her second novel differently now.

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The ultimate white woman struggle is “I hate bangs!” And then two months later “I miss my bangs!”

Everyone in Philly signing every email “go birds” is giving me life. “Here is your contract, go birds!”

Question for the parental pals: is there a best/better time of year as a mom/parent to leave your kid for a week for a writing retreat? Or times to avoid? I’m guessing not summer…

I am the only person on the planet I guess who thinks Severance the TV show is…not good? I just don’t understand it’s appeal! Feels so cold and lifeless to me with poorly developed characters

Why hello it’s ebook season for rotting on the couch and Housemates is only $1.99 today on all e book platforms. Personally I’m a kobo girlie but you do you www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Housemates ebook by Emma Copley Eisenberg - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Housemates A Novel" by Emma Copley Eisenberg available from Rakuten Kobo. **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly o...

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If I never again hear the phrase “lays bare” it will be too soon

I wrote about a certain kind of Jewish white woman not okayness. It’s me, we’re not ok open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...

The Jewish American Princess 👑 is not ok

I read "The Official J.A.P. Handbook" so you don't have to

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Finally in my Tori Amos era

I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives. Eee!

Who has written the great American novel about teeth/the dentist or will I have to do everything myself

this winter, may I be like Frederick

Here are my favorite reads of 2024. I would also include the Kafka I read this year, but I'll probably make a post just about that sickly little complainer soon. I read so many knockouts this year. It was such a comfort. I love books. Thank you to all these fabulous writers.

Hehe 🎀 Emma’s List of 2024 Bookish Superlatives 🎀. Most Opinionated, Funniest, Saddest, Most Disappointing, & Most Fatphobic For Literally No Reason are categories!! 👀 open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...

Superlatives

My "most" (but NOT best) books of 2024

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The moment you’ve all been waiting for: EL’s best novels of 2024! This year’s list includes books from Marie-Helene Bertino, @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social , Kaveh Akbar, and more! electricliterature.com/electric-lits-best-novels-of-2024

Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2024 - Electric Literature

Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Kaveh Akbar, and Emma Copley Eisenberg are among this year’s most celebrated novels

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Loving how @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social approaches the year end list (but now I have, again, way too many books I want to read!!) open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...

Superlatives

My "most" (but NOT best) books of 2024

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💛 Don't miss out on our 2024 Postcard Auction, featuring bestselling authors like Emma Copley Eisenberg (@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social), author of HOUSEMATES and THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL! 🌈 Bid on Eisenberg or another favorite author at https://buff.ly/3CLIlZ6

Essays @awestenfeld.bsky.social published by my authors in Esquire in the past year or so. 1) How “Right” and “Wrong” Ways to Be Queer Are Changing Fiction by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

How “Right” and “Wrong” Ways to Be Queer Are Changing Fiction

Correcting and policing queer virtuousness has become all too common. But in books, queer writers exhausted by this morality are having fun pushing back.

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