Fun with @penguinpress.bsky.social! Recreating the RULES FOR VISITING cover with flowers for FONSECA. A literary crossover, or me just hiding from the camera?
Jessica Francis Kane
@jfkane.bsky.social
Author of five works of fiction. The latest, FONSECA, out now.
Fun with @penguinpress.bsky.social! Recreating the RULES FOR VISITING cover with flowers for FONSECA. A literary crossover, or me just hiding from the camera?
“I put everything I had into my response, explaining what her novels meant to me, what I hoped to do in the book.” @jfkane.bsky.social on talking with Penelope Fitzgerald’s children while writing her latest novel, “Fonseca.” www.publicbooks.org/adventures-n...
Adventures Newly Narrated: Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald’s Lost Adventure - Public Books
“There is always a job to be done in Fitzgerald’s novels, and I admire that. I try to write that way, too.”
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“Everyone has a point to which the mind reverts naturally when it is left on its own,” wrote Penelope Fitzgerald in “Following the Plot.” In her latest novel, @jfkane.bsky.social imagines that place might be, for Fitzgerald, a trip to Mexico in 1952. www.publicbooks.org/adventures-n...
Adventures Newly Narrated: Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald’s Lost Adventure - Public Books
“There is always a job to be done in Fitzgerald’s novels, and I admire that. I try to write that way, too.”
publicbooks.org
“It wasn’t until I just put mother and son on the doorstep of the house in Mexico … that I finally got started on the version of the book as it stands.” New at PB: @jfkane.bsky.social on filling in an omission from Penelope Fitzgerald’s narratives. www.publicbooks.org/adventures-n...
Adventures Newly Narrated: Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald’s Lost Adventure - Public Books
“There is always a job to be done in Fitzgerald’s novels, and I admire that. I try to write that way, too.”
publicbooks.org
New at PB: @jfkane.bsky.social talks with Sylvia Brownrigg about “Fonseca,” a novel that narrates a strange adventure of Penelope Fitzgerald—and one that went unrecorded in Fitzgerald’s own work. www.publicbooks.org/adventures-n...
Adventures Newly Narrated: Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald’s Lost Adventure - Public Books
“There is always a job to be done in Fitzgerald’s novels, and I admire that. I try to write that way, too.”
publicbooks.org
One of my favorite books of last year! Fonseca by @jfkane.bsky.social is a delightful comedy of manners about real historical figures, and now you can pick it up in paperback!
Penguin Press@penguinpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago"A beautifully written novel." —Ann Napolitano A treasure hunt, a love story, and a brilliantly imagined chapter from literary history ✨ @jfkane.bsky.social's Fonseca, a Best Book of the Year from The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and more, arrives in paperback 8/11.
New at PB: Sylvia Brownrigg interviews @jfkane.bsky.social about her novel “Fonseca” (@penguinpress.bsky.social), “a remarkable act of homage to Penelope Fitzgerald’s life and work.” “Fonseca” is out today in paperback! www.publicbooks.org/adventures-n...
Adventures Newly Narrated: Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald’s Lost Adventure - Public Books
“There is always a job to be done in Fitzgerald’s novels, and I admire that. I try to write that way, too.”
publicbooks.org
Today’s the day! Happy paperback birthday to FONSECA. The New York Times called it “very entertaining,” and who wouldn’t want to pick up that sweet little pig on the new cover?
Penguin Press@penguinpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago"A beautifully written novel." —Ann Napolitano A treasure hunt, a love story, and a brilliantly imagined chapter from literary history ✨ @jfkane.bsky.social's Fonseca, a Best Book of the Year from The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and more, arrives in paperback 8/11.
Today’s the day! Happy paperback birthday to FONSECA. The New York Times called it “very entertaining,” and who wouldn’t want to pick up that sweet little pig on the new cover?
Penguin Press@penguinpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago"A beautifully written novel." —Ann Napolitano A treasure hunt, a love story, and a brilliantly imagined chapter from literary history ✨ @jfkane.bsky.social's Fonseca, a Best Book of the Year from The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and more, arrives in paperback 8/11.
Still working toward my dream of getting the word into the lexicon! Thanks for reposting, dear @themorningnews.org. I’ve always loved these illustrations.
The Morning News@themorningnews.org · 2w agoLet’s start with @jfkane.bsky.social‘s “Arbotchery,” which puts into words (and illustrations, thanks to Jacqui Lee) the dismal trimming practices that occur when a tree lives near a power line themorningnews.org/arbotchery/
Still working toward my dream of getting the word into the lexicon! Thanks for reposting, dear @themorningnews.org. I’ve always loved these illustrations.
The Morning News@themorningnews.org · 2w agoLet’s start with @jfkane.bsky.social‘s “Arbotchery,” which puts into words (and illustrations, thanks to Jacqui Lee) the dismal trimming practices that occur when a tree lives near a power line themorningnews.org/arbotchery/
Michigan! Please let @abdulelsayed.bsky.social win tonight!
Michigan! Please let @abdulelsayed.bsky.social win tonight!
Michigan! Dear home state of mine. Get out there today and vote for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Please.
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, carries major implications for the direction of the Party. See live results here. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ncbEl3
Michigan Primary-Election Map: Live Results
A closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, carries major implications for the direction of the Party.
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I tried to bring the focus back where it needs to be: "Whatever the strategic (mis)calculations behind this crisis, what is indisputable is that on any given day, there are thousands of young people in Morocco who are willing to risk everything for a chance to live in Europe." tinyurl.com/mpeyzavu
The Makings of a Mass Crisis
Unless Morocco’s government provides better jobs, education, healthcare, and human rights to young people, the crisis we witnessed this last week will happen again.
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Next up in On Our Nightstands, co-editor of our Music section Gustavus Stadler shares Joshua Clover’s “Roadrunner: A Song by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers” (@dukepress.bsky.social).
On Our Nightstands: July 2026 - Public Books
At “Public Books,” our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? Here we…
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Michigan! Dear home state of mine. Get out there today and vote for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Please.
Michigan, this is OUR moment. Vote Tuesday, August 4th.
Michigan, it’s Election Day. If you haven’t voted yet, the polls are open now until 8PM. Make your voice heard. Find your polling location at abdulforsenate.com/vote!
The @nytimes inexplicably continues to assert that "the Justice Department ... gave [Trump] the audit protection as part of a deal to end the lawsuit." Nope. It wasn't included in the "deal." It's a unilateral--and blatantly unlawful--decree by the Acting AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
nytimes.com
PSA: Protect your elders from IRS scams. They are real and rampant and so so terrible.
No way! Look at that. FONSECA’s little pig leading the August paperback roundup at @literaryhub.bsky.social 😂🐖
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 3w agoBooks by Jamaica Kincaid, Samanta Schwebelin, Eimear McBride and more are arriving in paperback this August.
No way! Look at that. FONSECA’s little pig leading the August paperback roundup at @literaryhub.bsky.social 😂🐖
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 3w agoBooks by Jamaica Kincaid, Samanta Schwebelin, Eimear McBride and more are arriving in paperback this August.
"I write to explore the texture of different emotions, and listening to music is another way to access those textures." Lizzie Buehler shared a playlist for her debut novel The Obsessed at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2026/07/28/l...
