Ashton Politanoff
@ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social
Dad Had a Bad Day @astrahousebooks @dauntbookspub / You’ll Like it Here @dalkey_archive https://www.ashtonpolitanoff.com
“Dad Had a Bad Day” is the story of Ned, a married, recently laid-off suburbanite with a young child. It’s a fine train wreck of a novel.
Biblioracle: I devoured ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’ by Ashton Politanoff
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Half way through Dad Had a Bad Day by Ashton Politanoff and really enjoying it. This is a perspective I haven’t read from before. #booksky 💙📚
@ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social shared with me the challenges of writing about something he is very passionate about – and very good at! A former tennis player himself, his artful taut novel set in a local tennis club is about when passion becomes obsession podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
🎾How does this novel about tennis lead to a descent into obsession and addiction? @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social joined me on the Rippling Pages to discuss his tight and taut novel DAD HAD A BAD DAY @dauntbookspub.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Delighted to see the wonderful DAD HAD A BAD DAY by Ashton Politanoff in this cracking list. www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...
These Are the 18 Best Summer Books of 2026, From Zeitgeisty Novels to Thrilling Beach-Reads
Stuff your suitcase, fire up the kindle and get stuck in
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Biblioracle: I devoured ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’ by Ashton Politanoff
Biblioracle: I devoured ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’ by Ashton Politanoff
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New episode of Books Up Close is out now with @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social! We talk about Dad Had a Bad Day @dauntbookspub.bsky.social Was a really fun conversation. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
"I’m 41 now, but his delusion has stuck with me. I knew there was something to mine there." Michael Knapp talks to Ashton Politanoff about the masculinity and delusion of his new novel “Dad Had a Bad Day”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dad-had-bad-day-ashton-politanoff-tennis-masculinity/
It’s FRENCH OPEN SEASON, so why not get into the game with the wild new pitch black comedy novel by @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social, a book I loved about a stay-at-home-asshole I hated (and also kinda loved).
Book Review: Dad Had a Bad Day - The Second Serve
Book review: "Dad Had a Bad Day" by Ashton Politanoff
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Ashton Politanoff’s ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’ is a sharp-etched, unrelenting portrait of a man’s search for purpose by returning to his juvenile moment of promise as a tennis champion. A compelling examination of destructive fatherhoods and their replication across generations. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
Love that @seventydys.bsky.social extracts the serious core of Ashton Politanoff's 'Dad Had a Bad Day':
David Hayden@seventydys.bsky.social · 6mo agoAshton Politanoff’s ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’ is a sharp-etched, unrelenting portrait of a man’s search for purpose by returning to his juvenile moment of promise as a tennis champion. A compelling examination of destructive fatherhoods and their replication across generations. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
"Acute isolation can lead to serious pathologies like substance abuse, self-harm, and the type of burning inner rage that convinces angry young men that there’s deep profundity in Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker dance." @pjsauer.bsky.social on Dad Had a Bad Day. www.thesecondserve.com/book-review-...
Book Review: Dad Had a Bad Day - The Second Serve
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Thank you @shelf-awareness.com I wrote about some of my favorite reads here: www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
And over @the2ndserve.bsky.social I reviewed “Dad Had A Bad Day,” the fantastic new pitch black tennis novel about the worst SAHDman around by @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social. If Exley’s “A Fan’s Notes” is up your literary sports alley, you’ll dig this book. www.thesecondserve.com/book-review-...
Book Review: Dad Had a Bad Day - The Second Serve
Book review: "Dad Had a Bad Day" by Ashton Politanoff
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Don't think about books as objects or as units, or as products or by-products or results. Start by thinking about creation as performance and reading as experience.
Books read in February: Union Street - Pat Barker Dad Had a Bad Day - Ashton Politanoff May We Feed the King - Rebecca Perry The Silver Book - Olivia Laing Seven - Joanna Kavenna A Complicated Women - Rebecca Lucy Taylor Cycle of the Werewolf - Stephen King All good stuff! #BookSky
This July, we publish @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social's DAD HAD A BAD DAY. Recently unemployed Ned spirals into an obsession with tennis, putting everything else in his life at risk. Darkly comic, increasingly unhinged, this is a brilliant exploration of sport and masculinity. Cover by Luke Bird.
Galleys of my book DAD HAD A BAD DAY have arrived! 🎾 Dad is having a good day. Official US publication date is 5/19/26 astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dad-...
“When Teresa first arrived, about a year back, she’d tried to smuggle in cocaine stuffed inside a ball of knitting yarn.” Read from @delaneynolan.bsky.social’s new novel, Happy Bad.
Happy Bad
When Teresa first arrived, about a year back, she’d tried to smuggle in cocaine stuffed inside a ball of knitting yarn. No success! Kicks, shrieks. Sobriety. Headaches. Ravenous hunger, aversion to…
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Dad Had a Bad Day arrives 5/19/26 right before Roland Garros! Here is the cover and a link for more info: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dad-...
Il s'appelle donc ROCK$TAR, est sensiblement plus court que son prédécesseur, a nécessité quatre ans de travail, et s'accompagnera d'une bande-son originale à sa sortie le 2 septembre prochain, chez Quidam Editeur. Mais on se reparle d'ici là.
Thrilled to share that my novel DAD HAD A BAD DAY will be published by Astra House! I’m excited to work with Emily Bell & the team at Astra House. Thank you to my wonderful agent Chris Fischbach @fishmpls.bsky.social for making this happen!
Conference funding request approved: I’ll be at AWP this year
Attention AWP attendees! 🗣️ This offsite reading is coming in HOT! See you on March 27th. I can't WAIT to hear these readers. @henryhoke.bsky.social / @josehernandezdz.bsky.social / @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social / @ctsalazar.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social
Stop. Be present. Focus on the little things. Let Nathan Dragon show you how 🙏 From our winter issue: Read IF YOU'RE WATCHING southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
If You’re Watching
By Nathan Dragon
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