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Julia Fine
@finejuli.bsky.social
Wrote MADDALENA AND THE DARK (Flatiron), THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (Harper). The witch from next door.
FUTURES, a novel for anyone who loves The Fox sisters, is sick of private equity, and wonders what the witches from Macbeth would be doing today, headed soon to a future near you 🔮🔥
My favorite Sondheim genre is "philosophical revelation that explains the whole show, experienced while getting dressed after good sex" (examples include Moments in the Woods, The Miller's Son)
Decades of my life spent thinking Meredith Blake's line was "what are you, rubber taniro" when Hallie asks "are you talking to me"
Our fifth installment in the Chicago Renaissance series is an essay about Megan Stielstra (@meganstielstra.bsky.social)—and her book The Wrong Way to Save Your Life (2017, @harpercollins.bsky.social)—by Julia Fine (@finejuli.bsky.social). chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/15/t...
FREE! TONIGHT! FOR WRITERS! An online intro to publishing class with the brilliant @finejuli.bsky.social to kick off @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's monthlong Pub Crawl (where you can learn a LOT more about publishing), but tonight is commitment-free and you can just get the lay of the land! 1/
an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.
Thank you @finejuli.bsky.social! I could not put this book down, riveting and fascinating!
Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 12mo agoNow serving ep. 375D: Margaux Eliot stopped by to talk about HONEYMOON STAGE, which explores early 2000s culture via a former production assistant’s descent into the confusion, chaos, and karmic consequences of reality TV. @finejuli.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/11/06/t...
“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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Now serving ep. 375D: Margaux Eliot stopped by to talk about HONEYMOON STAGE, which explores early 2000s culture via a former production assistant’s descent into the confusion, chaos, and karmic consequences of reality TV. @finejuli.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/11/06/t...
Turns out Tidal is only a few dollars more a month for a family plan than Spotify and they have a cool feature where they’re not running ads to recruit for the gestapo.
If this picture of my empire of Jell-O shots speaks to your soul, that's your sign to read HONEYMOON STAGE
God I hope so, or I have been putting in all this effort for nothing.
can't believe we have to do another full year of this robocop cosplay starving children golden ballroom bs before the midterms
I have a book out today, so obviously my agent and I have been discussing each character's vote in the NYC election. Anyway: it's about early 2000s reality TV and identity performance and trust, I'm proud of it, it's on sale today, and its main gal would go for Zohran
Honeymoon Stage
Check out Honeymoon Stage - <p><b>Brimming with wit and romance, this twisty trip back to the early 2000s follows as a former production assistant's upcoming marriage descends into the confusion, chao...
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"Do we feel better about ourselves and the fact that we are not billionaires, because we can sit here making fun of them?" @finejuli.bsky.social (Margaux Eliot)'s interview with @awolfson.bsky.social on her new book "Honeymoon Stage” (Little A) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/04/i...
“Inauthentically Authentic”: Reliving Reality TV in the Aughts with Margaux Eliot (aka Julia Fine) - Chicago Review of Books
When you discover that everyone around you is performing a role, how can you learn to trust anyone at all? In Honeymoon Stage, Margaux Eliot’s debut novel—Eliot is the nom de plume of Chicago-based th...
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In my first article for Newcity magazine, I spoke with @finejuli.bsky.social (writing as Margaux Eliot) about Honeymoon Stage, her "MTV reality show book" 🎬🌴💄 More on this witty & humorous romp through early aughts pop culture in the story linked below!
Julia Fine Takes Readers Behind the Reality Show Cameras in “Honeymoon Stage,” Writing as Margaux Eliot
For anyone who's ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in the making of a reality show, Chicago author Julia Fine provides a look at the off-screen drama in her new novel, “Honeymoon Stage.”
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Where did everyone from the golden age of lit twitter ultimately end up settling down? Feeling especially bummed right now about the loss of that community.
my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"
Guess what age-inappropriate movie my 5yo was watching when she said "they're not his friends, they're just some elves who came randomly to his house!"
Fun & clever & kept me up late—go preorder!
Julia Fine@finejuli.bsky.social · last yr.Out November 4, preorder now 🌴💋🎥🫶💍
Get in, we're reading oldschool Ishiguro
Rebecca Makkai@rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · last yr.Ever wonder how your favorite writer wrote a seemingly “effortless” sentence? Learn how to close read like a writer in @finejuli.bsky.social's @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class… Five classes, in person, starts August 21! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
Very funny to me that when my 8yo asks about MLB trades, he says "what did he evolve from?"
What radicalized me? The feeling that it's all a lot of oysters but no pearls
My literary hot take is that every novel should be somehow inspired by Daphne du M's Rebecca