I’m giving away a free UK galley of Satellite. Comment Satellite below to enter. I’ll pick a winner on Sunday.

Picked up my SATELLITE galleys! You can preorder it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/829544...

wrote about arch manning laughing at assault, steve sarkisian and men like him deciding how everyone around them gets to inhabit space or a given moment, and the expectation on women to rise above it all

Fortune’s dominion

Arch Manning laughs about assault, Steve Sarkisian walks off on Holly Rowe, and the expectations on women to rise above it all.

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I start teaching at the Columbia mfa today. Here’s the AI statement from my syllabus. Feel free to borrow.

Introducing Other Lives: An interview series with artists and entertainers about the lives never lived. I went first.

Very pleased to share the UK cover of SATELLITE. Out March 11, 2027

SATELLITE has a cover! You can read about it and the novel in People Magazine. people.com/isle-mcelroy...

Isle McElroy’s ‘Satellite’ Is a Fresh Take on Marriage and Desire — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

A caretaker finds solace in TV, until she discovers a channel featuring a woman who looks and acts just like her, living a far more liberated life in Isle McElroy’s ‘Satellite.’ See the cover here.

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I wrote about the erotic trolley problem for Feeld: do you like someone enough to catch their cold feeld.co/magazine/ple...

As someone with a really good sense of direction, I had a hard time relating to the terror of Backrooms

The NBR playoff mega-preview is out now, starring @seankuhn.bsky.social @highkin.bsky.social @kylietcheung.bsky.social @ichotiner.bsky.social @eamonwhalen.bsky.social @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social @islemcelroy.bsky.social @maitreyiaa.bsky.social @toley.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Nothing But Respect

Sports Podcast · Updated Weekly · The last uncompromised podcast hosted by Patrick Redford and Harry Krinsky.

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The Provincetown Book Festival is where I met so many writers I love and have been blessed to be in community with ever since. Thank you @islemcelroy.bsky.social for this shout out to MY BAD as one of your favorite books of 2026 so far!

In which novelist @islemcelroy.bsky.social asks Where do we even begin? Some thoughts and potential answers here intheworkroom.substack.com/p/where-to-b...

Where To Begin?

Isle McElroy's upcoming workshop unpacks novel openings

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I wrote about Jordy Rosenberg’s excellent new novel, Night Night Fawn, for @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

A New Direction for the Trans Novel

Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn is autofiction told from a sidelong distance.

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"I prefer [characters who] stumble over what they have yet to learn about themselves. They’re the most compelling because they are human." —from @islemcelroy.bsky.social's National Magazine Award-nominated column Character Studies www.thebeliever.net/character-st...

Character Studies: Cardinal Lawrence in Conclave - Believer Magazine

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that one of the most common problems a novelist faces when creating fictional characters is the problem every person must face: the struggle to know thyself. In a...

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Very surprised and excited to see that my Character Studies column for @thebeliever.net is a finalist for the National Magazine Awards!

Pretty stoked about this!

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Congratulations to @islemcelroy.bsky.social and Rafia Zakaria on the 2026 National Magazine Award nominations!

Loved returning home to find handwritten novel edits from on my editor

My 2025 Grift Guide is here. Featuring Fast Casual Art, Pluribus, Smash Burgers, Literary Parties, and more!! open.substack.com/pub/thescoop...

2025 Grift Guide

All Culture is Fast Casual Now

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Thursday, I’m teaching a class on how to write compelling novel openings. You can sign up here! @shipmanagency.bsky.social www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

The latest round of @nymag.com's Best Books of 2025 includes SAD TIGER! Thanks to @islemcelroy.bsky.social for their thoughtful writeup.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 2y ago

The best new books of 2025 (so far) include novels from award-winning authors, nonfiction that will change how you think about the color blue, a sexy memoir, and a vampire story that just may be horror’s ‘Moby-Dick.’

The Channel is a Publisher’s Weekly Book Deal of the Week!

Very excited to share that @islemcelroy.bsky.social has just sold their next novel and I can NOT wait!!!

Very excited to be publishing my 3rd novel, THE CHANNEL, with Lindsey Schwoeri at Viking!! Coming to you summer 2027.

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps)

Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

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Loved writing the afterword for the reissue of Jacqueline Harpman’s ORLANDA, a brilliant leap of a body swap novel. A sexy, smart, and beguiling companion to her hit I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN. Pick up a copy on September 30!

With this Isle McElroy announced themselves as a compelling writer who can write a stunning gender swap/mystery novel from multiple points of view. I think it’s a tour de force

Some thoughts on Weapons and a lecture about empathy in fiction I delivered at Tin House open.substack.com/pub/thescoop...

Weapons Rips. Empathy Slips.

Zach Cregger's new film and my Tin House Summer Workshop lecture on the limits of empathy.

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I wrote about Sorry, Baby and some thoughts on teachers sleeping with students open.substack.com/pub/thescoop...

Loser Shit

On Sorry, Baby and The Loser Component

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