Long overdue to chatting with Noé in person, this'll be a fun one.

This is going to be a fun one.
Also, I love ANY reason to send people to North Figueroa Bookshop. Such killer booksellers.

LA readers/writers, bring your crystals to N. Fig next week!

I’ll be chatting with the brilliant Nicole Jones whose witchy BELLINAS is a “California Gothic” and a gorgeously written cult horror novel.

'Laying Elizabeth-Marie in her coffin was an ordeal that left my hands oily.'

Early finished copies are arriving of THE LIQUID EYE OF A MOON, the gleaming, hard debut novel of the contemporary caste system in rural Nigeria, from Uchenna Awoke.
books.catapult.co/books/the-liqu…

Happiest pub day J. Nicole Jones ! 💛I am positively drinking this book up - go forth and get yourselves a copy!

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Happiest of pub days to J. Nicole Jones!

THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS is on shelves now!

✨ 'Like the eerie technicolor lovechild of Midsommar and Rebecca.' —Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson

An unforgettable debut novel!
books.catapult.co/books/the-witc…

Ending today—our Goodreads giveaway for the brilliant forthcoming ACCORDION EULOGIES by Noé Álvarez. Enter to win one of twenty copies!
goodreads.com/giveaway/show/…

Starred & boxed review of Yasmin Zaher’s The Coin in Publishers Weekly!

“It’s a tour de force”!!! 💫💫💫

cc: Catapult Triangle 🏠 House

~// tomorrow

'The reader is smart! ... You've gotta really not take them for granted.'
In case you missed it, Lexi Freiman was awesome discussing her THE BOOK OF AYN on @thedailyshow.
youtu.be/X8UknRzaTzY

'The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters completely broke my heart.'
Jen Psaki recommends some great reads for ELLE Magazine (US).
elle.com/culture/books/…

A fantastic look at J. Nicole Jones's new THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS in Los Angeles Times!

'A dystopia where individual thought is extinguished for the art colony’s harmony. . . . [Her] power as a storyteller burns fire-hot.'

latimes.com/opinion/story/…

I just want to emphasize how huge this is. Gary is 94 now, and not given to frequent public appearances. Make time for it.

Yasmin Zaher's forthcoming THE COIN called 'easily my favorite book of the year so far.'

Great to see, and a good hint at how excited you should be for this one.
instagram.com/p/C6yxJReLPqW/

up now on Literary Hub: my latest w/ Marissa Higgins on writing queerness, blackness, jamaicanness, and the anxious rage that animates the in-between.

have a gander: lithub.com/sitting-at-the…

(loving these mics ppl keep giving me so i can yell out hot takes that no one asked for 😂)

On using satire as a scalpel rather than a bat:
'The reader is smart! ... You've gotta really not take them for granted.'

'She was basically the worst person I could write a book about, which really appealed to me.'

In case you missed it, Lexi Freiman was amazing and funny discussing her THE BOOK OF AYN on @thedailyshow.
youtu.be/X8UknRzaTzY

Mother's Day is here this weekend!
Your Mom (or someone else dear to you, ❤️ maybe even yourself!)—could use a great new book.

Here are a few of our recommendations:

'When past and present, self-indulgence and self-loathing collide, the result is a bold and terrifying reinvention. First-time novelist Zaher wields her journalist’s eye to elevate the callous distance from everyday horror... Brilliant.'—ALA_Booklist cc: Catapult