Hannah Gold

new piece up at @newyorker.com on a great debut novel!

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Public Picks 2025 - Public Books What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black

Wrote about my admiration for Sarah Chihaya's BIBLIOPHOBIA for this year's Public Picks, a sort of "Best of" list, at Public Books.

Amazing to see CLOSE READING FOR THE 21C on there from both Nick Dames and Leah Price, scholars whose writing I love very much ❤️
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I wrote a short fiction story about dating for A Fucking Magazine, you can read it online now!

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Pictures of Life on a Christian Commune Kate Riley’s début novel, “Ruth,” is about the workings of an insular religious community—and the irresistible pleasure of making up rules.

Despite its fascinating setting, Kate Riley’s “Ruth,” which follows a woman born into an insular Christian commune, has little to say about community or faith, Hannah Gold writes.

The Cold and Forbidding Worlds of Cynthia Ozick In a new career-spanning collection of shorter fiction and non-fiction, the past often looms larger for Ozick than the present.

In an Ozick story, the pettier the character and the more obvious her scorn for them, the more likely it is that supernatural forces are being marshaled to intervene. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

thanks, loved doing this work!

Joanna Biggs · Beneath the White Scarf: On Marguerite Yourcenar Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned. But...

‘Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. But the most striking thing about it is the permission Yourcenar gave herself to inhabit the mind of someone she thought was a genius.’

Joanna Biggs on Marguerite Yourcenar:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

cool, thanks for reading!

Really love this piece!

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Why Trees, by Hannah Gold We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure

“Was this her destiny? The fantasies felt nauseatingly real. They were violating, unacceptable, and all the more so because they did not explain the terror that occasioned them.”

New fiction by Hannah Gold (@hannahkgold.bsky.social).

Why Trees, by Hannah Gold

You can now read my latest fiction in the new issue of @harpers.bsky.social ✨ it's about envy, anarchists, the common longing for exceptionalism, and trees

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Why Trees, by Hannah Gold

You can now read my latest fiction in the new issue of @harpers.bsky.social ✨ it's about envy, anarchists, the common longing for exceptionalism, and trees

harpers.org/archive/2025...

Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya: 9780593594728 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books “A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True “A must for the obsessive...

My friend Sarah wrote a very brilliant and moving book of personal essays about the hidden horrors of being a bookish sort, BIBLIOPHOBIA is out in a few weeks and not to be missed!

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Need to forget about the existence of Mike and Ikes again, they’re way too delicious

Mama Tried | Hannah Gold Every Kenneth Lonergan production is, at its center, a story of nihilism resisted or indulged. Usually the characters engaged in these struggles haven’t

I had the pleasure of writing about the great Kenneth Lonergan for @nybooks.com

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What Alice Munro Knew The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?

Incredible piece of reporting and criticism by Giles Harvey, a must-read

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...

Mama Tried | Hannah Gold Every Kenneth Lonergan production is, at its center, a story of nihilism resisted or indulged. Usually the characters engaged in these struggles haven’t

I had the pleasure of writing about the great Kenneth Lonergan for @nybooks.com

www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

noooo Brandy I'm so sorry

Bohemian Rhapsody is the Dan Flashes of songs, so complicated and so many parts, that’s why people love it

‘The Loudest, Brightest Thing’ | Sam Huber Late one evening when I was twenty, a boy I liked shared a theory: queer people who come out in adulthood go through a second adolescence. Freed from the

“The sonic world Sophie made was often exhausting but evidently inexhaustible.”—Sam Huber

Bringing my good news to the bluesky community: I sold my book of short stories 🤓

it’s a steely dan thing

thank you again! I admire your writing and your candor!

Does everyone on here say “call me Deacon Bluesky”? Been wanting to say that for days

thank you 🥰 I have arrived

I am totally starter pack material

What are we all reading? Books?