Emily Adrian

Ha, thank you!

New book for the dads! Thrilled to be working with everyone @littlebrown.bsky.social again 💕

Two spots left in this course! We’ll go deep on four Sparks from four different Spark eras. I’ll also give you feedback on your WIP. I love these classes and might be looking forward to this one most of all!

A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...

wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

New class with @adremily.bsky.social

Greatplacebooks.com/spark

You Are Who Eats You | Justin Taylor Dunn was quite possibly the last writer anyone would have expected to resurface, after nearly two decades of silence, with the 1989 bestseller and as a finalist for the National Book Award.

wrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

No one is saying you HAVE to read Muriel Spark this year…

Sorry to only post promo on this website. The truth is I have a beautiful baby whom I look at more than Bluesky.

Reading Muriel Spark with Emily Adrian — Great Place Books Join author and GPB cofounder Emily Adrian in reading the dazzling fiction of Muriel Spark. This class will meet four times to discuss four of Spark’s most original, ambitious, and tightly constructed...

@greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark.

www.greatplacebooks.com/spark

Want to take a workshop with me? We’ll read Joy Williams and Denis Johnson and YOU!

Teaching fiction @92ndstreety.bsky.social in the new year! Join us! www.92ny.org/class/spring...

Thanks!!

Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Genre Seductions In his August booknotes column, Anthony Domestico writes on the seductions of the campus novel.

"Fiction, through artifice, can arrive at truth. Artifice isn’t incidental but essential to the task."

@tonydomestico.bsky.social on @adremily.bsky.social, Tom Wolfe, and the campus novel:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/emily-adrian...

Thank you!

Always wanted to buy a brilliant friend’s book at an airport and now thanks to @adremily.bsky.social i can!

A Steamy Campus Novel Rife With Infidelity

Such a thrill to read this review of my book 🥹

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/b...

Emily Adrian’s SEDUCTION THEORY is a clever, layered tale that pokes fun at academia, particularly at the rituals and eccentricities of a graduate creative-writing program.

If you’re in NYC next week, come to my launch at Books Are Magic! I’ll be in convo with the brilliant Megan Nolan.

www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-e...

Retrieval ‘Those days I was prone to bouts of socially inappropriate laughter that veered into even less appealing sobs. I wasn’t ashamed.’ A short story by Emily Adrian.

‘I hated myself for being alone, for being fertile or not fertile.’

Fiction by Emily Adrian.

granta.com/retrieval/

Retrieval ‘Those days I was prone to bouts of socially inappropriate laughter that veered into even less appealing sobs. I wasn’t ashamed.’ A short story by Emily Adrian.

New story in @grantamag.bsky.social today!

granta.com/retrieval/

The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere

Go beyond the cover (and see how this book cover trend started) with SEDUCTION THEORY. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...

SEDUCTION THEORY | Kirkus Reviews A pretentious academic couple engenders the wrath of a jealous grad student at an elite college in upstate New York.

Psyched about this Kirkus 🌟
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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75 new books to add to your summer reading list - The Boston Globe Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.

The Globe's Summer Reading list includes fiction by @kashana.bsky.social‬, @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social‬, @megiddings.bsky.social‬, @adremily.bsky.social‬, @shteyngart.bsky.social‬ and others not on Bluesky.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/a...

Three Dogs plus a few more

wrote about dogs in the work of Joy Williams, Kelly Reichardt, and Alex Colville (plus some of my own personal dogs):

emilyadrian.substack.com/p/three-dogs...

Gals

On Morning Sickness (It lasts all day)

I wrote about...vomiting. A lot.
emilyadrian.substack.com/p/on-morning...