"Beyond the pain and the characters who bear it, this book is a commentary on the ways America abandons its people to fend for themselves."
@tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social reviews A HISTORY OF HEARTACHE by Patrick Strickland. @melvillehouse.bsky.social
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Stoked that my new story collection, A HISTORY OF HEARTACHE, made this list of April's best southern books.
It's out April 21 with @melvillehouse.bsky.social
Pre-order: bookshop.org/a/121591/978...
red headed woman looking happy and a little startled as she holds the book she has written
Ahead of publication next week my book baby arrived into my arms & it is so beautiful. 💫💫
Thanks to the team at @melvillehouse.bsky.social especially my whiz of an editor Michelle Capone!
I love the cover and the sparkly pink beneath.
"Life and literary legacy."
Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @rosavcampbell.bsky.social & @melvillehouse.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
I would love it if there was more academic articles and more journalism and more literary essays with swearing in them.
really chuffed to be included on this LA times best books to read in April and among SUCH great titles. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
as a socialist feminist nerd having my book included in the @nymag.com approval matrix this week is obviously the coolest thing that has ever happened to me. wtf????
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“...the pages capture the terrifying reality of living in an increasingly totalitarian state.”
@apartan.bsky.social reviews Svetlana Satchkova’s The Undead (@melvillehouse.bsky.social).
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Jude Doyle, at a microphone seated just inside a window, reading from his book.
This afternoon’s fun thing: Jude
Doyle reading from his book DILF (Did I Leave Feminism), from the Gender as Change chapter.
The cited information but not the quote written in white on top of Joukovsky's author photo. To the left of these words is the book cover for Medium Rare with the full Rumpus logo overtop.
"...we are mimetic creatures, ever enamored of our own reflections."
Writing A Series of Trojan Horses into a Novel: @egjames.bsky.social interviews @joukovsky.bsky.social about Medium Rare (@melvillehouse.bsky.social).
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In filling out a perfect March Madness bracket, a man flies too close to the sun. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/m... @melvillehouse.bsky.social @joukovsky.bsky.social @serenazets.bsky.social #booksky
anyway,read Medium Rare if you want to find out how the next couple months go 🔮 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813956...
@annagat.bsky.social a 2026 March Madness myth in the making 🫢
“Alas, it’s all but certainly a contest without a winner...Or, rather, a contest [Kalshi] is foretold to win. I mean, look at all the free advertising we’re giving hi—" (9)
Unfortunate news we are closing as a book publisher 💔 and reopening as a betting market 🤑First odds we're giving: will K*lshi sit down with thoughtful contemporary fiction? 98-to-7 payout
@joukovsky.bsky.social worked on this story for years... and.... Kalshi just.... tweeted it out.
@ericara.bsky.social
anyway, read Medium Rare if you want to know how the next few months go 🔮 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813956...
"Alas, it’s all but certainly a contest without a winner...Or, rather, a contest [the billionaire himself] is foretold to win. I mean, look at all the free advertising we’re giving hi—" (9)
@annagat.bsky.social a March Madness myth in the making 🫢
@ericara.bsky.social
Unfortunate news we are closing as a book publisher and reopening as a betting market. first odds we're giving: whether or not Kalshi will make time to sit down with thoughtful fiction. 98-to-7 payout.
"Alas, it’s all but certainly a contest without a winner...Or, rather, a contest [the billionaire himself] is foretold to win. I mean, look at all the free advertising we’re giving hi—" (9)
Cover for A. Natasha Joukovksy’s MEDIUM RARE — a classical/biblical painting of a (rather melodramatic) nude gentleman falling towards a basketball hoop. Plus title and author information.
Halfway through MEDIUM RARE by A. Natasha Joukovsky…
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Enjoying it. Interesting premise, well-executed so far. Amusing, quite sharply observed. Out now, published by @melvillehouse.bsky.social.
Revised Spring 2026 event schedule: Hawaii with my Radical Ahjumma crew at the AAAS conference, da Shop books and U of HI Manoa. Bay Area events: revision panel sponsored by @litquake.org, Kepler's workshop on family stories & AAPI month talk at my hometown library. @melvillehouse.bsky.social
Stories of addiction and underemployment feature in the bare-knuckled fiction debut from journalist Strickland (You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave). The unnamed narrator of the title entry, a high school senior, dreams about heading to California from his hometown in north Texas, leaving behind his alcoholic mother and memories of his older brother who died at age 16 from a heroin overdose. In “Mockingbirds,” a former teacher, now mopping floors at an abortion clinic, is hounded by an anti-abortion protester intent on making him into a villain online. In “Rent Money,” a woman in her early 20s comes to terms with the shortcomings of her 41-year-old husband, a heavy-drinking slumlord for “meth monsters” who tries to goad her into collecting rent, a far cry from the “clean, simple life” he promised her when they got married five years earlier. Strickland laces his hardscrabble scenes with lyricism, as in “Screaming East on I-10,” when a young drifter living alongside crack addicts describes taking a hit of the drug, then notices how “night bruises the sky purple.” In each piece, grief underscores the characters’ recklessness, imbuing the collection with an unsentimental but tender emotional register. Strickland’s humane depictions of people living on the margins acknowledge the forces that shape them.
I am downright stoked to get such a generous and positive review from Publishers Weekly for this story collection I’ve spent six, seven years chipping away at.
‘A History of Heartache’ is out April 21 with @melvillehouse.bsky.social —
www.publishersweekly.com/9781685892357
A reader recommendation for Americans to read 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned'. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696846... @melvillehouse.bsky.social
An announcement from Publishers Marketplace stating that Nicole's debut novel, FAMILY LANGUAGE, will be published by Melville House in November 2026.
I am so excited to share this announcement about my novel FAMILY LANGUAGE, coming in November 2026. With enormous thanks to Michelle Capone, @melvillehouse.bsky.social, and especially @jennaschmenna.bsky.social!
