Thanks for reading!!

ICYMI: I chatted with the publishers of HAGFISH, a great small press that reissues underread women authors.

So cool that TTYA is advancing but unfortunately it’s up against Flesh in the next round haha. RIP me!

The One Battle After Another Mega Newsletter The final entry in The Ranks of the Freaks, a this is a newsletter series.

this summer, i ran a newsletter series on PTA leading up to the release of OBAA. the contributors were are all so smart and made the project so much better than i hoped or deserved. if you’re looking for OBAA writing this morning, i think you’d like this review roundup:

Today I saw a man getting one. Corporate type. The lady was lifting his arm up behind his head to I guess stretch his trapezius. More intimate than seeing him naked

Haven’t posted in months and this is what I post 👍

is it uninhibited people? People on the edge? People who dgaf? It’s right in the middle of a high traffic area and you gotta straddle one of those massage chairs. The eyes of THOUSANDS are upon u

coming soon: my investigation into the type of person who partakes of a free public massage in the middle of London Book Fair, as all—and I do mean all—of the world’s publishing professionals stream by

If you are in Baltimore, I’m talking with
@somers.bsky.social about her excellent novel THE TEN-YEAR AFFAIR at Greedy Reads (the one on Remington) on Thursday night (that's tomorrow). Be there or be square:

So glad you enjoyed!!

Haha so much more common than you’d think!!

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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Big news that I'm delighted to no longer be keeping a secret: Next week I join @wired.com as a senior writer!

As everyone knows, this is a top-tier publication and indispensable record of digital life today. I'll be covering internet culture in all forms, as I have for almost 15 years now.

As someone who devoured this book over the holidays, I'm delighted to hear her next book may return to the same town and fill in some of those gaps.*

*Double entendre intended

The first great book club novel of 2026 is here This is adultery, rebranded for people who have air fryers and money anxieties.

I was profiled by the Sydney Morning Herald 🐨

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There is no such thing as other people’s children It is intolerable

I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE.
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🙏 🙏 🙏

A hardback copy of The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers, floating against a grey background

The Ten Year Affair is a witty, emotionally-charged exploration of marriage, family life and the roads not taken, that ultimately asks: do we really want our fantasies to come true?

'Somers's wit is as cool, caustic and dry as liquid nitrogen' TONY TULATHIMUTTE

A stack of paperbacks and hardbacks published today, floating against a grey background

Happy publication day to this wondrous stack of books!

The Writing Life – Annie Dillard
The Swedish Art of Ageing Well – Margareta Magnusson
The Wardrobe Department – Elaine Garvey
Grace – Chika Unigwe
The Ten Year Affair – Erin Somers

Available in-store and online!
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The Essential Karl Ove Knausgaard

This fall, I had the pleasure of re-reading Karl Ove Knausgaard’s work for the New York Times. I’m grateful for the assignment, the brilliant editing, and Knausgaard, for giving me so much to think about, as always: www.nytimes.com/article/karl...

Thanks so much for reading!!

Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing

Reading and enjoying @somers.bsky.social's fantastic novel, THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR, which is funny, messy, and heartfelt. Reminded me of this great interview she did with @thelincoln.bsky.social at his must-read COUNTER CRAFT newsletter: countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

Save the date for MEDIUM RARE’s launch @strandbooks.com in NYC on MARCH 4 alongside two of the best writers alive @somers.bsky.social & Elizabeth Winkler

After my debut events were all on Zoom in 2021, I could not be more excited for this 🏀🪽
@melvillehouse.bsky.social

Our Culture’s Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2026 - Our Culture It’s the best time of the year! Winter straddles the end of one year and the beginning of a new one, which means it’s both a time of reflection and new beginnings. After we covered 27 books and author...

“After her intensely smart Portrait of a Mirror, A. Natasha Joukovsky goes for another retelling, this time landing on the myth of Icarus by way of a Washington lobbying firm, college basketball and pipe dreams.”

Thank you @ourculture.bsky.social!

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book cover of Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor

book cover of The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers

book cover of Pilgrims by Devin Kelly

book cover of Auditon by Katie Kitamura

favorite novels published this year: Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor / The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers / Pilgrims by Devin Kelly / Audition by Katie Kitamura

NPR's Best Books of 2025: The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers, reviewed by Andrew Limbong

Funniest gift I got yesterday was THE TEN-YEAR AFFAIR by @somers.bsky.social, not since it's funny (though it is!) but because I mentioned it to my wife as a book I wanted, who mentioned it to my mother-in-law, who got me a book with a cover blurb "the best book about infidelity since Madame Bovary"

The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers — a millennial’s dance with adultery A comedic take on the mid-century infidelity novels of Updike and Cheever uses a split timeline to ask potent questions about modern marriage

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Wow, thank you Financial Times!!

A graphic with the covers of Wreck and The Ten Year Affair

"These are not extraordinary people, these are not unique circumstances. We could be them—which is what makes these otherwise quiet, funny novels feel so dangerous."

Annie Berke considers timelines not taken in “The Ten Year Affair” and “Wreck” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-no-telling/