The cited quote and information written in black against a grid of light blue and white squares. In the upper lefthand corner is the book cover for Yiyun Li's Things in Nature Merely Grow.

“...we have no choice but to hold a mirror to ourselves, the abysses in which we cultivate our loneliness, and which, we too, try to survive.”

@murmurshewrote.bsky.social reviews @appletwigli.bsky.social's Things in Nature Merely Grow (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).

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How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster Check out How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster - <p>Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one a...

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📖 How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

by Muriel Leung
@murmurshewrote.bsky.social

each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world

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And the Now: on "Things in Nature Merely Grow" by Yiyun Li - The Rumpus "The problem: What if the tragedy has no end point? In Yiyun Li’s latest memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow, the author spurns the term “grief” and its attachment to endings. For Li, the definition o...

My review of Yiyun Li's THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW is up at @therumpus.net right now. A quietly devastating book but one for anyone grappling with loss (aren't we all?)

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🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Fiction: How To Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung! 🎉🎉🎉 @murmurshewrote.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Muriel Leung (@murmurshewrote.bsky.social), winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction for "How To Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster".

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2025 Winners Congratulations 2025 Lammy Award Winners

Congratulations to @murmurshewrote.bsky.social! HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER is the winner of the 2025 Lammy Award for Bisexual Fiction!
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Your assignment this week is to read a book that some “Mom for Liberty” would bring to a school board meeting and cry about.

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Coming to SF this week for a very gay time with @greenapplebooks.bsky.social and K-MING CHANG for some very casual talk about queer horror, dystopias (literary ones and current hellscape), and more. Come through!

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Whatcha doing on Thursday March 27th? Come hang out with our joyful two sets of poets and writers. Get your tix now to catch the dinner and drink specials. #losangeles #literary bit.ly/holdingcourt27

Screenshot from the newsletter. "I think about all the advice I gave on this newsletter in those two short-long years. I miss giving advice, but I also wonder if there was more advice to give, and perhaps I had answered all the questions that I could answer? Because, after all, whatever your question, my answer is a question that only you can answer. Does it honor life? Do you possess your life enough to know how to honor it? What would it take to do that?"

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Chicago! I'm coming to you right in the middle of your subzero weather week. If you're looking to get warm, come to the Chicago launch of HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social at Women and Children First where I'll be chatting with my fave Helene Achanzar!

Roses are red, violets are blue, it's raining acid at the end of the world, and I'd love to share my umbrella with you. ☔️

Be my creepy Valentine tomorrow with Jean Chen Ho at
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After two postponements due to natural disasters, Jean Chen Ho and I are back this weekend at @barnesandnoble.com Americana in Glendale, CA to soothe your post-Valentine's Day blues. Catch us for a reading & conversation on Saturday, 2/15 at 2 PM!

Some exciting news... HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social is a Gotham Book Prize finalist.

Thank you so much, @yanyiii.com for sharing space with me in these ghoulish times! <3

Photo of Muriel Leung and I in front of a large black sign in white letters that says Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, Ravenna, and Seward Park. We are holding up her new novel!

Here I am with @murmurshewrote.bsky.social and our peppermint teas from Friday at Third Place Books Ravenna! It was a pleasure to talk about ghosts, hauntings emotional and actual, and the after-afterlife in her new novel, How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster.

Today's the first HOW TO FALL IN LOVE reading event of 2025! Seattle, you're my first stop, and I'm so lucky to be in conversation with the ever so brilliant Yanyi. Please come through!

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* HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER in 2025 * @wwnorton.bsky.social

Hard to believe this book is less than 3 months old. First event of this season -- a reading and conversation w/ the brilliant Yanyi at Third Place Books Ravenna. Please come through!

Thank you for reading <3

FYI: If you love a writer, get them my "Finish Your Book" workshop with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social tomorrow SUNDAY, 12/15, so they have some extra writing motivation for next year.

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Join me and my brilliant CalArts mentee Zoey Greenwald as we (virtually) talk all things novel writing, subversive girlhood narratives, and answer your Qs about the CalArts MFA in Creative Writing program. Join us!

RSVP here:
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Seeing Life Through the Eyes of the Dead: A Short Handbook for Writing Ghosts Despite writing a novel about ghosts, I do not profess to be a ghost expert. But I do know that every April, my family gathers at multiple cemeteries across New York and New Jersey to pay their res…

"What if a perpetual life with ghosts can radically alter the life of the living?"

Mandatory ghost-related reading by @murmurshewrote.bsky.social

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Seeing Life Through the Eyes of the Dead: A Short Handbook for Writing Ghosts Despite writing a novel about ghosts, I do not profess to be a ghost expert. But I do know that every April, my family gathers at multiple cemeteries across New York and New Jersey to pay their res…

“I believe that ghosts are not merely here to haunt, but to shift the ways in which we see the parameters of a life.” @murmurshewrote.bsky.social offers advice to those writing about the inhabitants of the afterlife.

Finish Your Book — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60USD). Step 2: Register for “Finish Your Book” here . Tearing your hair out, trying to finish your poetry manuscript? In "F...

On Dec. 15, @murmurshewrote.bsky.social will lead a workshop called “Finish Your Book,” to help people turn their individual poems into a book manuscript. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fin...

Thank you for sharing! <3 So happy to know the novel has found its way to DC!

A copy of Muriel Leung’s novel HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER on a display with other works of fiction

A blurb by Aimee Bender

Delighted to see our @uscdornsife.bsky.social English/Creative Writing PhD alum @murmurshewrote.bsky.social’s book in the “hot fiction” display at the original Politics & Prose here in DC, with a blurb by @aimee-bender.bsky.social

☔ It's a book tour ☔

HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social is a queer Asian American love and ghost story set in a time of acid rainstorms in NYC. If dystopia is feeling near and dear to you right now, come spend time in good company ~