We're thrilled by @variety.com's announcement that adaptations of two Liveright novels—Virginia Feito's VICTORIAN PSYCHO and Brenda Navarro's EATING ASHES—will premiere at the 2026 #Cannes Film Festival! Read 'em before you see 'em: both available wherever books are sold! variety.com/2026/film/fe...
I am deeply grateful. Let the Big Read begin!
In stores *today*: @tcboyle.com's NO WAY HOME, an obsessive psychological study of twisted romance.
"[Boyle] delivers us masterfully to some breathtaking catastrophe of primal, self-justifying rage."
—Ron Charles, Substack
Learn more: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
The book's "lyricism is typical of its author, whose best efforts catch you at the margins of the page redoubling your efforts for pleasure, not comprehension."
Eric Bies reviews Simon Armitage's new translation of the epic of GILGAMESH (@liveright.bsky.social).
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Grateful to @browndailyherald.bsky.social for a nice write up of my book that is officially releasing on April 28 from @liveright.bsky.social / @wwnorton.com. Preorder your copy now, and local friends, hope to catch you at an event! (www.linfordfisher.com).
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Thrilled to finally be at this point—LIVE LAUGH LOVE releases in September and it’s now available for preorder!
Live Laugh Love is about exactly what you think it is…
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In stores today! 🌿A propulsive and lyrical version (nearly four thousand years in the making) of GILGAMESH, ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest adventure–tale, from legendary bestselling translator and United Kingdom poet laureate Simon Armitage!
Learn more: wwnorton.com/books/978163...
Looking forward to this! If you think Jesus and John Wayne was a hit, and crucial and groundbreaking in understanding such a time as this, well hold on! @kkdumez.bsky.social
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Girls be like “I needed this” and it’s @kkdumez.bsky.social historicizing white Christian women.
I love that LIVE LAUGH LOVE is coming out with the same publisher as JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. A complementary pair. 😏
Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 12: A book set in a city - Lazy City by Rachel Connolly
#readirishwomenchallenge #books #reading #irishwriter #femalewriters @bookaneer808.bsky.social @liveright.bsky.social
In stores Sept 15th, available *now* for preorder: From @kkdumez.bsky.social — the New York Times best-selling author of JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE — comes LIVE LAUGH LOVE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF WHITE CHRISTIAN WOMEN AND THE WORLD THEY MADE.
Learn more: kristindumez.substack.com/p/announcing...
I have two events in DC this week! 🌸 (1/2) @liveright.bsky.social @peoplesbooktakoma.com peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/darkol...
Is this the cover for @kkdumez.bsky.social's new book? 🧐
If you look closely, you’ll find a preorder link up for my next book, LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
We’ll have a cover posted soon…
"Blackface dominated."
Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @popcultureamerica.bsky.social & @liveright.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
two authors speaking in front of an audience at a bookstore
two authors speaking in front of an audience at a bookstore
two authors speaking in front of an audience at a bookstore
DARKOLOGY by Rhae Lynn Barnes @liveright.bsky.social is extraordinarily well-researched and well-written.
selfishly, I expected that being conversation partner might be my favorite thing ever, and it absolutely is.
thank you @portersqbooks.bsky.social for hosting us 📚🎤💕✨
On the left, Adrian Matejka. On the right, the cover of Be Easy: New and Selected Poems.
“...never imagine a poem to be finished, if for no other reason than to give it room to continue to grow.” Adrian Matejka discusses the decades of writing that went into his forthcoming collection, Be Easy: New and Selected Poems, out this May from @liveright.bsky.social at.pw.org/10qmatejka
What a pleasure to get to talk with Rhae Lynn Barnes @popcultureamerica.bsky.social about her new book, DARKOLOGY (@wwnorton.com), and the massive amount of research and revision that went into bringing this project to life. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... #writinghistory
In his new book, the journalist Nicholas Lemann tells his life story to offer “surprising and sometimes unsettling new perspectives on what it means to be an American Jew today,” Adam Kirsch writes. Read their conversation about the book here:
An interview with RETURNING (on sale tomorrow!) author Nicholas Lemann with Adam Kirsch, @theatlantic.com, on how Nick "unearthed his family’s secrets, and what he makes of his own religious journey." www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
In his new book, the journalist Nicholas Lemann tells his life story to offer “surprising and sometimes unsettling new perspectives on what it means to be an American Jew today,” Adam Kirsch writes. Read their conversation about the book here:
At @thestorygraph.com, enter for your chance to win an ARC of PRETEND YOU'RE DEAD AND I CARRY YOU, Julián Delgado Lopera's stellar new novel of passion and self-destruction Bogota, Columbia's queer underground:
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"'Darkology' is a major and thrilling work of American history. It deals out uncomfortable truth after uncomfortable truth." @popcultureamerica.bsky.social @liveright.bsky.social Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
An interview with RETURNING (on sale tomorrow!) author Nicholas Lemann with Adam Kirsch, @theatlantic.com, on how Nick "unearthed his family’s secrets, and what he makes of his own religious journey." www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
Rhae Lynn Barnes new book ‘Darkology’ explores the deep and disturbing history of blackface and minstrelsy in America from the birth of the Jim Crow character all the way up to how we as Americans learned minstrel songs in school.
American history was ugly and we should know about the ugliness.
On the "Fresh Air" podcast, I listened to historian Rhae Lynn Barnes discuss her book "Darkology." She said that the expression "Make America Great Again" can be traced back to blackface minstrel shows. It was a call to go back to the pre-Reconstruction South when black people were "happy" slaves.
"@popcultureamerica.bsky.social... has scraped together everything that’s known and plastered new receipt after new receipt... to the walls of the historical record... A major and thrilling work of American history."
Dwight Garner, @nytimes.com on DARKOLOGY: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...
