The gang is getting together one last time tonight to finalize the copy before we send it to the printer 🎀💖. Thank you everyone who has pre-ordered!

Sites like this are the future of real writing. We have a chance to wrestle legitimacy and culture away from the ossified tyrants who have used it to promote bigotry and state agendas, and we have to seize that chance.

A rectangular graphic with a hot pink background. In the centre is the paperback book Stag Dance by Torrey Peters. In the bottom right-hand corner is the Serpent's Tail logo.

Leap into the new book from @torreypeters.bsky.social 🦌 It's time to join the #StagDance 💗

Out now in paperback: tinyurl.com/StagDancePB

fave ever review

my book came out in paperback yesterday, and to celebrate, I fell off my motorcycle at a very low speed and skinned a finger. In bookstores wherever quality books are sold. Stag Dance, also, is the title. I'm fine.

thank you for this thread!

Next week, STAG DANCE, will be issued with 100% less cardboard and half price. It's a new thing I'm trying, which I've been calling "paperback." Here's a little graphic I had whipped up to trial the idea.

Announcing the 2026 Story Prize Longlist:

Oh it’s all for what will probably be a throwaway bit. Anyway, 33 y/o, gay, & disdainful of the youth is an storied humor demographic.

This is very helpful. Appreciated!

Thank you for reviewing my book in the Washington Post while it still existed. Words (especially micro-blogs) fail to console in such moments of enormity. But your past work has mattered to many of us and is not forgotten.

bookforum is sponsoring Reading Writers this season, and CharJo are the kind of hosts that let me get earnest in a way I almost never let myself and I feel good about it! also I got to talk about Light Eaters which is a very powerful book to me

Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/19/2025 · 1h 9m

This week's Reading Writers is very dear to me. @torreypeters.bsky.social joined for a lively, funny, moving discussion about plant consciousness that I think will leave listeners inspired and hopeful about life/the world/the future/etc. Come get your balm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

It’s okay, I just really miss coming home to those 20% off coupons loyally and reassuringly arriving in the mail after a hard day at work. We’d put on 1989 and dance together.

As a passionate Bed, Bath, and Beyond fan, I have to tell you that BB&B was tragically liquidated in 2023, after a long chapter 11, so this analogy is really insensitive to me. BB&B under the new Overstock.com brand auspices just doesn’t hit the same.

tix:

In person:

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online:

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Okay, get this: a supreme court lawyer, a pulitzer-prize winning critic, and some chick obsessed with lumberjacks walk into a bar...

come hang! i am going on the book tour of my dreams.

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Thank you!

I totally understand where you're coming from vis a vee that essay. That said, I think I'm not representative of the phenomenon you're discussing, so if you were willing to drop me from the list, I would appreciate it! Thanks for the work you do!

For me, part of thinking about this era as a trans person--including defying the regime, means being occasionally outside it for perspective and regrouping, and I wouldn't consider that representative of trans people at large, or use a word like refugee to describe myself. Thanks!

Appreciate this, but just a bit of clarity: I still live primarily in the US, and while I believe that self-exile is an established strategy for artists in the Americas (Baldwin in Europe, any number of Latin American writers from right-wing regimes), I have not been forced to flee.

A copy of Torrey Peters' new hardback story collection "Stag Dance" stands in front of a stack of the same book on a shelf. The cover is an illustration of two male deer with antlers fighting. One is lunging with its antlers and the other is turning its head with its tongue hanging out and looks scared. It has a pink ribbon tied to one antler. The author's name and the title are in bold pink block letters.

Hey, queer Baltimore: one of the free books in Pratt Library's summer giveaway this year is Torrey Peters' brand-new "Stag Dance". It's great. Not every branch has it but I saw it today at the Canton & Highlandtown branches and at Orleans St last week. Just show your library card to get a free copy.

I wish! How I long to sample the famed Lawrence culinary specialty: "the beverage." Hope it's a fun book night! <3

Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories A Novel & Stories

A TWO DOLLAR STAG DANCE. 1.99 to be specific. On Bookshop.org which supports locals.

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Impressed by this magazine—both the actual making of it and the writing it contains.

Segunda edición de «Detransition, Baby» ya lista y cargada para dinamitar vuestro club de lectura o para que hagáis el mejor regalo del verano. ✨🔥🥰

I have always said that, as a trans person, I am a dishonest grappler. When it comes to science...well, I will eye-gouge a science. I will wedgie a science. When the ref isn't looking, I stick a finger in the butt of science and then go for the pin.

This is so lovely, thank you!

Best of the year (so far) Our midyear roundup of the best listens of 2025 (so far) marks an annual labor of love we, the Audible Editors, absolutely obsess about.

oh here's the link
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