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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · 28d

Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Fiction, through artifice, can arrive at truth. Artifice isn’t incidental but essential to the task."

@tonydomestico.bsky.social on @adremily.bsky.social, Tom Wolfe, and the campus novel:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/emily-adrian...

Genre Seductions

In his August booknotes column, Anthony Domestico writes on the seductions of the campus novel.

www.commonwealmagazine.org

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thank you!

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · Aug 16

Always wanted to buy a brilliant friend’s book at an airport and now thanks to @adremily.bsky.social i can!

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Aug 10

Such a thrill to read this review of my book 🥹

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/b...

A Steamy Campus Novel Rife With Infidelity

www.nytimes.com

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BookPage @readbookpage.bsky.social · Aug 8

Emily Adrian’s SEDUCTION THEORY is a clever, layered tale that pokes fun at academia, particularly at the rituals and eccentricities of a graduate creative-writing program.

www.bookpage.com

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you’re in NYC next week, come to my launch at Books Are Magic! I’ll be in convo with the brilliant Megan Nolan.

www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-e...

In-Store: Emily Adrian: Seduction Theory w/ Megan Nolan

"I was completely hooked from the first page, and couldn't sleep until I finished it." —Andrew Martin, author of Early Work

www.eventbrite.com

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · Jul 1

‘I hated myself for being alone, for being fertile or not fertile.’

Fiction by Emily Adrian.

granta.com/retrieval/

Retrieval

‘Those days I was prone to bouts of socially inappropriate laughter that veered into even less appealing sobs. I wasn’t ashamed.’ A short story by Emily Adrian.

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Jun 30

New story in @grantamag.bsky.social today!

granta.com/retrieval/

Retrieval

‘Those days I was prone to bouts of socially inappropriate laughter that veered into even less appealing sobs. I wasn’t ashamed.’ A short story by Emily Adrian.

granta.com

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Little, Brown and Company @littlebrown.bsky.social · Jun 23

Go beyond the cover (and see how this book cover trend started) with SEDUCTION THEORY. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...

The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Jun 5

Psyched about this Kirkus 🌟
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

SEDUCTION THEORY | Kirkus Reviews

A pretentious academic couple engenders the wrath of a jealous grad student at an elite college in upstate New York.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · May 30

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · May 27

These are the novels we think you should read this summer (a list entirely compiled by humans)!

22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

It may be the summer of slop, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some great books out there. Here are the novels coming out this summer that the humans on the Literary Hub staff have re…

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · May 30

The Globe's Summer Reading list includes fiction by @kashana.bsky.social‬, @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social‬, @megiddings.bsky.social‬, @adremily.bsky.social‬, @shteyngart.bsky.social‬ and others not on Bluesky.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/a...

75 new books to add to your summer reading list - The Boston Globe

Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Feb 18

wrote about dogs in the work of Joy Williams, Kelly Reichardt, and Alex Colville (plus some of my own personal dogs):

emilyadrian.substack.com/p/three-dogs...

Three Dogs

plus a few more

emilyadrian.substack.com

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Feb 7

Gals

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Jan 15

I wrote about...vomiting. A lot.
emilyadrian.substack.com/p/on-morning...

On Morning Sickness

(It lasts all day)

emilyadrian.substack.com

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Jan 5

Felt emo, started a substack

emilyadrian.substack.com/p/never-unle...

Never, Unless

I change my mind.

emilyadrian.substack.com

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Dec 12

We have a couple of spots left in this class starting January 8!

Great Place Books @greatplacebooks.bsky.social · Nov 21

GPB has two new classes on offer in early 2025! First up is READING JOY WILLIAMS co-taught by @adremily.bsky.social and @alexhigley.bsky.social

Register here:
greatplacebooks.com/joy

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · Dec 7

Dogs on a walk look so happy. Some look like they're working and they're really proud of the job they're doing, some look like they just got out of work and they're off snowboarding for the weekend, and some look like they just got engaged and they're still too emotional to speak.

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Dec 5

7yo, as we drive past a store called SOUP GIRL: watch out Mama. They're gonna boil you.

Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Dec 3

"I don't like it any more than you do." - my husband after I weepingly explained the Free Willy whale's irl fate to him

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Dec 3

big shrimp

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Dec 3

My new book has a cover and some wonderful blurbs. Seduction Theory comes out August 12 and you can preorder her now!

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Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social · Dec 1

Men love to solemnly admit they can't drive stick

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