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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · 23h

In a @teenvogue.com excerpt from POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT from @princetonupress.bsky.social, Josh Clark Davis reveals how police departments illegally spied on civil rights activists—and then burned the records. www.teenvogue.com/story/police...

Police Departments Surveilled Activists in the 1960s and 70s — and Erased The Records

"Just as police tracked civil rights, Black Power, feminist, and anti-war protesters in the 1960s and ‘70s, today they snoop on organizers taking a stand against ICE, Israel’s war on Palestine, and At...

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Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social · Aug 6

The visionary novelist behind YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES is back with his most expansive, impassioned novel yet‼️

NOW I SURRENDER by Álvaro Enrigue (translated to English by Natasha Wimmer) is part epic, part alt-Western, and 100% can't-be-missed. Learn more and pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/47kMhgv

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Jul 23

Happy publication day to IOSI: THE REMORSEFUL SPY by Miriam Lewin, out from Seven Stories Press!

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Iosi, the Remorseful Spy

A gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires. An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the milita...

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Jul 23

WORK NIGHTS is longlisted for the Center for Fiction Prize! Congratulations Erica!

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Announcing The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize Longlist | The Center for Fiction

We are pleased to announce the longlist for The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize. This year, we received 185 submitted titles with U.S. publication dates between January 1 and December 31, 20...

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Jul 22

Great to see Kate Broad’s debut novel GREENWICH featured by @peoplemag.bsky.social as a best book of July!

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PEOPLE’s Best Books of July 2025: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Bombshell Biography, A Tina Turner Photo Book and More

See PEOPLE's picks for the best new books of July 2025, including new novels, celebrity memoirs and more.

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Jul 22

Happy publication day to MOTHER OF METHADONE by @melodyglenn.bsky.social, now out from @beaconpress.bsky.social !

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Melody Glenn, MD MFA @melodyglenn.bsky.social · Jul 11

Honored for "Mother of Methadone" to be included in @debutiful.bsky.social's list of books to read in July! @beaconpress.bsky.social @penparentis.bsky.social @goldinagency.bsky.social debutiful.net/2025/07/11/2...

28 debut books to discover in July 2025

Here are the debut books that caught Debutiful’s eye this month. We think readers will find plenty to love among them. To see our curated list of standout titles, check out our “12 Noteworthy Debut…

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Roz Foster @rozfoster.bsky.social · Jul 14

The wise @rainalips.bsky.social on #Mamdani's win: “You don’t get anywhere responding to the racist, fascist, aggression of ppl like Donald Trump w a defensive crouch. You can only win by standing up for yourself, by being brave & uniting w other ppl.” ⬇️ @versobooks.bsky.social

Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast @fnfpodcast.bsky.social · Jul 10

NEW EPISODE: Writer @Raina Lipsitz joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to discuss Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
#politics #podcast #DemocraticSocialist #news #books #nycprimary
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Raina Lipsitz on Mamdani, DSA, and the Rise of a New Left

Writer Raina Lipsitz joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Lipsitz explains how Mamdani,…

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Jun 17

A red-hot happy publication day to Kelly Ramsey and her memoir WILDFIRE DAYS: A WOMAN, A HOTSHOT CREW, AND THE BURNING AMERICAN WEST, which publishes today with @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

Read an excerpt at @newsweek.com !

www.newsweek.com/2025/06/27/w...

Inside the life of a woman hotshot battling blazes in the American West

A female hotshot firefighter's inside look at battling the ever-hotter and more frequent wildfires in America's West

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Roz Foster @rozfoster.bsky.social · Jun 16

In the @latimes.com, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, author of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, writes incisively on MONSTRIFYING undocumented migrants, an age-old strategy used through history to dehumanize & normalize campaigns to strip individuals of human rights. @ucpress.bsky.social

Contributor: Why 'monstrify'? Look at who benefits when few are considered fully human

The category of 'human' is shrinking as politicians, tech bros and right-wing pundits divide the world into two groups: You're a cis-het white man, or you're a monster.

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thank you to @latimes.com for this q & a with Kelly Ramsey, author of WILDFIRE DAYS: A WOMAN, A HOTSHOT CREW, AND THE BURNING OF THE AMERICAN WEST in advance of its publication on 6/17 !

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She became a ‘hotshot’ wilderness firefighter to write about being on the front lines

Author Kelly Ramsey details how her new book, 'Wildfire Days,' chronicles her time fighting some of California's most dangerous wildfires. We also check in with Diesel, A Bookstore.

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · May 27

Maggie Nelson on @michelletea.bsky.social’s raucous, remarkable classic VALENCIA — “a missive sent straight from the mayhem” — celebrating its 25th anniversary this June with beautiful new editions from Seal Press and Serpent’s Tail www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...

A Missive Sent Straight from the Mayhem: On Michelle Tea’s Valencia by Maggie Nelson

May 21, 2025 – "I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, being in love, and becoming a writer—and how that rush feels when these thing...

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Melody Glenn, MD MFA @melodyglenn.bsky.social · May 14

"Mother of Methadone advocates a range of ways that the medical and social justice worlds can work together... [and] presents a cogent argument against the continued criminalization of drug use." @newpages.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social @goldinagency.bsky.social @methadonelib.bsky.social

Book cover of Mother of Methadone highlighting Dr. Marie Nyswander

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · May 6

We could not be more excited to welcome Lucy Cleland to @goldinagency.bsky.social--a truly brilliant agent and a lovely friend of the agency, now turned colleague! She had a fairly low key first day yesterday in the form of, uh, her client winning a Pulitzer, so we'll count it as an auspicious start

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · May 6

We’ve been sitting on this news for a minute and are so delighted to FINALLY share that the brilliant Lucy Cleland has joined The Frances Goldin Agency as VP and Senior Agent! We are enormously lucky to have her on the team 🎉

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · May 6

get to drop some more good @goldinagency.bsky.social news today I think 😎

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Mar 17

The collected works of Essex Hemphill were published by New Directions last week! Here is an excerpt of this incredible volume:

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John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life

Throughout Essex Hemphill’s poetry, what we registered was his attentiveness to craft as well as statement, to the possibilities of performance, of form, of the line, and to the expressive content,…

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Feb 7

A rare spot of good news in these times—read about the recovery center DEMON COPPERHEAD helped build

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Barbara Kingsolver Uses ‘Demon Copperhead’ Royalties to Build Rehab Center

Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Jan 14

So excited to see USPS’s official announcement of their new line of postage stamps inspired by the illustrations from GOODNIGHT MOON!

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‘Goodnight Moon’ and ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ stamps to be issued later this year - Newsroom - About.usps.com

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today announced two more stamps it will release in 2025. Additional stamps will be announced in the coming weeks and months. These designs are preliminary and may ...

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Dec 19

to the extent it's possible to have TOO good of a time designing an agency holiday card, that's... absolutely what happened at @goldinagency.bsky.social this year

this image is a retro-looking holiday card which includes slightly silly tarot cards for each agency member

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Dec 19

Wishing you all a magical holiday season, delightful readings (both tarot and otherwise), and more pentacles than swords!

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Dec 13

Nice to see Sarah Viren’s “To Name the Bigger Lie” on this list of six books that genuinely surprise -- “that transform in such unexpected ways, that their readers should aim to approach them with no information about what’s to come.”
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Read These Six Books—Just Trust Us

Each title richly rewards readers who come in with little prior knowledge.

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Dec 13

Can you match the Taylor Swift song to the poem from INVISIBLE STRINGS, the collection of Swift-inspired poetry edited by Kristie Daugherty? Find out in this fun
@nytimes.com quiz!

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Match the Taylor Swift Song to the Poem Inspired By Her Music

Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift's music. Can you match the poem to the song?

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Dec 5

RULES FOR GHOSTING by @shellyjayshore.bsky.social is one of @nytimes.com’s Best Romances of 2024!

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...

The Best Romance Books of 2024

Here are the novels our columnist loved most.

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · Dec 5

Great to see @chaykak.bsky.social’s FILTERWORLD and Alvaro Enrigue’s YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES on the @newyorker.com’s list of best books of 2024!

www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

The Best Books of 2024

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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