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Jon Hickey
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San Francisco. Novel BIG CHIEF forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. Anishinaabe (LDF). Repped by Michelle Brower at Trellis Literary.
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Jon Hickey @jonvhickey.bsky.social · Aug 19
BIG CHIEF (Simon & Schuster), will be out in the US and Canada on April 8, 2025!

Pre-order from your favorite independent bookstore. Pre-orders are a great way to support the book!

Stay tuned for more updates—events, happenings, what have you.
Big Chief a book by Jon Hickey
There, There meets Winter Counts in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, love lost and gained, and the importance of facing one's past head on. Mitch Caddo started out with the bes...
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Off to Austin for the Texas Book Festival! Come see me talking BIG CHIEF with Brandon Hobson (his novel THE DEVIL IS A SOUTHPAW JUST CAME OUT) and Deb Olin Unforth at the Kirkus Tent!
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The Blue Jays took on a team with some of the greatest players to have ever played the game and they took them to seven, and that one was a duel until the end. So much respect
November 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

If you haven’t read Big Chief by @jonvhickey.bsky.social yet, you need to! It’s a political thriller that takes place on a reservation in Wisconsin. Powerful themes on what it means to belong. Couldn’t put it down, couldn’t stop thinking about it. Highly recommend! 📚
October 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Talking BIG CHIEF at the Central Wisconsin Book Festival in Wausau. And gesticulating wildly apparently.
September 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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tonight I gloriously end my tour in San Francisco at green apple @booksonthepark.bsky.social at 7 pm!!!!!!!!!!! in conversation with @jonvhickey.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!! I demand your presence
August 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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So excited to be included jn this! Thanks to @pw.org!
pw.org Poets & Writers @pw.org · Jul 11
In our 25th annual #FirstFiction feature, we spotlight five debut fiction writers you’ll want to know! Delve into the captivating literary worlds of Sarah Yahm, @jonvhickey.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social, and @jemmawei.bsky.social: at.pw.org/FirstFiction2025
July 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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In our 25th annual #FirstFiction feature, we spotlight five debut fiction writers you’ll want to know! Delve into the captivating literary worlds of Sarah Yahm, @jonvhickey.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social, and @jemmawei.bsky.social: at.pw.org/FirstFiction2025
July 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Our own event manager, Kar Johnson, will be on @kqedforum.bsky.social tomorrow morning to talk summer reading recs! Tune in at 9am!
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
What’s on Your Summer Reading List? | KQED
We’ll talk about new releases, old favorites and classics that have earned their place on your bookshelf.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The Best Debut Books of 2025 (So Far)

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June 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This sounds like the heavily researched book version of every conversation I’ve had with my brothers over the last 35 years
June 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Gotta ❤️ ANOTHER #newbooksday at the library! #librarylife 💙📚
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Eight titles spread on a table, from top left: Tilt by Emma Pattee, Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie by James Lee Burke, Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen volumes 1-5, Big Chief by Jon Hickey, Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire, Banned Together edited by Ashley Hope Perez, Come as You Are by Dahlia Adler, and This Moth Saw Brightness by A.A. Vacharat. Eight books spread on a table, from top left: The Good Death by Suzanne B. O'Brien, RN, Empty Vessel by Ian Kumekawa, Help! My Kid Hates Writing by Julie Bogart, In the Bone-Cracking Cold by M. Bartley Seigel, New Camp Cookbook On the Trail by Emily Vikre, The Adult Chair by Michelle Chalfant, Permission by Elissa Altman, and Great American Marine Corps Stories edited by Tom McCarthy. Five picture books spread on a table from top left: Rap It Up! by Carole and Jeffrey Boston Weatherford with Ernel Martinez, Another Word for Neighbor by Angela Pham Krans with Thai My Phuong, Kitty Camp by Drew Brockington, Cousins! by Laura Lavoie with Luisa Leal, and Bear and Bird The Cave and Other Stories by Jarvis. Eight graphic novels on a table from top left: Power Rangers Prime volume one, Moonshadow, Polar Vortex (5 copies for upcoming bookclub), in the center is Family Force V volume 1, bottom row from left starts with Thundercats Cheetara, Boruto Two Blue Vortex volumes one and two, and Tokyo Alien Bros. volume two.
June 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Amazing rec! Thanks @judicialjunkie.bsky.social!
judicialjunkie.bsky.social Judicial Junkie.Reads @judicialjunkie.bsky.social · May 27
What happens when the fixer needs fixing? Jon Hickey’s “Big Chief” is a master class in when your fancy law degree meets an election, a casino, tribal politics and the FBI. A must read! (Full review on Medium. Link in bio.)
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#Booksky #BigChief
May 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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This week @ City Lights LIVE!

🟣 5/6, 7pm: @hzeavin.bsky.social w/ Juliana Spahr
@mitpress.bsky.social

🔶 5/7, 6pm: @jonvhickey.bsky.social w/ @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social
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🟦 5/8, 7pm: @sarahschulman.bsky.social w/ @caroderobertis.bsky.social
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May 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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@britt-kathryn.bsky.social rounds up five iconic books edited by Toni Morrison.
Five incredible books edited by Toni Morrison.
Header image via Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress) This month, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is reissuing a spiky, forgotten jewel of a book. You may not know the author by na…
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April 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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BIG CHIEF slyly makes it into the Washington Post book review!

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Review | ‘Big Chief’ is a sly debut about drama in Native American politics
Jon Hickey’s novel follows a tribal president and his Ivy League-educated lawyer-slash-fixer in the days before an election.
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April 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Big Chief
I just reviewed Big Chief by Jon Hickey
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April 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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went to Barcelona & wrote about it for Travel + Leisure, & the piece is out in this month’s issue
April 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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“Once the Earth is toast, will someone rebuild it?”

Our next letter in the mail comes from author @jonvhickey.bsky.social. Jon’s letter recounts a family vacation turned existential, and explores the roles of hope and writing in rebuilding the world.

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Jon Hickey's author photo--overlayed in the lower lefthand corner is the cover for Big Chief, a Letters in the Mail logo on top. To the right in bold white capital letters is the name Jon Hickey.
April 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Check out Kyle Edwards writing about a small-town hockey tournament and his novel SMALL CEREMONIES! Then, you know, get the book too
literaryhub.bsky.social Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Apr 21
“For us Indians, the feeling of coming-of-age—of becoming aware of the world around us and our place in it—can feel more like a dark initiation.” How a hockey childhood can lead to both camaraderie and exclusion.
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“Indian Hockey Kicks Ass.” On Finding Meaning in Another Nation’s Pastime
As a kid I went to the same hockey tournament every year.  It was part of a large Indigenous festival and though hockey was only a small part of it, it was probably the most exciting part. Apart fr…
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April 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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BIG CHIEF got a nod from the New York Times Book Review!
April 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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BIG CHIEF hits the shelves in London at @waterstones.bsky.social!
April 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I shared my TBR pile with Lit Hub!
April 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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IT'S HERE!!!! So incredibly happy for my old friend Jon Hickey!

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April 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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#BookBuying

Absolutely had to get a copy of this one! @jonvhickey.bsky.social #BigChief

"The great Native American political novel. A tremendous debut."
#ScribnerBooks

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April 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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hello, the editors have picked my shortish GR essay about Polaroids and death for you to read
longreads.com Longreads @longreads.com · Apr 9
"That instant film could live on as both image and object . . . made it an ideal future archive. A message in a bottle. This was it, it said. This was the end for me."

Mike Scalise for The Georgia Review:
Polaroid Death Machine - Longreads
"I reached for the same tools that my grandmother used, the old Polaroid cameras I’d taken from what was once her home, which I cleaned and cared for, then carried out into our new, time-broken…
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April 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM