Emily Adrian
Author of SEDUCTION THEORY (Little, Brown 2025). Stories in Granta, The Point, and Joyland. Editor at Great Place Books.
- Reposted by Emily AdrianNew class with @adremily.bsky.social Greatplacebooks.com/spark
- Reposted by Emily Adrianwrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
- No one is saying you HAVE to read Muriel Spark this year…
- New class with @adremily.bsky.social Greatplacebooks.com/spark
- Sorry to only post promo on this website. The truth is I have a beautiful baby whom I look at more than Bluesky.
- @greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark. www.greatplacebooks.com/spark
- Want to take a workshop with me? We’ll read Joy Williams and Denis Johnson and YOU!
- Teaching fiction @92ndstreety.bsky.social in the new year! Join us! www.92ny.org/class/spring...
- Teaching fiction @92ndstreety.bsky.social in the new year! Join us! www.92ny.org/class/spring...
- Reposted by Emily AdrianFantastic 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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- Reposted by Emily Adrian"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...
- Reposted by Emily AdrianAlways wanted to buy a brilliant friend’s book at an airport and now thanks to @adremily.bsky.social i can!
- Such a thrill to read this review of my book 🥹 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/b...
- Reposted by Emily AdrianEmily 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.
- 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...
- Reposted by Emily Adrian‘I hated myself for being alone, for being fertile or not fertile.’ Fiction by Emily Adrian. granta.com/retrieval/
- New story in @grantamag.bsky.social today! granta.com/retrieval/
- Reposted by Emily AdrianGo beyond the cover (and see how this book cover trend started) with SEDUCTION THEORY. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...
- Psyched about this Kirkus 🌟 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
- 😍
- Reposted by Emily AdrianThe 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...
- 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...
- Gals
- I wrote about...vomiting. A lot. emilyadrian.substack.com/p/on-morning...
- Felt emo, started a substack emilyadrian.substack.com/p/never-unle...
- We have a couple of spots left in this class starting January 8!
- 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
- Reposted by Emily AdrianDogs 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.
- 7yo, as we drive past a store called SOUP GIRL: watch out Mama. They're gonna boil you.
- "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
- My new book has a cover and some wonderful blurbs. Seduction Theory comes out August 12 and you can preorder her now!
- Men love to solemnly admit they can't drive stick
- biggest lie I ever told my husband was neglecting to mention that the rescue from which we adopted our Great Pyr speculated he might be mixed with Newfoundland
- Reposted by Emily AdrianNeed to pad out your 2024 books read pile? Here are four great (and very short) translated novels I enjoyed this year countercraft.substack.com/p/four-trans...
- Emma, to her friend who comes over every day: at least we’ll finally get to look at a hot person 🙄
- No one’s self esteem is higher than my kid’s on horseback
- 7yo to his grandpa: you’re a really good talker Grandpa: yeah? 7yo: yeah you’re really good at letting me talk
- relayed my harrowing anxiety dreams to my husband and he said he dreamt the University of Florida recruited him to play basketball
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- Imagine being this pleasant
- Gonna reread all of Austen, watch at least one adaptation per novel, and then it’ll be time to have a baby
- Every morning the 7yo takes one pre-coffee portrait of his dad and one of me, then admires his work, snickering maliciously.
- Sign up now to study Joy Williams with me and Alex! Get feedback on your own WIP too! Only a few spots left!
- 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
- 7yo who has lived in New Haven for four years whispers to me, "Does all pizza kinda taste the same?"
- might start using this website to document when I cry at the trampoline park
- Finally running a new class for @greatplacebooks.bsky.social in January, this time co-taught with @alexhigley.bsky.social ! We're doing a deep dive into the short fiction of Joy Williams. Join us: greatplacebooks.com/joy
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- Still a few spots left in my 92 St Y workshop. Class starts Tuesday evening on Zoom. Half workshop, half seminar, syllabus full of authors I adore. Join us! www.92ny.org/class/fictio...
- Reposted by Emily AdrianThe thing I love about this conference is that it's an actually energizing day. People leave excited to go home and write, and feeling like they've figured some things out. You don't get that at most similar events (which also typically costs 4-5x as much)
- Very very very happy about this 💕
- This class (my last until the fall) begins this week! Still time to join!
- New @greatplacebooks.bsky.social class starting in April! Inspired by a student's request 😍 We'll read Munro, Dubus, Eugenides, and Ishiguro and determine what film reveals about form—especially that of the short story! tinyurl.com/y4cnkkva
- Starts in a couple weeks, still a few spots left! Join us. Going to be a fun class; my last one until the fall.
- New @greatplacebooks.bsky.social class starting in April! Inspired by a student's request 😍 We'll read Munro, Dubus, Eugenides, and Ishiguro and determine what film reveals about form—especially that of the short story! tinyurl.com/y4cnkkva
- I've always loved when my students watch film adaptations of what we studying and share their insights in class. Decided to make a new seminar out of it! Join us for lots of close-reading, discussion, and feedback on your own WIP! greatplacebooks.com/film
- How does a ten-page short story lend itself to a two-hour movie? How can we make sure our own work is equally complex, rich, and open to interpretation?
- New @greatplacebooks.bsky.social class starting in April! Inspired by a student's request 😍 We'll read Munro, Dubus, Eugenides, and Ishiguro and determine what film reveals about form—especially that of the short story! tinyurl.com/y4cnkkva
- New @greatplacebooks.bsky.social class starting in April! Inspired by a student's request 😍 We'll read Munro, Dubus, Eugenides, and Ishiguro and determine what film reveals about form—especially that of the short story! tinyurl.com/y4cnkkva
- Reposted by Emily AdrianCover reveal for Pilar Fraile’s English language debut EUPHORIA DAYS, translated by National Book Award Nominee and finalist for the PEN Translation Prize @lizziedavis.bsky.social
- Reposted by Emily AdrianBUILDING A MEMOIR with @johncotter.bsky.social starts in one week! Register now and join GPB's cohort of memoirists. greatplacebooks.com/memoir
- Reposted by Emily AdrianFew spots left! Study memoir with @johncotter.bsky.social!
- One spot left!
- Two spots left in this seminar I’m leading for @greatplacebooks.bsky.social Join us! greatplacebooks.com/setting
- Reposted by Emily AdrianHappy New Year! We are OPEN for electronic submissions, through January. Send us your fiction, poetry, essay, comics, and translations. We pay between $100 and $500 depending on length. epoch.submittable.com/submit
- Two spots left in this seminar I’m leading for @greatplacebooks.bsky.social Join us! greatplacebooks.com/setting
- Reposted by Emily AdrianBeautiful writing about a beautiful dog and a beautiful life from @adremily.bsky.social this morning.
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- Diving into some old favorites for my upcoming @greatplacebooks.bsky.social class on setting. Two spots remain if you'd like to join us! We'll read Erdrich, Baldwin, Proulx, James Joyce, Sally Rooney, Ling Ma, and Willa Cather. 😍 greatplacebooks.com/setting
- Took a break from learning Taylor Swift’s “Karma” dance to cuddle his pup
- Reposted by Emily Adrian🤩 winter classes at Great Place Books! Perfect holiday gift for yourself or another writer in your life 🎁 greatplacebooks.com/classes
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- 6yo: and here's a rule— Me: please don't boss me around 6yo: I'm not bossing anyone around, I'm trying to figure out what is right
- Teens
- Reposted by Emily AdrianIn today's newsletter, Emily Adrian and Alex Higley interview each other about why they love teaching for GPB and the courses they've got coming up in 2024! tinyurl.com/3f26zyfk
- Wrapped up my last workshop of 2023 last night; Great Place Books students continue to impress and delight me. If you want to join us next time: greatplacebooks.com/setting
- Hair only looks this good once/year
