@JonLeeWriter

TV writer and novelist. Author of THE GREAT MISTAKE (@aaknopf @grantabooks) & HIGH DIVE

 New York, NY
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Joined October 2009
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"[A] strangely uplifting, exquisitely droll heartbreaker of a book." Jonathan Lee reviewed Neel Mukherjee's new novel CHOICE in the New York Times. wwnorton.com/books/choice nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books…

Choice

One of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the YearA Guardian, Chicago Public Library, and BBC Best Book of the Year “A seriously impressive achievement.” —John Self, Financial Times An...

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Whole generations of adults were lost to institutionalization. They were warehoused, hidden away, forgotten. So many of us colluded in their erasure. This piece is my small attempt to un-erase one of them. 8/8 theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…

The Ones We Sent Away

I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.

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Elke Ritt@ElkeRitt19 Jul 2023
Recommended to all German readers on their way to New York City. You will meet the long-forgotten city planner Andrew Haswell Green & learn about his amazing achievements: fresh air for all in Central Park & access to culture in libraries and museums @diogenesverlag @JonLeeWriter
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Today, our wonderful Editor-in-Chief @DwyerMurphy has a thrilling new novel out from @VikingBooks. It's called "The Stolen Coast." You don't want to miss it. Everybody's reading it... everybody.
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I have a book out today called The Stolen Coast: it begins/ends with pickup basketball & in bw are fugitives, spies, lounge singers, diamonds, clambakes & Pedro Martínez shrines. If enough people read it they'll let me back into Massachusetts someday bit.ly/3NrFCXz
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I have a heist novel coming out this week so I'm going to start posting snapshots of my favorite moments in fictional thieving, which, fair warning, mostly involve people eating, singing, dancing, just generally hanging out. penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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Chris Power@chris_power13 Jun 2023
why I read writers’ diaries
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The sky in New York looks just like this. A good time to stay in with @szilmolnar’s novel. Bracing, to-the-bone prose. This book finds ghosts in the everyday (as does the cover design by Linda Huang for @PantheonBooks)
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From the title poem in @sarahjgrimm’s perfect new collection, HOG LAGOON
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Breaking News: The author Martin Amis has died at 73. His caustic, bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and ’90s. nyti.ms/3pTBTZv

Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 (Published 2023)

In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son.

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She was very clever, very kind and very unusual, and somehow this service captured all of it
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Third of UK librarians asked to censor or remove books, research reveals dlvr.it/SmnKVQ
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No, but seriously, if you haven’t read at least one of these by now, what are you doing??? Don’t miss out on these gems! 🗣️ Follow us for more book recs! #kirkusreviews #BookRecommendations #rapidfirebookrecs @J_Escoffery @fsgbooks @BlkLibraryGirl @AAKnopf
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We’re offering resources for people who want to show their support across social media for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in Russia a week ago during a reporting trip and remains in prison #IStandWithEvan on.wsj.com/3nK7JXA

How You Can Use Social Media to Support Evan Gershkovich

The Wall Street Journal is offering resources for people who want to show their support across social media for the jailed WSJ reporter.

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'Exhilarating... it feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent & moving & fun in equal measure, but with BIOGRAPHY OF X, @CatherineLacey somehow – magically – makes the nearly impossible look easy.' @legroff electricliterature.com/conni… via @electriclit

My Wife Lived Countless Lives Before She Met Me - Electric Literature

"Connie," an excerpt from BIOGRAPHY OF X by Catherine Lacey, recommended by Lauren Groff

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Best publicist ever. Hire her!
Sarah Jean Grimm | sarahjgrimm.bsky.social@sarahjgrimm14 Feb 2023
There are cuts to the book publishing program, too. I’m sad to say that I’m being laid off from Catapult, and this Friday will be my last day in a great five-year run. I will miss my colleagues and authors dearly.
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