“Every woman wants a castle.”

📢 Tonight, 7pm! Join Nicolette Polek at Skylight Books to celebrate BITTER WATER OPERA, w/special guest Brian Evenson. Free & open to the public.

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Interviewed Nicolette Polek about her debut new novel Bitter Water Opera Graywolf Press for Chicago Review of Books. chireviewofbooks.com/2024/04/30/bit…

Mine and Nicolette Polek’s friend Vayla, who made our wedding cake, recently became a nun. Vayla’s sister told us that when she departed for the monastery, Vayla’s last words to her sister were “See you in Heaven.” This pic of her was sent out with the monastery’s newsletter…

I became small and unnoticeable, but a smallness where something wonderful surged around me. The smaller I became, the more I could see it. Like a fractaling reveal, tying my days together with a single thread. I crinkled down onto the sand

- Nicolette Polek, Bitter Water Opera

I really enjoyed reading and meditating on Nicolette Polek's Bitter Water Opera for The Rumpus. The review is up but the novel has not left me. Thank you to Michael Barron for editing.

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“...the narrator recognizes the sprinkles of pixie dust in her own life story and learns that art is not a substitute for living.”

Kassia Oset reviews Nicolette Polek's BITTER WATER OPERA (@GraywolfPress).

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I interviewed Nicolette Polek about her new book Bitter Water Opera, God, and living outside the city for Interview Magazine

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wrote about Nicolette Polek’s magical new novel bitter water opera ✨
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Monday reads: anna leszkiewicz for The New Statesman, Titus Techera for Law & Liberty, Stephen G. Adubato for Interview Magazine, Cobi for Cleveland Review of Books, Federico Perelmuter for New Left Review, Britt Menjivar for Los Angeles Review of Books, Fred Bauer for National Review, and others.

Stoked to read Nicolette Polek 's debut novel that arrived today!

“I found your pictures by chance in a library archive. In one, you’re a girl in a gown.” Read from Nicolette Polek’s new novel, Bitter Water Opera.
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Washington DC see you tomorrow 5pm 🤍

We’re still rockin at 49 Orchard. youtube.com/@earth_net49/s…

GiGi Nicolette Polek and Jordan Castro

Just before the publication of her novel “Bitter Water Opera,” author Nicolette Polek joins Stephen G. Adubato to discuss converting to Christianity and living off the land 🙏

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Two beautiful reviews up on Los Angeles Review of Books today by Dashiel Carrera and Britt Menjivar , thank you

they let a Catholic write about Bitter Water Opera! I discuss Christian mystery, faith vs. fanaticism, and the sublime in my review of Nicolette Polek's debut novel

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'Polek, who holds an MA from Yale Divinity School, rejects sensationalism; in the tradition of philosophical predecessors Marilynne Robinson and Madeleine L'Engle, she achieves a quiet, stirring reverence.' Britt Menjivar reviews 'Bitter Water Opera.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/sweet-…