We here at McSweeney’s could not be prouder to formally announce the new editor of our flagship quarterly: the brilliant and Whiting Award-winning Rita Bullwinkel. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/quart…

Today's mailout! Very excited to share Rita Bullwinkel's unforgettable story of eight teenage girl boxers. HEADSHOT is out 28 March.🥊

HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel is a March #IndieNext Pick! 🥊💥 Preorder your copy of the book that Amali G. at Books Are Magic calls "so cinematic, so gripping, and so hard-hitting" before it goes on sale March 12 👉 bit.ly/3SIirLm

“I actually enjoy gambling, that’s one of my bad vices.” Debut novelist Venita Blackburn joins Rita Bullwinkel to discuss how money feels, the absurdity of debt, and her new novel “Dead in Long Beach, California” 📚 interviewmagazine.com/literature/how…

Rita Bullwinkel’s debut novel, “Headshot,” follows eight young women in a national boxing tournament. “Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice,” writes our critic Dwight Garner. nyti.ms/3UUJCUC

I really love our DauntBooksPublishing March books. THE TIME OF CHERRIES by Montserrat Roig (tr Julia Sanches)will take you to 1970s Barcelona in a story of family, awakenings and life desires. HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel will deliver jabs and upper cuts to your imagination.

WORRY is an April Indie Next pick and it’s going into a second printing!!!!!!! Every good thing is because of booksellers and I love them all!!!!!!!!! alexandratanner.com/preorder-worry

Thank you to the judges & prize & to Gordon Burn & his legacy — & to Jimena Gorraez & Marigold Atkey & everyone at DauntBooksPublishing! & to Harriet Moore! Congratulations to all of the long & shortlisted writers!

Looking for new books to pick up this spring? 📖📚 The New York Times includes TABLE FOR TWO by amor towles, THE HUNTER by Tana French, and HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel in its Spring Fiction Round-up! nytimes.com/2024/03/11/boo…

Knockout Rita Bullwinkel book display promo in the window of Daunt Books in Summertown. Bought.

.Rita Bullwinkel's HEADSHOT came out in March & we are *so* excited that in May, we publish her collection of short stories, the brilliant BELLY UP. Dark, sharp-edged, slithering with strangeness, yet alway tied to a recognisable reality, they explore the human condition:

I'm obsessed with this phenomenal interview with Rita Bullwinkel talking all things HEADSHOT🥊with Kathleen McNamee for Off The Ball (Includes a spot on review of Bend It Like Beckham). ENJOY. youtube.com/watch?v=bYnKaf…

A new short story collection from the author of my favourite novel of the year? YES PLEASE! A huge thank you to DauntBooksPublishing for sending me a copy of Rita Bullwinkel’s BELLY UP. HEADSHOT was an incredible book and I can’t wait for Rita’s event in London next month!

EXCITING! On June 18 our Guestprof Rita Bullwinkel will speak with Svenja Gräfen @gehraven drüben bei Insta at the beautiful lecture hall of GfZK about #sports #memory #childhood, #boxing and more! #picadorprof Join us, tickets are free! eventbrite.de/e/fight-like-n…

Mark your calendar for 18 June! We're excited to host #picadorporf Rita Bullwinkel GfZK #Leipzig! Join us at 7PM for "Fight like Nobody's watching" 🥊 with host Svenja Gräfen @gehraven drüben bei Insta. Tickets (for free 😍) eventbrite.de/e/fight-like-n…

HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel and THE HUNTER by Tana French are two of The New York Times Best Books of the Year (so far)! nytimes.com/2024/05/24/boo…

⭐️TOMORROW ⭐️ (6.2.24) on the program: my conversation w Rita Bullwinkel (Rita Bullwinkel), author of the debut novel HEADSHOT (Viking Books). 🎧 wherever you listen to podcasts. 📺 also on YouTube. ✌🏼stay tuned…

I’ve read some great books over the last few months and wanted to share some of my favorites. Let me know if you have any recommendations for books I should check out!