So proud to be part of recognizing NYCs best books with Bradley Tusk This years Gotham Award finalists are terrific kirkusreviews.com/news-and-featu… #kirkusreviews Torrey Peters colson whitehead tdyja @surlybassey @zakiya_harris sarah schulman Andrea Elliott Natalie Standiford Jim Lewis

ASTRID SEES ALL Paperback coming soon! tinyletter.com/NatalieStandif…

#astridseesall is out in paperback today! (Shown here at @BNRittenhouse by my wonderful niece) As Glamour put it: “Why do we crave screwed-up, funny novels about women in their 20s having bad sex and intense friendships in big cities? Let’s, uh, not worry about it!”Barnes & Noble

We're getting our books in a row for Hester Street Fair this weekend! Bringing a mix of staff picks & finalists for the #GothamBookPrize. Stop by and see us Saturday and Sunday 12pm - 7pm at the Seaport! (We'll have our very first bookmarks to give away, too!) buff.ly/3sDIbLH

"Astrid Sees All is a charming Bildungsroman, an exploration of the shining egotism of youth and its maturing into reflective adulthood. Standiford makes you want to be there: roaches, martinis and all.” Thank you, Philip Womack 🙏🔮

Beautiful and damned spectatorworld.com/book-and-art/b…

""Acutely elegant...a seductive evocation of a lost world." Read more about ASTRID SEES ALL from The Spectator World bit.ly/3DkXH2G Grab the paperback now! bit.ly/3DkZwg8

Thank you, thank you, wonderful Joy! xoxo

Congrats to Andrea Elliott for winning the #GothamBookPrize! usnews.com/news/entertain…“Invisible%20Child%3A%20Poverty,outstanding%20works%20about%20the%20city

On the Criterion Channel, featuring a young Jim Standiford (my brother) as the son of Kevin Kline and Bonnie Bedelia. Screenplay by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal! Set in Ocean City, MD! Watch Violets Are Blue . . . from Criterion Channel criterionchannel.com/films-of-endea…

Woo! Go Mallory! xo

As soon as he left the White House, Saudi Arabia handed Jared Kushner $2,000,000,000. That's $2 billion. With a "b."

Genius of Love—excellent choice, Laura! (And thank you! I’ll look forward to your upcoming novel!)

If any Geminis want some book recs... - The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey - Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford - All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir - Gallant by V.E. Schwab - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

I had the privilege of reviewing 2 wonderful new MG novels in this Sunday's Times Book Review:

Scenes like this do still matter! (Thanks Steve)

One of the best books I’ve ever read displaying platonic love between a man and woman is How To Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford, highly highly recommend

thank you thank you! I appreciate people who get that book--it's like a secret club 🤖 💙💙💙

Thanks for the shoutout to the #astridseesall Spotify playlist, Book Riot ! I tried to get that new wave/disco 80s feeling into the novel: tinyurl.com/jenkr5cp

🚨On Thursday, Tennessee’s rightwing supermajority carried out the racist, anti-democratic expulsion of two Black lawmakers. As Rep. Rep. Justin Jones says here, the fight for our democracy is happening in state legislatures. That’s where we have to focus.