Tomorrow at Gray Duck in St Paul, Patrick Nathan talks live with KFAI-FM 📻's Write On! Radio. Doors at 6:00, radio interview at 7:00. We'll have copies of The Future Was Color for sale onsite!

'Even as he stacks the weight of past and future horrors before us, Nathan’s language rebukes the privilege of pearl-clutching despair.'

A must-read look at Patrick Nathan's THE FUTURE WAS COLOR in LARB!

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'Nathan’s style channels a kind of rapturous Fitzgeraldian opulence, where loneliness is romantic, disenchantment beautiful and the world exists in sensuous splendor.'
—The Wall Street Journal

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“One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain - rigor and recklessness - simultaneously.”
- Carole Maso

THIS is criticism.
Alina Stefanescu reviews Patrick Nathan's THE FUTURE WAS COLOR for Los Angeles Review of Books

'Even as he stacks the weight of past and future horrors before us, Nathan’s language rebukes the privilege of pearl-clutching despair . . . .  Goosebumps appear on my arms

'The Future Was Color probes evergreen postwar themes like McCarthyism and the specter of nuclear holocaust. . . . Nathan’s style channels a kind of rapturous Fitzgeraldian opulence, where loneliness is romantic, disenchantment beautiful and the world exists in sensuous

You’d better believe I’m forming lasting opinions of you.

Guy Davenport:

“I am, in our society, incomplete. I do not have a body. […] The body of an American has four wheels, drinks gas and oil, and eats cities. The strangest revolution of our century is this perverse and invisible evolution of the human body into the automobile.”

One way to celebrate #juneteenth without eroding the specificity of the holiday: read the work of Black texans like Bryan Washington or Jennifer Maritza McCauley—her WHEN TRYING TO RETURN HOME is marvelous, and a New York Times Books Editors' Choice!
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This #Juneteenth , I’m thinking about how far we’ve come—and how much further we have to go 🙏🏽

'Riveting ... Polchin vividly exposes a disturbing, century-old tale of unequal justice.'

From my review of James Polchin's Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America (@CounterpointLLC) in Washington Independent Review of Books
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On catastrophe, science fiction, first love, relationality in queer theory, 1950's Hollywood, exile, displacement, montage, topographic loneliness, and the splendor of Patrick Nathan's 'The Future Was Color' (Counterpoint Press).

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A landmark event. The incomparable Mary Robison does the The Paris Review Art of Fiction interview! 🔥🔥🔥

Happy pub day to Juliet Escoria!
The brilliant YOU ARE THE SNAKE is on shelves today! 🍭🐍🍭

“A sharply observed and unflinching collection that perfectly captures the electric joys and sorrows of living a half-feral life.” —Jenny Offill

Grab a copy:
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Excited about this one!

VERY excited about this one!

This is in no way hyperbole. Thank you Richard!

So happy to see my book Rethinking Rescue on Publishers Weekly's list of notable fall releases. Pub date is August 20. Available now for pre-order! amazon.com/Rethinking-Res…