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Benedict Nguyen chatted with Autostraddle about how writing made her a better dancer, social media and the world of infl...
07/07/2025

Benedict Nguyen chatted with Autostraddle about how writing made her a better dancer, social media and the world of influencers, and her new book HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS (out now!).

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"The 'hot' in Hot Girls with Balls is that it’s a given our protagonists are extremely beautiful."

Happy 4th! Hope you're all spending the day relaxing and diving into some hot summer reads (such as the ones pictured he...
07/04/2025

Happy 4th! Hope you're all spending the day relaxing and diving into some hot summer reads (such as the ones pictured here 👀 ).

Enjoy! ☀️ 🍔 🌭 📚

"Benedict Nguyễn’s debut novel is both tender and ruthless about the frictions of being internet famous. . . HOT GIRLS W...
07/02/2025

"Benedict Nguyễn’s debut novel is both tender and ruthless about the frictions of being internet famous. . . HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS brims with charisma, envy, sabotage and taut, taut muscles." — Xtra

Benedict Nguyễn’s debut novel is both tender and ruthless about the frictions of being internet famous

Hot girl summer has arrived! ☀️ Happy publication day to Benedict Nguyen's HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS! 🏐 ✨ 🏐 ✨ In this outrage...
07/01/2025

Hot girl summer has arrived! ☀️ Happy publication day to Benedict Nguyen's HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS! 🏐 ✨ 🏐 ✨

In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year.

✨ Named a most-anticipated book by Ms. Magazine , Our Culture , Goodreads , Book Riot , Literary Hub, Electric Literature, & Debutiful

✨ A July 2025 ABA Indie Next Pick!

✨ "If you thought Challengers made tennis sexy, just wait and see what Hot Girls with Balls can do for volleyball . . . All in all, the novel is the outrageous, hilarious, and biting social commentary that we need in a time where the government continues to invalidate and target the trans community." — Harper's Bazaar

✨ "A sharp, funny, lively book about the wildly horrifying transphobic, conservative politics of contemporary American society."— Oprah Daily

✨ "This brilliant satire is a one-of-a-kind debut." — Cosmopolitan

✨ "Clever and nervy . . . Nguyễn’s playful satire tackles everything from sports celebrity to social media, boy’s club dynamics to girlboss politics, romantic jealousy to PR damage control. Also on tap: hot volleyball action." — Goodreads

HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS is "a sharp, funny, lively book about the wildly horrifying transphobic, conservative politics of c...
06/26/2025

HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS is "a sharp, funny, lively book about the wildly horrifying transphobic, conservative politics of contemporary American society," according to Oprah Daily!

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/g64931244/q***r-joy-books/

From later-in-life coming-out stories to sports epics to juicy love triangles (and quadrangles), these earth-shattering new books capture q***r love and life as you've never read them before.

HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS and SWEETENER have been named two of the hottest LGBTQ+ books of the summer by Q***rty!https://buff...
06/26/2025

HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS and SWEETENER have been named two of the hottest LGBTQ+ books of the summer by Q***rty!
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Whether you're looking for a fast-paced summer rom-com, sapphic thriller, or cultural deep dive, this season promises to be an LGBTQ+ page-turner.

  commemorates the day the last enslaved people were emancipated in the United States on June 19, 1865.Explore some of t...
06/19/2025

commemorates the day the last enslaved people were emancipated in the United States on June 19, 1865.

Explore some of the incredible memoirs and fiction on our list that educate and celebrate Black history. 🖤

Happy paperback pub day to DISPERSALS by Jessica J. Lee!In fourteen essays, DISPERSALS explores the entanglements of the...
06/17/2025

Happy paperback pub day to DISPERSALS by Jessica J. Lee!

In fourteen essays, DISPERSALS explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.

🪻 "A terrific work on how borders work to keep both people and plants separated." — Los Angeles Times

🪻"Lee’s lyrical prose sprouts from a fertile ground of intensive research and intimate memories—memories that are by turns sharply vivid and pleasantly hazy with the distance of time." — The Cut

🪻"Exquisite, haunting . . . Lee continues her insistent, clear-eyed quest for nourishment and vitality, even when both are complicated, and encourages readers to do the same." — Shelf Awareness

Hot blurbs incoming for HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS! 🔥 Preorder Benedict Nguyen's outrageous & sexy debut now!https://buff.ly/m...
06/16/2025

Hot blurbs incoming for HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS! 🔥 Preorder Benedict Nguyen's outrageous & sexy debut now!

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🌸 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌸 We're thrilled to share the cover of Oksana Vasyakina's forthcoming novel STEPPE, designed by Nic...
06/13/2025

🌸 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌸 We're thrilled to share the cover of Oksana Vasyakina's forthcoming novel STEPPE, designed by Nicole Caputo!

STEPPE hits bookstores and libraries on 1/20/26 and is available to preorder now.

About the book:
A visceral, stirring novel following a q***r literature student traveling across Russia with her estranged father, a long haul truck driver secretly dying of AIDS, from the acclaimed author of WOUND.

A decade after her father walks out on her family, the narrator of STEPPE, now a literature student, decides to spend some time with him on the road as he makes deliveries across the vast plains of Russia. She’s attracted and repulsed by his rugged life as a trucker, eager to reckon with the ways he’s imprinted on her, to understand the person who made her, to witness their family likenesses.

But the prematurely aged, drug-ruined man secretly being consumed by AIDS who meets her at the train station has little revelation to offer her yearning heart. As he drives her across a severe landscape in his freight truck, the narrator reflects on her father’s role as a small piece of the extensive, violent patriarchal structure of Russian society and the post-Soviet chaos of the 1990s. Always humming in the background, the austere beauty and mercurial nature of the steppe reminds her of the contradictions at the heart of their relationship—both natural and forced; intimate and estranged.

Oksana Vasyakina’s second novel of aching familial hurt pierces the surface of human relations and reaches into the depths of shame, longing, and grief that lie beneath. In simple, precise prose she paints a vivid portrait of estrangement and situates it in the broader context of her country’s attempts to reckon with its troubled history.

Hot q***r summer is here! What are you reading this pride month? 🏳️‍🌈
06/12/2025

Hot q***r summer is here! What are you reading this pride month? 🏳️‍🌈

We're thrilled to share these upcoming launch events for Peter Mendelsund's EXHIBITIONIST and and his new novel WEEPERS ...
06/10/2025

We're thrilled to share these upcoming launch events for Peter Mendelsund's EXHIBITIONIST and and his new novel WEEPERS — out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux!

This Thursday, Peter will be hosting a very special gallery show featuring paintings from EXHIBITIONIST at La MaMa Galleria in NYC from 6-8pm. We hope to see you there!

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