
Fanta Diallo
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books 📚 / MN to NYC / previously: @littlebrown / currently: @wwnorton @liverightpub
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23-12-2022 20:01:08
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I’m so excited to share Entertainment Weekly exclusive peak into Liveright Books upcoming book, MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios. I can’t wait to get a copy of this “essential, effervescent account of American mass culture” in everyone’s hands! ew.com/books/mcu-the-…

So thrilled to share that BIG GIRL is winner of the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel! Congrats to all the winners + finalists, and big gratitude to Gina Iaquinta W. W. Norton & Company Liveright Books Aevitas Creative . Grateful to see this story move through the world 💙


I can't express my joy for Georgi Gospodinov and @rodel_angela. Liveright Books signed up TIME SHELTER on Angela's brilliant 36 page sample translation -- but we knew from the first paragraph that it was a masterpiece. Bravo to this perfect duo and book!!!

Via New Rockstars, a lovely shoutout to MCU: THE REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS, the forthcoming book from Joanna Robinson, Da7e Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards! Preorder today, and watch it barrel through the cosmos (i.e. into your favorite bookstore) on October 10th! youtu.be/hV5HzY78meE

BIG GIRL is out in paperback next week, w a gorgeous new cover and reading group guide! Can't wait to celebrate with @JamesHannaham @bettinajudd Jocelyn L Johnson Women Writers Bloom The Literary Lobbyist The Ivy Bookshop inarà Politics and Prose Baldwin & Co. Books & Coffee and you!


🏙️🥳 Thanks to all who joined Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and @JamesHannaham last night Greenlight Bookstore to celebrate the paperback release of Mecca's stellar novel BIG GIRL! Learn more about this portrait of Black womanhood in America (+ order from Greenlight) here: greenlightbookstore.com/book/978132409…



Poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, who collaborated with BEYONCÉ on the film BLACK IS KING, will publish THE CATCH as part of Glory a.k.a #WellReadBlackGirl's new Well-Read Black Girl Festival ™ x Liveright Books series. bit.ly/3MV8uGc


Wrote a review of the excellent ‘MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios’ by Joanna Robinson, Da7e Gonzales and Gavin Edwards. This book could not be more “for me” if it tried. Check out the review and the book of you’re interested in Marvel, Hollywood, or general film history. A real treat!


C’MON BARBIE LET’S GO PARTY (out 3/5/24 from Liveright Books) wwnorton.com/books/97813240…


The next person to reference Forever Barbie in The New Yorker gets a personalized Venus of Willendorf. (Leslie, yours is on the way.) Liveright Books


Victorian Psycho is coming for you 2/4/25!!! Liveright Books @kentdwolf Fanta Diallo

Congrats to the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team for winning gold and to the GOAT Simone Biles for becoming the most decorated American gymnast in history!

"These enthusiasts are participating in something that links them to the American origin story itself — mobilization in the face of a threat they find intolerable to live with." Annette Gordon-Reed on the timing and historical context of Vice President JD Vance's new candidacy: nytimes.com/2024/08/22/opi…

I'm delighted to finally show you what I've been working on all these years: here's the cover for my book WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: JOAN DIDION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE, out March 11 from Liveright Books! You can read more or pre-order here: wwnorton.com/books/97813240…


Me to me after seeing this totally INSANE announcement for Virginia Feito’s VICTORIAN PSYCHO (out 2/4/25 from Liveright Books)—Gina Iaquinta and Fanta Diallo strike again!

VICTORIAN PSYCHO forthcoming from Liveright Books 2/4/25 😈