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Katie Kitamura

@katiekitamura

Novelist. AUDITION is out 4/8/25 from @riverheadbooks.
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jenny mustard (@jenny_mustard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Audition! An emotional, intelligent, intensely stylish novel that reads a bit like walking on quicksand: shocking, eerie, disorienting, and utterly immersive. I was floored by it. (Plus, you know I love Kitamura’s unshakeably elegant prose.) thank you Seán Hayes for sending

Audition!
An emotional, intelligent, intensely stylish novel that reads a bit like walking on quicksand: shocking, eerie, disorienting, and utterly immersive. I was floored by it. 

(Plus, you know I love Kitamura’s unshakeably elegant prose.)

thank you <a href="/seanghayes/">Seán Hayes</a> for sending
Riverhead Books (@riverheadbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Looking forward to 2025? So are we, but mainly because Katie Kitamura's next book, AUDITION, is out in April! Check it out on TIME's list of the most anticipated books of 2025 below, and get ready for the "twists and turns of this destabilizing novel." time.com/7202423/most-a…

Riverhead Books (@riverheadbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you ready for the performance of your life? Don't miss one of the most anticipated books of the year, named by The Washington Post, Vogue Magazine, Rolling Stone, NBC Entertainment, The Guardian, and Financial Times 😱 AUDITION by Katie Kitamura hits shelves on 4/8. Read more here: bit.ly/4i0Eh7w

Are you ready for the performance of your life?

Don't miss one of the most anticipated books of the year, named by <a href="/washingtonpost/">The Washington Post</a>, <a href="/voguemagazine/">Vogue Magazine</a>, <a href="/RollingStone/">Rolling Stone</a>, <a href="/nbc/">NBC Entertainment</a>, <a href="/guardian/">The Guardian</a>, and <a href="/FT/">Financial Times</a> 😱

AUDITION by <a href="/katiekitamura/">Katie Kitamura</a> hits shelves on 4/8. Read more here: bit.ly/4i0Eh7w
Riverhead Books (@riverheadbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.@LibraryJournalsays AUDITION by Katie Kitamura is "beguiling, sleek, provocative" and more 👀 Don't miss one of the most anticipated books of the year, on shelves April 8th. Learn more here: bit.ly/3XdCjYn

.@LibraryJournalsays AUDITION by <a href="/katiekitamura/">Katie Kitamura</a> is "beguiling, sleek, provocative" and more 👀

Don't miss one of the most anticipated books of the year, on shelves April 8th. Learn more here: bit.ly/3XdCjYn
Riverhead Books (@riverheadbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"[An] elegant knife of a story...So much glints below the surface in Katie Kitamura's purring, pared-down sentences." 🌟 Review from Kirkus Reviews A literary icon returns this April 8th. Are you ready for AUDITION? 👀 bit.ly/3XdCjYn

"[An] elegant knife of a story...So much glints below the surface in <a href="/katiekitamura/">Katie Kitamura</a>'s purring, pared-down sentences." 🌟 Review from <a href="/KirkusReviews/">Kirkus Reviews</a>

A literary icon returns this April 8th. Are you ready for AUDITION? 👀 bit.ly/3XdCjYn
Los Angeles Review of Books (@lareviewofbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are thrilled to announce our Spring 2025 Book Club selection: "Audition" by Katie Kitamura! Join us on April 30 for a front row seat to Kitamura’s exploration of power, performance, and identity. Learn more and register at lareviewofbooks.org/event/larb-boo…

We are thrilled to announce our Spring 2025 Book Club selection: "Audition" by <a href="/katiekitamura/">Katie Kitamura</a>! Join us on April 30 for a front row seat to Kitamura’s exploration of power, performance, and identity. Learn more and register at lareviewofbooks.org/event/larb-boo…
Riverhead Books (@riverheadbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Katie Kitamura is going on tour! 🎉 Come celebrate the publication of AUDITION and hear Katie talk more about her latest (and highly anticipated!) novel. More details here: katiekitamura.com/events

.<a href="/katiekitamura/">Katie Kitamura</a> is going on tour! 🎉

Come celebrate the publication of AUDITION and hear Katie talk more about her latest (and highly anticipated!) novel. More details here: katiekitamura.com/events
Priscilla Gilman (@priscillagilman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“A blisteringly incisive, coolly devastating tour de force of controlled menace…. Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.” I reviewed Audition, the new novel by Katie Kitamura, for Boston Globe Books: Katie Kitamura Riverhead Books bostonglobe.com/2025/04/01/art…

Riverhead Books (@riverheadbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"A deftly crafted, slow-burn psychological thriller full of sly metafictional reflections on the nature of storytelling and identity." The Washington Post raves over Katie Kitamura's latest novel, AUDITION. Read the full review here ✨ washingtonpost.com/books/2025/04/…

The New Yorker (@newyorker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Katie Kitamura discusses her new book, the role of performance in everyday life, and the trick of crafting a narrative that functions as a “Rorschach blot.” nyer.cm/G8dJchX

Riverhead Books (@riverheadbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Don't miss Katie Kitamura's new novel, AUDITION, which The New York Review of Books has called "propulsive." Read the full The New York Review of Books review at the link below before AUDITION hits shelves next week 🤩 nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

Politics and Prose (@politicsprose) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thursday, join Katie Kitamura to discuss AUDITION - One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love - w/ kat chow - 7PM @ CONN AVE - bit.ly/4jg8qiM

Thursday, join <a href="/katiekitamura/">Katie Kitamura</a> to discuss AUDITION - One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really  know the people we love - w/ <a href="/katchow/">kat chow</a> - 7PM @ CONN AVE - bit.ly/4jg8qiM
The New Yorker (@newyorker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Between writing “Intimacies” and writing “Audition,” her latest novel, Katie Kitamura became preoccupied with the degree to which performance is present in our day-to-day lives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pOucSS

Between writing “Intimacies” and writing “Audition,” her latest novel, Katie Kitamura became preoccupied with the degree to which performance is present in our day-to-day lives.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pOucSS
Riverhead Books (@riverheadbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Few writers have nailed the interpersonal thriller better than Kitamura." (New York Times Books) The day is finally here — AUDITION is OUT NOW! Start reading the novel "worthy of a standing ovation" (People) now: bit.ly/3XdCjYn

American Academy in Rome (@amacademyrome) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today Katie Kitamura (2024 Fellow) publishes her new novel, “Audition,” with Riverhead Books. On April 23 she joins Ayad Akhtar (2018 Resident) and Valeria Luiselli for a conversation on contemporary literature at the #RomePrize ceremony. More at aarome.org/events/2025-ja….

Today <a href="/katiekitamura/">Katie Kitamura</a> (2024 Fellow) publishes her new novel, “Audition,” with <a href="/riverheadbooks/">Riverhead Books</a>. On April 23 she joins <a href="/ayadakhtar/">Ayad Akhtar</a> (2018 Resident) and <a href="/ValeriaLuiselli/">Valeria Luiselli</a> for a conversation on contemporary literature at the #RomePrize ceremony. 

More at aarome.org/events/2025-ja….
BPL Presents (@bpl_presents) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Audition by Katie Kitamura is a romance that leaves you on the edge of your seat. A seasoned actress and a man out of his depth, this novel questions everything we know about performance, both on and off stage! 👀📖 Save your seat today! 🔗 bklynlib.org/4iKJtfz

Audition by Katie Kitamura is a romance that leaves you on the edge of your seat. A seasoned actress and a man out of his depth, this novel questions everything we know about performance, both on and off stage! 👀📖

Save your seat today!
🔗 bklynlib.org/4iKJtfz