
Katie Kitamura
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Novelist. AUDITION is out 4/8/25 from @riverheadbooks.
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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



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


.@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


"[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
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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're giving AUDITION by Katie Kitamura a round of applause 👏👏👏 for being an April Indie Next Pick American Booksellers Association! 🥳🙌 Congratulations!!!

.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 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…

"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/…


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/…


So grateful to Hamilton Cain for this beautiful review - I will treasure that opening paragraph forever.



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….


HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Katie Kitamura for being a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow 🎉🎉🎉 GuggenheimFoundation #2025GuggenheimFellow


