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🌈🏳️⚧️📖 New book #BothandNeither out Feb 9, available for preorder now! 👻 Previous book #TheFactofaBody available everywhere.
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Opened the advance copies of BOTH AND NEITHER: A Memoir and History of Gender (Or, a Haunting) yesterday, and watch me try not to cry!!! This book started as a 2018 idea for @harpersmagazine that grew into the @bestamericanessays “Body Language”— and then the world changed, my life changed, and I kept writing through the upheaval. One year I threw away 200k words! What emerged is the book I always wanted to write but didn’t know I could: a memoir of identity and gender, yes, but one layered with the deeply researched lives of those who came before us, people who lived expansive genders and whose stories were erased from history in ways that now haunt us. History is community and this book is a love letter to them and to the scholars and activists who uncovered their stories. It’s also haunted and sexy and very much about love and whether (and how) we can truly see one another. Thank you, @doubledaybooks @knopfca @phoenix_bks @sonatineeditions Thomas Gebremedhin @francescamain @pjmark.books, for their belief in this thing. Oliver Munday for a cover I love and A Andrew’s for the perfect illustrations inside. And @pronounced_ing @lesliesierrajamison @jenniferfinneyboylan @paul_lisicky @lydiconklin for the generous words that grace its cover. And @sarah_leav for this recording! Coming your way FEBRUARY 9, 2027. Preorder links in bio and I just cannot wait to share this with you all!!! #readtransbooks #readtransauthors 💜💜💜💜💜
09 Sep 2026
Cover reveal ⭐ Coming February 2027!
“Groundbreaking, nothing short of extraordinary: a vital exploration of trans experience across past and present.” —Celeste Ng
Author of The Fact of a Body, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich returns with BOTH AND NEITHER: A Memoir and History of Gender (Or, A Haunting).
In BOTH AND NEITHER, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich weaves memoir and history into a singular work shaped by figures who have long haunted them. Moving across centuries, they trace lives that have made and unmade gender in the public imagination, revealing how the past persists—intimately, insistently—within the present. As history unfolds, memoir bleeds into the archive, binding personal experience to historical inquiry as the author traces their own becoming alongside those who came before.
Vital, timely, and beautifully executed, BOTH AND NEITHER recovers a history long obscured while asking what it means to bear witness to trans lives across time. In doing so, Marzano-Lesnevich confirms their place as one of the most ambitious and original writers working today.
Available for preorder now.
24 Jun 2026
Your TBR pile called. It wants to get a little taller. 📚👀
Welcome to TBR RECS: our excuse to share the books we’re reading, loving, recommending, and immediately forcing into someone else’s hands—with one very important twist: EVERY BOOK FEATURED IS WRITTEN BY A TBR PRESENTER! ✍️
Consider it your chance to get to know the writers you’ll be learning from this January… and add a few more books to that ever-growing pile while you’re at it.
Because yes, TBR may stand for To Be Read… but we take that assignment VERY seriously around here.
Swipe for this month’s picks ➡️ and tell us: which one are you adding to your TBR first?
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27 Oct 2026
I can’t wait to share BOTH AND NEITHER with you— and it turns out 10 of you won’t have to wait to read it! @doubledaybooks & @goodreads are giving away 10 early copies!! Link in bio to enter. US addresses only, unfortunately. Please share! 💜🏳️⚧️👻
29 Sep 2026
To the Provost and Administration of The University of the South:
We, a group of established writers from around the United States who have had the privilege of teaching in the Sewanee Writers' Conference over the past six years, are writing to express our outrage and dismay at the unexpected departure of the Conference Director, Leah Stewart.
>>> Read the full letter by following the link.
Previous attendees, staff, faculty, visitors, and prospective attendees, please join us in making your voice heard and demanding accountability.
David Adjmi
Brittany K. Allen
Chris Bachelder
Eula Biss
Venita Blackburn
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Marianne Chan
Cortney Lamar Charleston
Alexander Chee
Kirstin Chen
Lydi Conklin
Eduardo C. Corral
Cusi Cram
Nathan Alan Davis
Danielle Cadena Deulen
Jaquira Díaz
Camille Dungy
Debra Magpie Earling
Adrian Einspanier
Tarfia Faizullah
Melissa Febos
Omalolu Fiki
Mary Glen Fredrick
Adrianne Harun
Vanessa Hua
Lacy M. Johnson
Holly Goddard Jones
Donika Kelly
Katie Kitamura
Michael Knight
Amitava Kumar
R. O. Kwon
Amy Leach
Ananda Lima
Margot Livesey
Nate Marshall
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Jill McCorkle
Claire Messud
Talene Monahon
Leigh Newman
Dan O’Brien
Chinelo Okparanta
Elena Passarello
Carl Phillips
Kirstin Valdez Quade
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Emily Shain
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Alicia Stallings
Lloyd Suh
Luis Alberto Urrea
Anne Washburn
Stephanie Powell Watts
Caki Wilkinson
Lauren Yee
Monica Youn
Felicia Zamora
24 Sep 2026
Booklist reveal! Our nonfiction seminar this fall is “Memoir: Shapes & Structures”, a new course taught by Prof. Dave Madden (@favemadden).
With a focus on the diverse ways writers fit the messiness of life into aesthetic and narrative shapes, the class will unpack the tools of memoir that carry readers from your first sentence to your last.
Together, we’ll closely read these nine memoirs, plus craft essays by Elissa Washuta, Mary Karr, Henry Lien, Vivian Gornick, John McPhee, and others.
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This photo shows 9 memoirs, stacked horizontally, on a table near a window and in front of a plant in a tan pot. The 9 books are…
Hanif Abdurraqib: Go Ahead in the Rain
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Man Who Could Move Clouds
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Yiyun Li: Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life
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Therese Marie Mailhot: Heart Berries
J.R. Ackerley: My Father and Myself
Charles Foster: Being a Beast
Sheila Heti: Alphabetical Diaries
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich: The Fact of a Body
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Rigoberto Gonzales: Autobiography of My Hungers]
27 Aug 2026
How is it that every year at @sewaneewriters is the best year ever? July was one for the books, literally, in that you will see books from this brilliant workshop cohort soon, of that I am certain. Honored to be trusted with their work, honored to be alongside the unrelentingly fabulous @elenavox, and honored to get to hang out yet again with such an amazing conference team and community. Thank you, @leahstewartwriter @traviseisenbise @adamleedslatham. A gesticulative, emphatic (🐼🦖👯♂️) dream. ❤️
08 Aug 2026
Baby Halupka Marzano-Lesnevich coming in November ❤️❤️❤️
03 Aug 2026
As usual, I took basically no photos. But without exaggeration, I have wanted to be part of the Warren Wilson low-res MFA program for over a decade, ever since I realized that much of the craft thinking that taught me to write The Fact of a Body came from lectures given there and how many of the authors on my bookshelves had taught or studied there (or both). I had to wait for them to start a nonfiction track, but it was well worth the wait! (And a dream to be teaching alongside @scalisetagram and @sarahperry100 for that track!) What a glorious time of thinking and dreaming together in the mountains. Beyond honored to be part of the incredible faculty and to be trusted with the work of my three talented mentees. Onward to much art! (Seriously, so many books on the way. ✨✨✨)
13 Jul 2026
New York! For @creative_capital. Again, I took almost no photos 🤦🏻♂️, but what a dream to meet my fabulous fellow awardees and learn about (and be inspired by!) their projects, plus meet industry professionals for conversations that moved me. A day of thrilling conversations, really. I left with ideas and names and things to read and look at. Brain-fed, heart-fed, full of energy for carrying on. Thank you. I love art and the people who make it and shepherd it and I am so grateful to everyone who funds it. ❤️
23 Jun 2026
Loved absolutely everything about the beautiful open-hearted nerd bliss that was the Storyboard writing residency last week, so much so that I took basically no photos, except these two of brilliant founders @laurenemarkham @cfarnold & their sign, & the tote bag I will be carrying all over now, emblazoned with a heck of a mantra for writing. What a dream to teach alongside @carvell_wallace @sierracmurdoch @mononoke97 and get to think with my wonderful workshop. The fact-nerd quotient (all genres, but all of us thinking about what it means to bring art into contact with research) was high! Just absolutely loved it. Thank you, Lauren & Chris & @smcmfa! And everyone I spoke with last week. I left heart- and art-filled and fueled. I cannot wait to see my students’ work in the world, we need it.
23 Jun 2026
I’m in NYC for the @creative_capital carnival, about to talk to a bunch of writers and artists and editors and industry folks about my work, which means I am about to talk about trans community and joy, which means I am thinking back to being named the “star player” on our all-trans @mabelleague @t4team.mabel, a little ritual we have after every game. Reader, I cried. I was not so named because I was good at ball (I’m not), or because I made a clutch play (I was the last to strike out!), but because I was part of the team, and this is a team that celebrates one another. That’s joy to me, that’s community, and I am so damn grateful for it. (Also, come on, all-trans all-gender softball team? The haters could never.)
15 Jun 2026
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