On social media hiatus! For contact info check my website torreypeters.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3mle3qr3nqs23New book by Sybil Lamb! Not a decade too soon! Curious about SUILYICY as well. Good season. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle3qr3nqs23https://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3ml7ky2d6as2vImogen Binnie & I are going to read & hang out for @daedsider.bsky.social’s Everyone’s Books in Brattleboro. It‘s like it’s 2015 again, except that Red has a bookstore, I lost a Pulitzer, and Imogen…no, Imogen‘s cool is vampirically eternal https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/better-off-read-an-evening-with-imogen-binnie-and-torrey-peters/06 May 2026 20:44 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7ky2d6as2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3mgscye6re22hmy book came out in paperback yesterday, and to celebrate, I fell off my motorcycle at a very low speed and skinned a finger. In bookstores wherever quality books are sold. Stag Dance, also, is the title. I'm fine.11 Mar 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgscye6re22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3mg6rzeutxk2xNext week, STAG DANCE, will be issued with 100% less cardboard and half price. It's a new thing I'm trying, which I've been calling "paperback." Here's a little graphic I had whipped up to trial the idea.03 Mar 2026 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6rzeutxk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3m5yrsjzosk2lbookforum is sponsoring Reading Writers this season, and CharJo are the kind of hosts that let me get earnest in a way I almost never let myself and I feel good about it! also I got to talk about Light Eaters which is a very powerful book to me [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Nov 2025 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5yrsjzosk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3lygmseci5226Okay, get this: a supreme court lawyer, a pulitzer-prize winning critic, and some chick obsessed with lumberjacks walk into a bar...09 Sep 2025 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lygmseci5226https://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3luknu36ajc2bA TWO DOLLAR STAG DANCE. 1.99 to be specific. On Bookshop.org which supports locals. https://bookshop.org/p/books/stag-dance-a-novel-and-stories-torrey-peters/21582368?ean=9780593446362&digital=t22 Jul 2025 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3luknu36ajc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3ltmggs3o422oImpressed by this magazine—both the actual making of it and the writing it contains. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jul 2025 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltmggs3o422ohttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3lrqu3qmnj22rAudible named Stag Dance as one of the BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF THE YEAR (so far), and while I feel mixed on these lists--I really want to highlight the four voice actors Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan, and Pyrrha Nicole, who brought PERFORMANCES to what could have been just a reading.16 Jun 2025 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrqu3qmnj22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3lr6bf6i4d22mI would like to send protesters in L.A. sandwiches and drinks and whatever support they need to stay out. Is there a way to do stuff like that?09 Jun 2025 11:25 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6bf6i4d22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3lqrpeio5m222waking early to read Grapes of Wrath--which, somehow, I always thought would be hokey--but the dustbowl descriptions are gorgeous and terrifying, the capitalist anger feels righteous, and when I look up from the page the sun comes up red behind smoke and dust from Canada.04 Jun 2025 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqrpeio5m222https://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3lqn5nxldk22fI wrote a letter for Jami Attenberg's 1000 words of summer-- in which Jami invites guest authors (so far, Kristen Arnett and Karen Russell) to offer writing advice to people who commit to trying to write 1000 words a day for the summer to complete a book. Mine is on the pleasure of being insulted. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jun 2025 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqn5nxldk22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3lpainlzmxs2yHelllo. I am in Auckland. I have four events here! You can come to one, all, or none of these events, because, apparently, New Zealand is a free country. Weird concept, but okay, go off Kiwis. https://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/event/torrey-peters/1497923/15 May 2025 21:50 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpainlzmxs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/torreypeters.bsky.social/post/3logsff535c2aSo glad Bookforum still exists. I somehow missed this review—it focuses on a bunch of things that were important to me in ways that I hadn’t seen in other pieces. https://www.bookforum.com/print/3104/lumberjack-flash-6193405 May 2025 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:ezpditgzcmeswwtxffmfrlmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3logsff535c2a