My second novel FOUR SQUARES comes out in just over a month—a June pub date, Happy Pride!!—and you can preorder it NOW wherever you get your books. It’s funny and sad and gay and, I think, pretty hopeful. Thanks to everyone at @putnambooks for helping me tell this story, and to all the early readers I admire for being so generous with their words.
I’m excited for all of you to read it! Just kidding, I’m absolutely terrified! Stay tuned for news about upcoming events at some of your favorite bookstores…
My novel THE OLD PLACE comes out in September, and I simply had to put its beautiful dang cover on the grid. Pre-order it if you like stories about old people and gay people and dead people and coffee and potato salad. #LinkInBio
(Thank you to @kate_mckean and @gabymongelli and @putnambooks for being incredible and making all this possible.)
Come to one of my tour stops for WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY next month! Tickets to all the events, including my @booksaremagicbk talk with @lindseyweber , are in my bio!!!
I just turned 40, but it’s never too late to become a food influencer. My next novel WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY comes out in TWO MONTHS, which means I’m about to get INSUFFERABLE on this app! Pre-order it wherever you get your books (or at the link in my bio), and whip up some pimento cheese while you wait for it to arrive. #bookstagram #pimentocheese #gayguysmakingpimentocheese #pimentocheeseover40
My new novel (which has a GORGEOUS cover of the Medina river) comes out on June 16, 2026! You can preorder it now!! WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY is about a group of new friends (and potential new enemies???) getting to know each other at the ~queer table~ of a ~very straight~ wedding weekend in beautiful central Texas. Thanks to every friend who’s ever invited me to their wedding. I PROMISE I’ve loved them all.
FOUR SQUARES is out now in paperback! Hilaria Baldwin filmed her book promo one block away from where one of my characters (Carson) lives, walking directly towards Julius’, so this is actually quite appropriate. Im feeling good, I’m feeling good. It’s been a busy week.
(This was the sixth take. What a nightmare.)
I’ve been very lucky to have watched Dan bring this book come to life over the past few years—from an idea to early drafts and, finally, a brilliant final product—so being able to chat with him for its big launch at McNally Jackson is a dream! I love THE TALENT and can’t wait for everyone to be as blown away by it as I was. To steal from Melissa Leo, CONSIDER seeing us in three weeks!!!!!
👀New Pop Pantheon👀
@whoweekly ’s @lindseyweber and @bobbyfinger return to Pop Pantheon to discuss one of pop’s most perplexing but enduring workhorses, Meghan Trainor.
Louie, Lindsey and Bobby chart Meghan’s origins in Nantucket, her early self-produced albums, and her breakthrough with 2014’s sleeper hit turned number one record turned peak thinkpiece fodder, the big booty anthem “All About That Bass.”
From there, they discuss Meghan’s 2015 number one debut album, Title, which produced the triple platinum “Dear Future Husband”, the TRL-era R&B homage of 2016’s Thank You and Meghan’s unlikely later-era TikTok hits, including 2022’s viral smash “Made You Look.”
Finally, they rank Meghan Trainor in the Official Pop Pantheon.
🔗links to listen in bio.
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🎨 by @synthetic_animal
FOUR SQUARES is out TODAY! Thank you to everyone who helped make this book possible: my fabulous agent @kate_mckean , my editors @gabymongelli and @ashdidio , all the wonderful people at @putnambooks , including @kristenrosebianco , @shina812 and of course @sallyjkim , not to mention @hjonesanderson and @sthrbrt for letting me steal their son’s name for my protagonist, Artie Anderson. And where would I be without @joshfjelstad ? I don’t really want to think about that, but I certainly wouldn’t be here.
This book is about queer friendship, getting older, and the importance of finding yourself and your people, and I sincerely hope you love it as much as I do.
