Violet Kupersmith
@vmkupersmith
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Author of BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY and THE FRANGIPANI HOTEL. Year of the Snake.
Joined March 2014
Very grateful for the opportunity to write about talking poop heads and the brilliance of Bora Chung for the NYT. Cursed Bunny is worth the nightmares 🐇
“The talking poop head is going to come back, and each time it will have grown larger and more sinister.”
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This Violet 💜s NoViolet!
GLORY by NoViolet Bulawayo is “manifoldly clever… brilliant… This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —@vmkupersmith via @nytimesbooks Discover more about the book longlisted for the 2022 @TheBookerPrizes here: https://t.co/EKRiLaCWLE
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I could not put @vmkupersmith's book down, and I have to tell everyone I know. What the @IowaPublicRadio Staff is reading this summer -- via @pedaltotheMadel 📚📚📚 https://t.co/iYsvA5EeRo
iowapublicradio.org
Summer reading picks and recommendations from the team at Iowa Public Radio.
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For those of you waiting for the audiobook of the @WomensPrize longlisted novel Build Your House Around My Body by @vmkupersmith - GREAT NEWS - it's now available from our very own imprint, Oneworld Audio 🎧🎧 https://t.co/IYMKd0TZfs
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an unimaginable honor to be on this list with these incredible women. have died from too much happiness. am now a small vietnamese american ghost.
On #IWD2022, we are over the moon to reveal this year’s brilliant longlist! Congratulations to all of our longlisted authors! Discover the 16 books in the running for the 2022 #WomensPrize here: https://t.co/RT2z6wYrwQ
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Happy International Women's Day and congratulations to @vmkupersmith whose novel BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY (@OneworldNews) has been longlisted for the @WomensPrize 🎉 This stunning debut also happens to be our subscription choice for March! #IWD
https://t.co/dy9wohA04b
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With the @WomensPrize longlist announced earlier today, AND with free shipping from @bookshop_org_UK for the whole longlist, what better treat this #IWD2022 than to pick up Build Your House Around My Body by @vmkupersmith
https://t.co/ZiSV5LABlg
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9 MacDowell Fellows named 2022 @NEAarts Fellows! @dewaine_farria (21), @melissafebos (4x 10-21), @elliottholt (14, 17), @vmkupersmith (14), @a_serizawa (21), @_Jen_Silverman (12, 13, 22), @Lvandenberg (16), Paula Bohince (04, 06), & Deborah Garfinkle (97)! https://t.co/Y41cPM2VaH
arts.gov
NEA announces first round of FY22 funding totaling over $33 million nationwide
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Heartiest congratulations to our brilliant @NEAarts fellow, @vmkupersmith!! Look at her glow: https://t.co/oogPlw4F1P
arts.gov
Profile of 2022 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose recipient Violet Kupersmith.
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@Mondyboy reviews BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY by @vmkupersmith: “ I had no such trouble with immersing myself in Violet Kupersmith’s wonderful debut novel.”
locusmag.com
Build Your House Around My Body, Violet Kupersmith (Random House 978-0-81299-332-5, $27.00, 400pp, hc) July 2021. Violet Kupersmith’s debut novel, Build Your House Around My Body, is a beautifully …
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The team at @ForeignPolicy named George Saunders' A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN and @vmkupersmith's BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY as two of the best books they read in 2021!
foreignpolicy.com
A roundup of some of our favorite reads this year.
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She's notable! 🎉
Ahhh! So thrilling to see BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY by @vmkupersmith and OH WILLIAM! By @LizStrout on this list! 100 Notable Books of 2021 - The New York Times
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We've got two perfect reads for the spooky season 👻🍁🎃 Build Your House Around My Body by @vmkupersmith 🐍 https://t.co/whfl9pyrlV The Dust Never Settles by @KLickorishQuinn 👻 OUT TOMORROW! https://t.co/vXGSUoClYg
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What a superhonor to be included on this shortlist!
We're pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2021 First Novel Prize! Congratulations to Priyanka Champaneri, Linda Rui Feng, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Violet Kupersmith, Patricia Lockwood, Jackie Polzin, and Kirstin Valdez Quade. Learn more here: https://t.co/VKzXjnW2al
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“This novel is reminiscent of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. It is a measure of @vmkupersmith’s achievement that Build Your House Around My Body can stand proudly in such exalted company. https://t.co/EgjDR0RLdB via @newint
newint.org
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; Silicon Values by Jillian C York; Abolishing the Police edited by Koshka Duff.
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(violet spontaneously combusts)
@wayne_halstead Thank you Wayne. I'll nominate this holiday reading back at you: BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY by @vmkupersmith. Fiendishly impressive first novel.
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11 new books recommended by critics and editors at The New York Times.
nytimes.com
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Build Your House Around My BookClub! 🐍 My talk with @RobertsEmma and @Karahpreiss of @Belletristbooks on spooks + squid + smoke ghosts is now available on @bookclubdotcom Sign up by Aug 6 to get your first month free ✨
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