Emily Doyle

My first two books—PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BODY and ENCOUNTER—have found a home. Typing that sentence is surreal because a few years ago I was walking a very different path, dreaming of finding my way to life as a writer. And now, with the help of many people, I’m living that life

In which I work a Tennessee tent revival… and go long on devils, ghouls, spirit possession, deliverance, showbiz, satanic panics, the Apostolic Age, the Therapeutic Age, mediated religion, and (even, maybe) try my own hand at an exorcism or two… harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

The specific joy of basking in the brilliance of a friend’s book 😭 Congratulations on TWO SIGNATURES, @desertclothes

Our August issue is online, with William T. Vollmann on Korea's DMZ, @skestenbaum on TikTok exorcisms, Ellyn Gaydos on granite carving, @karpmj on the American left, Jonathan Lethem on museums, @hishamjmatar on not knowing enough, Christian Wiman on Seamus Heaney, and more. harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power."

@andrewbertaina This would scare the shit out of me.

Mom drops this text Me: 😅

Submit to us! I want to read your poems :)

This interview is such a gift (especially if you, like me, JUST finished the mind- and body-altering ALL FOURS). Thank you for this, @LilyFelz and Debbie Ou!

@LAReviewofBooks @LilyFelz @mirandajuly Excellent interview!

"You don’t have to be articulate, which I think is important—to let characters be dumb and stumbling. That is what art can do that talking about art can’t." @lilyfelz and Debbie Ou talk with @MirandaJuly about her new novel, "All Fours." lareviewofbooks.org/article/youre-…

@riggstah The revolution starts now!!

@e_m_doyle hell yes we need a sandwich reclamation

read the other day that sandwiches are a product of capitalism and tbh everything makes sense to me now

@Susanshepherd Ah!! Congrats Susan!!

Loved getting to co-write this piece with @njooyounkim for @poetswritersinc! And love getting to be issue buddies with the fabulous @jwongbaxter 💜

@JessieRenM There was intrigue, Jessie!

I forgot to update y’all! Allow me to unveil the sender: the iconic writer and thoughtful friend @JessieRenM

@SashaVasilyuk @JessieRenM Truly such a treasure!

@e_m_doyle @JessieRenM Oooooh Jessie is the BEST!

Such an honor to witness all the love for @alex_esp and his brand new novel THE SONS OF EL REY (also I won this ornament guy in the raffle and I will protect and treasure him)

@BarlowAdams Happiest bday, dear Barlow! I got to attend a writing mentor’s book launch today and there was so much support and love in the room. It made me happy.

It’s my birthday and I’d love it if you shared with me one thing that made you extremely happy this past year. It could be an anything: good news, a story, a meme, a dessert or an outfit that made you feel amazing. Anything. So long as it made you happy. We need more happy.

Thank you to @LitMagPress (and the ghost of Chekhov) for giving a home to the short story I’ve held closest for the longest, and to @nycmidnight for inspiring my very first draft. There’s so much emotion in the Arizona desert, of this I will forever be convinced. 🌵

To write violence, with visceral specificity so it is its most wicked & terrible, into a story handled by a skilled writer is to preserve life. “One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.” Jane Austen

@hello_cfc Very much agree!!

@e_m_doyle Omg this is amazing.

Who sent this to me?? 😭♥️ It didn’t come with a note. Reveal yourself for you have made me cry!! (And yes I’m one of those freaks who color coordinates her books, leave me alone)