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Deb Olin Unferth

@debolinunferth

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📚🌱 7 books including EARTH 7 (June 2026) and Barn 8

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I feel really honored and lucky to be able to say I received a spectacular review in the New York Times Book Review! I feel surrounded by goodness. Aging is the best thing that ever happened to me. Aging and Lucy. Aging, Lucy, Matt, and everyone else. Earth 7 lives. by @debolinunferth

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Such a supreme joy to spend a couple days as the inaugural Vane Creative Artist at Hamline University. Beautiful community and campus and people! And beloved Patrick Cottrell is an alum (!) and they flew him in to interview me (how did they know how much that would mean to me?). by @debolinunferth

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Humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe in these two novels that explore what might happen when Earth is not our home.

Hear Deb Olin Unferth and Alexandra Oliva discuss their books Earth 7 and The Radiant Dark at the Southern Festival of Books on October 17 at 12:00 PM. Find the full schedule at the link in our bio.

#sofestbooks26 #bookfestival #nashvillethingstodo #nashville #fictionbooks #sciencefiction by @debolinunferth

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I have taken hardly any photos of this period of my life, this Earth 7 period, though probably it’s better that I just lived it. My dad reading a play surrounded by joyful admirers (thank you @mdbell79 ! It meant everything), my editor and I 3 books deep; another sun dropping into a smear of cloud; new reviews of Earth 7 coming in, late, the Times Literary Supplement (thank you, Charlie Lee, whoever you are!) and a sci-fi magazine (Locus 💖). All I know is 🌏 lives and I’m on it, turning. by @debolinunferth

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Look at these riches. I’m reading Lucy Corin’s new work of total genius!! And I just got the new Paris Review, can’t wait to read, the only journal I read cover to cover, it has gotten so good. Then: who is jealous that I have Avigale Sharp’s forthcoming collection? Astra House is rocking it. And I’m rereading this beauty by Jamil, every story is a rhythmic heartbreaking work of deep art. by @debolinunferth

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Happy 15th (!!) birthday to @otherppl.podcast ! Brad Listi has been making this beautiful, profound, generous podcast all these years, interviewing hundreds of writers, longform, over an hour of letting us tell the stories of our lives and our philosophies of art and craft. Brad is brilliant and patient and curious, an artist in his own right and a fascinating person. And the archive of this podcast is a work of art and love and is a true service. I’m mentioning here an episode I’ll never forget, one with @i__rojascontreras where she talks about her incredible memoir with such grace and surprise. I highly encourage you to give it a listen. When she talks about the origin of the book’s name, I challenge you not to cry. Thank you, Brad, and happy birthday @otherppl.podcast 🌎💖⭐️ by @debolinunferth

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I’m so glad I sank into this incredible heavy-lift essay by genius radical left thinker Ben Kunkel! Highly highly recommend this one! It’s a sort of review of the failures of utopian globalism, an analysis of the international trend toward economic nationalism and new opportunities for the radical left. There’s some humor in here, maybe a little too much French, and some amazing deep thought about the future and where we are or could be headed. (I especially appreciated the terrifying final bit about climate change.) I’m reading a lot of 1k thought pieces these days that don’t challenge me. This one was long, challenging, exactly what I want to be reading.🌎💖 by @debolinunferth

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Heading out for a few more events 🌎🙏Tomorrow in Austin with my dear Mary Helen. Then 9/16 at Changing Hands in Phoenix with brilliant @mdbell79 ! Then 9/18 Tucson (@graywolfpress haven), then 9/24 Wash U with some true greats including @ethannosowsky , then 9/28 Bates (@entertheanthony !) then 10/1 Hamline U with @patrickmcottrell (⭐️!). All events are linked in bio. Love you to pieces. 💖 by @debolinunferth

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Introducing the Vane Creative Artist Series featuring Deb Olin Unferth, September 30 + October 1 at Hamline University. For a description of all of the events and access to registration, go to HAMLINE.EDU/VANE. *special gratitude to @ehaidle and @paul.d.mascot for the use of the beautiful artwork from Earth 7. taken in Hamline University by @debolinunferth

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Sometimes this is book tour. Thank you, @lighthousewriters and other beloveds🌎🙏 by @debolinunferth

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Story Time with Deb Olin Unferth.

In this clip, @debolinunferth reads from her new novel EARTH 7 (@graywolfpress), a wildly inventive work of eco-fiction about love, survival, technology, and the fate of the planet.

You can also hear my full conversation with Deb in Episode 1049 of Otherppl.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

#DebOlinUnferth #Earth7 #StoryTime #LiteraryFiction #ClimateFiction #Writers #writing #books #OtherpplPodcast by @debolinunferth

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