Torrey Peters

1 month ago | lithub.com | Torrey Peters

Torrey Peters’s novel, Stag Dance, is available now from Random House, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, alternate careers, and more. Article continues after advertisement*Which of your characters is your favorite? The Babe in Stag Dance is my favorite character.

1 month ago | adastrastories.substack.com | Casey Plett |Akwaeke Emezi |Torrey Peters |Geena Rocero

[Dear readers: This issue contains discussions of transphobia.] In her 1993 Nobel Lecture in Literature, Toni Morrison said: “Oppressive language does more than represent violence, it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge, it limits knowledge.” This quote plays on repeat in my mind (as do many of her other reflections on literature and fascism—which you can find compiled in The Source of Self-Regard), especially these days as “excused” rhetoric and behavior grow...

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer |Sarah Harman |Laurie Woolever |Torrey Peters

Merry daylight saving time, to all who celebrate! Between the later evenings, milder breezes and prodigious quantities of mud, the oncoming Ides of March often promises hope (for most, at least) and a literally brighter world — all of which just means more daylight for reading, duh. It's a good time, in other words, to neglect your ponderous backlog just a little longer and cast a longing gaze toward the hotly anticipated books publishing this week.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Torrey Peters

STAG DANCE: A Novel and Stories, by Torrey PetersIn an 1817 letter to his brothers, the poet John Keats defined the concept of negative capability as "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." This is a quintessential trait of a great writer, who must know everything but create characters who know nothing, or only the wrong things, or different things on different pages.

1 month ago | time.com | Shannon Carlin |Torrey Peters

By Shannon CarlinMarch 1, 2025 7:00 AM ESTSpring is just around the corner. As the days get longer, you’ll want to spend those extra hours of sunlight with a good book. This month’s must-reads include astronaut and activist Amanda Nguyen’s debut memoir, Torrey Peters’ experimental follow-up to her 2021 debut bestseller Detransition, Baby, and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first new novel since winning the Nobel Prize four years ago.