HAPPENINGS

Beautyland is a monumental accomplishment, a shimmering masterpiece from an author with talent to spare.” — Michael Schaub for The Boston Globe

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Fall 2024 Events

Event requests may be sent to Sarah Haekel at sarah.haeckel@picadorusa.com

Please stay tuned! Beautyland’s paperback release will be in March 2025 and MHB’s second book of stories, Exit Zero, will be published in April 2025

November 17th, 12:15pm CST: Texas Book Festival, “Alienation and Ambition: Young Women Fighting to Belong,” with Rita Bullwinkel and Jill Meyers, Austin, TX

November 24th, 2pm EST: Miami Book Fair, “The Joys & Heartbreak of Youth,” with Claire Oshetsky and Stephen Hundley, Miami, FL

NEWS

Beautyland has been named one of The Best Books of 2024 (So Far) by The New York Times, Time Magazine, Goodreads, Elle Magazine, Esquire, Bookshop.org, and WBEZ Chicago!

Beautyland has been named one of Esquire’s 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Editor of The New York Times Book Review Gilbert Cruz discusses Beautyland here.

“In Beautyland, an Alien Shows Us What it Means To Be Human, Bustle Magazine, by Charlotte Owens

“In Beautyland, an Italian American Extraterrestrial is Humanity’s Sharpest Scribe,” Electric Literature Magazine, by Lucie Shelley

The New York Times, Alexandra Jacobs for the Arts section

The Chicago Review of Books, Shayne Terry

The Boston Globe, Michael Schaub

BOMB Magazine, Hilary Leichter

The Brooklyn Rail, Madison Ford

Booklist, starred review, Annie Bostrom

Kirkus, starred review

Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

Beautyland has been excerpted in Recommended Reading, with an introduction by Thomas Morris

Beautyland has been included in the approval matrix in New York Magazine