“Beautyland is a monumental accomplishment, a shimmering masterpiece from an author with talent to spare.” — Michael Schaub for The Boston Globe
Spring 2025 Events
March 22nd, 2025: Pasadena Festival of Women Authors, Pasadena, CA
March 25th, 2025: Beautyland paperback publication date
March 27th, 2025: Beautyland UK publication date, Chatto & Windus, Vintage UK
March 26th–29th, 2025: AWP Writers Conference & Bookfair, Los Angeles, CA
April 18th, 2025, 6:30pm EST: Northern Spy Reading Series, Left Bank Ciders, reading, with Ted Dodson, Catskill, NY
April 19th, 2025, 3pm EST: My Documents by Kevin Nguyen, launch reading, Rough Draft, Kingston, NY
April 22nd, 2025: Exit Zero Launch, with Vinson Cunningham, Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY
April 25th, 2025, 6pm EST: Reading and talk with Piyali Bhattacharya, Barnes and Noble, Philadelphia, PA
April 29th, 2025, 7pm EST: Tables of Contents reading with Sigrid Nunez and Daniel Saldaña París, Brooklyn, NY
NEWS
Charles Yu interviewed MHB for BOMB Magazine’s Spring issue, 2025
“Flowers and Their Meanings,” a new short story, published on The Baffler online
“Viola in Midwinter,” originally published in Bennington Review, was selected for Best American Short Stories 2024
Beautyland is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award for Fiction and has been selected for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize longlist
Beautyland is a New York Times Notable Book of 2024 and one of The Best Books of 2024 by The New York Times, Electric Literature, Time Magazine, Lit Hub, Kirkus, Goodreads, Elle Magazine, Esquire, and Bookshop.org
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
