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