Temim Fruchter
@temim.bsky.social
Author of CITY OF LAUGHTER (Grove Atlantic) | queer non-binary anti-Zionist Jewish writer + gentleman | Co-host Pete's Reading Series | Brooklyn
Levels unlocked in therapy today: unironically quoted Grey’s Anatomy and explained “tenderqueer”
September 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Levels unlocked in therapy today: unironically quoted Grey’s Anatomy and explained “tenderqueer”
WE'RE BACK and we're 25! 😍
Pete's Reading Series is ✨25✨! On 9/18, come celebrate 🍾 our very Brooklyn reading series' bday with a killer lineup of Brooklyn-born alums: Naima Coster, Xochitl Gonzalez, Rachel Lyon, & Soraya Palmer! W/hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social + books from @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
WE'RE BACK and we're 25! 😍
I am so glad to get to be in conversation about this with these brilliant favorite writers in a couple of weeks in LA. Come dream with us? ✨
March 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I am so glad to get to be in conversation about this with these brilliant favorite writers in a couple of weeks in LA. Come dream with us? ✨
Hi! Any anti-Zionist Jewish writers out there attending AWP, not full up on panels, and potentially interested in last-minute joining one?
February 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hi! Any anti-Zionist Jewish writers out there attending AWP, not full up on panels, and potentially interested in last-minute joining one?
Tonight! Hudson Valley friends, hope to see you there! 💛
February 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Tonight! Hudson Valley friends, hope to see you there! 💛
I am gay and and a good time and available for your AWP offsites.
February 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I am gay and and a good time and available for your AWP offsites.
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One week from tonight! Come bask in some true mid-winter brilliance as Sarah Chihaya, Erin Crosby Eckstine, @emilyschultz.bsky.social , & Tyler Wetherall grace the Pete's stage! With your trusty hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social , & books for sale via @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
One week from tonight! Come bask in some true mid-winter brilliance as Sarah Chihaya, Erin Crosby Eckstine, @emilyschultz.bsky.social , & Tyler Wetherall grace the Pete's stage! With your trusty hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social , & books for sale via @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Dispatches from my boyfriend
January 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Dispatches from my boyfriend
So grateful to have been a part of this beautiful project. ❤️
Day 8 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: my wonderful partner at @petesreading.bsky.social, novelist @temim.bsky.social, on cultivating radical imagination
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January 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
So grateful to have been a part of this beautiful project. ❤️
I'm so looking forward to this!
There’s not one way through this morass but as a prof of vulnerable students (nonbinary, non-American, non-white, non-rich), I can help them recognize their worth. As such: hosting a Queer Lit Panel @ Drew Univ. on 2/19 w talents Isle McElroy, @temim.bsky.social & Meg Fernandes. ALL ARE WELCOME! 🦄
January 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm so looking forward to this!
City of Laughter paperback launch! 1/14, 6:30pm at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn. Come for drinks, snacks, goss, and juicy dinner-party style stories from Julia Phillips, @sabs.bsky.social , and @thanki.bsky.social ! Tickets here it's gonna be FUN!
Dinner Party Gossip! A City of Laughter Paperback Launch
City of Laughter, the debut novel by Brooklyn author Temim Fruchter, comes out in paperback on January 14th, 2025.
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December 16, 2024 at 2:41 PM
City of Laughter paperback launch! 1/14, 6:30pm at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn. Come for drinks, snacks, goss, and juicy dinner-party style stories from Julia Phillips, @sabs.bsky.social , and @thanki.bsky.social ! Tickets here it's gonna be FUN!
do you ever just make the most perfect little salad?
December 5, 2024 at 5:56 PM
do you ever just make the most perfect little salad?
My workplace is hiring! Come be on my team! It's a very humane workplace and they have been very supportive of my writing life. This is a job to apply for if you have extensive administrative/executive assistant (5 yrs) + supervisory (2 yrs) experience. bellwether.org/careers/?gh_...
Careers | Bellwether
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December 5, 2024 at 2:51 PM
My workplace is hiring! Come be on my team! It's a very humane workplace and they have been very supportive of my writing life. This is a job to apply for if you have extensive administrative/executive assistant (5 yrs) + supervisory (2 yrs) experience. bellwether.org/careers/?gh_...
Two weeks from tonight at @petesreading.bsky.social ! With your trusty hosts, me and @briangresko.bsky.social ! Seriously, just look at this lineup. 😍 See you there?
Hello there friends. We're new around here, but we've been going in Brooklyn for over 20 years, and we're excited to finish up another year with this absolute KILLER lineup on 12/19: @porochista.bsky.social , @jessrow.bsky.social , @lenavalencia.bsky.social , and Luis Jaramillo! See you there!
December 5, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Two weeks from tonight at @petesreading.bsky.social ! With your trusty hosts, me and @briangresko.bsky.social ! Seriously, just look at this lineup. 😍 See you there?
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It’s Small Business Saturday and I’m happy to recommend books to anyone who promises to buy them from an indie shop or Bookshop. To start, my favorite novel of 2023 is in paperback now. bookshop.org/p/books/ente...
Enter Ghost a book by Isabella Hammad
Winner of the Aspen Words Literary Prize Winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the...
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November 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM
It’s Small Business Saturday and I’m happy to recommend books to anyone who promises to buy them from an indie shop or Bookshop. To start, my favorite novel of 2023 is in paperback now. bookshop.org/p/books/ente...
Maybe you are thinking "wow that giant chaotic family meal gave me a great idea for a chaotic scene in the novel or story I am drafting!" If so, maybe you want to sign up for this @tinhouse.bsky.social virtual craft intensive on 12/8 to write parties with me! Register here.
Fall Craft Intensive: Temim Fruchter - Tin House
In an interview about his book Real Life, Brandon Taylor calls the dinner party “...one of literature’s great locked rooms.” In an interview in The Atlantic, Alexander Chee says that there’s a “chaos ...
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November 30, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Maybe you are thinking "wow that giant chaotic family meal gave me a great idea for a chaotic scene in the novel or story I am drafting!" If so, maybe you want to sign up for this @tinhouse.bsky.social virtual craft intensive on 12/8 to write parties with me! Register here.
She, too, is king.
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
She, too, is king.
Please make these calls today. Let’s flood their phone lines for an arms embargo ahead of tomorrow’s historic vote. www.jvp.org/stopweapons
November 19, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Please make these calls today. Let’s flood their phone lines for an arms embargo ahead of tomorrow’s historic vote. www.jvp.org/stopweapons
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If you see your House Rep on this list, call them tomorrow morning and demand a No vote on HR 9495.
Yes, we just voted on this. But now, they don’t need a super majority so w/ all these yeses, it will pass, putting any nonprofit at risk based on “a unilateral accusation of wrongdoing” -ACLU
Yes, we just voted on this. But now, they don’t need a super majority so w/ all these yeses, it will pass, putting any nonprofit at risk based on “a unilateral accusation of wrongdoing” -ACLU
November 17, 2024 at 11:28 PM
If you see your House Rep on this list, call them tomorrow morning and demand a No vote on HR 9495.
Yes, we just voted on this. But now, they don’t need a super majority so w/ all these yeses, it will pass, putting any nonprofit at risk based on “a unilateral accusation of wrongdoing” -ACLU
Yes, we just voted on this. But now, they don’t need a super majority so w/ all these yeses, it will pass, putting any nonprofit at risk based on “a unilateral accusation of wrongdoing” -ACLU