About
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Julia Holmes is a writer and editor, whose work has appeared in the New Republic, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her wife and daughter.
Selected Articles
The Great River, The Food & Environment Reporting Network
The Incomparable Joy of Misery, Fatherly
A Deep Dive With Photographer and Fisherman Corey Arnold, Fatherly
Workers of the Word Unite: On Language & Class at the Copy Desk, The New Republic
Sloane Crosley’s Social Climbers, The New Republic
Upstate, and Back in Time, The New York Times Magazine
Travel: Texas’ Big Bend, Men’s Journal
Book
Cover art by Robyn O’Neil
Meeks
“Meeks is a wild, woolly, sly, gentle and wry first novel. . . . It’s a book whose singular vision keeps returning to me at odd moments, one of the most original and readable novels that’s come my way in a long time.”
—The New York Times Book Review | Editor’s Choice
“The world of Meeks is cruel, cold, and weird, suffocating in laws so strange they very nearly resemble our own. Julia Holmes is that rare artist who, with invention and mythology, reveals nothing less than the most secret inner workings of the real world we overlook every day. A masterful debut by a writer of the most forceful originality.”
—Ben Marcus
“The novel is a postmodern parable about American passion and paranoia, like The Great Gatsby as told by Don DeLillo.”
—The New York Observer
“The satire here has plenty of bite, but instead of winking at the reader, Holmes evokes her world with luminous prose.”
—Los Angeles Times