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AdWeek interviewed me (on camera) about the differences between writing commercials and writing fiction.

October 3, 2013 is the U.K. publication date of You Are One of Them. Blackfriars Books, a digital imprint of Little, Brown, will publish the book in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. 

Reese Okyong Kwon interviewed me for The Millions.

The Toronto Star says: “Elliott Holt’s output prior to this terrific debut consisted of a number of short stories, one of which won the prestigious Pushcart Prize in 2011. For years she worked as a copywriter in glamour spots such as New York, London and Moscow. And while ad agencies rarely function as farm teams for… Read more »

On May 30, 2013, Elliott Holt and Michael Cunningham discussed Holt’s novel at the Center for Fiction in New York. Watch the video here. 

Briefly noted in The New Yorker (July 29 issue): “Holt’s beguiling début reimagines the story of Samantha Smith, the ten-year-old American girl who, in 1983, started a correspondence with the Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov. In Holt’s novel, the Smith character, named Jennifer Jones, moves into a house across the street from the book’s narrator, Sarah… Read more »

“Holt’s wonderful novel “You Are One of Them” beautifully compresses and expands time, place and the boundaries of the self.”

“Holt has found inventive ways to use language that suggests the porousness of identity, the correspondence between self and other, neighbor and foreigner, you and them. Her ingenuity brings distinction to this confident, crafty first novel.“