Essays
“People Paid Me to Cuddle Them,” Esquire, June 2023
“My Novel Is a Love Letter My Mother Can’t Read,” The Atlantic, May 2023
News
Belletrist Book Club Pick, January 2024
“Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2023,” Electric Literature, December 2023
“The Best Debut Books of 2023,” Debutiful, November 2023
“The 100 Must-Read Books of 2023,” TIME, November 2023
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Features & Interviews
“Writer Jenny Xie on Finding the Time to Create,” The Creative Independent, January 2024
“Interview with Jenny Xie,” The Missouri Review, November 2023
“Tell Me About Writing Authentic Relationships,” Tell Me About X podcast, October 2023
“Jenny Xie Interviewed by Jen Lue,” BOMB, September 2023
“9 New Books We Recommend This Week,” The New York Times, September 2023
“Jenny Xie’s ‘Holding Pattern’ Examines a Fraught Mother-Daughter Relationship,” OC Register, July 2023
The Bookshop Podcast, July 2023
Otherppl with Brad Listi Podcast, July 2023
“The Right Touch,” Alta, July 2023
“Review: A Millennial Navigates Loneliness, Cuddling and a Bounce Back to Mom in Oakland,” Datebook, San Francisco Chronicle, July 2023
“Searching for Intimacy in the Gig Economy,” Electric Literature, July 2023
“Holding Pattern ft. Cuddling as Healing,” Feminist Book Club, July 2023
Pick of the Month, Good Housekeeping Book Club, July 2023
“Hot Beach Reads,” Good Housekeeping, July/August 2023
“Novel Occupations,” Vogue, Summer 2023
“Two Novels Explore the Complexities of Parent-Child Relationships,” NPR, Book of the Day, June 2023
“Cuddling My Way Through a Quarter-Life Crisis,” Electric Literature, June 2023
“Jenny Xie’s Debut Novel, ‘Holding Pattern,’ Is a Mother-Daughter Coming-of-Age Story,” Shondaland, June 2023
“Jenny Xie’s First Book,” Noihsaf, June 2023
“Jenny Xie on Crying at Books and Organizing Your Shelves,” Boston Globe, June 2023
Complicated Conversations Series, Pop Fiction Women podcast, June 2023
“Dumped by Her Boyfriend, She Takes a Job Cuddling Others,” The New York Times, June 2023
“Mother-Daughter Relationships Are Fraught. Jenny Xie Explores How,” NPR, Main Character of the Day, June 2023
“Jenny Xie Tackles a Fraught Mother-Daughter Relationship in Novel ‘Holding Pattern,’” NPR, All Things Considered, June 2023
“5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers,” Lit Hub, June 2023
“Writers on How Museums Fuel Their Creative Work,” Brooklyn Museum, May 2023
Review, Booklist, Print, May 2023
Review, Kirkus Reviews, April 2023
“Here Are This Year’s National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Honorees,” Today.com, April 2023
Review, Publisher’s Weekly, April 2023