Dara Hyde

Senior Agent, Hill Nadell Literary Agency @hillnadell. Culture consumer, lover of sunshine, trying my best. Query via agency website.

[Dara Hyde @dzhyde]

Welcome new followers! Here's a bit of what to expect in my feed, told only through Katharine Hepburn gifs.

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USA. A potluck. Everyone brings one dish. I have never been so out of my depth in my life.

I was invited to a gathering. "Just bring a dish to share," they said. Simple words. I did not sleep for three days.

Because I understood instantly what this was. A summit. Every guest, a lord of their own house, arriving bearing tribute. And tribute is judged. Tribute is ranked. To bring the wrong dish to the wrong table is to fall in standing before your peers, possibly forever.

So I prepared. I made my finest dish. I carried it to the door with two hands and a straight back, braced for the weighing of my worth.

The first lord arrived with a bowl of orange powder noodles. Macaroni and cheese. The crowd roared. He set it down at the center of the table. The CENTER. I noted this. The center is the seat of power.

The second lord brought a tower of small brown meat orbs in red sauce. "Meatballs," he announced, like a man laying down a sword. They were placed beside the macaroni. A strong showing. An alliance, perhaps.

I studied the table like a battlefield map. Potato salad: defensive, reliable, old money. A vegetable tray, untouched, clearly a hostage offering no one expected to win. And then a woman walked in, raised a flat box overhead, and the entire room turned and CHEERED.

Pizza. She had brought pizza. Store-bought. Still in the box.

I was stunned. She had not even cooked it. And yet the people rejoiced as if a king had entered. I revised my entire understanding of the hierarchy on the spot. Effort means nothing here. Only the roar of the crowd decides rank.

I placed my dish down, humbly, near the napkins. A peasant's position. I accepted it.

And then a man tapped my shoulder, pointed at my dish, and said the words that changed everything.

"Whoa, did you make this? This is amazing. Everybody, you GOTTA try this guy's thing."

The room turned. The room came. The room ATE. My dish vanished in ninety seconds. The pizza woman herself took a second helping and looked at me with respect.

I had won the summit. By accident. With a dish I placed by the napkins.

I understand nothing about this country. I have never been happier. I am hosting the next one.

So tell me, America.

Is there a system to the potluck? A secret rank? A hidden law?

I have decided there is not.

You just bring the thing you love, and everyone eats it, and somehow everybody wins.

It is the most insane way to hold a war.

I will fight in every single one.

[Superfan Podcast @SpfanPodcast]

The sleek elegance of Spider-Man’s black costume. The snarling rage of Punisher. The sweeping, cinematic scope of Secret Wars. Mike Zeck’s art is a joy to behold.

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[Hill Nadell Literary Agency @HillNadell]

Congratulations to @KaylaRWhitaker: RETURNS AND EXCHANGES is a @USATODAY Best-selling Book!

Out now from @randomhouse

#returnsandexchanges #bestseller

[Dara Hyde @dzhyde]

@Dave_White 😂

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Publishers Bid Farewell to Stephen Colbert https://t.co/892QMUWh9N

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Pizza Hut Reading Challenge is back with Book It! For kids Pre-k - 6th grade!

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[𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓬 𝓒𝓻𝓾𝓼𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼™ @ComicCrusaders]

Unico is back! UNICO: LOST (Vol. 3) by Samuel Sattin In Shops July! @Scholastic https://t.co/p8TG7dhsUP

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When Pigs Fly and other Barnyard Idioms https://t.co/GU6INpWXPU via @MerriamWebster

[Julia Turner @juliaturner]

L.A. Material is HIRING. We're looking for an excellent and organized editor.

Come help us build something rigorous and revelatory and original and fun! We're having the best time.

Details here:

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New essay from @KaylaRWhitaker for @lithub!

https://t.co/3P4JQjDeGC

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Happy Pub Day to RETURNS AND EXCHANGES by @KaylaRWhitaker !

This is a sweeping, funny, poignant novel about one Kentucky family's rise and fall throughout the '80s.

Out now from @randomhouse

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

Texas Book Festival has announced the launch of Burro Libro Press, a new publishing imprint dedicated to debut literary fiction by emerging writers with strong ties to Texas, created in partnership with Deep Vellum Publishing, Letterpress PLAY, and the Tejemos Foundation. https://t.co/eqUJjBird4

[Superfan Podcast @SpfanPodcast]

This week on the Superfan Podcast, Elsa Charretier talks about her love of game based dog training!

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[Hill Nadell Literary Agency @HillNadell]

Congratulations to @KristenKiesling and Rye Hickman: THE HARROWING is a 2026-27 Black-Eyed Susan Book Awards nominee, Graphic Novels High School category! @MASLMD

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Thanks to Ilona Bannister for recommending @acruzwriter Angie Cruz's HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER on @CrimeReads in "The Power of the Stranger as Plot: 5 books to recommend!"

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Our first look at @PaigeBraddock's KITTY CAPERS: A Peanut, Butter & Crackers Story!

In this fifth installment of the award-winning series, Butter wants some quiet time alone. Away from dogs. But is this a case of be careful what you wish for?

Out this July from Nosy Crow!

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...and catch David Lebovitz on tour!

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THE VIOLENCE by Adriana E. Ramírez @zadri is Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Selection for May! Read Roxane Gay's introduction to the book here:

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Have you preordered your copy of David McGlynn's novel LIBERAL ARTS yet?

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