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Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT:
http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
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Honoring the Memory of Alex Pretti —from human rights scholars affiliated with the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts.
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Honoring the Memory of Alex Pretti
Human rights scholars affiliated with the Human Rights Program honor and mourn the life of Alex Pretti.
https://cla.umn.edu/human-rights/news-events/news/honoring-memory-alex-pretti
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Honoring the Memory of Alex Pretti —from human rights scholars affiliated with the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts.
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Honoring the Memory of Alex Pretti
Human rights scholars affiliated with the Human Rights Program honor and mourn the life of Alex Pretti.
https://cla.umn.edu/human-rights/news-events/news/honoring-memory-alex-pretti
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Elizabeth Warren
7 days ago
“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
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Rachel Maddow
10 days ago
"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/liam-detention-ice-minneapolis.html
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
10 days ago
I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
10 days ago
NEW EPISODE: Performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar Jessica Lopez Lyman
@uminnpress.bsky.social
joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to talk about Minnesota’s history with state violence and local resistance.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Jessica Lopez Lyman on the History of State Violence in Minnesota
Interdisciplinary performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar Jessica Lopez Lyman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about Minnesota’s history with state violence and…
https://lithub.com/jessica-lopez-lyman-on-the-history-of-state-violence-in-minnesota/
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Aurora C
11 days ago
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. - James Baldwin
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U of Minnesota Twin Cities AAUP
11 days ago
The UMN Twin Cities AAUP calls on the university to reduce operations on Friday, January 23rd to allow members of the university community the time and space to exercise their fundamental right to free speech on a day of deep importance to our community.
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Day of Truth and Freedom
The following email was sent by the EC to President Cunningham, Provost Ritter, and the Board of Regents on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. Dear President Cunningham, Provost Ritter and Board of...
https://www.umn-tc-aaup.org/day-of-truth-and-freedom.html
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
19 days ago
Noticing even in work meetings that, while most people might end the meeting with "Have a good one" or "See you soon," people in Minneapolis reflexively stay, "Stay safe"
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Benjamin McKean
13 days ago
While many of you are likely yelling "GO INDIANA!" or "GO MIAMI!" I'm yelling "GO AAUP and academic freedom!"
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Ash Chudgar
13 days ago
“Like the agent who slipped on ice, they have misjudged the ground beneath their feet: a state full of ordinary people … who’ve decided that watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin.” ❤️🔥
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floating in lotus position
14 days ago
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
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bowie deschanel
14 days ago
A Minneapolis man died in El Paso after being abducted by ICE
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Man detained in Minneapolis dies in ICE custody in Texas
A man arrested by immigration officials in Minneapolis died in federal detention in Texas.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/18/man-detained-in-minneapolis-dies-in-ice-custody-in-texas?fbclid=IwdGRleAPakw1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR6b04uZQ6FoiarDsJ4KAA0019d5D3fBlQ4BYCxa2SR3dCQFKA1q__GoFOSF_w_aem_A3kAdxdtVXwoAR2doYYNWw
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the spoons are gone and I am now on sporks and fpoons.
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Ian
18 days ago
Please take care of each other, but again, the harm is not necessarily bad harm, because many of our biggest donors are deeply enmeshed in it. Perhaps the harm is more of an opportunity for care and a learning experience."
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Ian
18 days ago
Please take care and be flexible as you navigate difficult but morally ambiguous factors that we can not name. Our community is resilient, but we are resilient about things that we don't necessarily oppose, but respectfully observe and experience.
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Ian
18 days ago
U of M statements right now all read like: "This is a time of great stress and uncertainty. Many community members are concerned about events that we view as neither good or bad but as potentially neutral depending on your perspective.
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Ian
17 days ago
Insomuch as there's a point to these articles, it's worthwhile to note that so many politicians that only represent the Twin Cities are fighting for us (not all, Jacob!) while those who represent the state refuse to draw the line that under no circumstances are you allowed to invade Minneapolis.
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Ian
17 days ago
I love the bait. I gotta have it. A dollar bill attached to a fishing line? All mine. A carrot dangled in front of my face while on a treadmill? Call me Usain Bolt. A delicious cheeseburger under a cardboard box held up by a precarious stick? You know I'm there.
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Laurie Hertzel
17 days ago
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
17 days ago
Highlighting this one in particular because I know that many, many, many Minneapolis-area instructors are struggling with how to make classes that were going to be fully in person work in a hybrid format (to support students who aren’t safe coming to campus).
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
16 days ago
Two things that I have not successfully conveyed to people without deep Minnesota ties are the scale and extent of the ICE occupation (a word I don't use lightly), and likewise of the community resistance.
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
17 days ago
NEW EPISODE: Award-winning writers and longtime friends
@vauhinivara.bsky.social
and Karan Mahajan join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to discuss Vara’s recent New Yorker essay “What If Readers Like AI-Generated Fiction?”
@literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/vauhini-vara...
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Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us
Award-winning writers and longtime friends Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V. V. Ganeshananthan to discuss Vara’s recent New Yorker essay “What If Readers Like AI-G…
https://lithub.com/vauhini-vara-and-karan-mahajan-on-when-ai-tries-to-sound-like-us/
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Walt Whitman
22 days ago
Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
24 days ago
NEW EPISODE: Bestselling and award-winning writer
@matthewpearlauthor.bsky.social
joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to discuss his new novel The Award. Pearl explores imposter syndrome, external validation, and cultural prizes.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Matthew Pearl on What We’ll Do For the Prize
Bestselling and award-winning writer Matthew Pearl joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new novel The Award. Pearl explores the relationship between cultural prizes…
https://lithub.com/matthew-pearl-on-what-well-do-for-the-prize/
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Chris Hayes
about 1 month ago
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
about 2 months ago
NEW EPISODE: Acclaimed fiction writer and long-time creative writing professor Elizabeth McCracken joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to discuss her ninth book and first volume about craft, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Elizabeth McCracken on Writing About Writing, At Last
Acclaimed fiction writer and long-time creative writing professor Elizabeth McCracken joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V. V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her ninth book and first volume about craft,…
https://lithub.com/elizabeth-mccracken-on-writing-about-writing-at-last/
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Apply to work in our great creative writing program! The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) invites applications for the Edelstein-Keller Endowed Visiting Writer Chairship:
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
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Careers
The Visiting Writer Chair will consult closely with, and work under the direction of, the Director and Assistant Director of Creative Writing on Edelstein-Keller annual programming. The programming is facilitated by staff support and agreed upon by the Creative Writing Program faculty.
https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371279
about 2 months ago
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I was delighted to sit down with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and discuss the German language launch of Brotherless Night.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/stimme-aus-s...
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Stimme aus Sri Lankas Diaspora: Die Autorin V.V. Ganeshananthan
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/stimme-aus-sri-lankas-diaspora-die-autorin-v-v-ganeshananthan-100.html
about 2 months ago
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So pleased to see "What We Hunger For," an anthology of diasporic writers on food and longing which I contributed to, featured in Lavender Magazine.
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A Word In Edgewise: Home and Hunger; Loss and Longing | Lavender Magazine
Have you ever travelled in foreign lands? When you do, are you adventurous, sampling the local cuisines, or do you frantically search for something well-kno ...
https://lavendermagazine.com/our-lives/a-word-in-edgewise-home-and-hunger-loss-and-longing/
about 2 months ago
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also still thinking of இலங்கை post-Ditwah. 💔 (what am I working on these days? a series of 💔 posts, apparently, since at present my hands, pretty wrecked this whole fall, will permit.)
about 2 months ago
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Also thinking of the community at Brown, an institution that has undeniably shaped my life despite the fact that I have never taught or studied there, as *so many* of my friends and family and beloved work colleagues have spent time in Providence. 💔
about 2 months ago
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ACLU
about 2 months ago
NEW: We filed a motion to stop the Justice Department from accessing Maryland’s entire voter file as part of their effort to create a national voter database. We've now taken legal action in eight states to protect voters' sensitive information from being weaponized by the Trump administration.
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rob reiner made so much art that I loved. thinking of his community. 💔
about 2 months ago
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can someone explain what is going on between martin bakery and marino's bakery in toronto? inquiring tamil minds outside the GTO would like to know—
#muttonrolls
about 2 months ago
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Megan Giddings
about 2 months ago
Please come work with us CNF writers! It is very cold but the food and community are great
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Excited to see this important story in Tamil and also receiving award recognition! Congratulations to Shoba Sakthi and
@ezi.asokan.org
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about 2 months ago
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
about 2 months ago
NEW EPISODE: 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award winner Alison C. Rollins joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to discuss her 2024 poetry collection Black Bell, which documents a bell-laden iron device used to torture enslaved people.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image
2025 Maya Angelou Book Award winner Alison C. Rollins joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V. V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her 2024 poetry collection Black Bell. She explores the history and symbolis…
https://lithub.com/maya-angelou-book-award-winner-alison-c-rollins-on-the-poetics-of-sound-space-and-image/
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Apply to work in our great creative writing program! The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) invites applications for the Edelstein-Keller Endowed Visiting Writer Chairship:
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
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Careers
The Visiting Writer Chair will consult closely with, and work under the direction of, the Director and Assistant Director of Creative Writing on Edelstein-Keller annual programming. The programming is facilitated by staff support and agreed upon by the Creative Writing Program faculty.
https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371279
about 2 months ago
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The Carol Shields Prize For Fiction
about 2 months ago
Shields Prize Auction • Today’s Spotlight: 📖❤️🩹 Brotherless Night Book Club with Shields Prize and Women’s Prize WINNER V.V. Ganeshananthan + Five copies 📚 Fab Fiction For All Ages: a selection or exciting recent fiction, some are signed!
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Incredible to talk to
@svenbeckert.bsky.social
about his important new book, CAPITALISM
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about 2 months ago
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
about 2 months ago
NEW EPISODE: Pulitzer Prize finalist Sven Beckert joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to talk about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Sven Beckert on the Global History of Capitalism
Pulitzer Prize finalist Sven Beckert joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History. Beckert describes capitalism as an ongoing proc…
https://lithub.com/sven-beckert-on-the-global-history-of-capitalism/
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our next
@fnfpodcast.bsky.social
guest!
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2 months ago
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Venki Murthy
3 months ago
"though in all this reddened heaven and earth, desire reduces to reversal". From V.V. Ganeshananthan's
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. poem "the faithful scholar dreams of being exact" My version from the 2023 collection "Out of Sri Lanka" edited by Ravinthiran, Seneviratne and Trevett.
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
2 months ago
NEW EPISODE:Journalist
@jacobsilverman.com
joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley which discusses the rightward ideological shift among tech giants and their companies
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Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage
Journalist Jacob Silverman joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. He discusses the right…
https://lithub.com/jacob-silverman-on-the-tech-bros-gilded-rage/
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My novel, Brotherless Night, is a Literary Picks Best Deal Multiday Kindle Book. The ebook is $1.99 from now until 12/1!
www.amazon.com/Brotherless-...
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Brotherless Night: A Novel
Brotherless Night: A Novel - Kindle edition by Ganeshananthan, V. V.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Brotherless Night: A Novel.
https://www.amazon.com/Brotherless-Night-Novel-V-Ganeshananthan-ebook/dp/B09X52TJ5P/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.j7DLLfR-AgXV4s7pe34jew._mIpxo2K4LHK_bPEZskhAxEtw7z8kmZ0VnhOJEchwNo&dib_tag=se&keywords=brotherless+night+kindle&qid=1763423182&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
3 months ago
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
3 months ago
NEW EPISODE: Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mutualisms and climate grief/joy.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the World
Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mu…
https://lithub.com/kathryn-nuernberger-on-mutualism-climate-and-finding-family-at-the-end-of-the-world/
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eḻuttukkiṉiyavaṉ / எழுத்துக்கினியவன்
3 months ago
@sugi.bsky.social
Screengrab from X/Twitter
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
3 months ago
NEW EPISODE: Translator
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
to talk about her award-winning translations of Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai’s work.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Ottilie Mulzet on Translating Hungarian Nobel Prize Winner László Krasznahorkai
Translator Ottilie Mulzet joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about her award-winning translations of Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai’s work. Mulzet, who was born…
https://lithub.com/ottilie-mulzet-on-translating-hungarian-nobel-prize-winner-laszlo-krasznahorkai/
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Does the smörgåsbord of your life feature administrative word salad? What is the most nothing response you have received to an attempt to generate action? (Yes, please consider this a contest with no prize but the gradual draining of the hourglass.)
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