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Enormous congratulations to this year’s Winner & Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Daniel Kraus - ANGEL DOWN (W) Katie Kitamaura - AUDITION (F) Torrey Peters - STAG DANCE (F) It was enormous honor to serve on this year’s jury & highlight such ambitious, amazing books. Read all three!

I can finally tell you that I was the fiction jury chair for this year's Pulitzer. I had a blast, and am so grateful for the experience.

Wow, "Angel Down" won the Pulitzer in fiction. Weird-ass genre mashups ftw.

Ten years ago I flew to Austin to attend my first academic conference. Today I'm headed back to Austin, this time to accept the MELUS Book Award. A wonderful echo—and a time to reflect, with gratitude, on the opportunity to do this work alongside so many brilliant scholars, students, and friends!

Looking forward to speak with Carolin Amlinger and Julika Griem about my book at the KWI Essen next Tuesday. Please join us if you can

Normally I don’t click on this stuff b/c life too short etc but wow there is some truly astonishing ignorance on proud display in this clip.

The humanities: weak, contemptible, ineffective, populated mainly by losers, graduates incapable of doing anything but menial service work. Also the humanities: a dangerous, incomprehensibly powerful force whose total destruction is necessary if society is to continue, children are to be born, etc.

Come for Dan taking about material reality, stay for the takedown of the Romantic genius

y'all !!!! I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" 😍❤️‍🔥 (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)

“What are we pretending not to know today?” —Toni Cade Bambara

Terrific profile of James Patterson. Surprisingly affecting. Did you know he funds stipends for Iowa Writers' Workshop students? That he dropped out of a PhD in English at Vanderbilt with an MA for a fiction thesis? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

If Christians quit the Colosseum, the lions win — so I'm staying

“ ‘The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation’ … [But] in 2024, food-at-home is no longer 33% of household spending. For most families, it’s 5 to 7 percent.”

Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values

Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

nobody does it like natalie shapero

What role do social movements play in recent literary history? @franciscondine.bsky.social and I gathered some brilliant scholars to debate Jeffrey Lawrence's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," published last fall for @atpost45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/03/intr...

This issue of ALH, just released, will apparently be the last edited solely by Gordon Hutner, one of our great "professional readers" (to borrow a @harrys.bsky.social phrase). It's hard to see the mark he's left on his field, because, in a way, it is the field. academic.oup.com/alh/issue

In a time when it seems books coverage only ever shrinks, Adrienne turned Esquire into a books powerhouse. This is devastating.

"Nothing less than a reorientation of our attention to film, literature, and time." -- J. D. Connor Coming this Spring: DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, by Mark Goble (@goblemark.bsky.social). bit.ly/4g3u7Rs @columbiaup.bsky.social