@jonnydiamond.bsky.social reading from Homage to Catalonia for #falloffreedom on WGXC

Pulling a late night with the 14 year old (who’s way behind on a school project) and he just referenced the Kardashev Scale AND correctly named the singer of “Rhiannon.” I feel like this should count towards college admissions.

Not the rhetoric of moral clarity! No!

It was over once everyone started calling it the “homeland.” That’s some fascist shit my dudes.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.

How did New Yorkers elect a democratic socialist as their mayor? We have a reading list for that.

I love this by Peter Coviello (former chair of Africana Studies at yes, Bowdoin). Very smart AND very funny. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

God I hate these f*ckers so much

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

In Myth America, edited by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and Julian E. Zelizer, Michael Kazin examines the far-reaching influence of socialism on American political thought.

This is what she's posting rn fyi. Just pure racism!

This really sucks; they were doing brave, important work. It seems like everyone with money and power right now has it at the expense of principled conviction.

Proud to be on this list with an incredible group of writers and thinkers doing the right thing. lithub.com/300-pledge-t...

What the fascist tech bros get wrong about Prometheus. (And yes, they do want to build a 450-foot statue on Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay).

Catskill, NY.

Catskill, NY.

A day to stand up, and stand together. fallows.substack.com/p/stand-up-s...

I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store. ebbooksellers.com/item/9JsuMsJ... Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.

Here’s Mark Bray beating the brakes of Dinesh D’Souza in 2017. lithub.com/why-we-shoul...

I wrote about what we can all learn from the courage of Czech dissidents. lithub.com/how-a-1977-c...

Incredible (and funny) story here from Philip Roth about visiting Ivan Klima in Prague. lithub.com/he-comes-for...

Strongly recommend MY MERRY MORNINGS along with the titles @jonnydiamond.bsky.social includes here. I met Ivan Klima as a baby bookseller when he finally was allowed to travel. Life-changing for me: smoking cigarettes with him in the bookstore backroom.

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

Did @andrewervin.bsky.social introduce Krasznahorkai to the American masses? (aka Philly alt weekly readers c. 2001) lithub.com/is-this-the-...

Between Pynchon and Krasznahorkai absolutely HUGE week for brodernism. I see you, and I salute you my dudes.

Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?" lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth 📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.” My latest for LitHub: lithub.com/tending-to-t...

The Idiocracy presidency continues apace. lithub.com/librarian-le...

The corruption is just so obvious (as it usually is in an incipient dictatorship) lithub.com/ron-desantis...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

A common technique of Holocaust deniers is to look up Red Cross statistics for disease in the concentration camps, and insist this proves that Jews and Romani were not deliberately murdered.

Again it's all spelled out here, but we're looking for books that were published between 2013-2022 roughly and not covered by the NYT book review under Paul (and shoulda been). This is a collaboration btw me and @maris.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

Thank you @jonnydiamond.bsky.social for greenlighting this!! Thanks everybody who's already sent in pitches and ideas. Again, now have a September 1 deadline and we'll circle back with folks after then. Again all details re: pitching etc. can be found here: www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

Will journalists across the world speak out on the murder of their fellow journalists? Or will many remain quiet as they have before on the intentional murder of their colleagues for doing their work?

The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal. The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

Eternal thanks to Lithub EIC @jonnydiamond.bsky.social, whose support means more than I can say. This is my first essay at Lithub, a publication I’ve admired for years, one of the few that has stood consistently with Palestine and its people. It’s an honor to publish with them.

hey ... 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ if you're a queer / trans author whose book didn't get reviewed by the NYT during you-know-who's era as book editor, can you please reach out? you can email me via my site (in bio) or just make yourself known here. this is for a story ... REPOSTS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!! thanks!!!

The move between registers, the way the academic and incisive meets the personal honesty. The courage of it, sure. But more the messiness, the refusal of narrative as the only way to own narrative. . . credit to the good doctor @megpillow.bsky.social . A great piece of writing about a terrible thing

"We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. It already happened to my sister: while searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, she suddenly collapsed to the ground. Her body didn’t even have the strength to stay upright."

Great reporting from @thrasherxy.bsky.social here, about the danger of ICE to us all. lithub.com/what-ices-as...

For my first submission to @literaryhub.bsky.social I feel pretty good about a B+. (But I also felt good about coming in 3rd with 11% of the vote, so it may be that I’m falling victim to the era of grade inflation).

Come see me on tour? Starting next week!

I’m sick of being told it’s not practical to want a better world by people who have forgotten how to dream (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)

Hello, I’m Jewish. I think genocide is bad and Zohran Mamdani is good. Hope this help.