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.

Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

PW says these "sharp and entertaining essays deliver the goods!" www.publishersweekly.com/9780063305823

I’m always happy to recommend Madeline ffitch: lithub.com/one-great-sh...

It’s me, talking about my TBR pile

Thanks so much for including "The Front Runner"! What great company to be in. Beyond thankful. 🤘💀🤘

Hegseth on his phone more than a New York City cop

I would be ticked if I went to the trouble of coming up with three prize-worthy novels only to be overruled by a board. lithub.com/did-the-puli...

We’re leaving Twitter (but you can still find us here)!

I've never been to AWP, but I would love to be on your panels, etc. in 2026! (And want to go regardless because I just love to hear people talk about their work and process.) Anyway! Throwing this out into the void.

Me with the lads reading Donoso

My grandfather’s lungs gave out after years of working in a bauxite mine. He died before I was born. Let’s remember all the millions upon millions who died making soft-handed men rich.

In honor of National Poetry Month I read two of my poems on the @literaryhub.bsky.social podcast. lithub.com/new-on-the-l...

I wrote about the Sweet Briar College Vixens, and how they are better than the adults in charge lithub.com/lydia-kiesli...

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

The line was crossed a long time ago but if you can’t (or refuse) to see this as straight from the fascist playbook you’re basically a collaborator at this point

it causes me such pain to see snooty liberals respond to a story about a horrific, incurable, fatal occupational disease like black lung with “but how did they vote????” as if that fucking matters

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"