Congratulations to Two Lines authors & translators Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, Mohamed Kheir, and Robin Moger 🎉 Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

My new post on Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Festival, which starts today, and the activist conference READ Barcelona, organized by @versolibros.com —> open.substack.com/pub/derekkri...

My new post on Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Festival, which starts today, and the activist conference READ Barcelona, organized by @versolibros.com —> open.substack.com/pub/derekkri...

Catching up on @newyorker.com & now worried @claremalone.bsky.social might not have gotten invited to wedding

Do you have to declare that as a campaign contribution if he does?

"Roediger uses his own life story as an opportunity to show that ideas and people can be understood and changed" networks.h-net.org/group/review... @fordhampress.bsky.social

This piece by Huw Lemmey combines the personal and political in a remarkable way - deserves to be very widely read, now and in the future.

Carter Sickels will be in Barcelona on Thursday to read from THE PRETTIEST STAR with Huw Lemmey @hubcitypress.bsky.social @versolibros.com @cartersickels.bsky.social www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail...

Have the same problem - have to scroll through dozens before I can find the person I want to reply to.

@schuneke.bsky.social ‘s A QUEER THEORY OF THE STATE (Floating Opera Press, 2023) at CCCB’s bookstore in Barcelona

Superman's publicist is doing a great job

Grateful for this sophisticated and perceptive review of THE SCRAPBOOK in this week’s TLS.

I just backed Bird Watching by Eileen Myles: An Archival Collection on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bir...

International shipping is now available for all Kickstarter rewards: kck.st/4lzQZuS

@samantharhill.bsky.social in New York Times

@samantharhill.bsky.social in New York Times

I interviewed @isabellamweber.bsky.social about Zohran Mamdani's economic program. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Una tragedia horrible. Esta muerte es un crimen y tiene responsables con nombres y apellidos. Que se dejen de hacer propaganda con los dichosos refugios climáticos, y se pongan (de verdad) a proteger la vida de la gente que trabaja en la calle.

If you're not already a subscriber to @thebeliever.net, you should really take advantage of today's flash sale in honor of their 150th issue. $35/year is a wonderful way to give yourself a snail mail gift, feed your brain, and support audacious, creative writers. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...

Great conversation with two baseball historians whose combined age is 186!!

Mamdani did it!!! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social stands for making essentials affordable for all. Democrats will have to decide whether they focus on winning back the people or the billionaires. If they want to win elections and save democracy, the people is the only choice.

Celebrate your independents with @michaelschaub.bsky.social’s list of small-press #books out now or coming this summer. #booksky www.ocregister.com/2025/06/24/3...

@heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social in Prague on July 3!

"La ciudad ha cambiado. La ciudad está igual". Colm Tóibín reedita su "Homenaje a Barcelona" y lo publica por primera vez en castellano.

Very nice profile of THE SCRAPBOOK author @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com by Celia McGee ‼️

Very nice profile of THE SCRAPBOOK author @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com by Celia McGee ‼️

Jeff Alessandrelli said that @fonografeditions.bsky.social –his Portland-based publisher & literary record label – was "decimated" by the closure of Small Press Distribution. He wrote a long essay on distribution as a poet & publisher for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social which I use here.

Great to see Kent State University Press alongside our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social, @uakronpress.bsky.social, and Cleveland State University Poetry Center in this writeup of poetry publishing in the Rust Belt!

Hachette will start distributing for independent presses, offering a chance for smaller shops to get in the door of a Big 5 house. I write about that development & @asterismbooks.bsky.social on Book Work —> 🔗

Books take years to write. Peer review makes the process even longer. So it is uncanny how often university presses publish books that are so timely—like the forthcoming "The Hard Work of Hope" from @cornellupress.bsky.social Here is an interview with Michael Ansara by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social

Hachette will start distributing for independent presses, offering a chance for smaller shops to get in the door of a Big 5 house. I write about that development & @asterismbooks.bsky.social on Book Work —> 🔗

An event in Prague on July 3 for Heather Clark, whose debut novel THE SCRAPBOOK is out next week, from Pantheon in the US & Jonathan Cape in the UK—> www.shakes.cz/events

Merce Rodoreda in Gracia

Interview with Marcel Barrena, director of the great film "The 47" www.msf.es/noticia/marc... @msfespana.bsky.social

“For publishers like us, it is a question of stability. It’s a bolster against risk, which means that we can champion books and voices that are riskier in the marketplace.” CJ Evans, EiC of @twolinespress.bsky.social on CAT's $45K NEA grant termination. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Faculty member Hilary Plum's new novel "State Champ" from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social reviewed in the NYT! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b... #statechamp #newyorktimes #bookreviews #heartbeatbill #protestnovel #newfiction

Congrats to Mary Noé, whose book “The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan” is called “a brief, delightful true crime text” in Foreword Reviews! www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/come...

Great review of the new MI by Sean Burns, a movie with a Black female president that argues for nuclear disarmament, cooperation, and destroying AI – www.wbur.org/news/2025/05... @wbur.org

Congratulations to Hilary Plum on this review by Emma Alpern in The Cut - link below @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @thecut.com @emmaalpern.bsky.social

It’s a labor issue.

This is the strongest, most unequivocal language on Gaza I think I’ve heard out of the UK and France. And Canada’s position has notably changed this year too www.gov.uk/government/n...

Michiko Kakutani retiring was like when the DEA busted one dude and the global supply of LSD dropped by 90%

Such a thrill that Parul Sehgal is back at the Times, and her return/debut piece, an essay about solidarity featuring the peerless Sarah Schulman and many others, is superb and wise. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...

"Without these endowments, what holes will be torn in the fabric of American culture?" @thefrontlist.org considers the impact of Trump's coup at the NEA for small publishers and literary magazines. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...

A true honor to have what is arguably the darkest (weirdest?) story from my new collection MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US included in the May issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. They never disappoint so read the whole thing. I'm diving in now!

Review essay from Derek Krissoff on his family & Chaim Grade’s novel “Sons and Daughters” out now from Knopf in Rose Waldman’s translation @derekkrissoff.bsky.social