‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’ We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.

Tonight's the night! Tune in from 9:30pm GMT / 4:30pm EST / 3am IST to hear the #BookerPrize2025 winner as it's announced. Save this link for later: www.youtube.com/live/sKu9vc8...

THIS IS SO GOOD

Morning in America. TURN THE VOLUME UP!!!!

IMHO you give yourself a gift when you donate to a SNAP emergency fund @ your local community college. Students juggling jobs kids & coursework are the LPNs, RNs arts & tech sector workers of tomorrow. Link to Bunker Hill Community College emergency fund, Boston: wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/webl...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social #writers #writerslife

Fab list for those tired of submitting to mags with 0% acceptance rates #writers #writingcraft

This is the line of cars at the food pantry where I volunteer. We haven't even opened for the day yet. And meanwhile, the president builds his gilded ballroom.

Nearly a decade after his first victory, novelists still haven’t figured out what to do with Trump. @chrislehmann.bsky.social writes on the American literati’s failure to meet the MAGA moment. thebaffler.com/salvos/american-gothics-lehmann

Sooo happy to see this! Because “literature is the least-supported artistic discipline in the U.S., receiving only 1.9% of the $5 billion in arts grants awarded in 2023” (source: Candid)

Join this year’s 5 Over 50 authors for a celebratory reading and conversation about their individual paths to publication on Thursday, November 6, at 7 PM EST. This virtual event is free; registration is required. RSVP: at.pw.org/5over5025

The Penn Review was founded in 1951, making it the oldest continuously published literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. They are known for their fast response time, and got back to me on my submissions within a few days. buff.ly/UvOjZV6 #poetrycommunity #litmags #WritingCommunity

Kiran Desai’s “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” is the best book I’ve read this year. #BookerPrize2025

Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you

Prayers for Jamaica.

Wandered off Rte 6 and found a secret pond in #Provincetown.

Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

#AHouseOfDynamite director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim sat down for an interview with John Mecklin in @thebulletin.org to discuss genesis of the film, its inspirations, and the broader craft of making such a complex film. thebulletin.org/2025/10/a-co...

A priest, a rabbi & a former federal prosecutor walk into a...podcast to talk about their books. It's great listening! I'm 3rd up & so glad I had the opportunity to learn about great books by Episcopal Prelate Mariann Edgar Budde & Rabbi Angela Buchdahl penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/this-is-the-...

News you can use: @gastonlacombe.bsky.social has a new podcast on #art and art history in #Provincetown.

The weekend is here, which means it's a good time to submit to some lit mags. 👀 Read up on our archives and see if we'd be a good home for your work! ✨ buff.ly/3o7ia2L

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

Every American needs to see this.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Janis Ian at #Provincetown Town Hall tomorrow. What a talent. What a life! My interview:

"In America, students are often taught to delink writing from matters of the stomach. I believe this breeds new forms of hunger, new forms of illiteracy, and new false freedoms." Our #10Questions with S. Shreyas is out now: massreview.org/2025/10/13/1...

"Sentences are the bricks as well as the mortar, the motor as well as the fuel. They are the cells, the individual stitches. Their nature is at once solitary and social. Sentences establish tone, and set the pace. One in front of the other marks the way." ~ Jhumpa Lahiri

❤️this idea in @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social NYT column: “Instead of making America as fractured as Gaza, why not surprise us all on the upside: Invite the Democratic leaders to Camp David and tell the world you’re not coming out without an American-American peace treaty?”

#Provincetown Museum’s new #art history exhibition up now thru Dec. My preview:

Just had the pleasure of interviewing @janisian.bsky.social. Don’t miss “Breaking Silence,” the doc about her life journey! youtu.be/mZ8zUiXmUbU

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?” ~ Vita Sackville-West

"Small presses are the backbone of the national literature." Ray Carver, quoted in Pushcart Prize L (2026 ) , forthcoming in December. Celebrating hundreds of writers and presses in our 50th edition. 620 pages. Preorder now from W.W. Norton Co. $19.95 paperback, $38.00 hardback.

You. Your state. Your river. Dip into Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s beautiful poetry in the latest issue of The Georgia Review: www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/these-...

The 2026 AWP Small Press Publisher Award will be given to a journal that is committed to supporting writers and literary communities. Nominations will be accepted until October 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET via our submission portal.

Have you started reading The Loneliness Of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai yet? It will win @thebookerprizes.com this year.

Good night, #Provincetown.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

My interview with author Joseph Lee, appearing tomorrow 9/20 at the #Provincetown Book Festival.

This makes me so happy, @boston.gov. Books and affordable housing. Together.

Absolutely ❤️ this quote from Audrey Wokllen on @yalereview.bsky.social home page: “‘Write every day.’ It’s a nice idea! But it’s kind of the writing-advice equivalent of your mother shouting ‘Be good!’ from the car window.” 😂

Best of the Net nominations drop today

Can’t wait to hear @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @ritamookerjee.bsky.social and other local writers kick off the #Provincetown Book Fest next weekend

I think what has me so interested in experimentation these days is a deep desire to subvert artificial intelligence, which can only gesture at innovation. I think? Anyway, I am trying to stay one step ahead of it, to write things as uniquely and unquestionably human as I can.

Happy birthday to @kathyfish.bsky.social. Feels only right that Kathy should be my #FlashFictionFamily pick for the day. Such a superstar of our community. Every piece is something special. A favourite? Impossible. But today I'm drawn to this stunner: swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/pro...

Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...

Ok so it’s not a $60k safari but @zoonewengland.bsky.social at Franklin Park Roxbury is the closest most #Boston kids are gonna get to African creatures great & small! Great place. Go!