TONIGHT, 8PM! Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series for a night of poetry & fiction with @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social, and Sanibel! #FreeAdmission 618 St. Johns Pl. #crownheights

Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Seahawks championship and my new book officially out on Tuesday. Just a giant day for SeaTac. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING! autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma

Missed Bad Bunny’s halftime show? Want to rewatch? (4x and counting for me). The NFL posted the whole performance on YouTube: on pace for 500k views in the first 30 minutes.

Tomorrow night! Come out, come out, Brooklyn, come get warm with words

"Clutch, a book about friendship and endurance and the ups and downs and trainwrecks of growing up and into midlife together, has a lot of music in it." Emily Nemens shared a playlist for her novel Clutch at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2026/02/04/e...

MONDAY, 8PM, at Franklin Park: So excited to host @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social, and Sanibel! #Free raffle for these stunning books! Books sold by Unnameable. www.facebook.com/share/1CV72Y... 618 St. Johns Pl. #crownheights

MONDAY, 8PM: The Franklin Park Reading Series hosts superstars @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social & Sanibel! #FreeAdmission, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! facebook.com/events/s/fra...

🚨 MARLON JAMES RETURNS, SEPTEMBER 2026 🚨 THE DISAPPEARERS is a propulsive and deeply human story of men forced to make compromises to survive what the society they live in demands. Learn more about the Booker Prize–winner's riveting novel now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742603...

I shared some February book recommendations at @insidehook.bsky.social! www.insidehook.com/books/books-...

Read Lucy Yu's recommendations for 2026's most anticipated books by women of color, featuring titles by Toni Morrison, Larissa Pham, Camonghne Felix, Han Kang, Reena Shah, and more! Explore the list here: buff.ly/Xv1KaFL

“Carson: There better be a gd pool.” Read from @emilynemens.bsky.social’s new novel, Clutch.

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Author @erin-ce.bsky.social joins me on tomorrow's show to discuss her debut novel Junie. Subscribe and tune in! Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2JZQLgt Spotify: spoti.fi/2GpMLEp iHeartRadio: ihr.fm/2TXaBzn Amazon Podcasts: amzn.to/2RuHlxs

10% of classes purchased through Monday will go to a member of the co-lab community on the ground in Minneapolis, providing groceries & rent support to families who are essentially on house arrest because of ICE. Please spread word & help support artists & grassroots resistance www.writingco-lab.com

Lauren Francis-Sharma talks to Bethanne Patrick! @laurenfsharma.bsky.social @thebookmaven.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 open.substack.com/pub/thebookm...

Episode 337D is here! Jessikah sat down with Erin Crosby-Eckstine, author of JUNIE, part ghost story, part historical fiction and weaving tension which will leave you thinking about this book way after you’ve turned the last page. @erin-ce.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social

We are hiring for our spring 2026 marketing internship! If you're a book lover and are interested in learning the ins and outs of how a book is launched into the world, then apply below: https://groveatlantic.com/careers/

One week away! Next Monday, Feb. 9, 8pm: Franklin Park Reading Series hosts a night of fiction & poetry featuring @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social & Sanibel! www.facebook.com/share/17jSXS... #Free #crownheights 618 St. Johns Pl

“Write the worst version to get to the best version, I told myself.” 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/when-all-e...

Jesus Christ. The first review for American Rambler is a Kirkus star. ⭐️

We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Nicola Griffith Mat Johnson Fonda Lee Darcie Little Badger Peter Rock Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.

Everything is terrible but this is very exciting! My third time at the wonderful Franklin Park Reading Series! Please come say hi!

“I wanted to show that joy was a part of their life, and that the decision to have a party was very political. The decision to actually have moments of joy was political.” -Jaquira Díaz speaks about her new novel with Iris Kim: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-refuse-to-let-you-have-my-joy/

Charm City Spec alumna and spectabulous storyteller Amber Sparks had a story in Outlook Springs—how did we miss that?

"Today’s poem is a love poem, one in which the long-married speaker can hardly imagine their own 'beforetimes' — the life before their spouse," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1437. Read “Now that we’ve been married all these years" by Keetje Kuipers: bit.ly/3ZlrrbC

Monday, Feb. 9, 8pm: Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series for a night of fiction & poetry featuring @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social & Sanibel! www.facebook.com/share/1C9Tcy...

Copies of The Faery Handbag by @kellylink.bsky.social, with three full-color plates by one of our favorite artists, Rovina Cai, are en route from Conversation Tree Press to our warehouse. Our quantities are very limited. Preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newscopies-o...

A mini syllabus (Including four free books!) for understanding ICE.

Big news that I'm delighted to no longer be keeping a secret: Next week I join @wired.com as a senior writer! As everyone knows, this is a top-tier publication and indispensable record of digital life today. I'll be covering internet culture in all forms, as I have for almost 15 years now.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I wrote about how Heated Rivalry is just the latest case of how publishers, with all their data, are still not able to predict what will be the next sensation. lithub.com/get-ready-fo...

Huge pub day congrats to Rachel Eliza Griffiths on her powerful memoir The Flower Bearers! We're honored to host her at the Franklin Park Reading Series on March 9 for our 17th Anniversary Bash!

“I WENT TO TACOMA TO VISIT my buddy Aaron, who was on sabbatical from his professor job at the University of Michigan…” Check out my new story THE BROKENHEARTED WHALEMEN’S CLUB up today at @bulbregion.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

Attack of the Book People IV is on the way. Readers this time: Cynthia Weiner, @erikaswyler.bsky.social, @ambersparks.bsky.social, Bill Lessard, @tobiascarroll.bsky.social, Alex Behr, and Farooq Ahmed! @lelandcheuk.bsky.social (aka Cheukles) and I (aka KGB) will emcee. March 5, 2026. Deets on att'd.

Thinking about #MLK and 1 year since January 20, 2025 and @briangresko.bsky.social 's 100 Days of #CreativeResistance and the 265 days after that and the 1095 days ahead. briangresko.substack.com/p/looking-ba...

I have a new story in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Huge thanks to mesmerizing Franklin Park Reading Series 2026 Launch stars @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman & ❤️ to our amazing audience! And we were honored to kick off the paperback tour for Justin's incredible novel Reboot!

Elder-statesman Edwin Frank was interviewed for an article on the rise in reissue publishing in @culturedmag.com.web.brid.gy "There became a historical dimension to people’s awareness and their cultural commitment."

Submissions to our annual summer flash fiction series are now open!

I've been waiting months to share this: I had the immense honor of talking to the brilliant Anna Sale and the Death, Sex, and Money podcast about AUGUST SWEENEY and autopsies.

talkin' about the new book, the old books, research habits, internet damage, language gnosticism, good music & more

You get past a certain point and there aren't many ways left to "debut." Well this is my BASS debut & I'm honored to be included & grateful to Celeste for choosing my story "What About This," about a guy on a Gulf Coast roadtrip after defecting from Div school

TONIGHT, 8PM: Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series for the NYC paperback launch of @justintaylor.bsky.social's novel Reboot! Justin will be joined by stellar authors @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman. #FreeAdmission! 618 St. Johns Pl, Brooklyn.

MONDAY, 8PM: Excited to host supertalented authors @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman! #Free raffle for our readers' stunning books! Details: shorturl.at/yTq9W #crownheights #freeadmission

Bowie's passing ten years ago marked the beginning of people thinking there was something basically just *wrong* with 2016, and so arguably marks the moment when the damned butterfly shunted us onto what is decidedly the wrong timeline.

People from many different parts of the world coming together and supporting each other

Monday, 8pm, at Franklin Park Reading Series: We're thrilled to host @justintaylor.bsky.social for the NYC paperback celebration of his brilliant novel Reboot, w/stellar authors @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights #Free