@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is." Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.

Letting children be shot and killed because we want to have access to arsenals of weapons without restrictions is also political violence.

That man's last words were trying to deflect a conversation about gun violence onto "gang violence". He left this world on the wings of racism.

I'm highly aware of my own sins of moral convenience (we can talk about that some other time*), but I'd think that saying no thank you to JKR-profiting work would be a relatively easy thing for anyone, especially anyone already rich and successful. *or never

When I worked long grueling days in retail at Macy’s, putting makeup on rude people and trying to earn something above minimum, I looked forward most to lunch, when I would go to the break room, eat my mall food court food, and read the book and theater review sections of the NYT and the Star Trib

The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th. www.32auctions.com/unboundforga... The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.

I just threw up in my mouth while reading the email to NEA fellowship applicants informing us of its cancellation and wish I could deposit my vomit directly onto the White House lawn

I just threw up in my mouth while reading the email to NEA fellowship applicants informing us of its cancellation and wish I could deposit my vomit directly onto the White House lawn

"One of the many things a genocide does is reshape what a culture is — by destroying it and by forcing what has not been destroyed to deal with the destruction. The destruction itself becomes a key component of our lives and histories. So literature, I think, remains very important."

literally the vibe at DC Union Station right now

literally the vibe at DC Union Station right now

BWDR is one of the last real places on the internet, developing and publishing the kind of expansive, rigorous criticism and essays that have sadly become all too rare. their work & existence is incalculably valuable, support them with a subscription (or perhaps in an even bigger way if you can?)

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

lol who gives a shit

☀️ New review today Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THE DANCE AND THE FIRE by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney), out now via @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🔥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

Just saying that if Trump can come into my city and just lie about crime, call it a national emergency, and take us over - he can do it anywhere. It’s easier here, but look what he did in LA - just saying I’d care about DC if I was elsewhere in the country because this is bad

My spring correspondence with @richardscottlarson.com — online & offline & between lines — was so bountiful & energizing ! ❤️‍🔥 & now you can read it in full @truemag.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social & @uwiscpress.bsky.social 📚⚡️ https://truemag.org/2025/08/08/body-work-a-correspondence/

very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."

very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."

Run her for everything! She’s a stone-cold hero! This should be turned into an ad that runs every day everywhere until they crawl back into their holes.

Does this place move books. If I believe replies and shares, I've moved a few copies here. I *know* I've moved books I love from other people. I've bought books I've seen on here. If you talk about books frequently, passionately, and not JUST your own books, I'm pretty sure you can move some. 🤷

Just finished reading SAD TIGER and omg... "The riddle that haunts every memoirist has particularly high stakes for her. Can she separate who she is today from the circumstances that were imposed on her?" www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

My essay is up at @literaryhub.bsky.social about the late, great Lana Clarkson and other promising young women whose lives have been derailed or destroyed by men. It’s also about my childhood sexual abuse and how I have tried, and failed, to reckon with it. lithub.com/on-promising...

I'm about to finish what feels like a final-ish draft of my book at this residency, sitting by the window right now looking out at the rain and thinking of all the sad little hours it took to get here lol, all for a Word doc called "draft 18 plz kill me"

I'm about to finish what feels like a final-ish draft of my book at this residency, sitting by the window right now looking out at the rain and thinking of all the sad little hours it took to get here lol, all for a Word doc called "draft 18 plz kill me"

"A review ... involves introspection, looking into oneself to see whether unnoticed or unquestioned personal factors influence or deform one’s experience of the work at hand. The effort to seize, convey, and deepen one’s personal experience ... makes the review a deeply personal work."

"A review ... involves introspection, looking into oneself to see whether unnoticed or unquestioned personal factors influence or deform one’s experience of the work at hand. The effort to seize, convey, and deepen one’s personal experience ... makes the review a deeply personal work."

One week done at Ragdale, two more to go! Writing the words, chasing the rabbits, getting lost in the woods etc

One week done at Ragdale, two more to go! Writing the words, chasing the rabbits, getting lost in the woods etc

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

"It’s not always easy to disentangle the impulse to communicate something beautifully from the craving for acclaim, to distinguish self-exposure from self-display." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"What’s great about Art Is Not Enough is that it is mainly a visual compendium of Gran Fury’s work, and therefore a reminder that, while our field of vision is dominated by the interests of capital, there is still much we can do to reclaim this territory."

For the next To a Green Thought Book Club we’ll be reading David Szalay’s Flesh. Sun 24 Aug at 3pm ET. Open to Founding Members of the newsletter. Get more info & join here: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/an-ideal-o... @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social

is it halloween yet

I didn’t believe him when he said he’d solve the housing crisis, but I’m becoming more convinced!

Now this is a white flight that I can endorse.

TONIGHT, 8PM, at the Franklin Park Reading Series: Join us for a blockbuster event featuring the legendary Edwidge Danticat and stellar authors @megiddings.bsky.social, @wendyortiz.com, @justinhayneswriter.com, Isabelle Baafi & @marthaannetoll.bsky.social! Franklin Park, 618 St. Johns Pl, BK #Free

The world is burning but please remember to apply to Yaddo

applying for things counts as writing, I don't make the rules

I need everyone to stop what they’re doing and read this book; I started it last night and finished it this morning, breaking only to sleep.

The world is burning but please remember to apply to Yaddo

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Had so much fun for this interview.

the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective