Okay, finally -- finally! -- the dam has broken on the John Brockman portion of the sordid Jeffrey Epstein saga. There is much more to be said, as in from publishers who did all that business with Brockman and, by extension, Epstein -- but this is a good start.
www.chronicle.com/article/jeff...
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
not a straight interview, but had the privilege of writing the publication story about the Essex Hemphill reissue, which meant I spoke w/ an abundance of brilliant people behind it www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
have discovered the 100% effective solution to seasonal depression and it is electing a smart talented progressive to political office and defeating a sex pest. can we do this every single day until the sun starts setting after 7pm again
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
tomorrow! and it's free!
i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
About 42 million people, including 16 million children, are set to lose their SNAP benefits in November, triggering what experts say could be the worst hunger crisis since the Great Depression.
Here are some ways to help your community:
www.thecut.com/article/how-...
hannah's writing is a gift and a joy and if you've ever thought 'wow, what an incredibly weird time for health and america right now' then you should read this
Pour one out for one of the best Bluesky posts of all time
cuomo conceding overlayed with the drewjanda tweet: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"
absolutely nuts to feel joyous about a political moment, for the first time in years and years 😭
not to expose myself as insufficiently cynical but I’m actually kind of shocked at how bad this is across multiple levels—as a piece of analysis, as a piece of rhetoric, and as a deployment of the NYT’s outsized power in this specific instance
Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave."
The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.
Our power grows!!
Join us at the Poetry Project tomorrow April 23 at 8pm to celebrate LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD by Essex Hemphill (1957–1995). John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Pamela Sneed, and more will be reading. Come at 7:30 to toast to Hemphill before the reading!
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RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...
a true honor to help bring Essex Hemphill's work back into print -- thanks to @summ.bsky.social for capturing the labor of love that went into its publication
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one thing I always wanted for my complicated birth country with a blood-drenched history was for it to also be a bankrupted casino
"He was a lyric poet to his core, and a political poet who knew that the most devastating critique could hinge on many of poetry’s numerous resources, any of which he wielded when needed."
Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.
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Very excited to share that this beautiful little volume of poems by the late, visionary Essex Hemphill, which I co-edited with the brilliant Robert Reid-Pharr & for which he wrote the introduction & I the afterword, will be out next week (March 5) from New Directions!
www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...
especially these days, it's been such a delight escaping into @liaholland.bsky.social's music festival mystery -- both a love letter to and pointed commentary on the intoxicating raves, community, secrets and chaos of the festival world. Very excited to be working together!!
Happy #MSWL day! Working with a decent amount of nonfiction now, so would love voice-driven upmarket fiction to balance it out. Always enjoy a splash of genre and weirdness with a heart (MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES; THE WEDDING PEOPLE, etc.) Full wishlist:
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ja...
Did you guys know that Kendrick is the first Pulitzer winner to perform at a Superbowl halftime show?
Next year book Barbara Kingsolver, you cowards.
hire @marinafang.bsky.social for her brilliant reporting work, strong convictions, and the fact that now feels like a particularly dumb time to be laying off journalists given literally everything around us
phewww this take
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Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)
the things we could do with all the time and freedom afforded by not having to stress about blurb outreach...!!
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I mean HAPPY Friday everyone