All day my heart is a book with a ribbon in it. Carina del Valle Schorske in No Tokens issue 2 💫

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This Woman's Work: An Aster(ix) Anthology, Winter 2026 Welcome to our new website! *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

This Woman's Work covers women in hip-hop and reggaeton guest edited by Carina del Valle Schorske & Danielle Amir Jackson. it features work by Alice Arnold, Harmony Holiday, Jessica Lynne, Joy Priest, Kristina Kay Robinson, Michael A. Gonzales Miles Marshall Lewis and Sheila Maldonado.

A truly star studded lineup, with a prose poem on the back cover that I assembled using lines from each contributor:

This Woman's Work: An Aster(ix) Anthology, Winter 2026 Welcome to our new website! *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

Years in the making! My brilliant friend Danielle Amir Jackson
& I edited a zine with @asteriskmag.bsky.social about women's work BTS in hip hop & reggaeton: video vixens, photographers, girlfriends, journalists, the many unsung lives of the party! Order @wordupbooks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdwdfjcf

Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.

I have watery eyes after reading the piece on Eddie Palmieri by @fluentmundo.bsky.social in the New Yorker.

This was done with such love, care and meticulous research. The writing is tremendous.

#music #musicsky #writing #writingcommunity #salsa #latin #jazz #piano #nyc #eddiepalmieri #nuyorican

Article (Carina del Valle Schorske; The New Yorker) excerpt reads: “When Eddie was around five years old, the family moved to the South Bronx. The neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Jewish, and new housing projects were beginning to attract rural migrants from the Caribbean and the American South. Isabel thought piano lessons might help keep the boys off the streets. They went to study with Margaret Bonds, a Black American classical concert musician with a studio on the top floor of Carnegie Hall. But their training wasn’t only academic: Isabel’s brother had a band called El Chino y Su Alma Tropical, and sometimes the family would go down to Harlem to record 78s.”

Article (Carina del Valle Schorske; The New Yorker) excerpt reads: “Palmieri knows how precarious life can be for many musicians: his brother Charlie died of a heart attack at sixty, and Barry Rogers died of complications from arrhythmia at fifty-five. Palmieri attributes his own longevity to ‘watercress, parsley, figs.’ But the body can’t survive without the spirit, and ‘for that,’ he told me, ‘there’s voodoo.’ He was never formally initiated into any Afro-Caribbean religions, but they suffuse his music: ceremonial drum calls, protective spells, snatches of Yoruba. He feels a particular bond with the orisha Osaín, the fugitive god of the wilderness, whose shrivelled left ear is keen enough to hear the sound of a single flower crying.”

Eddie Palmieri’s cultural history; so interesting.👁️

If you have never read this profile of Eddie Palmieri you should. RIP Eddie Palmieri & thank you @fluentmundo.bsky.social for telling his story in the New Yorker

Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.

Great Eddie Palmieri x NYC Read 2 | Last May, Carina del Valle Schorske @fluentmundo.bsky.social spent a week watching/listening to Palmieri at his annual Blue Note residency, profiling him from the vantage point of what would be his last year on Earth. As usual, her memoir-ish bits bring it home.

Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.

God, I love this profile of the Puerto Rican legend Eddie Palmieri, beautifully crafted by @fluentmundo.bsky.social

I’ve seen Eddie perform at least four times. Lucky.

www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.

Loving this vibrant tribute to the great Eddie Palmieri written by @fluentmundo.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.

So proud of dear friends creating incredible work. My former student @fluentmundo.bsky.social has a great piece on salsa musician Eddie Palmieri out in the New Yorker this week

www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

It's been a minute but I finally have a new ep out, a deep dive into Bad Bunny's exquisite DTMF!

If you love it as much as I do you won't wanna miss my guests discussing it: Boricua percussionist/educator Hector Lugo & Bad Bunny scholar @fluentmundo.bsky.social

www.buzzsprout.com/2158804/epis...

Incomparable | FT Nothing Compares, the documentary about Sinéad O’Connor directed by Kathryn Ferguson and released last year, opens with her 1992 appearance at a tribute

Almost a year ago I pitched NYRB an essay on Sinead O’Connor.

Last week, while we were editing, Sinead left this life.

With a heavy heart I present to you a labor of love.
www.nybooks.com/online/2023/08/05/incomp...

California’s free prison calls are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation California is the second state to mandate free calls in state prisons. The move is restoring frayed family relationships and may reduce recidivism rates.

Free prison calls in California are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation. Advocates hope the calls will reduce recidivism

“Incarcerated people who are connected to their families and support systems are more likely to come home and stay home”

Me @ the Freud Museum in 2005… she started young 😇

Montana Ray took some portraits with REAL FILM, shadow & shine 👥✨

Apparently many do… I personally cannot relate, but! Struggling mightily with the beginning right now…

Selected Essays | Carina del Valle Schorske on Samuel Delany - The Point Podcast On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Carina del Valle Schorske joins us to discuss Samuel Delany's 1996 essay “Times Square Blue” and her 2019 essay “The Ladder Up: A Restless History of Wa...

On the new episode of Selected Essays, @fluentmundo.bsky.social talks to Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine about “Times Square Blue,” Samuel Delany’s classic account of the bygone porn theater scene at the corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue:

But how do you approach a draft that is, in fact, a grown dog…

re barbie, agreed

It's weird how being indicted as a former president carries no real penalty, union busting carries no real penalty, but steal some food so you can eat and you'll be thrown in prison.

What do y’all think about indices, end notes, and other paratext in trade books (as opposed to scholarship)?

I actually didn’t know this is normal! Is this something I should be doing on my CV, which I use outside of academia?

A guy got stabbed to death in Brooklyn over the weekend for voguing at a gas station but go off

THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS WORLD, said Alice Notley:

This book continuesssss to fuck me up

Little bluesky shadow play 🍃