Huge congratulations to William Pei Shih @williampeishih.bsky.social (and also the Los Angeles Review) for winning an O. Henry Prize this year. Can’t wait to read the story.

Thank you so much! 😍

Thank you so much! 🙏

Huge congrats to all the winners! 🤩

It is a profound honor to see this story recognized here, particularly as it follows its recent inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2025. I am truly humbled to be in the company of such esteemed fellow winners—you can read the full announcement on Lit Hub.

😍 My heartfelt thanks go to my wonderful editor at The Los Angeles Review, K.K. Fox, for her early belief in this piece, and to my agents Ellen Levine and Martha Wydysh for their tireless advocacy.

Announcing the Winners of the 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction Tommy Orange was awarded a much-deserved MacArthur Genius Grant this fall for breaking from the tradition of reservation-based Native American literature to write new, illuminative, and realistic N…

I am beyond thrilled to share that my story, “The Masterclass,” has been selected as a winner of the 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. I am deeply grateful to Tommy Orange for choosing this story and to Jenny Minton Quigley for her brilliant leadership of the series.

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Our new issue is online, with portfolios by Lynn Johnson and Mandy Barker; essays by Sofi Thanhauser and Donovan Hohn; fiction by Bill Cheng, William Pei Shih, and Mimi Lok; poetry by Erin L. McCoy, Leslie Harrison, Sacha Marvin, and Nikki Giovanni. Read it all: www.vqronline.org/summer-2025

Oh that would be fascinating! 😃

Today’s reading.

Happy Book Birthday to this book! 🎊🎉🙌

Excited to read this! New novel by Andrew Porter!

“I’d run into Leslie Epstein in Brookline, and he’d ask me, ‘Are you writing, Jhumpa?’ And I’d say, ‘I have papers to finish—Foucault is expecting me.’ And he’d say, ‘Don’t forget to be a writer.’” —Jhumpa Lahiri buff.ly/fcwTAmz

Two Canadian writers walk into a bar…. 🥰

“The Place Blanche, Paris, Life itself. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.”

— Quartet by Jean Rhys

Tonight is a Wuthering Heights night.

J.S. BACH, CONCERTO NO.5 IN F-MINOR FOR HARPSICHORD AND STRINGS (BWV 1056) - LARGO, MARIA JOÃO PIRES YouTube video by The Passion of Classical Music

incredible playing.

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I'm absolutely delighted to find The Great Believers on Kirkus's list of the 100 Best [fiction] Books of the Century (So Far), along with so many books I love. 😍😭

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Happy birthday Vincent van Gogh! 🌻

Lots happening on The White Lotus.

Just remembered Franz Schubert's Octet in F Major has a horn.

Oh god, the boat people.

". . . You would never call me baby
If you knew me truly
Oh but I waited so long for your love
I am scared baby that I can't keep it up for long
Boy I wish I grow up the second
I first held you in my arms
Underneath this hood you kiss
I tick like a bomb . . ."

" . . . I wonder why I'm so afraid
Of saying something wrong, I never said I was a saint
I wonder, when I cry into my hands
I'm conditioned to feel like it makes me less of a man
And I wonder if someday you'll be by my side
And tell me that the world will end up alright
I wonder
I wonder . . . "

"There are many people at Versailles today."

Thinking about Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson.

Giving the music of Antonio Salieri a try.

too soon old, too late smart