Literary Nationalism Why don't Americans read more European fiction? Why don't Europeans?

Literary Nationalism
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What does the trade deficit in books look like?

“We were just trying to get him medication… But he was already gone.”

Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman told us that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. By the next day, he said, his employee was out of Minnesota—and in Texas.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse. 😢💔🙏 He spent his life helping people, and now our government is peddling lies in an attempt to make you believe them.

ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE.

📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Twin Cities friends, do join us to celebrate this beautiful new limited edition chapbook series from Brighthorse Editions.

A few new poems from yours truly up at Nine Mile Press. www.ninemile.org/spring-2025-...

Saturday, June 7th 4:00 PM at Open Book in Minneapolis. Free. A bevy of brilliant readers. ASL interpreted. Join us!
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We've lost another gorgeous one, but she's left us her extraordinary poems. missourireview.com/when-i-learn...

Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage,
@slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...

The Only Possible Poems All poems are one of the following. There are no alternatives. “I’ll have you know that I’ve had sex.” “I went outside today, saw a bird, then imme...

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Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! #Resist

"We buy into some version of the intentional fallacy: the notion that art is about having a clear-cut intention and then confidently executing same. The actual process, in my experience, is much more mysterious and more of a pain in the ass to discuss truthfully." ~ George Saunders

Some Canadian poetry for today. From Margaret Atwood's book, Morning in the Burned House.

#poem #books #writing

Artist Sophie Woodrow's ceramics artist who creates ceramic figures to explore allegory, sentimentally, the strange and the decorative #WomensArt

That tracks.

One goodness.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Photo of a three dimensional snake artwork covered in white lace-like crochet, the snake which is semi coiled, is on a grey surface and viewed from slightly above

Year of the Snake
Happy #ChineseNewYear

Joana Vasconcelos, Crochet snake, 2008 #womensart

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Covers of the nominated books: An Authentic Life; Consider the Rooster; Scattered Snows, to the North; Instructions for the Lovers; and Wrong Norma.

Congratulations to the poetry finalists: Oliver Baez Bendorf, Anne Carson, Jennifer Chang, Dawn Lundy Martin, & Carl Phillips; & our poetry nominee for the Leonard first book award, Cindy Juyoung Ok. I'm honored to emcee the finalists reading March 19; our ceremony is 3/20. @bookcritics.bsky.social

This "thought experiment" from George Saunders has been on my mind often of late: "Is it possible that we have come to feel responsible for too much, for everything, even things outside of our control, and that this makes us feel like gods who have been unfairly disempowered?"

An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60 What may be the first commercially available book saved in DNA is the latest example of how consumers might use molecular data storage.

One way, I guess, to spirit away some great books when the Divine Republic starts torching them. www.wired.com/story/entire...

Always exciting to find a wonderful new poet I did not know! poems.com/poem/evoluti...

Some good news from a geriatric mother.

From @natalieshapero.bsky.social's book, Hard Child: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...

#poem #poetry #natalieshapero #writers #books

How to Move a Mind: Barry Lopez on the Power of Metaphor Over Data What it takes “to think abstract problems through on several planes at the same time, to stay alert for symbolic and allegorical meanings, to appreciate the utility of nuance.”

How to move a mind – Barry Lopez on the power of metaphor over data