Hitting a Wall and Making a Door: A Conversation between Phillis Levin and Diane Mehta PHILLIS LEVIN <br> A flood of associations and memories ensues, a fantasia of cultural and personal histories—casualties of natural disasters, casualties of human massacres; and a need to escape (or b...

Conversation about poetry between the wonderful Phillis Levin and me in @commonmag.bsky.social
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What Russia stole, these Crimean Tatar authors endeavor to reclaim with literature To much of the world, Crimea is mostly synonymous with the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine — once a precious Black Sea resort, the peninsula was seized at gunpoint in 2014 and transformed into a...

Thrilled to contribute 3 translations to the anthology of writing in Crimean Tatar @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
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Rehearsal Scenes by Diane Mehta June 18, 2025 – “Choreography is a way of organizing chaos.”

New Chamber Ballet's Poet-in-Residence and Happier Far author dianemehta.bsky.social‬ captures the essence of three dance scenes in her new piece for The ‪parisreview.bsky.social‬. Check it out here: https://loom.ly/Wh4C114

Re-upping this given today's awful news about curtailing medical care for our trans fellow citizens: lithub.com/how-trumps-a...

Stepping Out | Clair Wills I hold hands with strangers. I do it quite often, and for long minutes at a time. I wrap my arms around them to bring them close in an embrace. I search their faces. I fit my body to their dips and ho...

"Each dance is a small—four- or five-minute—collaboration."
Clair Wills on dancing, and talking about dance. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

An important book, take notice!

Sharing this piece, my favorite from my essay collection, which I read at @interintellect.bsky.social last week.

It's exactly right on with the confusion, and the wealth comment startled but did not surprise me.

A Reading List for Jewish American Heritage Month 2025: clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Thank you for including TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by Diane Mehta (@dianemehta.bsky.social), @clmporg.bsky.social!

It is I who must thank you! A powerful night.

Fantastic night at a packed house thx to @peninaroth.bsky.social

MONDAY, 8PM: Can't wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night with acclaimed authors Jamie Hood, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social! #Free, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights

Thank you for reading it!

Word Games Diane Mehta on learning the frantic art of scrambling for words from her speedy and strategic 21-year-old son.

After playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social
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congrats!

There is so much I want to say

HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.

Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

Proud of this essay! Thx @ditmaslit.bsky.social 8pm looking forward to reading for and with you at Urbane Arts Club in Brooklyn 4/23 at 8pm.

These funding cut offs—like those at Penn, Columbia, etc.—are illegal. Will anyone sue to vindicate their interests, or those of students, staff, and the general public?

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

Well this seems like a fantastic plan.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

What a monster henchman

House Quietly Ducks Trump Tariff Vote Congress forks over more power to the president.

Mike Johnson changed the House rules so that a vote for Congress to reclaim authority to do tariffs will never be scheduled, by declaring the rest of this Congressional term one single calendar day. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/house-quie.... He could fix all of this before the US markets open.

How Visions of Freediving Helped Diane Mehta Finish Her Novel When I feel most invisible, I turn to YouTube and watch videos of freediving. I became enthralled when I was researching the motions and rhythms of being proficiently underwater for a scene in my n…

@dianemehta.bsky.social reflects on racism, religious experiences, and how visions of freediving helped her finish her novel.

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #87: Diane Mehta "Be yourself in prose, allow ideas to emerge, and go on riffs—into brambly, wild places. I don’t mean let just anything happen, but follow your mind."

Today @dianemehta.bsky.social takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. Her memoir-in-essays, "Happier Far," is just out from University of Georgia press.

memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

“This slim volume is packed with poetic and penetrating insights into the human condition,” writes Lauren Gilbert, in a review of Diane Mehta’s book, HAPPIER FAR: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/happier...

#essays #book #newbook #DianeMehta @dianemehta.bsky.social

Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 4/23! We’re excited to welcome Anton Solomonik, @dianemehta.bsky.social, @joannanovak1986.bsky.social, & Timothy Ree. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

I hope you will come to one of my bookstore events! Happier Far launches in 3 days..

March 20 P&T Knitwear with Vivian Gornick ($7)

April 15 Community Books w/Minna Zallman Proctor

A celebration of an incredible new essay collection, "Happier Far":

@notorioustib.bsky.social is hosting @dianemehta.bsky.social on Interintellect 📖

Online and April 10!

Tix: interintellect.com/salons/what-...

Find an expert - the essay Her Greatest Hits - here: longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...