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so excited to share this essay I wrote at the @LAReviewofBooks! it’s about the pandemic and other pandemics, and also about Will Alexander, Larry Kramer, ancient religion, etymology, the future of the decameron as form, and, I hope, more. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ascend…
The Unreality of Memory is out today and I feel stunned and very lucky to get this gorgeous review nytimes.com/2020/08/11/boo…
A Jazz Drummer’s Fight to Keep His Own Heart Beating nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyr…
Next Monday, August 10, 8pm ET: The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series Powerhouse Women Night, featuring @lvandenberg, @believekarolina, @BCMorrow, and @marysouth, with host @MaraeHart! Register here: bit.ly/3hulqSb
It’s 1am I just finished Toxicon and Arachne by @PlantAsylum & feel like I’m shaking w/ language, wow, logged back into this birdsound website to tweet that Joyelle’s books are always good but this book, this language of wild pre- and heavy post- is just 😳nightboat.org/book/toxicon-a…
Brix, Blake, bed, book:
lol an episode of the new Unsolved Mysteries is about the 1969 Berkshire UFO sightings that Bernadette Mayer, in PIECE OF CAKE, refers to describing Clark Coolidge: "a story is told of a luminous blue flying saucer sighted once in the place where the Coolidge house now stands."
So excited for Monday’s Virtual @FranklinParkBK Reading with @blakebutler, @tracysoneill, @dracm, and @woodlandraised! Register here: bit.ly/2VD4b8B And find books by our authors at our favorite #indiebookstore, @UnnameableB: unnameablebooks.square.site/shop/18
happy pub day to @SarahNumber4 my favorite writer (and gardener!). TRUE LOVE is a dark comedy examining friendship, relationships, work, art. I was lucky to see this book transform over the years. We're launching it with @booksaremagicbk tonight: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Next Monday, July 13, 8pm EDT: The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series features @blakebutler, @tracysoneill, @dracm, and @woodlandraised in a showcase of newly released fiction! Hosted by @MaraeHart. Via Zoom, register here: bit.ly/2VD4b8B
Thinking i might try to stave off this current wave of rising panic by writing a zine of absurdist science fair projects in the next 24 hours. If you have any science fair projects you want me to write, list them below & then I’ll send you a free copy of the zine.
Celebrate Juneteenth with new work from one of the best we have. bombmagazine.org/articles/song-…
✨Saidiya Hartman's✨ brilliant work is critical for the praxis of abolition. Her first book shows how freedom and slavery are sutured together in a historical scene of subjection."The afterlife of slavery" is freedom. Abolition is an unfinished project and immanent practice.
Abbas Kiarostami would have turned 80 today. “His films are somehow both deceptively simple and highly philosophical, playful and despairing at the same time, drawing profundity from their multitude of contradictions.” Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa: criterion.com/current/posts/… #BOTD
A major new book-length visionary poem from a writer “whose poems are among the major astonishments of contemporary poetry” - Robert Polito ALICE NOTLEY For the Ride shopkfb.weebly.com/store/p52/ALIC… #weship #KIRBSERV #curbsidepickup #inthevillage
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Ryan Ruby @_ryanruby_
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Dan Sinykin @dan_sinykin
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Ryan Ruby @_ryanruby_
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Working at St. Mark’s (1978)
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” — David Graeber, 1961-2020 Rest in peace and a better utopia <3
**Happy Independent Bookstore Day** We encourage you to support your favorite bookstore today (and every day!) @openpoetrybooks @ElliottBayBooks@CityLightsBooks @Malaprops @MalvernBooksTX @SeminaryCoop @57thstreetbooks @UnnameableB @PointReyesBooks @PMBookshop + countless more!
First bookstore visit since March! @UnnameableB @NewDirections @VersoBooks
I’m rereading the crossing of the Gobrin Ice in THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS right now—one of my favorite passages in all literature—and, having read nearly everything she ever wrote, I’m sure this is the moment Le Guin came into her full power as a writer. And it never faded after.
Shouting out some of my favorite local bookstores for #IndependentBookstoreDay @astoriabookshop @bookculture @CommunityBkstr @thelitbar @UnnameableB +many more. Bookstores are pillars of our communities in so many ways, and it's vital to support them if you are able.
Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay to these great booksellers and many more!
Check out this completely fascinating take on histories of plague by my friend Ian Dreiblatt. Did you know Egyptian monothesim may have resulted from an aesthetics of social distancing and sun induced hygiene? Read all about it!
so excited to share this essay I wrote at the @LAReviewofBooks! it’s about the pandemic and other pandemics, and also about Will Alexander, Larry Kramer, ancient religion, etymology, the future of the decameron as form, and, I hope, more. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ascend…
MAGICAL NEGRO is the winner of California Book Award! Best part about this gold is @Harmony_Holiday taking the silver. Imagine us fists up at the podium, the Black radical double ticket of your dreams
Can’t wait! This Monday, August 10, @lvandenberg, @believekarolina, @BCMorrow, and @marysouth will be joining us at the Virtual @FranklinParkBK Reading Series! Hosted by @MaraeHart, via Zoom. Sign up here: bit.ly/3hulqSb
The only things I’m good at as a teacher are being comfortable in embodied silence and bringing a tea kettle to class, so apologies in advance for Fall 2020
Next Monday, August 10, 8pm ET: The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series Powerhouse Women Night, featuring @lvandenberg, @believekarolina, @BCMorrow, and @marysouth, with host @MaraeHart! Register here: bit.ly/3hulqSb
It’s 1am I just finished Toxicon and Arachne by @PlantAsylum & feel like I’m shaking w/ language, wow, logged back into this birdsound website to tweet that Joyelle’s books are always good but this book, this language of wild pre- and heavy post- is just 😳nightboat.org/book/toxicon-a…
MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 8-9PM: Join us at the Virtual @FranklinParkBK Reading Series for our Powerhouse Women Night, featuring stellar authors @lvandenberg, @believekarolina, @BCMorrow, and @marysouth! Via Zoom, register here: bit.ly/3hulqSb
So...big news. There’s a novel coming. For adults. This is happening. about.simonandschuster.biz/news/jason-rey…
it has come to my attention that I might have been clearer about this. I am very very excited. it’ll be out on may day. @udpbooks I <3 u.
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