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Banning books is about the ideas inside them, says Iris Morales tracing her history of activism, writing and publishing in conversation with Alejandro Heredia of PEN America at NYC Literary Action Coalition summit

In his monthly column, Alejandro Heredia meditates on his ambivalence about the word community. tastefulrude.com/community/

I should make clear: I and other visiting authors have recently had experiences of being asked to censor our LGBT focused presentations. I have also spoken to a librarian who quietly dismantled their LGBT book display because of ‘quiet pressure from above’ This is happening NOW

And I've woken up on pub day to a review in The New York Times. Thank you @LairdHunt for an honor I've only ever dreamed of. Thank you Changyu Zou for the most accurately beautiful depiction of this book that I've ever seen in my life. This will be a wild day. 💛🖤

Still reeling from the Literary Activism Summit a few weeks ago. We got to talk banned books, community building through literature, activism, and what the amazing Iris Morales called our contemporary “battle of ideas.” PEN America SchomburgCenter Raquel Willis (BACKUP)

#Books #writers

Wake up everyone!!!!! Signed copies of SEA CHANGE are swimming into Books Are Magic!!! Her two book aunts (me and Grace Shuyi Liew) accompanied @ginathechung to go sign books today. You know where to get your copies now… 40 of them are waiting and then some 🐙

Anyway if y’all want 7 hours of in-depth audio journalism and storytelling beyond the Times piece click this link. open.spotify.com/show/0NuHlGNjE…

“I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.” —Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003)

Definitely the most personal thing about me not written by me to date. That's a testament to @mallika_rao who made it easy to talk about life. vulture.com/article/nana-k…

I do not use this bird app, but figured I’d share just in case that my debut novel, LOCA, forthcoming February 11, 2025 from Simon & Schuster is now available for pre order! simonandschuster.com/books/Loca/Ale…

Goddamn, I love this cover.