It will take me a long time to get over this essay on Cleanness by Raven Leilani for NYRB. nybooks.com/online/2023/10…

It’s absolutely amazing to be read like this. Please read the whole thing. And thank you, Raven Leilani, for the beauty of your intelligence. nybooks.com/online/2023/10…

Raven Leilani (Raven Leilani) on Garth Greenwell and the craft of sex writing go.nybooks.com/3S8p3T8

“Good sex writing embraces the moral difficulty of not knowing, of a person’s sexual trial and error and the array of bad or unsexy sex that might come from it.” —Raven Leilani go.nybooks.com/3QqvlMG

“Pleasure feels both more credible and integrated into the stakes, as fickle on the page as it is in life.” —Raven Leilani on Garth Greenwell’s sex writing go.nybooks.com/3QrBEQi

“Pleasure feels both more credible and integrated into the stakes, as fickle on the page as it is in life.” —Raven Leilani on Garth Greenwell’s sex writing go.nybooks.com/3QrBEQi

🎧 For @SnogWriter LUSTER author Raven Leilani reads a story inspired in part by her experiences, “Breathing Exercise." And she invited one of her favorite bands, Elysian Fields, to write a song in response. Listen: songwriterpodcast.com/Raven-Leilani-…

I wrote about the sublime baritone Quinn Kelsey, currently starring in Verdi’s wacky Un Ballo in Maschera at the Met. Also: Grammy joy, Raven Leilani’s beautiful essay about Cleanness, & come join Luis & me this summer at Bread Loaf. Link in profile.

Some of the most insipid writing you’ll ever read is the result of someone expecting you to be as moved by the spectacle of their self pity as they are

speaking of “new fire island,” my poem about old fire island is the poem-a-day up at Academy of American Poets poets.org/poem/phragmites

y’all look at how they packaged advance media copies of EXHIBIT, I can’t ahhhh

Also in essays, a moving and harrowing piece by the great Raven Leilani about grief and grief writing. As a huge fan of her novel Luster, I’m really happy to have this essay in the magazine. nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essay…

this essay is just the best man nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essay…

‼️ ❤️ Raven Leilani

writing about grief is hard, and writing about writing about grief even more so, but Raven Leilani does it here so beautifully, and so helpfully ❤️ nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essay…

Surreal to see it in print. Thank you The New Yorker

I see movies sometimes years in advance of their release and I’m somehow able to avoid dropping anything beyond little nuggets to get people to go to the theater. some of you… listen, I don’t care about spoilers at all but yall need to relax!

The 2025-2026 Fellows: Dan Bouk, Vajra Chandrasekera, Brad Fox, M. Leona Godin, Gregg Hecimovich, Colin Jones, Aparna Kapadia, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Jordan Kisner, Katie Kitamura, Raven Leilani, David Mills, Benjamin Moser, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Krithika Varagur

Very exciting news! Contributor Raven Leilani was selected as a 2025–2026 Fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers NY Public Library! We are so happy for her! Congratulations, Raven! buff.ly/jVsz9fz