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Chuffed to be chatting on a noon Zoom with the incomparable Lynne Tillman for The Brooklyn Rail! Next Wednesday, April 2. Hope you can join. brooklynrail.org/event/2025/04/…

Join us as we welcome Lynne Tillman (Lynne Tillman) for a conversation with James Yeh (James Yeh) on her latest collection THRILLED TO DEATH (Soft Skull Press) this Wednesday, April 2nd, at a special time of 12 pm Eastern in the Zoom: bit.ly/4cnm6X1

Full of queer heart, guilded-over memory, and gay men chasing perfection, Seán Hewitt's Open, Heaven teaches that "heaven” is a place that we ourselves create—and that it may be impossible to reach for that reason. My review in The Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/books/… Alfred A. Knopf

i reviewed haley mlotek’s “no fault” for the april issue of The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/04/books/…

realclearbooks.com Monday reads: Stephen G. Adubato for COMPACT, Charles McElwee for City Journal, Farahn Morgan for Washington Examiner, Tamara Nicholl-Smith for Athwart, Jonah Allon for The Metropolitan Review, maddie crum for The Brooklyn Rail, Katherine Dee 🐬/acc for Comment, and others.

We're thrilled to welcome Danez Smith (Danez) for a conversation with Mandana Chaffa (mandana) on their latest collection BLUFF (Graywolf Press) this Wednesday, April 9th. Join us in the Zoom at 1 pm Eastern! bit.ly/3E1EeZX

Thank you Jillian Russo for the review of Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston's exhibition "Flash Point" in The Brooklyn Rail. You can read it here: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/artsee…

"Tillman has a fondness for this kind of paradox—the way opposites tend to collapse in on themselves. In her stories, fiction and reality have a tendency to give way to one another." —The Brooklyn Rail on Lynne's latest collection, THRILLED TO DEATH. brooklynrail.org/2025/04/books/…

A Tribute to David Lynch - A The Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment Conversation I’ll be part of this Thursday. Register to attend via Zoom. instagram.com/p/DIemlDTsnK_/…

*The Lidia Yuknavitch* joins us for a conversation with Porochista Khakpour (porochista khakpour she/her پوروچیستا خاکپور) on her latest memoir, Reading the Waves (Riverhead Books), this Wednesday, April 16th, at 1 pm Eastern! We can't wait to see you in the Zoom. Register here: bit.ly/42vWhj7

The Brooklyn Rail reviews “Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s stellar translations” of the “powerful” poems by Najwan Darwish in No One Will Know You Tomorrow brooklynrail.org/2025/04/books/…

We're overjoyed to welcome #MaggieNelson for a conversation with #DarceySteinke on her latest book PATHEMATA, OR, THE STORY OF MY MOUTH (#wavebooks) this Wednesday, April 23rd. Join us in the Zoom at 1 pm Eastern! bit.ly/3GvuJmm

"Deep House argues for us to not wait for the law to catch up to us, but to instead love anyways despite the threat and to do what we can for one another to protect it—even if that fighting must happen in darkness for now." The Brooklyn Rail Little, Brown and Co brooklynrail.org/2025/05/books/…

For The Brooklyn Rail I reviewed Lauren Haddad's FIREWEED, a complicated and risky feat of storytelling that people aren't responding to entirely fairly

I spoke with queer historian Marc Zinaman about his new book, Queer Happened Here: 100 Years of NYC’s Landmark LGBTQ+ Places, for The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/05/art_bo…

We're thrilled to welcome Morgan Jerkins (Morgan Jerkins) for a conversation with Stephen Patrick Bell (Stephen Patrick Bell) about her new novel ZEAL (HarperCollins; Harper Books) this Wednesday, May 21st. Join us in the Zoom at 1 pm Eastern! bit.ly/3ZfGHHF

The #LydiaMillet will be in conversation with Mandana Chaffa (mandana) about her latest collection of short stories, ATAVISTS (W. W. Norton & Company), this Wednesday (5/28). Join us in the Zoom at 1 pm Eastern! bit.ly/4dADUyB