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"The Great Gatsby is not simply a story of defeat. It is an elegy for a dream that continues to struggle on, undespairingly, even when it has already been lost."

“Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don’t love you or your work.” —Toni Morrison buff.ly/lcexXNN

A Forest by Gustav Klimt

Great conversation between Colm Tóibín and Miwa Messer 😍 at B&N for the Poured Over Podcast on the new novel Long Island, which is of course, a knockout. I’ve been a fan of Tóibín’s work for years—The Empty Family, House of Names, Testament of Mary, The Master, Brooklyn, the

“My ideal for writing fiction is to put Dostoyevsky and Chandler together in one book.” —Haruki Murakami buff.ly/HFeEWlE

‘History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.’ Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.

Two Canadian writers walk into a bar…. 🥰

Excited to read Andrew Porter’s new novel!

“I don’t think the reader should be indulged as a consumer, because he isn’t one. Literature that indulges the tastes of the reader is a degraded literature. My goal is to disappoint the usual expectations and inspire new ones.” —Elena Ferrante buff.ly/LsoCI9z

“I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.” —Eudora Welty buff.ly/xG1aF6v

William Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

“From tiny experiences we build cathedrals.” —Orhan Pamuk buff.ly/bcp0GX4

A poem by Dr. Maya C. Popa. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/34a7Su

“The citizen and the novelist in me are always at war, and that can be enormously productive, as long as neither of them wins.” —Javier Cercas buff.ly/RdsolSP

Happy Book Birthday to this book! 🎊🎉🙌

Is your name Oksana? Did you have two ectopic pregnancies, have your new book not sell, get drunk, and search for your dead grandmother's old apartment in Santa Monica? If so, then my new story, "The Glow," up now Guernica Magazine, is just the thing for you! guernicamag.com/the-glow/

Today’s reading.

I’m incredibly honored and excited to share that my story “The Masterclass” will be included in this year’s Best American Short Stories 2025. My heartfelt thanks to Celeste Ng for choosing this strange and peculiar story, and to Nicole Lee.a.lamy, the new series editor of the

More good news from The New Yorker! Incredibly honored to see The Imagined Life (Alfred A. Knopf) included among The New Yorker’s “Best Books We Read This Week!” newyorker.com/best-books-2025.