November 7: "In Being Bold": a partner event between House of SpeakEasy Joe’s Pub and W. W. Norton & Company to celebrate Norton’s 100th anniv + launch of Norton Shorts. This show will feature authors in the series, a venture “in being bold.” 7pm. More info: publictheater.org/productions/jo…

Our friends at Words Without Borders (WordsWithoutBorders) interviewed the authors and translators Longlisted for the 2023 #NBAwards for Translated Literature! Check out the full interview series on their website: wordswithoutborders.org/read/collectio…

Brilliant, joy to work with W. W. Norton & Company author Paul Harding is National Book Foundation Award finalist for THIS OTHER EDEN -- also a Booker Prize finalist!

This is going to be an awesome event with @vauhinivara in conversastion with Leslie Jamison and free tix will definitely "sell" out, grab yours now! nypl.org/events/program…

And another great event to look forward to, free seats going fast so sign up now! Matthew Longo is terrific (my favorite kind of #italianamerican, great communicator, warm, waves hands a lot) and THE PICNIC is one of the best nonfiction books I've read...salmagundi.org/half-king-read…

Booker Prize finalists on digital billboard in Piccadilly Circus, London. (Paul Harding top front and center, on the curve, holding THIS OTHER EDEN.) When will National Book Foundation make an arrangement to put their finalists up in Times Square?

Forthcoming W. W. Norton & Company book by Matthew Stewart looks great: "An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America": wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

An evening to remember.

The WordsWithoutBorders gala was both joyful and moving. For 20 years, the journal has opened doors, opened eyes, opened hearts. Its archive is, among other things, a record of unforgotten, ongoing struggles for recognition and justice. Here Poupeh Missaghi پوپه میثاقی reads an account from Iran. 1/2

This is the link to Poupeh Missaghi پوپه میثاقی’s series on the historic uprising, “WomanLifeFreedom”: wordswithoutborders.org/read/collectio… 2/2

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Our Gala photos are on Facebook! Thanks so much to our photographer Beowulf Sheehan! Ilya Kaminsky Raven Leilani @samanthaschnee alane salierno mason facebook.com/media/set/?set…

Here come Globe Trot photos! All by Lívia Sá: facebook.com/media/set/?set…

A Norton Shorts channel!! Really. youtube.com/watch?v=nUO1aa…

“Literature is a really powerful space for imagining new ways forward, or thinking through situations that are impossible if you take them head on as facts,” said Karen Phillips, of Words Without Borders, a magazine of literature in translation. nyti.ms/3G1I2I5

Last call to sign up for our Virtual Gala, happening via Zoom at 7 ET TONIGHT! Get together with host Merve Emre and hear readings by Ilya Kaminsky, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Poupeh Missaghi, and Laila Lalami! Register @ wwborders.live/2023VirtualGala

Celebrating Literature That ‘Brings the World Close’ nytimes.com/2023/11/02/boo…

A second feature in the NYT on WordsWithoutBorders, 20 years later! Huzzah!

Reading “What We’ve Become” by Jonathan M. Metzl about the 2018 Waffle House mass shooting and came across this chapter about Rep. Shaundelle Brooks. The doc holding that sign was me. I’m proud that I stood with Shaundelle in 2021 and proud to stand with her now as she runs for office!