One of the many things I love about Philly is all the amazing bookstores. Philly Bookstore Crawl Today phillybookstorecrawl.com!

Dreamed of publishing work in Copper Nickel for years. So happy this new poem, "Jubilee," came to rest there. What an issue, esp. the cento-like composite on the back cover! (Ignore the haze of my camera, my souvenir from falling into a river in Iceland--another story.) 🌿

Thank you Governor Josh Shapiro this is was really sweet of you to send—

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé (Dr. Samuel Kolawole) on the relationship between art and activism, and how African writers and Black writers shouldn’t bear the unfair burden of being expected to create political art buff.ly/4fU4bbX

Annual reminder to syllabus-makers: you can add information about voter registration deadlines and election dates to your course schedule 🗳️

I loved All Fours. Just loved it.

Don’t lollygag! Get that manuscript in!

Congrats Jesse! This looks beautiful...

Last month, STM came to Iowa & spent two days with Luis & me, including long conversations, a movie, grocery shopping, & dinner in our home. I’m v grateful for this profile New York Magazine Vulture, which includes the most beautiful description of Small Rain I’ve seen. Farrar,Straus&Giroux

This fall, I am leading a seminar on one of my favorite novels, The Bostonians. There are...11 spots left. Sign up link below.

Just a couple of days left until submissions open!

I don’t think people are really understanding this cover.

I do love the fall.

Thanks 1️⃣ for including 7.13 Books’s Fall title by Linda Watanabe McFerrin in the San Francisco Chronicle Fall Books Preview!

This collection is GREAT and everyone should preorder it.

Tonight in Philly 🤣

A while ago, I found a strange and beautiful literary artifact—the missing tape recordings containing the drafts of Reinaldo Arenas’s last book, Before Night Falls. I wrote about this treasure hunt (and the treasure) for The New York Review of Books online! nybooks.com/online/2024/09…

We are working on a remembrance, but we cannot overstate the influence of #FredricJameson on Duke University Press. We have made his articles in our journals freely available through October 31. "Postmodernism" is our all-time bestselling book. ow.ly/kGvQ50TtqGz