The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

—James Baldwin

Student protesters, May 22, 1989, Tiananmen Square. Sometimes, when I close my eyes, I still see this photo and feel their hope.

Please read through this spreadsheet, which currently lists 475 fundraising campaigns for families seeking help and/or evacuation in Gaza. It includes their names, needs, links to their fundraising sites and socials, and what % they've already raised: t.ly/k443n

A Freudian slip or radical honesty?

Sharon Olds published STAG’S LEAP 15yrs after the divorce. Which is to say the poems will come when they come and how they come.

I know of no greater intimacy than the comments a brilliant editor leaves for her writer in track changes

I wish this were more important to the general public.

“I’m unhappy, mostly, when I’m not writing, unless I’ve just written something, in which case I’m euphoric because I don’t have to try and write something again.” —Louise Glück buff.ly/47LSE9u

been signing emails + letters + books lately with “wishing you every gentleness.” because that is my wish. for myself, too

This book is wild and brilliant and unlike anything you’ve ever read 📖

the rare case wherein an (extremely!) unusual format choice perfectly matches its content, and both are brilliantly executed. i love this book.

🌟matthew baker wrote a masterwork: a graphic novel in the span of a single sentence about political regimes, language, anarchy, & found families. A one of a kind continuous creation. Order here: dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p/t… (this tweet has exponentially more sentences than the book)

the degradation of language, to say anything but children—💔 what do we do with this english?

Hi friends, in case you haven't seen this yet, a ton of writers and their publishers — myself and W. W. Norton & Company included — are donating signed books to #BooksforGaza , helping Gazan children receive crucial surgeries. Do your shopping here, and all proceeds will go to this cause!

so thrilled, so grateful, so wildly fortunate to be on a team with Sarah Bowlin and Olivia Taylor Smith

returning from twitter exile to share an essay on blake butler's 'molly'--a difficult book & difficult piece to write, one that challenged me (as i finish my own trauma memoir) to wrestle with the ethics of my work as a critic ... really hope you'll read bookforum.com/print/3003/bla…

Wonderful new issue of Bookforum Magazine is out today, including pieces on Heti, Varda, Sinykin, Connolly, & an intuitive & inquisitory unpacking of 'Molly' by Jamie Hood

bookforum.com/print/3003/bla…

Our February issue of Guernica Magazine is live! I'm thrilled to be publishing the lyrically astonishing 'The Jaws of Life' by Alexander Lumans, which has a Taylor Swift Oulipian constraint that we've unwittingly synced with the Grammys. guernicamag.com/the-jaws-of-li…