"The road to economic mobility is an arduous one for young mothers, but this has more to do with historic, systemic racism and institutional barriers than her child." Thank you to @juliaberick and Tiffany Blackstone for the opportunity to shine light on these mothers.

When you are really lucky, a super smart friend agrees to write about that fascinating point they made over dinner and you can publish it Oprah Daily ! Thank you @GriselYAcosta1

“It’s that limited conception of who writing about pregnancy is for rather than the pregnancy diary itself, that seems a little hackneyed to me.” nikki shaner-bradford being a genius Astra Magazine

an honor to work with @AriaAber on this interview for Oprah Daily

What Makes for the Perfect Summer Read (and 6 Titles to Get You Started) trib.al/NYqcFZG

The perfect description of summer reading synesthesia by Rhian Sasseen for Oprah Daily

delighted to have helped share this beautiful essay from Tanya Mozias Slavin via Oprah Daily

QPL's Culture Connection is delighted to host an evening with @NadjaSpiegelman, editor-in-chief of Astra Magazine, a new literary journal with an international focus! Watch live on Friday, July 29 at 7PM. facebook.com/QPLNYC/live_vi… youtu.be/IUVU4FYG3M8

Talking about my feelings Oprah Daily

Hot and fun: @_andypowell

"If I approached the first episode with apprehension, then I came to the second with skepticism—could this episode really be as interesting as the previous one?" A pleasure to share Brittany Rogers (she/her) on watching Abbott Elementary as an educator for Oprah Daily

Don't you wish you read more poems as maps? (Or maps as poems?) "The Park Isn't Just a Magical Place Where I'll Always Feel Better, But I Still Go There Every Day, Just to See," by Nikita Ladd. rejection-letters.com/2022/10/18/the…

for The New York Times, I wrote about the rise and fall of Astra Magazine, plus what it says about funding for literary magazines nytimes.com/2022/12/03/boo…

A love letter to SAVEUR, from new owner and EIC Kat Craddock saveur.com/culture/saveur…

.Julia Berick reads Sheila Heti's latest novel: "'The Alphabetical Diaries' is drawn from a decade’s worth of Heti’s own diaries, about 500,000 words that she separated out into single-sentence strands and then alphabetized." lareviewofbooks.org/article/making…

I'm taking calls ! juliaberick at lareviewofbooks.org

"I read all Morante’s novels that have been translated into English without the fever breaking." Rebecca Claire Schultz reviews Elsa Morante's "Lies and Sorcery." lareviewofbooks.org/article/drink-…