encampments at Columbia, MIT, Yale, UMD, UMichigan, UNC, NYU, Yale and surely expected to grow. the students and the young people of America want the genocide to end, they want divestment and they want a free Palestine. full solidarity with the students.

Talking to brilliant octavia bright about Hagstone on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book today. 4pm online, app or radio.

Bonus: on the same show, Kathryn Scanlan will be discussing the work of Moyra Davey.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

New Lutz is here!

Solidarity with Columbia students and Google workers who recognize the involvement of their institutions in the ongoing genocide of Gaza and are throwing themselves on the gears

Happy 25th anniversary to my favorite journal, NOON

An unreal honor to be among the recipients of this prize, present & past

Extreme gratitude to Donald Windham & Sandy Campbell & to the Windham-Campbell Prizes nominators & jury & selection panel for this life-changing gift!

My interview with Kathryn Scanlan, winner of the Gordon Burn Prize, was published by Guardian Books on Fri. Kick The Latch really challenges the idea of what a novel could/should be. I loved reading it and really enjoyed writing this piece ⬇️

🎈A very happy publication day to Rita Bullwinkell's HEADSHOT!🥊
Available from your favourite bookshop now.

From Iman Husain in The Nation : 'Without access to the resources necessary to fulfill even the minimal needs of life, including critical healthcare, there is no such thing as choice for women in Gaza. There is simply no concept of reproductive freedom.'
thenation.com/article/world/…

BEHOLD! Fall '24, featuring: László Krasznahorkai, Dunya Mikhail, Ágota Kristóf, Elizabeth Willis, Günter Grass, Yoko Tawada, Clarice Lispector, Forrest Gander, Solvej Balle, Marcel Proust, and Osamu Dazai.
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LA friends:

I’ll be reading alongside Myriam Gurba Serrano katya apekina Jonathan Lethem, and Valerie Werder this Sunday 3/24 7PM Stories Books & Cafe for The Capacity reading series hosted by Caitlin Forst.

Getting to publish your favourite writers is a pretty big bonus when you start a literary journal. Read Kathryn Scanlan's incredibly potent short story 'Early American' on The Pig's Back website for free.

💫We are excited to announce that we are launching a poetry list in 2025, edited by Rachael Allen & Joely Day. 💫

We're delighted to be welcoming Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Diane Seuss, Rebecca Tamás, Matthew Rice & SASHA D-M to Fitzcarraldo Editions.

More details here: thebookseller.com/news/fitzcarra…

Extremely grateful to the judges not only for choosing Kathryn Scanlan 's KICK THE LATCH as this year's #GordonBurnPrize winner but for their wonderful words on it - many, many thanks Sheena Patel , Andrew Hankinson, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and Terri White

Thank you to the judges & prize & to Gordon Burn & his legacy — & to Jimena Gorraez & Marigold Atkey & everyone at DauntBooksPublishing! & to Harriet Moore! Congratulations to all of the long & shortlisted writers!

A man is willing to die for his words and the NYT says he was 'echoing language'

Peace to Aaron Bushnell. We add him to the rolls of yesterday's martyrs in Gaza. Of the nearly 100 killed: two fisherman shot off the coast of Khan Yunis; seven year old Heba Abdin whose home was bombed; and Muhammed al-Zayegh, 60 days old, who died of starvation. Free Palestine.

Joy Williams (Concerning the Future of Souls)