Back on this godforsaken platform to say: this sucks. Publishers, do not do this. If you do, we will not stock you.

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I think everyone withdrawing from the PEN awards should organize their own ceremony. I'd absolutely go to that (esp if it was a fundraiser)

while i personally have not been nominated for any prizes from any problematic institutions recently, i feel like we need to come up with some kind of new framework of mutual aid for these divest & refuse actions

I just got a scam call from 'a bookstore' asking if they could stock copies of 'your book Call Me Max' and the person on the line kept calling me ma'am.

Every person’s life is a whole world, and Israel has taken 30,000 of them. And it has made sure that the ones they’ve left behind have lost their whole worlds

I got my hysto during the ecplise!

“Heartfelt” picture book JUST WHAT TO DO by Kyle Lukoff and H A T “hints at people’s different experiences of loss, and suggests that asking instead of assuming may open the door to deeper companionship” pwne.ws/3vMj7Xl

This is so heartbreaking

this is today at 2pm! come swing by and say hi if you're in or near Hoboken
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Last night 6 pro-Palestine Columbia students were suspended & evicted w/out due process. The uni hired a private investigator who reportedly attempted to enter dorm rooms, demanded to read students' private texts. The weaponization of 'safety' discourse. theintercept.com/2024/03/28/saf…

Glad to be number 87, they should just skip 14 and 88 like some old-timey hotels don't have a 13th floor.

This fun #PB by Kyle Lukoff is exploding with wordplay! It’s bursting with poem-y puns and can also serve as a zany intro to poetic terms. The illustrations by mark hoffmann are such a delight! 💥📖🏭
#NaPoMo #NationalPoetryMonth #childrensbooks

s/o to the middle schooler who just pulled this book off the children’s library shelf to look at the title and then muttered, “good”

why would you admit this lmao

'Do the negative responses to your work make you want to shy away from focusing on LGBTQ themes in future books?'

Cows —a surprise species— in dairy farms, cats and now a farm worker are sick with H5N1 avian flu.

The geographic distribution suggests it’s spreading from cow-to-cow.

Public health officials need to respond quickly, transparently and vigorously.
nytimes.com/live/2024/03/2…

James Baldwin: 'We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger. If people think that my danger makes them safe, we are in trouble.'

Reminder: Applications to host the 2025 Children's Literature Lecture, featuring Kyle Lukoff, close this Friday, 4/5!

Learn more & apply: bit.ly/3UWzaf8