Let's order books!

Specifically the ones withdrawn from PEN America's book awards this year!

Starting with Antonio di Benedetto X Esther Allen's THE SILENTIARY: 'A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book' nyrb.com/products/the-s…

Ngl, some of y'all on here are so dope, like dope dope, like if-I-see-you-I'll-dab-you-up dope, like it's-only-a-matter-of-time-&-fate-before-we-go-catch-a-coffee-together-&-it's-on-me dope

The epigraph of my thesis/story collection is set, I only wish my words could even reach a fraction of Mahfouz’s and Baldwin's immense and grounding wisdom

I am moved by the integrity of the authors withdrawing from prize lists to protest PEN America's refusal to name the genocide in Gaza and failure to meet their stated aims of protecting free speech and Palestinian writers. Here are their books to buy bookshop.org/wishlists/7166…

Oh my god oh my god oh my god!!! I first heard about this novel two years ago under my mentorship with Laura van den Berg through Periplus, and dear reader, I have been eagerly WAITING for this! Now, I'm dropping everything and reading this asap! Laura hive rise up🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Y'all, there is a surge of authors withdrawing their books from considerations from PEN related awards due to their dangerous rhetoric on Palestine, if you come across anyone who has done this, try and support them by purchasing their books or spreading word of their needed work.

With my gratitude to the judges for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize - nevertheless, I am withdrawing:

Olive + Oil
Zaitouna + Zayt

I withdrew my work from consideration for the Jean Stein Award. I can't align myself w/ a human rights org that waits 5 months to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, while platforming zionists & pretending there's nuance to genocide.
✊🏽🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
✊🏽Writers Against the War on Gaza
✊🏽PEN America United

Tell me, dear reader, is there light at the end of the thesis deadline??

In solidarity with the writers boycotting the PEN America World Voices Festival; PEN America United; Writers Against the War on Gaza; and all the other writers who have declined PEN awards this week––

Bro why is the newest X-Men 97 episode so good?! Nightcrawler?! Emma Frost?! Drama all around?! So good so good!!!

Come join the Hunter MFA next week at the KGB Bar to hear our wonderful students read! From poetry to fiction to nonfiction, it will be a fun night full of drinks and verse and company!!!

YES!!! Congrats Ada Zhang 🥳🥳🥳

i’ve just turned down the pen/dau prize, in solidarity with palestine + the protest against pen america’s refusal to take a clear, principled stance on the israeli genocide against the palestinian people

Eid Mubarak folks, and like yesterday, and like today, and like tomorrow, singing for the freedom of Palestine and its people 🇵🇸🌙

Okay the latest One Piece episode with the fight between Luffy and Lucci, phenomenal! The animation is just, phewww... gear 5 is just that transformation right now!

when her dream was to be a poet but she ended up being a cat

Tomorrow is Eid al-Fitr, and I can't stop thinking about those who are violently denied entry into al-Aqsa, who are refused their right to pray and mourn and celebrate and yet still gather in collective resistance, may tomorrow bring them the truest joys of happiness.

eid mubarak to all my brothers

sisters i will be messaging you individually