I worked with Michael Henry Heim to set up the PEN/Heim Translation Fund & am very glad Jack Hargreaves accepted. I urge winners of the 2024 PEN/Heim grants NOT to decline.

The Fund was donated by Heim twenty years ago & has continued to

This @LitHub overview of all the people declining or withdrawing from PEN awards is a great look at a blossoming solidarity, and also serves a very handy reading list

lithub.com/withdrawals-an…

A reminder to take a listen to this if you like podcasts (or Butler!)

🧵I declined the PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, in solidarity with the 1300+ writers who've decried PEN America silence on the genocidal murder of Palestinians, & with the PEN America United fight to maintain free speech for PEN employees,

Once again just putting out there that if I wrote a book series that was universally beloved and made me richer than god you would simply never hear from me again

I, too, reject all the apologies that haven’t actually been offered to me

Loving the cover - and thanks for the very kind blurbs! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030026…

annoyed to feel compelled to say nice things about my chain gym but dammit I'm proud to be a planet fitness member

My first time seeing my new book in the wild is always a special day.

Love beyond love letting authors know their project was approved by the editorial board. Hate beyond hate doing the electronic paperwork after their project was approved by the editorial board.