'We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening.'

bell hooks on love: themarginalian.org/2023/11/03/bel…

Salman Rushdie warns young people against forgetting value of free speech theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Dorothy Allison: “In the Stories We Share and Those We Have Not Yet Crafted—We Live Forever” lithub.com/dorothy-alliso… via Literary Hub

Two Vietnams: Chronicling a Father and Daughter’s Shared Love For the Same Country lithub.com/two-vietnams-c… via Literary Hub #Vietnam

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction lithub.com/announcing-the… via Literary Hub

Stacey D'Erasmo on the Art of Intimacy lithub.com/stacey-derasmo… via Literary Hub

Read Smart on #Gardens Past and Present. Razia Iqbal on the Baillie Gifford Prize #podcast , Read Smart lithub.com/read-smart-on-… via Literary Hub

On the Distinctiveness of #Writing in #China theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/1…

Webster’s #Dictionary 1828: Annotated daily.jstor.org/websters-dicti… via JSTOR Daily

‘We can remake this world’: This book of #poems travels through places where people rise in protest scroll.in/article/106535… via Scroll.in

What were #RabindranathTagore ’s views on the proposal of a memorial at the Jallianwala Bagh? scroll.in/article/106675… via Scroll.in

A #NewBook shows how high Emotional Quotient and empathy makes women natural leaders scroll.in/article/106576… via Scroll.in #eq

Lord Byron’s letters reveal the real queer love and loss that inspired his #poetry scroll.in/article/106680… via Scroll.in

A #literature museum will open in #HongKong this June lifestyleasia.com/hk/whats-on/ne…

Love #kdrama ? These Korean #romancenovels in English will tug at your heartstrings lifestyleasia.com/hk/culture/bes…

15 New and Forthcoming #Poetry Collections You Should Be Reading electricliterature.com/15-new-and-for… via @electriclit

Predicting the 2024 #PulitzerPrize for Fiction electricliterature.com/predicting-the… via @electriclit

I very much enjoyed talking to Eva Wiseman about #YouAreHere and other things for The Observer (I suspect I may well write another love story). Sceptre Books Hodder & Stoughton
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

‘Solarpunk Creatures’: #SciFi anthology brims with hope as it explores our kinship with other beings scroll.in/article/106647… via Scroll.in #scifibooks

International Booker interview: How sarah timmer harvey translated ‘What I’d Rather Not Think About’ scroll.in/article/106682… via Scroll.in