Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel TO WALK ALONE IN THE CROWD is a brilliant yet tedious meditation on the role of the artist in the age of overload. popm.at/2TtIo5v

Reviving my long-dormant Twitter to share my writing, published on PopMatters!

Chilean-American author and #humanrights activist #ArielDorfman’s latest novella, THE COMPENSATION BUREAU (OR Books), is a fantastical plea for hope. popm.at/3Gk15vP

Alejandro Zambra's CHILEAN POET [Viking Books], beautifully translated by megan mcdowell, reaches the sublime through descriptions of everyday routine amongst family members – however they describe themselves. ✍️ Derick Gomez #PMPick popm.at/34P5dWN

Maybe I should take this Twitter thing seriously now that I am publishing content semi-consistently.

In #PMPick CALL ME CASSANDRA [Farrar,Straus&Giroux] marcial dismantles the suffocating binary of unyielding machismo in pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba. ✍️ Derick Gomez #CubanLiterature popm.at/3twyZcl

David Diop’s excellent work of psychological fiction, AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK [Farrar,Straus&Giroux], is a terrifying fable whose haunting imagery explores the traumas of empire, colonial thought, and masculinity. ✍️ @AguaLives popm.at/3JWXvtg

it took me two years to write this story. it’s an attempt to process my mother’s stroke, but also a reminder that ambient music can teach us to suspend time -- to listen and act with radical attention. up now at The New York Times. nytimes.com/2022/04/14/art…

.ariel delgado dixon's debut novel, DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU [Random House Group] brims with menace. ✍️ Derick Gomez popm.at/3Ok1rqp

#Interview: Open Mike Eagle’s podcast What Had Happened Was is an enchanting and illuminating appreciation of hip-hop. This passionate, energetic, and prolific man talks with PopMatters. And talks, and talks... (he's good at that). ✍️ @AguaLives popm.at/3H9V2e4

Randomly meeting Jack White!!!! #shock

Front row for jk AGAIN. I just can't get enough.

Just kidding jk is cancelled :(

On the megabus after a half-day trip to New York and a Flying Lotus concert #212

Satan! Thy name be take-home exam with no page limits.

@plaidmankevin did I show you all your favorite albums or just most of them?

@plaidmankevin ;) love ya plaidman.

"assume ignorance rather than malice"-wonderful advice from a friend's friend that I have never met

Is making your 7 year old cousin listen to loud Kanye to keep him quiet on a long car ride wrong?

I am way too atheist for Colombian Christmas rituals #Scrooge