wonderful news -- and thank you, Elisabeth de Mariaffi and Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, for fine-tuning this story for Riddle Fence

.James Lee Burke won the prize for Best Novel at the #Edgars2024 for FLAGS ON THE BAYOU. Other winners of this year’s mystery prizes include I.S. Berry | THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW, Jesse Q. Sutanto, Nathan Masters, Linda Castillo, and Adrianna Cuevas isn't here. Find her elsewhere.. Mystery Writers of America ow.ly/W0Rj50Rv0qP

Best-selling author David Grann will deliver the main address at the #BU2024 Commencement ceremony on May 19. The news was announced at Thursday’s annual Senior Breakfast in the George Sherman Union, attended by an estimated 2,500 students.

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Out visiting. #GarpAndMartha

Well I guess the cat is out of the proverbial bag😎

Enormously pleased and grateful that THE NEW LIFE has made the shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize, among some great writers.

I have actually found my niche in life, which is fighting with the school board.
– Shirley Jackson, May 1 1957

Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall

“In 1996 students at Columbia University demanded the creation of an ethnic studies program...students went on a hunger strike and occupied a building. The campaign led to the formation in 1998 of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.” Photo by #CorkyLee

Thomas Hardy’s Cottage. He was born in the upstairs bedroom closest to the door, and wrote Far From The Madding Crowd in the room with the roses below the window.

That’s the 2nd Boeing whistleblower to die.

🖤 I will never forget an evening a dozen years ago .NY Public Library with
PAUL AUSTER

Before taking to the stage we went & visited his archives @NYPL
He was surprised & delighted to discover a handwritten paper he wrote as a teen on Whitman & the French.

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Book tour starts tomorrow! Please come say hi if you feel inclined. The info is here: annnapolitano.com/events/

This fascist crackdown in the democratic city with the democratic mayor, governor and legislature is but a small taste of what you'll get unless you vote democratic this fall

May Day, as celebration, as assertion of solidarity, as distress call seems to summarize this moment.

Reader reviews about my new #memoir HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT are trickling in.

If you've read it, please write a sentence online & LMK.

With thanks. #grief #friendship #teaching

Philip Turner Open Road Media

Thank you for this story, Teen Vogue. This is far better AND MORE ACCURATE than what you are going to get on cable news.

Garth Greenwell is one of our best writers and goddamn his new novel is stunning.

Deeply saddened by this news. A few years ago I interviewed him and his wife at their Park Slope brownstone: a two-hour, freewheeling, hella-fun conversation. RIP.

Janet Somerville Happy birthday, Garp!💕🙋🏼‍♀️🦴