In which I recommend some summer r3@ds and brazenly compare #SallyRooney’s writing to a beloved caffeinated treat: businessinsider.com/best-summer-be…

Longlists for @PENamerican's 2018 #PENawards are here and my wallet got lighter just thinking about how good these books are. Congratulations to all the authors & publishers on these lists! pen.org/2018longlists/

Congrats to Carmen Maria Machado and all the semi-finalists for the #PENawards! #latinxlit #latinolit #latinxscreate x.com/PENamerican/st…

“Not only is it hard to plan your future when your income is unreliable—it is also much more difficult to unionize and fight for a better workplace when you have no job security. And bosses know it” sam wallman's comic on wealth inequality #IllustratedPEN pen.org/pay-us-less/

Our January Read the Resistance book club pick is here! #PENawards author Nina McConigley selects 'One Part Woman,' a #bannedbook that follows a childless couple desperate to conceive. Join Nina on 1/31 for a FB Live conversation about the book. pen.org/event/read-res… #resistancelit

“Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.” brainpickings.org/2015/03/30/sus…

That is why he is called a poet. And his responsibility...is to defeat all labels & complicate all battles by insisting on the human riddle, to bear witness, as long as breath is in him, to that mighty, unnameable, transfiguring force which lives in the soul of man —James Baldwin

“Writers can do something to combat these clichés of our separateness, our difference—for writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths.” —Susan Sontag x.com/fsgbooks/statu…

"But what if I wasn't here to help you?" @robkirbycomics features gg's elegant, atmospheric work in this week's #IllustratedPEN (@PENamerican) pen.org/im-not-here/

A Public Space is hiring! We're looking for a Marketing and Development Director to join us at a time of exciting growth and expansion. Applications accepted through February 1. For more info, and instructions on how to apply, visit apublicspace.org/news/detail/a-…

"Things don't need to be of concrete use in order to have value. Put away your self-help guides, and read a novel instead." Alexandra Schwartz via The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

"The terms 'alternative facts' and 'fake news' may be new to us, but what is the grand narrative of U.S. history except a series of 'alternative facts'?" An interview with Mychal Denzel Smith via @PENamerican: pen.org/pen-ten-mychal…

I wrote a thing for @PENamerican about the status quo of style guides—who they prioritize, who they don't, and some of the ways that writers defy them. pen.org/interrogating-…

Today and tomorrow you’ll find us dropping copies of five amazing titles from @PENamerican’s Open Book Award finalists. Tomorrow they’ll be announcing the winner at the #PENawards. Follow our stories for live book drops happening today!

Welcome to The #MWord’s fourth Twitter Chat! Today, we’re collaborating with Sapelo Square and talking with Black Muslims using #BlackMuslimLegacy

This is happening today at noon! Tune in for a conversation about Octavia Butler's WILD SEED, the first sci-fi pick for @PENamerican's #resistancelit book club, with reeamilcarscott.bsky.social & @TheEarlDenden. x.com/PENamerican/st…

"To live fully, with an attentive heart, to pay attention—like joy—takes some discipline. Make the choice. This is your life. Your eyes. Your talent. Your mind. Nobody else dictates what you do with them." A #PENten interview with the ever wise Cindy and Luis Urrea. pen.org/pen-ten-luis-a…

I'm looking for essays & column pitches for Catapult! Researched/blend of researched+personal narrative is great, essays coming out of fieldwork & travel are great, science/tech/food/history/politics as encountered in the everyday/other countries & ways of life. We pay.

Get thee to a strong WiFi source to watch this month's Read the Resistance book club event with @PENamerican starting in 10 min! Katie Kitamura & Maria Dahvana Headley will discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's #TheLeftHandofDarkness. Watch here: pen.org/event/read-res… #resistancelit

Borders can't stop this conversation. Livestream of our online-only event with Yassmin Abdel-Magied and @xoamani below. ✊#MWord #PENfest #MuslimWomen youtube.com/watch?v=EB4Loi…