an email to my chair: “april is the cruelest month and i need to come clean about how little writing i’ve done this semester”

This Thursday, 4/18 , I’ll be leading a conversation on Adania Shibli’s A Minor Detail at Buffalo Street Books. You can buy it 10% off at the store and it’s fairly a short read, so consider joining us ✨
buffalostreetbooks.com/event/reading-…

so camp

i write for neither an academic audience nor a general audience but a secret third thing*

*the ghost of v.s. naipaul

iowa pride reporting for duty 🏀✨

okay, who’s this fredric jameson lad? is he in the new dev patel movie everyone hates?

minor details under occupation. this books is quite astonishing in its beauty, in its fury, in its humor, in its commitment.

every spring i wait, anxiously, for the weekend in april when my neighbor’s tree bursts & blossoms & showers the block in precious pink.

This Thursday, 4/18 , I’ll be leading a conversation on Adania Shibli’s A Minor Detail at Buffalo Street Books. You can buy it 10% off at the store and it’s fairly a short read, so consider joining us ✨
buffalostreetbooks.com/event/reading-…

Yesterday with Colm Tóibín effortlessly dazzling a packed auditorium, per usual.

putting aside my deep disdain for the french, i just wanna say that brainy people, let alone those who were once lawyers, should NOT be allowed to have this much swagger. those are the rules.

sure, you can reduce the supposed ‘freedom of expression’ theme year into swag and ice cream contests while banning protest and arresting your students but at least know how many syllables the word ‘freedom’ has 🤦🏾‍♀️

Eid Mubarak in my book […]
What is inside the air/ we are inside

nope, nope! we’ve reached our quota on unhinged cut articles on the silly sex lives of crazy white people

pan reviews have only two primary functions: new material for the group chat and self-soothing yourself with them after you’ve been yelled at by an airline agents

everything about americanair is absolutely the fucking worst. gate agents yelling at you, tickets changing for no apparent reason. why do i keep flying with these assholes.