"Radical friends make the effort to build systems of mutual resilience together." @pennny_rafferty & Ruth Catlow talking w/@austinrobey.xyz 🦋 Dirt dirt.substack.com/p/dirt-radical…

"We actually can reimagine and re-build how we work, and that this is profoundly worth doing. When we do this on our teams, our collective effort becomes a force for change." Jess Rimington & Joanna L. Cea talking BELOVED ECONOMIES w/Anne Helen Petersen annehelen.substack.com/p/what-would-a…

This is gorgeous. "Forest" Emergence Magazine by Forrest Gander with artwork Katie Holten | Language of Trees🌳 | CRISIS 🇵🇸 emergencemagazine.org/feature/forest/

"At four years old, I learned about chlorophyll and epiphytes and petrified forests. More importantly, I realised how wonderfully strange and enormous the world was out there." Kevin Jared Hosein theguardian.com/books/2023/feb…

"As she investigates her own story, the speaker longs 'To build an ancestral palace To no longer live inside the silence of myself.' From that silence emerges a poetics both pastoral and painterly." @poetmorgan on sarah audsley LANDLOCK X poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/…

HOORAY CK!!! “Imagining and joyfully meeting the ever-evolving needs of contemporary artists is how MacDowell can and will continue to be a pioneering champion for the value of the arts in our society.”

"Kashimada’s novel unravels like an extended exercise in what it means to attempt to describe the indescribable." Jane Hu New York Times Books on LOVE AT SIX THOUSAND DEGREES by Maki Kashimada Europa Editions nytimes.com/2023/03/07/boo…

"Love at Six Thousand Degrees is a profound and deeply intelligent work, a refreshing inversion of what has become traditional trauma narratives" Leland Cheuk NPR Books Europa Editions npr.org/2023/03/13/116…

"What do we believe, and what are we willing to sacrifice for those beliefs? If we give up our convictions for safety, what is that safety worth? Where is our moral center, how close to the heart?" Megha Majumdar on RIVER SPIRIT & the questions it asks nytimes.com/2023/03/07/boo…

Congratulations to the winner of the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book: Morgan Talty for "Night of the Living Rez," published by Tin House. #nbccawards #debut

“I’d like to dedicate this award to my grandmother Zelda, who taught me how to read.” Jennifer Wilson National Book Critics Circle

Through "Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden I learn a lot about how to tend and support the landscape around me....These discoveries help me build the kind of landscape and community I want to call home." Camille T. Dungy talking w/Lauren LeBlanc lithub.com/camille-t-dung…

"I love reading about writers, but I also love abandoning what I know and sinking into a story about people with desires and professions that don’t resemble mine. Here are stories that have the best of both worlds—books worth swallowing whole." @keziahweir electricliterature.com/8-stories-with…

"The language used to define and express the immigration experience, she realized, often defaulted to talking about large movements of many people. The needs and issues of individuals were lost." WBEZ on Alejandra Oliva RIVERMOUTH Astra House wbez.org/stories/alejan…

"In this way, questions about sex and love and gender are layered on top of one another. Our protagonist starts out fearful of these queries but eventually revels in the unknowing..." Kristen Arnett on K Patrick's MRS S Europa Editions - a novel I loved nytimes.com/2023/06/20/boo…

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"This work requires a commitment to slowness, a valuing of less defined journeys from safe spaces to expansive writing and publishing outcomes." Viniyanka Prasad The Word | A Storytelling Sanctuary Literary Hub lithub.com/the-imaginatio…

A poem by Mosab Abu Toha, who we heard today has been kidnapped and held hostage by the IOF while attempting to flee with his family. we call for his immediate release and the release of all Palestinian political prisoners

So thrilled about Paul Yoon’s gorgeous THE HIVE AND THE HONEY ⁦Marysue Rucci Books⁩ being a ⁦The Story Prize⁩ finalist, in beautiful company!! thestoryprize.org