Divya Deshmukh is 19 years old and is now the first teenager in 34 years to qualify for the Women’s Candidates Tournament after reaching the final of the FIDE Women’s World Cup. So so proud of this Nagpurkar - huge congratulations and kudos 😊✨❤️

Congratulations to @Divyadeshmukh05 on winning the World Cup. Becoming GM and a spot in the candidates. Amazing battle of nerves. Koneru Humpy played a very good event and showed a commendable fighting spirit . The great champion she is! It was a great celebration of Indian

Current World Chess Titles held by India 🇮🇳 World Champion: Gukesh D Olympiad: Team India Women’s Olympiad: Team India Women Women’s World Rapid Champion: Humpy Women’s World Cup! Divya Deshmukh Indian Chess 🚀🚀🚀

Kiran Desai’s tag line should be: I rarely write a novel, but when I do it’s always Booker-nominated 😎😎 indianexpress.com/article/books-…

What’s the bet that the 2045 Booker list features the next novel of Kiran Desai?

Tomorrow, August 1, is your last chance to submit to Issues 1 and 2 at Off Season! Writers who have not received a literary journal acceptance in the last three months are eligible to submit their poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction: clmp.org/members/open-s…

A good reminder on privacy in these troubling times

If anyone is writing wedding thank yous or any other type of thank yous, no advice will ever beat Lemony Snicket's:

Everyone knows the flashy CEO who destroyed Nokia for Microsoft. Nobody knows the quiet guy who saved it. Rajeev Suri spent 24 years at Nokia watching flashy leaders nearly kill the company. His boring comeback strategy just made Nokia worth $26 billion again:🧵

The Rejections Come In…The Submissions Go Out…The Rejections Come In…The Submissions Go Out…The Rejections Come In…The Submissions Go Out…The Rejections Come In…The Submissions Go Out…The Rejections Come In…The Submissions Go Out…The Rejections Come In…The Submiss…

If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.

🇮🇳 Gukesh 🇮🇳 is a DESERVING World Classical Champion, period! He went through the FIDE Candidates as an 18 year old, the youngest in the tournament, and came out ahead of big stars Caruana, Nakamura, Nepo, Firouzja, and Pragg, etc. It was not his fault that Magnus Carlsen walked

Just write some shit. It literally doesn't have to make sense even to you

First draft: I’m a genius Second draft: I’m illiterate Third draft: I’m both