just noticed it's on The New Yorker's "the best books we read this week" list!!! 🫡

The final award of the evening goes to THE BIOGRAPHY OF X by Catherine Lacey for Lesbian Fiction!

Decades before Sports Illustrated put a Black model on the cover of their swimsuit issue, JET magazine launched "Beauty of the Week," featuring ordinary Black women (paralegals, postal workers, etc.) in their bikinis. I wrote about it for The New Yorker. newyorker.com/culture/photo-…

Esquire called THE OTHER OLYMPIANS a “riveting history” that “couldn’t be more timely”!! so excited to be on this list alongside some truly legendary authors esquire.com/entertainment/… Farrar,Straus&Giroux

There’s an excerpt of my book in this week’s The New Yorker. You can pre-order it here amazon.com/Health-Safety-…

Macy Gray says ‘Blackout’ by Britney Spears is one of the best albums of all time: “It gives me a little bit of courage. We all have that little thing that makes you go. For some people it’s just coffee, for me it’s the ‘Blackout’ album!”

I am really happy to share that my next book, The Vivisectors, will be published by MCD⨯FSG in the US and by 4th Estate Books in the U.K 💫 Thank you so much to Kishani Widyaratna and jackson howard and my sweet John Ash 🧡 thebookseller.com/rights/4th-est…

hey look! Montucky Woodsnacks and I have some news!

first words Sonya Massey said at her front door were “don’t hurt me” she was told “why would we hurt you, you called us” when have those words meant anything when your black and woman in this country when do those words protect you from not being murdered in your kitchen,

Zdeněk Koubek was a transgender athlete who captured the attention of the world in the lead-up to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. While the media met his story with curiosity, author Michael Waters says some Olympic organizers took a different approach. Michael Waters hari sreenivasan

made my TV debut this week on Amanpour and Company!!! unfortunately looking like a total nerd but we take what we can get! youtube.com/watch?v=4rqwOd…

truly surreal to read such a thoughtful and generous review of THE OTHER OLYMPIANS — in one of our finest magazines, The Nation, no less!!! “The Other Olympians is a stirring excavation of important, forgotten trans history” thank you Ben Kesslen 🥹 thenation.com/article/cultur…

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Announcing the Shapiro Center's 2024-25 interview series, "The Art of Editing." Live event schedule below; podcast to come in 2025.

RIP Rich Homie Quan, 1/2 of the greatest group since Outkast, the melodic genius who never stopped going in, who sang & wrote hooks as memorable as anything to ever chart, pop masterpieces straight out the mud. An era-defining ATL all-timer. The tour dates forever locked in.

at the gates of heaven yelling THE DATES ARE LOCKED IN theringer.com/rap/2024/9/6/2…

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“It would be impossible to capture the true plurality of experiences of Black people in publishing in a series of topical essays, but shaping a neat narrative at the expense of the texture of truth won’t suffice.” Thomas Gebremedhin considers what the discourse around diversity

I think taking Gia & Kerri to basement was the highlight of my life, truly. Gia Gunn Kerri Elyse Colby