Panini going in at The New Yorker “But there’s no final refuge, because the rhythm never relents, and the prisons are still full of the plantation’s children. “Every year,” Palmieri told me, “it gets worse.”

Welcome to Miami, JETVCG. Catch Joseph at the 2024 Miami Book Fair this Saturday. 📚: miamibookfair.com #MiamiBookFair #MiamiReads

Philly readers and writers, come listen to local authors Phillip B Williams, author of Ours, and Joseph Earl Thomas JETVCG, author of God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, in conversation this Thursday! Register: philaathenaeum.org/event-detail/?…

Colman Domingo for Issue 35 – interview JETVCG, photography John Edmonds, shot with the Montblanc Meisterstück . On sale now and available here > buff.ly/3yOxjgS

Congratulations are in order for Joseph Earl Thomas (JETVCG), author of GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER, and winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize!

Bragging on my MFA advisee Joseph Earl Thomas JETVCG whose brilliant novel GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER won the Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize. Yah! centerforfiction.org/2024-first-nov…

Today, JETVCG on playing basketball at a military base in Philly theparisreview.org/blog/2025/01/2…

Faculty Writing: JETVCG in @vanityfair on Black men and sexuality in pop culture | buff.ly/3EF8jyf

Congratulations to this year's finalists for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction! 👏 ‘Pemi Aguda (@PemiAguda) Jessica Elisheva Emerson Jiaming Tang Joseph Earl Thomas (JETVCG) Julian Zabalbeascoa (Julian Zabalbeascoa) Learn more: latimes.com/bookprizes25

Congrats JETVCG winner of The Center for Fiction 1st Novel Prize. My own grandpa cleaned city buses. Grandma cooked in a school cafeteria. Here's to writing the full experience of our people. Listen to the full convo here: evergreenpodcasts.com/wild-precious-… And grab Joseph's books today.

Our April issue is here: with Lily Scherlis on social-skills; a new story by Charles Portis; Kent Russell on the Guardian Angels; a photography portfolio from Henry Roy; a personal essay from JETVCG; Lidija Haas on Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and more. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Lily Scherlis Maggie Doherty “Perhaps seeing my grandmother as she actually was, rather than the way I want to feel about her now, helps me avoid all the lying that would make me a good subject and this a good essay.” A personal essay from Joseph Earl Thomas (JETVCG). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 15: Vampires! | In which Ajay Singh Chaudhary isi litke and JETVCG analyze the psychosexual, political economic, Orientalist, literary, genre, social, and even epidemiological metaphors, allegories, and tropes that have made the figure of the vampire

"These stories exist in the same universe—dilapidated and hyper-developed, inhabited by emotionally fragile and lonely characters desperate for some type of human connection." Merilyn Chang on Daisuke Shen's "Vague Predictions and Prophecies" CLASH Books clereviewofbooks.com/writing/daisuk…

“Ganny’s murder was no mystery or accident, and I needed to convince all attendees specifically of their true proximity to her open casket.” A personal essay from Joseph Earl Thomas (JETVCG). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

2023 alum Joseph Earl Thomas’s (JETVCG) new essay “Ganny” appears in the new issue of Harper's Magazine! Gorgeous, fraught, loving, and furious–read it here. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Faculty Writing | JETVCG in The Verge on the parent as non-player character | buff.ly/XjQqPeb

“Blue crabs were the only kind we killed ourselves. Their supple flesh was our first symbol of fresh food when everything else came from a box or can.” —Joseph Earl Thomas (JETVCG) for our column Objects of Desire yalereview.org/article/joseph…

🚨 New on Lab: Games 🚨 An essay by JETVCG on playing the survival game Palworld with his daughter 🎮️⁠ ⁠ 🖇️ And don't forget, 1️⃣ more week to submit your own work in response to the Games issue! graywolflab.org/2025/07/18/pal…

This week's great long reads from: Nick Ripatrazone Sean Nam Terrence McCoy Marina Dias Devin Gordon Varsha Bansal Alan Siegel zak is also on blu*sky Lexi Pandell Mason Boycott-Owen Franklin Foer JETVCG Piers Gelly Heather Haddon Max Chafkin Ed Ludlow Dan Kois longformprofiles.substack.com/p/edition-84-l…