Congratulations to Lilly Dancyger, whose book, 'First Love,' is out next week via The Dial Press (@randomhouse). It's an essay collection on close female friendships: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714347/f…

Revisit Lilly's 2019 essay, which was revised for the book: longreads.com/2019/09/16/it-…

One week from today! Come help me launch First Love into the world at Books Are Magic with the brilliant Leslie Jamison. (Don't forget to register in advance!) eventbrite.com/e/in-store-lil…

MONDAY, MAY 13, 8PM: Join us for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night, featuring stellar essayists and memoirists Emily Raboteau Lilly Dancyger Annie Liontas nina sharma Shze-Hui Tjoa Uzodinma Okehi! Drink specials, book raffle! #Free fb.me/e/6pQvazha5

In 1971, my mother was part of a dual self-immolation. For the ⁦Los Angeles Times⁩ I wrote about how today mirrors that time and where to place my mother’s act in a lineage of burning—a question I explore fully in my memoir, Love is a Burning Thing, out May 7 latimes.com/opinion/story/…

I wrote about turning real people into characters in memoir for Writer's Digest! bit.ly/4aQGmi7

In conversation with last week's #lettertoastranger by Lilly Dancyger is another adventure in Paris. 'To the Women I Watched Kiss' by Elisabeth Plumlee-Watson follows a fateful trip to @shakespeare_co and a kiss that holds the promise of a possible future: offassignment.com/articles/elisa…

How are news outlets dedicating wall-to-wall coverage to campus protests, but not the discovery of mass graves in Gaza of people with their hands tied & clothing stripped?

Why do we not know more?

Where are the journalists and resources being dedicated to that story?

To celebrate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday, here are his 46 best (and strangest) insults:

i think there are two bullshit narratives going on: one that there is zero antisemitism ever expressed at these protests and that's just an establishment lie, and two, that there's some kind of modern day nazi rally going on at columbia and woke SA troopers are after jews

I wrote about Georgia O’Keeffe’s “compositional reduction” & the mental recalibration necessary to embark on the nit-picky, sentence-level stage of revision after looking the big picture of a writing project for so long you can’t see it clearly anymore: bit.ly/3Jqghup

One of the key ingredients missing from the national conversation on antisemitism is that left-wing and anti-Zionist Jews are on the receiving end of institutional and state repression for their political beliefs.

Wendy S. Walters Here's the link where faculty affiliates can sign the letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I fully support this statement by my Columbia and Barnard colleagues.

I am just a lowly adjunct, but still feels important to say that I'm furious at Columbia's handling of these student protests.

Annie is THE BEST!!! Thoughtful and kind but also sharp and direct, knowledgable and bold and just generally everything you could want in an agent. Query her!

In this week's 'Behind the Essay' interview, Lilly Dancyger discusses the role of friendship and finances in travel, finding the 'high moments' in life, and her favorite café in the world.

Read the full Q&A here: mailchi.mp/offassignment/…

After Lilly Dancyger dropped out of high school, she saved up money to chase what Anaïs Nin called the 'high moments' of life in Paris. But disappointment enveloped her search until a bouncer opened the doors to a secret backroom. Read what happens next: offassignment.com/undertheinflue…