I wrote about Alice Munro, who knew a little something about risking it all vulture.com/article/alice-…

Back at Moynihan Train station, where the great architects and developers of our time came together to use billions of public money to create a place where passengers have nowhere to sit, punishing everyone to showcase this city and country’s hatred for the poor and homeless

I can't get over how hallucinatory the Tuesday night attack at UCLA must have been nybooks.com/online/2024/05…

Helen Oyeyemi makes all her new friends watch this movie as a compatibility test. x.com/tnyfrontrow/st…

Lit Hub adapted an essay from my newsletter about my frustration with PEN America's constant bothsidesing.
'...as if this organization funded by socialites, for socialites, was interested in doing anything other than maintaining the status quo.' lithub.com/whats-wrong-wi…

Very excited to be going back home later this month to help Emma Copley Eisenberg launch Housemates, her heartfelt queer novel set in my hometown of West Philly. The convo will happen at the Free Library of Philadelphia in reality, but on a Spruce Street stoop spiritually.

Two big takeaways:

1) More unexploded missiles and bombs have fallen in Gaza than anywhere in the world since at least the Second World War.

2) Ukrainian frontline is 600 mi long, and Gaza frontline is 25 mi long. There’s more rubble—37m tons—in Gaza than in Ukraine.

'A lifeline has just been blocked.'

Journalist Akram al-Satarri describes conditions in Rafah after Israeli troops moved into the southern Gaza city, seizing the border crossing with Egypt and cutting off what little aid had been entering the devastated territory from there.

UNICEF warns about a “catastrophe for children” and high civilian casualties as result of Rafah incursion

It was a dream come true to go on Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud! We talked boy bands, Uber music, post-communist clubbing culture, and kissing :)
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'Critical theory is not, for Butler, a matter of taking things apart, but it is a matter of taking time.' I spent some time with Judith Butler. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

PEN America's workers unionized nearly two years ago and they still don't have a contract. I talked to PEN America United about bargaining, organizational dysfunction, and leadership's response to those who say they've failed to support Palestinian writers. jacobin.com/2024/05/pen-am…

MAY 13th: Hanif Abdurraqib and Jennifer Wilson will be in conversation at McNally Jackson. They will talk about music, basketball, and more to celebrate the publication of Abdurraqib's latest, THERE'S ALWAYS THIS YEAR.

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So excited to be joining Hanif Abdurraqib in a couple of weeks at McNally Jackson to talk 🏀and his new book, 'There is Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension.' Will it be safe to wear my 76ers jersey in NYC by then? Hoping not!

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