Book Post

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Books being read on my train: Barbara Kingsolver, Partita; the Us v. Them: The Age of Indie Music and a Decade in New York (2004-2014), Ronen Givony, both new hardcovers

NY Times Chinatown, LES, East Village book crawl: quite a few stops these days! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

An ENORMOUS congratulations to Pip Adam, this year's winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her novel AUDITION! 🚀🚀🚀 We couldn't be happier! Pip is a monumental talent and a force of good in the world. Huge thanks to the judges and everyone at @ursulakleguin.com ♥️ @pipadam.bsky.social

Good morning from William Burroughs. It's one week until Halloween.

We made a book! RURAL INDEXING: A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN BUILDINGS, SIGNS, AND SYMBOLS arrives from Rizzoli in March 2027. Our favorite themes and subjects from the thousands of places we've visited since 2010—450+ photos, many never published before. Preorder: linktr.ee/ruralindexingproject

Exiled, imprisoned, censored avant-garde communist poet writes diary of only consonants, which is later deciphered by his wife and turned into a book from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social . Say less... books.substack.com/p/diary-alek...

If a billionaire really wanted to use their money to serve American literary culture they'd establish a non-profit WHOLESALER specifically serving small & indie presses

Déjà vu: “Maybe this is why theater people live so long on average: they live in many times at once.” The book that almost wasn’t. An excerpt of Aleksander Wat’s new diary from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. You'll leave transformed. books.substack.com/p/diary-alek...

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

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Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) loves Shakespeare and is the voice of the audio guide to the "To Hear Her Speak" exhibit on Black women and Shakespeare now at the @folger.edu Shakespeare Library! She wishes six-year-old she had had such an exhibit to go to www.fox5dc.com/video/fmc-sv...

This textual note to Donne’s “The Prohibition” is a little avant-garde prose poem, shades of Gertrude Stein

WPA Murals at Harlem Hospital Restored to Their Original Glory A New Deal-era sculpture by John Rhoden was also included in the city’s restoration project. hyperallergic.com/wpa-murals-a...

Book being read on my train: The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones, big guy, hardcover

Book being read on my train: Trust by Hernan Diaz, library copy

Woolf compared her to a stinking civet cat who roamed the streets, so how can we not love Katherine Mansfield? books.substack.com/p/review-sar...

If you, like us, think student journalists are the hope for the future, support @bethfertig.bsky.social and @lara-bergen.bsky.social 's @presspassnyc.bsky.social books.substack.com/p/notebook-i...

@andreagonram.bsky.social 's interview with Cereese Qusba and Sophia Dasser got us thinking about the courage and tenacity of student journalists. books.substack.com/p/notebook-i...

Diary without Vowels, Aleksander Wat, introduction by translator Alissa Valles @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com/products/dia...

Very much inspired by @willbunch.bsky.social 's call to arms on this subject. books.substack.com/p/notebook-i...

As the role of student journalists in breaking the Cornell Seven story shows, student papers are often at the scene first and go where peer journalists have not. @columjournreview.bsky.social @poynterinstitute.bsky.social @presspassnyc.bsky.social books.substack.com/p/notebook-i...

Suck it, other book collectors.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

I will second this and add LIBRARIES! libriaries are calm and quiet and let you breath

Lesson: Hold on to your classics dept!

We can't put this book down! Spanning continents and exploring themes of family, education, and the Korean immigrant experience, @minjinlee.bsky.social 's new novel, American Hagwon, is a triumph. Can't get enough like us? Hannah Sanghee Park's review is up and free to read this week! tr.ee/dsx8uk

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This Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, uncover a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City in John Tutino’s The Mexican Heartland. Save 30% with PUP30: buff.ly/6SVCwQ4 #HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth #HHM

From the archive, my thoughts on BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK by Barbara Trapido, just reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. A superb coming-of-age novel about love, heartache, disillusionment & growing up. It's moving, charming, funny & unsentimental! jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/b...

Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson who combines the classical and the modern wins the Nobel Prize in literature.

What a fabulous Saturday #GroundTruth canvass with some of the best conversations we've ever had! Now we have more teams out again today! Thanks to all our friends from @jh-indivisible.bsky.social and other groups who joined in <3 @swingleft.bsky.social

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Book being read on my train: Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social (are we going to the same party?)

Indeed

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Funny actually

Book being read on my subway platform: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche version

James Patterson renewing his holiday bonuses for independent booksellers, nominate yours here (h/t @roncharles.bsky.social) www.bookweb.org/james-patter...

I wrote about Shelley, whom I always think of in autumn gunsnrobbins.substack.com/p/music-and-...

Becca Rothfield: "the gyre of discourse." Discourse center not holding, man!

Why only "botched"? Seems cavalier. Is there another word?

Book being read on my train: The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

Michael Robbins reflects on several poems about our current moment in history. Read his review on our Substack! books.substack.com/p/review-mic... cc @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social @joriegraham.bsky.social