The New Negroni

My latest review for @bookforum.bsky.social is also out now. In it, I think alongside Namwali Serpell’s resplendently rigorous new book on Toni Morrison about the last greatest living writer’s legacy and how we’re meant to read her.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Fucking Lula, man!!!!!!!

Florida (police)man

Who is writing about sexuality and American fascism these days? Bonus points for literary scholars.

This month is the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party

This is not beautiful to see. This is the most racist democracy on planet earth, and people just expect Black people to sing negro spirituals and "overcome." It's not working. This still happens for one reason and one reason only: white US folk don't hold each other accountable for this racism.

Tomorrow at Queens College (in person and online): the subversive history of the NY Mets

I got proofs for my book NO PLACE FOR HOME: TERROR AND RACE IN LITERATURE AFTER 9/11 from @uminnpress.bsky.social! The press has also offered a 30% discount for those who pre-order before January 1st! To order, click the link in my bio.

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

One thing about moving to California is now I always want tacos. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I said something to this effect to a colleague yesterday about the push for faculty to use AI in teaching and research. Thinking about stuff is supposed to be the main thing, isn’t it?

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

I must be old because WHO?!

I have a chapter coming out about Black autofiction that could have just been about Zami but thinks about the genre through @jstheater.bsky.social’s Annotations and Alison Millls Newman’s Francisco. There’s so much to talk about beyond Heti and Cusk.

If you’re someone who stands up as soon as a flight arrives at the gate, could you walk me through your thought process? 🧐🤔

My God, I just remembered that we die. But---me too? --Clarice Lispector

I need men to stop wearing flip-flops.

the old Norton Critical Editions were endearingly ugly

You could say I’m having a great time in the Bay Area.

Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

The ways in which I miss my beautiful, perfect, stinky baby…

I’ve watched this video so many times. What an immense loss. youtube.com/shorts/AOxsQ...

Never again going to take on new writing projects when I’m getting ready for a cross-country move and in the midst of grief. Two pieces down, two more to go. 😭

i’m dying. i’m dead

Who would spend $700 on this??

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

next faculty activity report I have to submit I'm just going to write 'here to be brown on campus'

Am I the last person to read about how really fucking weird Jean Toomer was?

Record outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite 20M eggs recalled due to salmonella Worst air quality in world from wildfire smoke UN says world risks HIV resurgence due to funding cuts Most measles cases in 35 years They’re going after Fauci to distract you from current public health failures

The president of my college is finally resigning in disgrace, but the situation remains bleak. Our search for a chief librarian was canceled and the adjuncts we hired as stop-gaps when we couldn't replace retired faculty have all been cut. How are we supposed to support students in these conditions?

Inspired by the reissue of Greg Tate’s "Flyboy in the Buttermilk" and New Eyes Collective, a new group of Black culture writers, we invited nine artists and writers to reflect on how the erudite critic influenced them. hammerandhope.org/forums/greg-...

My friend has been using my likeness in the promotional material for her CrossFit gym and I have to say these really tickle me

ICE killed another person.

“Poindexter”