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Presenting our new audio series: “Personals,” writers reading first-person essays. Featuring work from Ottessa Moshfegh, Mihret Sibhat, @jetvgc, Lisa Carver, and J. D. Daniels.
Our first episode drops September 8, listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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This week's great long reads from:
@nickripatrazone @seanpasbon @terrence_mccoy @falamarina @DevinGordonX @VarshaaBansal @AlanSiegelLA @zakcheneyrice @lpandell @Masonboyowen @FranklinFoer @jetvgc @piersgelly @heatherhaddon @chafkin @EdLudlow @dankois
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🚨 New on Lab: Games 🚨 An essay by @jetvgc 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/p…
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“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 (@jetvgc) for our column Objects of Desire
yalereview.org/article/josep…
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2023 alum Joseph Earl Thomas’s (@jetvgc) new essay “Ganny” appears in the new issue of @Harpers! Gorgeous, fraught, loving, and furious–read it here. harpers.org/archive/2025/04/…
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"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" @CLASHBooks
clereviewofbooks.com/writing…
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“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 (@jetvgc).
harpers.org/archive/2025/04/…
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(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 15: Vampires! | In which @materialist_jew @isilitke and @jetvgc analyze the psychosexual, political economic, Orientalist, literary, genre, social, and even epidemiological metaphors, allegories, and tropes that have made the figure of the vampire of such perennial—if shifting—fascination | buff.ly/ZmPOx6B
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“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 (@jetvgc).
harpers.org/archive/2025/04/…
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Our April issue is here: with @lilyscherlis 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 @jetvgc; @lidijalidijjja on Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and more. harpers.org/archive/2025/04/
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Congrats @jetvgc winner of @center4fiction 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-p… And grab Joseph's books today.
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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 (@jetvgc)
Julian Zabalbeascoa (@JZabalbeascoa)
Learn more: latimes.com/bookprizes25
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Today, @jetvgc on playing basketball at a military base in Philly
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Congratulations are in order for Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc), author of GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER, and winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize!
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Colman Domingo for Issue 35 – interview @jetvgc, photography John Edmonds, shot with the @montblanc_world Meisterstück . On sale now and available here > buff.ly/3yOxjgS
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Philly readers and writers, come listen to local authors Phillip B Williams, author of Ours, and Joseph Earl Thomas @jetvgc, author of God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, in conversation this Thursday! Register: philaathenaeum.org/event-det…
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Welcome to Miami, @jetvgc. Catch Joseph at the 2024 @MiamiBookFair this Saturday.
📚: miamibookfair.com/
#MiamiBookFair #MiamiReads
Panini going in at @NewYorker
“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.”
For my New Yorker debut (and the magazine's first feature about salsa!) I profiled my all-time favorite Nuyorican musician Eddie Palmieri. Featuring comments from Rubén Blades, Spike Lee, iLé, & more, we all agree... he's the GOAT: newyorker.com/culture/person…
