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Yes! This is today. Feeling gratitude for so many in this process..... @UIowaPress
Happy pub day to WHAT MENNONITE GIRLS ARE GOOD FOR by @jennifersears.bsky.social! Find more new and forthcoming releases on our AWP Member Bookshelf. awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Member…
ALT Cover of WHAT MENNONITE GIRLS ARE GOOD FOR by Jennifer Sears, which shows blue quilting squares
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Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/NcMbgm8
Amid all of the other tensions in the world, this looks worth watching
For more info: helixcenter.org/roundtables/…
Fun rereading this. This line on VN’s process and emphasis on form/pattern jumps out: “The pattern of the thing precedes the thing. I fill in the gaps of the crossword at any spot I happen to choose.” #SundaySentence
“There is only one school: that of talent.”
In celebration of Nabokov, who was born on April 22, 1899, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from the archive. buff.ly/3TA6Xc4
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Jennifer Sears collects all the SmokeLong Barbies in the last of our 20th-anniversary series, reviewing stories from the SmokeLong archives. smokelong.com/a-visceral-scr…
Powerful and carefully wrought piece about story ownership. And forgiveness: “I Stole My Neighbors’ Tragedy To Write a Short Story” electricliterature.com/i-sto… via @electriclit
Next week in Brooklyn Heights!
NEXT WEEK, Thursday 8/17 at 7 PM ET: @booksaremagicbk will be hosting a discussion of @jamelbrinkley’s stunning new collection of stories, WITNESS, both in-person and online! Moderated by author and fellow APS contributor @GarthGreenwell.
Register: eventbrite.com/e/in-store-ja…
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The Best of Brooklyn (BoBi) award is presented each year to an author whose work best exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn.
Our 2023 BoBi honoree is Hilton Als, a celebrated critic and author of several books.
Help us celebrate him on October 1st!
Tonight at the Historical Society in Washington, Illinois, I’ll be discussing research and reading my own work about German POWs in the area, 1944-1945.
Excited for this. And I’ll be in reading it in Rome when it comes out!
Early October. nyrb.com/products/lies-and-s…
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If you want to know more about how I came to write
A Real Doll and The Safety of Objects @ElectricLit @Barbie @GerwigGreta @noahbaumbach read M.G. Lord and I talking about #Barbie @vikingbooks then and now electricliterature.com/we-st…
Strange, gorgeous story in @GuernicaMag: "To see a wolf was to be a wolf, for a minute. To be gone."
“There were scratches in the cloudy ice, the drag mark of each claw set an inch apart from its neighbor. The mark of a real big fucking paw.”
“Intelligent Creatures,” a new short story by Meghan Gilliss, is urgent and compelling throughout.
guernicamag.com/intelligent-…
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This story has not happened before. Notice they do not dance again. Let the future begin.
"Fritz Lang said, No-we can’t jeopardize the cloud scam, MGM has a lot invested in this war at Troy, even beside the movie deals there’s spinoffs, casinos, reality shows.” From Anne Carson's "Norma Jean Baker of Troy." #SundaySentence (also supporting #SAGAFTRA and #WGA)