📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • Lambda Literary Prize • https://xitter.cf/t.co/up2g4ohJrj
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In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, best-selling author @rokwon shares what she's reading these days, the word she overused in her first novel, and more.
longreads.com/2026/04/01/que…
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Over the years, I've come to realize that it's on this territory—this no-man's-land between what we desperately yearn for and what we know to be the limits of the possible that I most like to work as a writer.
—Kazuo Ishiguro, from his intro to a new edition of Never Let Me Go
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“I want to be chill, you know what I mean? It seems nice, but I have this unfortunate personality: I feel the most alive and connected to the world when I’m in the maw of incredible intensity.”
—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon
thebeliever.net/an-interview…
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Our fall issue is coming! We have essays by @heatherchristle, Oliver Egger, and Ash Sanders; interviews with Laura van den Berg, @BlondieOfficial, and @RichardAyoade, conducted by @rokwon, Emma Ingrisani, and Wallace Shawn; poetry, reviews, a column by @NathanielRich, and more.
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Left's strong night, updated:
—Mamdani finishes well ahead.
—All 10 challenged NYC Progressive Caucus members win, or way up. Jumaane Williams, too.
—Left may add councilors (AOC- or WFP-backed newcomers up)
—WFP-endorsed candidates win primaries for Syracuse & Buffalo mayor.
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South Korea's President-elect Lee Jae-myung:
was a child laborer
lost the last election by less than 1%
survived a knife attack
led his party to a general election victory
live-streamed his rush to parliament during martial law
wins election with biggest vote share since 2012
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We’re headed back up the coast! Come see us at the Bay Area Book Festival on June 1, or at our bash with Transit on May 31—we'll be hosting @rokwon and @LaurenMarkham_ for a conversation and party. Learn more and RSVP at eventbrite.com/e/ro-kwon-lau…
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"Explain why intellectuals can be attracted by a totalitarian ideology."
Hannah Arendt's final exam for Contemporary Issues taught in 1955:
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The children of Refaat Alareer are having a horrendous day with the sounds of bombs nearby. We pray for their safety and the safety of everyone in Gaza with this intense escalation. Support us here: chuffed.org/project/113327-r…
Two weeks ago, the children of Refaat Alareer camp planted some mint and basil in the camp as a way to grow their own food. They also planted a significant amount of molokhya, traditional Palestinian plant that’s turned into a stew.
Farming is one of the ways people are trying to survive the famine imposed by the military occupation. Bombings specifically target farmland to intensify the famine and deprive people from vegetables.
Donate to the Refaat Alareer camp to support their survival during this tough time: chuffed.org/project/113327-r…
Other ways to donate include:
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "camp")
account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Al… (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "camp")
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MRS. DALLOWAY was published 100 years ago today. The following year, E.M. Forster reviewed it in The Yale Review. Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/forst…
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South Koreans who supported the impeachment are jubilant in the streets of Seoul. They are hugging one another, some showing tears of joy
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Hélène Cixous: “When I start writing, I’m feeling my way in the dark. It’s a kind of darkness that’s not altogether black—there are a few indicators, lights to guide me, black stars. But the darkness is the one in charge.”
(from a 1994 interview, tr. Suzanne Dow, in White Ink)
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📚 @rokwon is the author of the nationally bestselling novel "Exhibit," a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her bestselling first novel, "The Incendiaries," was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award and the @latimes Art Seidenbaum Prize. Kwon’s books have been translated into seven languages and named a best book of the year by over forty publications. 📚
We're so excited that she'll be joining us at the Festival of Books this year! Don't miss her on the panel, "Defining Moments: Novels About Identity, Desire, and the Turning Points in Our Lives," on Saturday, April 26. ⚡
See the full line-up at latimes.com/fob25!
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Tesla’s stock is now down over 41% since the start of the year.
It just experienced the biggest drop in nearly half a decade.
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This morning I received a manuscript where the translator’s note mentions that, through a psychic medium, the dead author communicated that he knows the work is abstract, and the translation would be difficult, but that he was grateful for the undertaking.
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We are lucky to have @rokwon, author of the bestselling novels EXHIBIT and THE INCENDIARIES, as the judge for the James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel. Want to get her eyes on your novel? The winner receives cash & publication. Submissions close 2/28! awpwriter.secure-platform.co…
ALT Headshot of R. O. Kwon next to AWP Award Series 2025 Judges and stack of four books
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History says we forgave the executioner.
—Sharif
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ALT Social Skills Training by Solmaz Sharif Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]