NIGHTS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED @riverheadbooks (US) @corsairbooks (UK). Prof of the practice @TuftsUniversity. Sleepy.
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It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
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BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people.
This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history.
lithub.com/hundreds-of-autho…
Stumped on this student question: favorite multi-generational short stories?
(not novels, but in the same vein, different povs across time and space... )
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ALT Oxford languages definition of ethnic cleansing the mass expulsion or killing of members of one ethnic or religious group in an area by those of another.
Benjamin Netanyahu considering mass clearance of northern Gaza theguardian.com/world/2024/s…
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Cool; apparently Penn has been cheerfully sending course syllabi off to the Republicans on the House Committee on Education to assist them in the persecution of their own faculty. mesana.org/advocacy/committe…
These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were.
- John McLaughlin
An epigraph for one of the “first chapters” in @rabihalameddine’s I, Divine, which I’m liking a lot!
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Beloved Oakland bookstore, @EB_Booksellers, has been devastated by fire—please support them if you’re able.
gofundme.com/f/help-east-bay…
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This has been such a fun journey to meet with wonderful people and talk about Asian American Spiritualities. Thank you so much @APAReligions for generously funding our project!
for @esquire, I wrote 3,000 words on why it feels harder these days to make a debut novel truly "break out."
feat. Jack Kerouac, "the algorithm," literary it girls, and overworked publicists...
esquire.com/entertainment/bo…
Write it down. Write it. With ordinary ink
on ordinary paper: they weren’t given food,
they all died of hunger. All. How many?
It’s a large meadow. How much grass
per head?
- “Starvation Camp Near Jaslo,” Wisława Szymborska (tr. Cavanagh and Barańczak)
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As night falls and waking up at 5 AM, flying to New York and 8 hours of street reporting non-stop catches up with me, I am about to leave this party and let these young ppl who welcomed me into their space carry on. But first, some final thoughts…
ALT Full yard at columbia
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We're marking Arab American Heritage Month with a special gift to those who support exiled Gazan poet @yahyaashour98 in evacuating his family from Gaza. When you buy his e-book, "A Gaza of Siege & Genocide," you get a free one-year subscription to Mizna.
bit.ly/ashour-ebook
