In solidarity with the writers boycotting the PEN America World Voices Festival; PEN America United; Writers Against the War on Gaza; and all the other writers who have declined PEN awards this week––

Y'all, there is a surge of authors withdrawing their books from considerations from PEN related awards due to their dangerous rhetoric on Palestine, if you come across anyone who has done this, try and support them by purchasing their books or spreading word of their needed work.

i’ve just turned down the pen/dau prize, in solidarity with palestine + the protest against pen america’s refusal to take a clear, principled stance on the israeli genocide against the palestinian people

Last Tuesday I found out that my book Dyscalculia was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein award. I decided to decline this recognition and asked to be removed from the longlist in solidarity with the ongoing protest of PEN's continued normalization and denial of genocide.

Please read/sign this petition calling for CUNY to reinstate adjuncts who have been fired for speaking out against genocide and in support of Palestinian liberation. One of them is my friend, the brilliant writer, translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda: t.ly/GvlF7 CUNY4Palestine

Is it using human shields to go home at night to your family?

a beautiful, ruminative essay on teaching the humanities in the ruins of the university

lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/apri…

“It’s a common misconception that once someone enters jail or prison, they lose their interest in the outside world…At times, l have been overwhelmed by the realization that all our experiences are interconnected.”

The sooner we realize this the better.
themarshallproject.org/2024/04/05/pri…

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Blank-slate urbanism is the through line between Kushner, Trump, MBS and every hedge fund manager and Silicon Valley VC. At root of it is a disgust with humanity as it actually exists.

I wake up & it breaks my heart.

—Cameron Awkward-Rich, 'Meditations In An Emergency'

Major news for Area X fans: ABSOLUTION, the fourth #SouthernReach novel! Exclusive cover reveal & details at PeopleMagazine. Also 10th anniversary editions of Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance. MCD⨯FSG Farrar,Straus&Giroux Michael Taeckens Joe Veltre Gersh 1/?

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“Read—widely and, to the extent that time allows, randomly and inventively,” she said. “Write, and not always or only ‘sincerely.’ Write badly, write lies, pay attention constantly to the language around you.”

wonderful Colin Vanderburg on Lyn Hejinian: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Philosophy professor Nancy Fraser, who is Jewish, has been uninvited from a guest professorship in Germany for signing a public letter in support of Palestine

an amazing article from vivian as usual. read to learn about the secret lives of petrochemicals, and why loving the smell of gasoline isn't weird, but in fact belies a larger industrial process of oil refinery and synthetics supporting most of modern fragrance as we know it.

Last night 6 pro-Palestine Columbia students were suspended & evicted w/out due process. The uni hired a private investigator who reportedly attempted to enter dorm rooms, demanded to read students' private texts. The weaponization of 'safety' discourse. theintercept.com/2024/03/28/saf…

James Baldwin: 'We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger. If people think that my danger makes them safe, we are in trouble.'

For those of us who are writers and readers, I noticed that a lot of folks aren't familiar with the rich canon of Palestinian literature and don't know where to begin reading. In response to this, down below is a thread of novels, non-fiction, and poetry about Palestine (🧵):

One of the few writers who really knew how to *play* in the novel! I remember walking with him by the Providence River, we spent twenty minutes discussing whether it was a “tidal” body of water. A master and a gentleman!