A small announcement. I am grateful. Thank you, Black Square Editions and John Yau for giving my first book of poetry a chance.

Excerpt: Adrienne Rich on Che Guevara, Rosa Luxemburg, and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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how has Adam Curtis never heard this

In the forthcoming number of Granta, I draw attention to a neglected rodent, the prairie dog

Grateful that the first academic review of Big Fiction is out and that it's by the great Sarah Brouillette. Her purview extends to sociology of lit writ large now and anyone interested in that topic should read it muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

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This week the amazing garielle lutz speaking about Backwardness. I loved this book and Garielle is one of the true great writers.

I wrote about life, death, the village voice, and the doldrums of the media biz for The New York Review of Books

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It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you that Ryan Ruby is, in fact, capable of Logging Off — but only to read from his forthcoming book CONTEXT COLLAPSE, which we are publishing this fall

Slogan seen on the side of a freight train car: Preserving Today’s Perishables for Tomorrow.

The WRB Presents reading last night was so fun and meant so much to me. thank you for coming out. i’m so thankful to have made such wonderful, interesting, enthusiastic friends in DC, and i’m SO proud of my friend Chris for making good on the dreams we talked about over dinner…

very cool to see Jenny Erpenbeck's KAIROS on the Booker shortlist!

if you find yourself wanting to read a couple thousand words on love, historical discontinuity, the generations of the GDR, and S&M in her work, do please consider clicking on mine >>>

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More people should read the chapter on snobbery and anti-snobbery in Ordinary Vices by Judith Shklar.

Read three stories R&R by Austyn Wohlers who wowed the crowd with a preview of her debut novel, Hothouse Bloom (@HubCityPress, 2026) tonight!

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