Must-see Chicago TV starting tonight- my essay on ⁦WTTW - Chicago PBS⁩’s 4-part Shame of Chicago, a history of how Chicago realtors, politicians and academics conspired to make race the no. 1 reason for valuing a neighborhood, nationally chicagotribune.com/2024/04/18/col…

Ugh I can’t wait

an honor to have been one of the judges on the NY Public Library Young Lions reading committee, very many congratulations to these finalists, it’s a joy to read y’all

nypl.org/blog/2024/04/1…

Surprised I'm not hearing more about Rita Bulwinkel's Headshot, which Dwight Garner reviewed a couple of weeks before it came out & he absolutely completely adored it. I forgot it's out now & just ordered it. libro.fm/audiobooks/978…

😢*cries in console player*😢
soon I hope 🤞

Omg ... I'm sorry for the double promo post, but another starred review for MAGICAL / REALISM came out today from Publisher's Weekly!
'Readers will be spellbound.' Thank you so much! publishersweekly.com/9780593187142

wtaf is this

I cannot believe this has happened to students protesting on their own campus at their own (private, even!) university. Protest is A BASIC PART OF BEING A STUDENT.

This is so nuts; protesting on campus is part of how you learn to be an involved citizen of this country!

I jumped today! 🏇🏇🏇

I spoke with Percival Everett ⁦Exile in Bookville⁩ the other day, and he lived up to his rep: He may be America’s great living novelist, and its hardest interview. “What’s there to say of my writing? I use punctuation.” chicagotribune.com/2024/04/17/per…

reading the clay pittsburgh website makes me wish we still lived there. why is chicago so siloed in their clay work? why do we have so few artists here? it's such a mystery to me. i tried joining the midwest clay guild but woweee so expensive and exclusive

The Late Americans has been out for almost a year, which is strange and surreal.

Next Monday, I'll be celebrating the paperback release of The Late Americans with my beloved Adam Dalva at McNally Jackson Seaport.

It would mean a lot of if you came. Details below.

ori knew right away
i took many years to make this determination