Excited to share that #LetUsDescend by Jesmyn Ward is one of the Amazon Books editors’ Best Books of 2023–and it’s on a billboard in NYC! See the full list here: spr.ly/6017u0hDc

We’re excited to announce our next Oprah's Book Club selection is… “Let Us Descend” by best-selling author Jesmyn Ward.

@oprah calls it “a vital work for our culture.” Join us as we read this extraordinary novel together. #ReadWithUs

Learn more here: trib.al/OU6xy3h

EXCLUSIVE: The latest Oprah's Book Club pick is “Let Us Descend” by Jesmyn Ward, who @oprah calls a “powerful, vital voice in our culture today.”

Jesmyn Ward shares how she learned her book was picked — and why writing the novel was healing.

Tue, Oct 24, Jesmyn Ward & Ta-Nehisi Coates, meet on the historic stage of The Town Hall to celebrate the release of Ward's novel, Let Us Descend. W/ S. Epatha Merkerson, Naomi Pierre, & The Harlem Chamber Players.
All tix include a copy of the book
Tix: bit.ly/WardTH

On October 24th, I’m going on tour for Let Us Descend, and I’m in conversation with some of my favorite writers and booksellers. Come through.

This is why they really want to get rid of TikTok and it's not because the Chinese own the platform. It's because videos like this get hundreds of thousands if not millions of views at a time. So many comments on this video expressed not knowing of this history and being well…

Jack Dorsey who helped recruit and make sure Musk takes Twitter, mocking Twitter users to touch grass rather than protest the destruction of what had been a public square. Billionaires gonna billionaire.

Made verification meaningless. Eliminated Translate Tweet. Now this. Yeah he's an idiot but he's also a right winger who's buddy buddy w/a bunch of right wingers. He's methodically gutting the app that criticizes & mobilizes against the right more than any other app on the planet

I’m thinking about the person who told me that when we were kids their mom would punish them whenever I placed higher than them at an orchestra audition. It didn’t matter that I had been playing longer or that I was more skilled. They should have at least beaten the Black kid.

Sherrilyn Ifill Her father came to America on the back of progressive immigration policy reform and then taught, throughout his career, at an HBCU. His daughter grew up to ape rednecks.

Y’all wanna hear the TRUE story of Nikki Haley?

A thread

To be clear, Nikki didn’t change her name. She chooses to go by her middle name instead of her first. And maybe it’s not fair to point out her actual name.

Im sure people in SC wouldn’t care.

Ask Barack HUSSEIN Obama

She was “empowered” by the work and the freedom that America offers

Because BLACK PEOPLE GAVE IT TO HER.

And she even got a pair of free bootstraps

You’re welcome, Nimrata

Glad we could help.

Morgan Jerkins Gen X were the captive students of Ende & Wolfgang Petersen's bleak, unblinking German existentialism. The universe is 'unfair, hungry, without meaning, full of sorrows, & ultimately nothing other than what you imagine it to be'.

Dude, we were 7.

Morgan Jerkins I say without irony or hyperbole that movie changed my little life in its way. I learned that self-destruction looks like giving up from Artax. And that your friends—the weirder the better—can help keep you safe from the Nothing (depression, sadness) but can't stop it.

Let’s be clear. Anyone who was raised in the 70s and early mid 80s are tougher than any of us will ever be.

Why? Because they survived The Neverending Story.

And I, for one, applaud you.