Faith Ringgold was such a gift to us. I’m honored to have toured her retrospective at the musée national Picasso in Paris last summer & I’ll adore her art for eternity 💔

I think about this painting everyday. Rest in Peace #FaithRinggold . “The American People Series #20: Die, 1967” #NewarkNJ

So many farewells.

Today is hard. Thinking about Michele Wallace, who lost her mother today as well. Faith Ringgold was a mother and modeled the complexity of it well.

I was just re-admiring Faith Ringgold’s brilliance yesterday African American Studies, Princeton may the ancestors welcome her home with open arms and light her transition. Que en paz descanse! Faith Ringgold, PRESENTE!

So many nights long ago reading Tar Beach to the Dawtas; one of the reasons, I believe, the oldest went on to get a degree in Art History. It was a thrill to take the Grandson to see #FaithRinggold 's exhibit in Chicago this past January. Rest well, Dear Faith.

RIP, amazing artist Faith Ringgold🙏🏾 interviewmagazine.com/art/faith-ring…

A hearty Thank You and Congratulations to Jesse Erickson on his tenure as Coeditor of The Bibliographical Society of America’s journal. Jesse helped transform PBSA into a field-leading hub for bookish inquiry and dialogue, exemplified by the special issue on Black bibliography ed. Goldsby & Meredith McGill

Among the things I wish had made it into my profile of Suzan Lori Parks was my discussion of her mother’s Texas roots, the fact that a florist gave us roses, and her clever jokes about senses. And discussion of her excellent novel, Getting Mother’s Body. She contains multitudes!

The Nordic Noir boom is among the most significant global literary phenomena of the 21st century. Very happy, then, to publish 'The Nordic Noir in Translation Database, 2000-2020' by Karl Berglund, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King at the Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/the-nordic-noi…

At Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.

Saying goodbye et merci to Caribbean literary giant Maryse Condé. Rest in power.

Good morning from “Undocumented. Black. Citizen.” and an hour drive from Bushwick (Brooklyn) was everything.

Clarifying to see Mia Charlene White and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, scholars trained in Black studies and parents of children in the district, lend support to the principal. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/nyr…

Oh wow. Thank you to you and to Ruha Benjamin. I did lots of research for my book at SpelmanWRRC.

I enjoyed participating in the Brandeis Novel Symposium last year. Had a chance to present on Percival Everett's ERASURE right when AMERICAN FICTION was released to mainstream acclaim. Uncanny! I highly recommend submitting a paper for next year’s gathering, on MILKMAN.

Let’s not forget Lanham, Maryland, and Jefferson, North Carolina!

Karl Berglund delivers a wonderful analysis of night readers of audiobooks, most of whom have timed streaming sessions in repeated increments. Karl calls these readers “repeaters” and makes the case for recognizing the uses of audiobook reading to fall asleep.

Karl Berglund considers audiobooks’ increasing share in the book market. In 🇸🇪, they account for almost a third of all books sales. Karl has anonymized data on 430,000 audiobook readers with 74 million logged streaming sessions. Amazing!

Richard Jean So discusses the effect BLM had on reading practices among white users of Goodreads. A critical factor in the quality of their response was whether they had read Black literature before the movement.

Hannah Jorgensen discusses the affordances of The StoryGraph as an alternative to Goodreads, with a unique way of inviting affective reception. The app asks readers not if they identify with characters but if they find them lovable.