First panel at AWP, hosted by Jafreen Uddin and Asian American Writers' Workshop with @mirajacob and Piyali!
Happy #AAPIHeritageMonth ! Here's some books by #asianamerican or #pacificamerican authors like Vu Tran, Japanese Breakfast, Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky, Jose Antonio Vargas, Nikki Haley, Hieu Minh Nguyen, T Kira Māhealani, Min Jin Lee, yanyi 妖怪, and @mirajacob #rfl #thisisriverhead libraryaware.com/2J12W4
My 2nd book Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues will be pub'd by Beacon Press on 10/4! 12 of my own essays & work by 15 amazing writers (see comments), which demo how to write about social issues compellingly and with integrity. Foreword by @mirajacob
Library Book Club meeting after school today to discuss Time Bomb by Joelle Charbonneau🏔📚🎼🇺🇦 and start our next book, the graphic memoir Good Talk by @mirajacob. Thanks to the East Hartford Alumni Association and Education Foundation for supporting our students with funding for books!
I'm choosing to celebrate strong women this weekend and independent bookstores that amplify their stories. Onward! @mirajacob Kirstin Chen Katherine E. Standefer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado @thrityumrigar @karnythia Books Are Magic @booksmith Marcus Books @macsbacks Loganberry Books Greenlight Bookstore
Tomorrow, (Oct. 20th) 5 EST, with Hedgebrook & @mirajacob (GOOD TALK is so good!) Henry Holt & Company
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@mirajacob M & M Moya Costello (PhD/Dr): Writer Moz Perkins ⚓️ Author 🏴🇬🇧 AuroraO’HaraWritesⓋ 🌬Myinfinitesadness Naomi P Lane Jean Gordon Kocienda Nikki Rodwell Ninette Hartley - #LooseEnds Catherine Taylor
Yesterday I walked the #AWP22 bookfair with Grace Loh Prasad 駱信惠 talked ghosts with @bruceowensgrimm had pinot and panini with Stephanie Feldman laughed my face off at R. Eric Thomas & the Grit at Blue Stoop hugged Kristen Arnett as #gritty , stroked Carmen M. Machado’s wings, danced with @mirajacob…
Today is Pub Day! Edited by Tom Hart and me! Pub by Rose Metal Press Feat. Oliver Baez Bendorf Thi Bui David Dodd Lee Trinidad Escobar 🏳️🌈 Marnie Galloway Lauren Haldeman @mirajacob Keith Knight:Gentleman Cartoonist Matt Madden Josh Neufeld Dustin Parsons Zeke Peña Kristen Radtke @scaattr Bianca Stone &more!
No one ever reached out to me to compile this book rec list….but whoever pulled it together got it ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RIGHT!!!!! I do be shouting about Ashley C. Ford, @mirajacob, Caro De Robertis, Angie Cruz & Deesha Philyaw 😍🔥
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'Some part of me believed that when it felt safe to go out again, we would do it together. But now, her being gone has drawn a circle around a truth I have tried to keep hidden from myself: I don’t really know what home is without her in it.' @mirajacob harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…
1. Radiant Fugitives - Nawaaz Ahmed
2. If They Come for Us - Fatima Asghar
3. Another Appalacia -Neema Avashia
4. When we see ourselves - BlindianProject
5. Keya Das’s Last Act - Sopan Deb
6. Good Talk - @mirajacob
I've loved seeing myself reflected in @mirajacob’s books and I've admired her dedication to highlighting need for equity in literary realm. So, I'm deeply grateful to Mira Jacob for framing Craft and Conscience with her beautiful and powerful Foreword. Beacon Press ♥️🙏🏾
This story by @mirajacob in Harper’s BAZAAR has me in an absolute puddle.
Beautiful words that describe one of the greatest kinds of love out there, that of a best friend.
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Apropos of this insightful CreativeNFCollective panel at #cnfc2022 yesterday, today's newsletter from jami attenberg 's #1000WordsofSummer has this quote, courtesy of @mirajacob: 'Because here's the thing about expiration dates: They aren't real.'
