Kind of impressed tbh

Safiya Sinclair wins OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024
#Awards #Nonfiction #Jamaica Safiya Sinclair Bocas Lit Fest
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🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @safiyasinclair!🏆

She has won the 14th annual award for How to Say Babylon: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster / 4th Estate Books

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I love this so much 😭

A pure joy to see new readers finding the Women's Prize shortlisted HOW TO SAY BABYLON: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

4th Estate Books

A man noticed that his neighbor’s cats were coming to his property to drink water so he set up a camera to see who else was drinking water...

literally just finished ACCEPTANCE and was thinking about how bittersweet it is to reach the end of a beautiful series, only to find out that a fourth one is coming out in October 😭

In which we learn that Princeton was fine graduating a student who took part in the January 6 assault on Congress but will expel a finishing PhD student for sitting on the grass.

Notice the silence of the “academic freedom” crowd when profs are arrested and slammed to the concrete for expressing political views. It’s clear they don’t care about academic freedom, they care about protecting the powerful from consequences of their bad behavior.

Is Shogun worth watching? 3 Body Problem?

This is a remarkable portrait of a type of mind and experience that it's almost impossible to imagine developing and unfolding in the 21st century. theparisreview.org/interviews/132…

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

I know a lot is going on right now, but today is the 10th anniversary of the Flint water crisis, and none of the residents have been paid from the $656 million settlement. theemancipator.org/2024/04/25/env…

AI made the novelist Rachel Khong consider limitlessness. Now she believes that human limits are what lead us to create meaningful art. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

'Considering limitlessness has led me to believe that the impediments of human writers are what lead us to create meaningful art.'

Beautiful essay on the blood and guts business of writing, from Rachel Khong

theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Love this The New York Times audio essay/interview with Ada Limón & Margaret Renkl: 'Closing the Gap Between Nature and the Self: Ada Limón, the US poet laureate, has a balm for your solastalgia' Milkweed Editions nytimes.com/2024/04/25/opi…

'I think it's really special that librarians do the nominating.' ✨

Watch our Q&A interview with Jonathan Escoffery, in which he discusses how it feels to be nominated for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award and the influences behind his book If I Survive You.

Jonathan Escoffery Farrar,Straus&Giroux

Insightful review of 'Real Americans' by May-lee Chai 翟梅莉 . The book is out Tuesday from Alfred A. Knopf
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So glad Adam Morgan feels this way. I agree 100%! Coming May 14 from W. W. Norton & Company.

This book knocked me flat. One of the decade's best novels so far, for me.