campus protests were really important in helping shape my moral compass & to resist/reframe what elite universities are designed to do: make young people comfortable w/ harmful hierarchies

solidarity with the protesters at columbia & all the schools they've inspired

Holy shit.

'The $75,000 prize accompanying the PEN/Stein award will be donated, this year, to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the direction of the Literary Estate of Jean Stein.'

publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

got back from a residency 🤓

I find this statement by PEN president Jennifer Finney Boylan gross. a distracting, writerly attempt at animal metaphors that dodges the actual criticisms against PEN, an anti-war protest Boylan misrepresents as 'authors silencing themselves'
lithub.com/pen-president-…

fyi it's a 'fiction novel'

'We cannot, in good faith, align with an organization that has shown such blatant disregard of our collective values.' 29 writers and translators have withdrawn themselves from consideration for The PEN America Literary Awards.
lithub.com/the-pen-awards…

BREAKING NEWS: local man (ruben reyes jr) is getting really into joni mitchell's music, more at 11 pm

SAVE 🌊 THE 🌊 DATE 💙💙💙 cc: Julia Armfield Flatiron Books

oh we WON

astonishing

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