FYI, I'll be teaching at Tin House this summer for one of the YA novel #workshops #THSW! This faculty is top-notch and I'm honored to be among them. Deadline to apply is 1/31. tinhouse.com/workshop/summe…

Coming 4/30!

Thank you to everyone that read Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano with us! Big thank you to Jennifer Soriano and everyone who made it to the discussion!

BJB at the AWP #1 Nonfiction For Living Cities will be paneling day 1 of #AWP2024, Come hear my trusty contributing editor Tim Hillegonds talk about writing the city on the themed magazine panel, Thurs. Feb 8th at 10:35 AM, joining a lovely crew of editors of little mags with particular focus.

The first #AWP24 panel I'm on is happening on Thursday, Feb 8th at 1:45. Come join these dazzling wonderfuls—Julie Marie Wade, Jen Soriano, Marco Seiryū Wilkinson, & Constance Collier-Mercado—as we talk about making hybrid intersectional #nonfiction.

Sat Feb 10 at 9AM, the final day of #AW2024, I join my dearest co-faculty from The Rainier Writing Workshop to celebrate our new anthology of craft essays edited by Brenda Miller, all culled from the RWW summer residency morning talks. Moderated by Rick Barot. Rick Barot Brenda Miller

chucky is more honest than your US history teacher

This is true. It is being reported everywhere. And on top of everything else, this is a Black-owned small business that may now be destroyed. Tesla is refusing to pay anything at all.

I thought “prima donna” was “pre Madonna” until I was like 25, I thought it meant you were acting like you were about to be rich and famous like Madonna so nobody ever corrected me because I would always use the phrase correctly

every few months there's some new scandal about appallingly bad editorial or administrative decisions made by management at the new york times and they somehow still stay afloat thanks to the largely anonymous work of a world class puzzle team

Your sustainable tuna comes with a side of human trafficking. A new investigation on McAdams Fish abandoning Filipino workers, and the workers’ ongoing fight for justice. The video is especially good. crosscut.com/investigations… #workers #seafarers #filipinoseafarers #united6

📣 💐📚Happy book day to me! DISABILITY INTIMACY has been a labor of love that I worked on for the last 2 years. I hope you enjoy it. bookshop.org/p/books/disabi…

Andrew Bertaina List of top ten essayists, you say? Here are some of my favorites -- Jacqueline Doyle Joanna 🇨🇾🏳️‍🌈🇨🇾Eleftheriou Kathryn Nuernberger Naomi Shihab Nye Alejandra Oliva Jen Soriano Jessie van Eerden Nicole Walker Mandy-Suzanne Wong Amy Wright

When Palestinians in Gaza are ethnically cleansed, the NYT says they’re “on the Move”

Had such a great time at The Bronx is Reading and loved 💖 being on panel with Alechia Dow (updates only) Tracy Badua Lauren Ho 🍁 BITE ME, ROYCE TASLIM May'24 Disney Pablo Cartaya this morning + seeing bookish folx all day! #Donations to Festivals like this are crucial for access to books/creators/readers: thebronxisreading.com/donate

The British academic journal The Lancet just published a correspondence that estimated the actual death toll in Gaza could be up to 186,000 human beings. I can’t tell you how critical it is that traditional academic journals are publishing evidence-based pieces like this one.

'Nervous: Essays on Heritage & Healing' by Jen Soriano (Jen Soriano) is a memoir in essays exploring the origins of Soriano's challenges with and treatment of chronic pain and mental health. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/4cEob00

In celebration of novelist, essayist, intellectual, and activist James Baldwin's 100th birthday, SchomburgCenter proudly presents selections from the James Baldwin Papers in the exhibition, "JIMMY! God's Black Revolutionary Mouth." Opening August 2: on.nypl.org/3Y8G2Yr

Today marks the 100th birthday of writer, intellectual, and activist James Baldwin! Events across the Library’s branches will celebrate Baldwin’s life and writings, from film and image screenings to book and poetry readings. on.nypl.org/3SWtsZh

Thanks to Convergence Magazine for (re-)publishing my essay about two fantastic books: Jen Soriano (Jen Soriano)’s Nervous and Gabriel Winant’s The Next Shift convergencemag.com/articles/book-…