Stop killing children. Stop supporting the killing of children. Stop rationalizing the killing of children. Stop justifying the killing of children. Stop being desensitized to the killing of children. Stop looking the other way to the killing of children. Stop killing children.

I want to cut through the noise and remind everyone that those who attend conventions are the strongest supporters of our party. The majority of attendees have been wearing ceasefire pins, keffiyehs, and/or Palestinian flags. It’s been beautiful and I need folks to remember that.

Kamala Harris isn’t your celebrity hero. She’s a politician running for president of the most powerful empire in the world.

Reporters are walking out of the DNC to cover Uncommitted delegates. The party has missed a lay up in denying a Palestinian speaker

I was gonna say that Jesus could be the planned spectacle and I would still be be incredibly not excited after this bullshit but then I realized he was Palestinian so also probably wouldn’t be allowed to speak

I feel like an idiot for holding out even a bit of hope for some kind of moral clarity in the midst of the daily murder of children. Soaring rhetoric untethered from specificity is just another toxic cloud. And we treat these people like rock stars.

Incredible account of life in Gaza by the playwright Nahil Mohana. lithub.com/escaping-genoc…

The problem with publishing is that we’re not doing illuminated manuscripts anymore.

If you read nothing else today, this week, this month, read this. Please, please read this. lithub.com/love-in-the-ti…

Israel is now invading the West Bank and plans to treat it like Gaza: Palestinians Report Nine Killed, Eight Wounded in Israeli Army West Bank Raids haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

My cousin Yasmin and her three children, all kids, were just murdered by Israel. May they rest in peace.

"As an Arab scholar of Arabic literature in the US, I have very few choices. I can either be a tool of the very system that objectifies me, exoticizes me and is not willing to bat an eye when my entire culture is being exterminated, or else I am a threat." lithub.com/intifada-on-be…

“According to the Jenin municipality, more than 70% of Jenin’s streets have been bulldozed; 20 kilometers of water and sewage networks, communication and electric cables have been destroyed; and water has been cut off from 80% of the city.” dropsitenews.com/p/israel-lays-…

BREAKING: My fall LGBTQ reporting & virus classes were cancelled & I’m not allowed to teach at Medill while I’m “investigated.” Whatever happens, I’ll be fine— like Medill, I “write boldly & tell the truth fearlessly”— but I’ll neither stay nor go quietly.x.com/democracynow/s…

Really great essay, here:

Starting tomorrow you can listen to Literary Hub staffers talk books, publishing, and arch-nemeses on THE LIT HUB PODCAST. Hosted by Drew Broussard Isn't Here ep. 1 features me and Emily Temple talking about book lists and the weirdos who hate them, along with Kristen Arnett on literary assholes.

In which Emily Temple and I defend the honor of the book list (and Kristen Arnett talks literary assholes). Yup, it’s The Lit Hub Podcast. lithub.com/literary-assho…

Sign Petition Demand Justice for Defamation and Misinformation Against Haitian Immigrants chng.it/ZMBswfdTck

Nobody: Me: “Books are good, actually…” Emily Temple: “Naw, most of them are bad.” (Saying the quiet parts loud on The Lit Hub Podcast.) lithub.com/literary-assho…

BOOM! I am back in the saddle for the fall as a regular Literary Hub columnist with an exclusive essay on "False Profits: Why I Am Not Teaching in the Classroom This Fall" lithub.com/false-profits-…