In DC? Come join us for a casual and complimentary tea with debut novelist Rosey Lee The Potter's House, tremendously valuable to the social fabric of the city and a bookstore that I would love for all Washingtonians to know about (as well as touring authors), at 1pm today 🫖💐

Can't wait! I am counting down the hours!

In the Bay Area? Meet author of The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World (Repeater Books) & Brooklyn Institute executive director Ajay Singh Chaudhary Ajay Singh Chaudhary at Medicine for Nightmares, in conversation with Daniel Aldana Cohen TONIGHT at 7:30pm, free and open to all

About to begin!

Another great author event happening in DC, tomorrow 4/20 at The Potter's House!

Sharing words & works by local writers every Friday for DCTRENDING / DC's Art & Culture Magazine. Check out this really great, thorough reporting from Washingtonian 🌸 about WAMU 88.5's decision to shutter the DCist and lay off a bunch of staff. Which I'm still shocked by. We need local news media so badly!

Any writers or publishers in my circle affected by the SPD collapse? Drop a link or QT so we know where to support you directly ❤️

It was one to remember! In DC? Join us The Potter's House tomorrow at 1pm 💐

Any writers or publishers in my circle affected by the SPD collapse? Drop a link or QT so we know where to support you directly ❤️

ICYMI, new Joan Wickersham (The Suicide Index, The News From Spain) coming in September, and Literary Hub has the exclusive on the news: lithub.com/exclusive-read…

Would you like an ARC? LMK

“Love”

“Someone I loved told me everyone has one like this –
a helpless, crazy love, the kind that drives you out of character.
I knew when he said this that he was mine, that I wasn’t his,
and that this was a mercy...”

— Joan Wickersham

More Literary Hub lithub.com/exclusive-read…

BREAKING -- A new declaration, signed by dozens of biologists, neuroscientists, & philosophers, points to “realistic possibility” of #consciousness in reptiles, amphibians, fishes, certain mollusks, crustaceans, and insects. By me for Quanta Magazine quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot… Nancy

“My father/daughter Eden ended at puberty. I switched to boys and anything away from home. I went steady, meaning I met a boy named Randy, at the roller rink.”

Read four new prose poems by Maxine Chernoff (Maxine Chernoff):

relegationbooks.com/article/four-p…

See you next in DC at the The Potter's House for tea with debut novelist Rosey Lee on Saturday at 1pm!

If you’re near Bowdoin College:

At one of my spots, Sardinian restaurant Daniela, to lunch w. Plamen Press founder Roman Kostovski. Check them out— Central & East European and Slavic literature in translation, based right here in the area. I’m going to suggest them for an upcoming DC Pub Night DC Writers Room!

What an author, what a bookstore, what a city, what marvelous friends I have— what a night! The best ones are where no one stops to take a picture until the very end, and I’m not sure I’ve ever done an event where everyone had a chance to talk to everyone. We’ll do it again 🪩

Sharing debut novelist Jasmin Attia’s (The Oud Player of Cairo, Schaffner Press) extraordinary Literary Hub essay, “Remembering the Egyptian Childhood I Never Had Through Its Culinary Traditions,” again for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth : lithub.com/remembering-th…