I reviewed Darryl Pinckney’s wonderful memoir of literary life among Hardwick and others, for New York Times Books: nytimes.com/2022/10/23/boo…

Going to be at this fest with none other than the fabulous Merve Emre as my interlocutor! 💕

The question is not: is requiring reading in college classes good or bad? The question is: who is being asked to resolve the contradictions of modern higher ed, and what are the consequences if they fail to do so?

When Jason Novak asked if I’d appear on his show, I did not realise I would be appearing as a cartoon! Here we are talking about hating literature but loving literary criticism, Italo Calvino, and my new career as a literary therapist.

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I don’t like to swear on this platform, which I know is a little silly and maybe old fashioned, but whatever. Nevertheless, tonight’s guest is fucking brilliant. Airtime is upon us, and joining us tonight is the incomparable Merve Emre Merve Emre !!! Tune in RIGHT NOW!!! 1/2

Can't wait to be Merve Emre's +1 at the WordsWithoutBorders gala! Not sure what my translator-chic look should be for this event. Welcoming all fashion advice 👗🥻 🕶️👑👠🎩

This year's WordsWithoutBorders gala is shaping up to be its most successful fundraising effort ever. Join me + my hot date & co-winner of this year's #InternationalBookerPrize Daisy Rockwell + the amazing gala hosts on Oct 25th to celebrate literature in translation. secure.givelively.org/event/words-wi…

Me rn.

“This is one of the saddest visits I’ve ever done in my professional life,” says Joyce Msuya in #Yemen

'Half of Yemeni hospitals are not functioning, or they are completely destroyed by the war.'

via Anwar Salem and Sam Magdy

abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…

Last call! Ticket sales for our annual gala close at 12 EDT Monday. Tuesday, 10/25, 6 pm, hosted by Merve Emre and w/honorary chair Isabel Allende:
bit.ly/3VNZxlB

I’d retire right after if I ever produce a masterpiece like this omfggggggg

And finally SEPTOLOGY by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls, has arrived: