Eric Nguyen

Still taking book pitches for @barrelhouse.bsky.social, through Aug. 9. Looking for short books (25K-30K words) that combine criticism and memoir, exploring some pop-cultural artifact that's played an outsized role in your life, or that connects in some unique/interesting way to your own story.

Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’

“The occupation has corrupted us. I am absolutely convinced that Israel’s curse began with the occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967. Maybe people are tired of hearing about it, but that’s the truth.“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Every time I see this book in the library, I imagine Darwin saying “draw me like one of your French girls”

Truly, it’s the racism.

Presenting the #BookerPrize2025 longlist.

Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.

makes me wonder how many books i’ve read in my life so far and how many books i will have read by the end www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

Annual Reminders from the Killer in I Know What You Did Last Summer I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER! - - -I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER! - - -I REMAIN FULLY AWARE OF WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER! - - -IT’S BEEN ...

HAPPY TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ME KNOWING WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!!! WE DID IT!

Another day, another inexperienced but hopeful writer, announcing that they have “been offered a book deal” for £20,000. Turns out that the author is being expected to PAY THIS to the publisher, not the other way round. Folks, no publisher does this.

These dumb and evil times...

as it should be

X post by Yu Miri. JP: 日本語は、私の母語です。 日本で生まれ育ちましたから。 あなたが、日本語の使用権をお持ちなのでしょうか？ あなたに、日本語を使う許諾をとらなければならないのでしょうか？

The surge in anti-immigrant sentiment in Japan has led to increasing online attacks against award-winning author Yu Miri (TOKYO UENO STATION). Attackers tell her not to write in Japanese and "go home."

Yu is Zainichi Korean, born in Japan. Japanese is her native language.

Hey! Have you signed up for PBS Passport yet? $5 per month, you donate to PBS with it, and you get all of their shows. I registered for annual at $60/year.

Cancel Paramount, get PBS passport instead.

“The church compound was sheltering both Christians and Muslims, including a number of children with disabilities, according to Fadel Naem, acting director of Al-Ahli Hospital, which received the casualties.”

Após eleição para ABL, Ana Maria Gonçalves vende 2.000 cópias de "Um Defeito de Cor" em 24 horas - JornalNota Após eleição para ABL, Ana Maria Gonçalves vende 2.000 cópias de "Um Defeito de Cor" em 24 horas. Confira mais na matéria!

EMOÇÃO!🚨 Após eleição para ABL, Ana Maria Gonçalves vende 2.000 cópias de "Um Defeito de Cor" em 24 horas!

Para se ter ideia, o número de vendas representa uma tiragem inteira de um lançamento literáriono mercado brasileiro.

Notícia incrível! 🎉

Leia a matéria completa:
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Keeping Up with Mrs. Jones | Namwali Serpell Nettie Jones’s debut novel, published in 1984 and newly reissued, is still breathtaking and shockingly bawdy.

honestly, you had me at:

"There’s a scene in which a woman pops a bottle of champagne and immediately shoves its neck up a man’s anus for a brief, bubbly enema—at his delirious request."

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 24A1203 LINDA MCMAHON, SECRETARY OF EDUCATION, ET AL. v. NEW YORK, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [July 14, 2025] The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The May 22, 2025 preliminary injunction entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10601, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.

When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it. Two lower courts rose to the occasion, preliminarily enjoining the mass firings while the litigation remains ongoing. Rather than maintain the status quo, however, this Court now intervenes, lifting the injunction and permitting the Government to proceed with dismantling the Department. That decision is indefensible. It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out. The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution's separation of powers is grave. Unable to join in this misuse of our emergency docket, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Trump to gut the Department of Education, over the dissent of the three Democratic appointees.

i wish i could opt out of A.I. everything. i didn’t need it before and i don’t need it now.

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KIIK IS ON "ANOTHER FUCKING WRITING PODCAST"

A convo not to be missed!

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John Martin, Devoted Publisher of Literary Rebels, Dies at 94

RIP Black Sparrow Press founder John Martin. Most famous for publishing Bukowski, but was also home to a pre-revival Lucia Berlin, something not mentioned in this obit: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/b...

Today, the House passed the budget reconciliation bill by a 218-214 vote. The bill drastically increases funding for deportations while slashing funding for Medicaid, SNAP, and other critical programs that provide for peoples’ basic needs.

yes, definitely! (i have very little
hope/faith/patience in American and British contemporary fiction…i say this as an American writer)

the fiction is kinda 🥱

Jackson, dissenting: "Today’s ruling allows the Executive to
deny people rights that the Founders plainly wrote into our
Constitution, so long as those individuals have not found a
lawyer or asked a court in a particular manner to have their
rights protected."

BREAKING: Supreme Court, 6-3, limits nationwide injunctions in cases challenging Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship, staying injunctions where "broader than necessary to provide complete relief" to those challenging the orders. Lower courts are to decide how that is done.

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Have you ever thought to yourself, “Wow, I’d love Eleanor’s job”? My time is winding down, so now’s your chance! Become WWB’s next social media coordinator—a perfect (and fun) part-time, remote role for an early-career literary comms professional! Learn more: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The Interview with E. M. Tran Author of Daughters of the New Year

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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.

2025 Summer Multilingual Translation Workshops Multilingual Translation Workshops pair 6 literary translators with an established translator leader for a 105-minute workshop via Zoom.

Don't forget! Over half the slots for the Summer ALTA Multilingual Translation Workshops, which will be held August 18-23, are gone! This is your opportunity to be brought together in a small group of translators with an experienced leader over Zoom. Check them out & register today!

‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.

this is apartheid. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Publishers don’t pay for nonfiction books to be fact-checked, the author does out of their advance.