Eric Nguyen

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Click here to start shopping today: kansaspress.ku.edu.

#BookSale #holidaysale #upkansas #universitypress #HolidayGiftIdeas

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2 versions of Jay Wright's Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Penguin Press, 2025), the 1st edition & the galley version.

I admit to being a 1-person PR spox for #JayWright but I'm glad to see his *Transfigurations* (aka Collected Poems Pt 1) is finally out now in the UK. Though he's 1 of the greatest living poets in the English language/greatest living Black poets this didn't happen until he'd reached 91 years of age!

Byung-Chul Han, philosopher: ‘A lot of people read me, but I’m not a millionaire’ The famous thinker spoke to EL PAÍS to clarify that he is not the ostentatious figure that he believes some articles have made him out to be

“You don’t get rich with philosophy.” english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

Bowie father denied bond after ICE arrest Man arrested by ICE in front of children may be transferred to West Coast detention center

more info here: www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Donate to Stand with Dania's Family for Justice, organized by Dania Bautista Hi, my name is Dania. I am a US citizen. I am a wife and a mom of 3 children, ag… Dania Bautista needs your support for Stand with Dania's Family for Justice

www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Yellow graphic with dark blue text reading Fall Sale. 50% off with code FALL25. Available Books & Journal Issues. Oct 20-Nov 9. Duke University Press logo is in bottom right corner.

Our Fall Sale begins today! Save 50% on books & journal issues now through November 9 with coupon code FALL25. buff.ly/Bk390cu

Viet Film Fest 2025: Select Shorts - diaCRITICS This year, Viet Film Fest featured eleven short film sets spanning themes from “Phim Femme” that expands Vietnamese femininity with queer narratives, to “Ethe(real)” where supernatural forces and spec...

This year, Viet Film Fest featured eleven short film sets. diaCRITICS contributing writer Cathy Duong highlights a number of short films across these brilliantly curated sets. diacritics.org/2025/10/viet...

Sehee and Anton sitting in a television show set and laughing

Baek Sehee, the author of I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI has passed away. She was 35.

The Korean organ donation authority reports that Sehee saved five lives through her donation of her heart, lungs, liver, and both kidneys.

'Pick a Color' is a novel that takes place over a single day at a nail salon : NPR's Book of the Day Ning is the manager of a nail salon where all of the workers wear a nametag with the same name – Susan. Pick A Color takes place over a single day at the salon and it’s the first novel by Souvankham T...

you had me at "novel that takes place over a single day" www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

‘I'm an unpaid air traffic controller': Workers hand out flyers at DCA “Hi – good morning. I’m an unpaid air traffic controller.” That’s what a worker said as he approached travelers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Tuesday morning. As the government shutd...

it’s time for a strike 🪧 www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/i...

I have paid subscriptions to the following independent journalism outlets, some also worker-owned:

@truthout.org
@democracynow.org
@inthesetimes.com
@hellgatenyc.com
@thecity.nyc
@documentedny.bsky.social
@newrepublic.com
@denikreferendum.cz
@denikalarm.bsky.social

but imagine if this was the Nobel committee’s pick this year

nooooooo!!

YouTube video by The Daily Show Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show

@knguyen.bsky.social on @thedailyshow.com! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dsp...

Sugar Hunger - diaCRITICS After Jihyun Yun’s “War Soup” and a recipe for sponge cake, a poem for Lien Truong’s cake paintings *** Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, butter and line the base of two cake tins with bakin...

Read a new poem by Thái Hà, with art by Lien Truong. diacritics.org/2025/09/poet...

Signs of the Times cont. - PoPville Thanks to B. for sending from 16th Street, NW in Brightwood Park last night (Sunday): "Not sure who pulled this off but I hope the messages are still there for rush hour!" Anyone see it this morning?

❤️ www.popville.com/2025/09/sign...

Road to Nowhere | David Schurman Wallace Marguerite Young’s cult novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling springs from the supposedly mundane diners and bus depots of Young’s native Indiana, but eschews any stable sense of reality.

one person has read "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" in its entirety www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

So fascists wants to designate antifascists as terrorist.

Donald J. Trump t @realDonald Trump I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 966 ReTruths 2.91k Likes 9/17/25, 8:26 PM

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.”

Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

Small DC bookstore reports 60% decline in business since federal surge A bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood reports sales are down a whopping 60% since the federal surge in D.C. began. The small but beautifully arranged Loyalty Bookstore on busy Upshur Street near Ge...

😟 www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

i will say this one more time. it is BAD MANNERS to ever step into a bookstore and not buy anything. buy a book, or ten. buy a poetry book, they’re cheap, light to carry, and gorgeous to read! buy a notebook. buy a lovely pencil. but buy SOMETHING. you were not raised by wolves

thanks! 😊

Everything you need to know about the Powell’s AI slop snafu—and what we can all learn from it. Another day, another duel with AI slop. Unfortunately a recent deep fake has come in the guise of a friend. Last Friday, Powell’s Books of Portland, Oregon—one of the country’s best lov…

An example of how to push back against the tide of unethical, wasteful, unaccountable slop now oozing across every aspect of everyone's life. The thoughtless technology is not inevitable. How do you break the machines? Together.

After a summer break, diaCRITICS is back! And we’re proud to introduce you to our new website: www.diacritics.org.

really great to see so many SE Asian titles here!

A Reading List for National Translation Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For National Translation Month, observed annually during the month of September, we asked our member magazines and presses to share some of the literature they have published in translation.   Poetry…

Celebrate #NationalTranslationMonth with us by picking reads from (and bookmarking) our 2025 reading list! Find translated poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and more from lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

a scholar with high standing in his field, should be "counterbalanced" by a columnist notorious for his incendiary, click-mongering, and manifestly ideological takes. And this is before we address the perversity of treating the legal designation of genocide as something to debate in the Opinion section. (Alt text continued in reply)

I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.