Sati Mookherjee

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote The U.S.

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

PREPOSITION reviews MESOPOTOPIA (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2025) by Anne Waldman.

"[...] casts its gaze backward in the hope of shaking loose some redemptive fragment of history. It is an impossible project—but/and this book is a stunning achievement."

www.prepositionmag.com/waldman-meso...

History repeats.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week Our bindle of brilliant reviews this week includes Christian Lorentzen on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Grace Byron on Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Jeet…

“A magnificent and lovable work—both page-turning and coolly visionary.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week.

Remembering the Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See Kremer’s New York City location, a painter’s paradise and key resource for conservators, is closing in November. For artists, the loss goes far beyond a storefront.

i'm neither a conservator nor an artist but my adjacencies make me really love Caitlin MacBride's eulogy for Kremer Pigments' NY store in @hyperallergic.com

hyperallergic.com/1044633/reme...

This made me cry. 🙏🏽🩷

Two empty tins with artificial flowers, unearthed from a box of miscellaneous doings, and not seen the light of day for some decades. 1/

What does it say about our times that this video made me cry? Thank you @merriam-webster.com. From the bottom of my heart. 🙏🏽🩷

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Very grateful to have this book out in the world. Wish that Marvin Bell and I were still trading paras (short for paragraphs/prose poems) and that he were here...

Frontispiece to Myron H. Broomell’s 1947 collection The Time by Dialing.

Thanks to @bdralyuk.bsky.social I’m sitting at Poets House reading a marvelous but forgotten poet.

So exhausting..

Friends — this wonder by #HelenDeWitt is ABSOLUTELY DELISH. Lucky me I’ve been on a roll reading the most amazing books. @ndbooks.bsky.social

Hmmm … so perhaps what’s sellable and what’s art are different things?

5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Kathryn Schulz on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Ron Charles on Lily King’s Heart the Lover, Arwa Mahdawi on Kamala Harris’ 107 Days, Lily Meyer on…

“Although Pynchon is eighty-eight years old, his intellect, at least on the evidence of this book, remains undiminished.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week.

“Ruth: Compassion for the sorrow of others. 
from the Proto-Indo-European root krue:
to strike, to push 

Why do we do as we do? As our parents did,
ritual's rutted routes worn.….
We parse conscience. And commentary.
Push into the ruth work.”

thank you @sati-m.bsky.social; my g’mother was a ruth

The email rejecting my novel this morning was one thing; the comma splice in the opening line was another.

Good old Andrew!

For your edification

For readers of FONSECA: this is the Caballito peso Valpy gives Penelope for her birthday. It really is a beautiful coin.

#penelopefitzgerald #fonseca #novel #historicalfiction #mexico @penguinpress.bsky.social

It is a perfect novel. Thank you for such a moving and meaningful art experience. 🙏🏽

This reminds me -- in its way -- of how #YoYoMa described the process of art-making: "Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life."

Friends, I just finished this last night. Tender, intelligent, delicious. I cannot recommend highly enough. Brava @jfkane.bsky.social ... and another chance to offer 🙏 to the incomparable #PenelopeFitzgerald.

‘The Shape of Wonder’ Review: Loving Their Lab Lives The pursuit of scientific knowledge through experiment demands training, rigor and precision. For some it is a deep source of joy.

My new review in @wsj.com--"The Shape of Wonder," @pantheonbooks.bsky.social, a very readable book, by astrophysicist Alan Lightman and abstronomer Martin Rees. Felt compelled to put in a reminder at the end that the humanities and arts are kind of cool, too: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

My take on Jonathan Aaron’s wonderful “Just About Anything” @cmupress.bsky.social in @ronslate.bsky.social’s “On the Seawall”: “Aaron’s poetry, for the length of a few lines, a handful of pages, persuades us that things or people that are gone aren’t, in fact, lost.” www.ronslate.com/on-just-abou...

Toad waters his plants, smiling at the thought of a job well done. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

He watered his plants.

Last night I went to a talk at our church by Matt Soerens of World Relief, author of this book about the Christian attitude towards immigration. He’s a good speaker and blended facts with Biblical analysis./1

www.ivpress.com/welcoming-th...

Smh an absolutely tragic three months for the "Bluesky is in a constant death spiral" folks.