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Words in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Joyland, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Los Angeles Review, Ursa, & elsewhere. Fiction Editor at Guernica Magazine. williampeishih.com
Our new issue is online, with portfolios by Lynn Johnson and Mandy Barker; essays by Sofi Thanhauser and Donovan Hohn; fiction by Bill Cheng, William Pei Shih, and Mimi Lok; poetry by Erin L. McCoy, Leslie Harrison, Sacha Marvin, and Nikki Giovanni. Read it all: www.vqronline.org/summer-2025
Oh that would be fascinating! 😃
Today’s reading.
Happy Book Birthday to this book! 🎊🎉🙌
Excited to read this! New novel by Andrew Porter!
“I’d run into Leslie Epstein in Brookline, and he’d ask me, ‘Are you writing, Jhumpa?’ And I’d say, ‘I have papers to finish—Foucault is expecting me.’ And he’d say, ‘Don’t forget to be a writer.’” —Jhumpa Lahiri buff.ly/fcwTAmz
Two Canadian writers walk into a bar…. 🥰
“The Place Blanche, Paris, Life itself. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.”
— Quartet by Jean Rhys
Tonight is a Wuthering Heights night.
I'm absolutely delighted to find The Great Believers on Kirkus's list of the 100 Best [fiction] Books of the Century (So Far), along with so many books I love. 😍😭
www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...
Not an April Fools' joke: I'm partnering w/ @legroff.bsky.social & her amazing bookstore The Lynx to give away free books on fighting fascism. FL folks, just stop in and ask for a free copy of the titles below! Not in FL? Order and get 10% off. Read, share, fight the fascist fools. ❤️👊
Happy birthday Vincent van Gogh! 🌻
Lots happening on The White Lotus.
Just remembered Franz Schubert's Octet in F Major has a horn.
Oh god, the boat people.
". . . You would never call me baby
If you knew me truly
Oh but I waited so long for your love
I am scared baby that I can't keep it up for long
Boy I wish I grow up the second
I first held you in my arms
Underneath this hood you kiss
I tick like a bomb . . ."
" . . . I wonder why I'm so afraid
Of saying something wrong, I never said I was a saint
I wonder, when I cry into my hands
I'm conditioned to feel like it makes me less of a man
And I wonder if someday you'll be by my side
And tell me that the world will end up alright
I wonder
I wonder . . . "
"There are many people at Versailles today."
Thinking about Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson.
Giving the music of Antonio Salieri a try.
too soon old, too late smart
" . . . Sometimes I feel like
I've never been nothing but tired
and I'll be walking
Till the day I expire
Sometimes I lay down
No more can I do
But then I go on again
Because you ask me to . . ."
" . . . I wouldn't if I were you
I know what she can do
She's deadly, man, she could really rip your world apart
Mind over matter
Ooh, the beauty is there, but a beast is in the heart . . . "
I would love another Tori Amos like artist to emerge out of the masses.
Incredible album, every single song.
“On his birth certificate, ʿIbdis hovers in the white space around the words GAZA STRIP.”
An excerpt from Sarah Aziza’s forthcoming memoir.
Why has Friday become anticipating Sunday’s episode of The White Lotus??
