Jenny Xu

The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist Through Friday, The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.

This year, The New Yorker published poems from six of the ten poetry collections that appear on this year’s
National Book Awards longlist for Poetry. See what made the list. #NBAwards

Join us in DC on Monday!

Columbus event on Tuesday! We’d love to see you there. 💙

Brooklyn on Wednesday! This one will be special. I hope you can join us. 💙

Thursday in the Boston area! See you there 🦃🦃🦃

Saturday in Burlington with @theferocity.bsky.social & @alexanderchee.bsky.social. I hope you’ll join us. 💙

Phoenix Books in Burlington, Vermont made this incredible storefront display for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT!!

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I will be there in person on 9/13 for an event with @alexanderchee.bsky.social and we’re so excited!!!!

It's September 1st, which means the fall "Big Book Event" season is just around the corner! Our first ticketed event his fall is @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social with Tiana Clark, Koritha Mitchell, Imani Perry, and Jason Silverstein! portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

wrote about thomas chatterton williams www.vulture.com/article/post...

Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to the late, great Oliver Sacks

"In The Mind Electric, Anand demonstrates the empathy, humility and profound interest in humanity that demarcates and exceptional doctor—and which, in a perfect world, would be consistent across the profession."

#medsky #medtwitter

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report THE BOOK OF NOTABLE SANDWICHES By Talia Lavin Imprint: Atria Author of CULTURE WARLORDS and WILD FAITH Talia Lavin's THE BOOK OF NOTABLE SANDWICHES, an A-to-Z exploration of our favorite portable meal across borders and time periods, layering hidden histories with memoir, cultural criticism, and culinary critique on sandwiches ranging from the American sub to the Polish zapiekanka, to Jenny Xu at Atria, in a pre-empt, by Dan Mande at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (world English).

so.... i have some big awesome news that i am so excited to share!!!!! i am going to write a book about sandwiches!!!!!!!!

The Romance of Being Unreadable In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.

wrote about ocean www.vulture.com/article/ocea...

Can’t wait to publish these truly incandescent poems 💕

"Life is a one-off, as far as we know. This is it. And the one-time-only-ness of life makes it one big beauty emergency--astonishing and temporary. Look. Listen. Lean in. Right now. Pay attention."

—Maggie Smith
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

"I Think Most Things Are Bad": Andrea Long Chu on Cruelty, Criticism, and Conviction The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic joined us to discuss her reputation for being a hater and her brand-new collection of essays, "Authority."

got to talk to @andrealongchu.bsky.social for Interview Magazine: www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...

I found out this morning that the new issue of Kirkus Reviews celebrates “The Best Books of the Century (So Far)” and my memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES is one of them!

If you see a black gay man running through the streets of Boston trying to find a magazine stand, now you know why.

#Massachusetts folks: Advocates are hosting an emergency rally for Rumeysa Ozturk in Powder House Square Park in Somerville this evening at 5:30PM.

EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION! RELEASE MAHMOUD KHALIL HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS ICE OFF OUR CAMPUSES MON. MAR 10 • 4PM JACOB K. JAVITS FEDERAL BUILDING 26 FEDERAL PLAZA, NYC

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

“We should insist that correctional officers leave the room when we learn our patient’s stories or share private information...And when illness robs our patients of their ability to speak for themselves, our patients—not their jailers—should choose who speaks on their behalf.”

The Way Hospitals Care for Incarcerated Patients Must Change The question of how to care for incarcerated patients in hospitals is an urgent one. We can’t afford to get it wrong.

“While incarceration is far more common than many of the rare diseases taught in medical schools, most doctors and nurses report that they don’t know what their hospital’s policies are on shackling, privacy, and surrogate decision-makers for incarcerated patients.” —Dr. Pria Anand

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was ironic patriotism such that it could trick philistines into thinking it was in support of Stalin's empire when it was really pointing out the sad and violent futility of it, in this essay, I will...

Opinion | Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Was Political Art, if You Knew Where to Look With an audience of over 120 million people, Kendrick’s show broke viewership records. But at times it seemed designed to speak directly to me.

Tiana Clark on Kendrick:

“It’s a diss track to America, an audacious indictment delivered as a rallying anthem designed to unite us and revive our weary, burned-out reserves.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

HIRE MORE BLACK CULTURAL CRITICS, YOU LOSERS.

(Don’t ask me tho; y’all can’t afford my rate.)

Goodbye, Pamela Paul The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.

bye girl nymag.com/intelligence...

97% of @nymagunion.bsky.social members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox, if you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith's THE PEOPLE'S PROJECT, an anthology of essays, poetry, and art on perseverance, action, and care in the face of political uncertainty to act as a guidebook for the years ahead, from 25 contributors including Marlon James, Alexander Chee, Ashley C. Ford, Chase Strangio, Hala Alyan, Alice Wong, and Imani Perry, to Jenny Xu at Washington Square Press, for publication in fall 2025.

Like so many of you, my friend @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I have been having a conversation about this country’s future.

Now we’re turning our dialogue into a book featuring poems and essays from Marlon James, Alexander Chee, Ashley C. Ford, Chase Strangio, Imani Perry and more!

I have updated this starter pack with more critics, and the @bookcritics.bsky.social account.

Are you a book critic or responsible for the care and feeding of one? Let me know and I’ll add their handle.

go.bsky.app/aSiQqh

Females “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the...

oh also i should probably mention that a very pretty second edition of females is coming out on march 4, new afterword by me www.versobooks.com/products/898...

Authority A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? Sinc...

april 8 nerds us.macmillan.com/books/978037...