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A Childhood in Jewish New Orleans To assimilated German Jews in the South, the Holocaust was unimaginable. One solution was to shut it out.

"Why not just convert?.... In New Orleans, at least our New Orleans, everybody knew everybody else, going back for at least two generations.... Everybody thought of us as Jewish and that would never change."

Nicholas Lemann's RETURNING excerpted @newyorker.com:

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It’s pub day for ATRIA

Thank you to Hannah Bonner and @bombmag.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about the book

Okay, I had to join the cool kids and document the arrival of the first copies of my book, Stealing America! Author's copies landed super early from @liveright.bsky.social and @wwnorton.com and they did a fantastic job. Available for pre-order now; official pub date is April 28.

Resources for Teachers — Emily Wilson

On Feb 27th, 7pm ET, I'll do a public webinar Q and A, designed primarily for high school students and their teachers who may be using my translations of the Odyssey or Iliad in class. You can register here: www.emilyrcwilson.com/resources-fo...

BOMB Magazine | D.S. Waldman by Hannah Bonner In this debut collection, a poet filters grief and disability through the prism of contemporary art.

"Attention seems like a practice we have to cultivate.... The media we’re fed is geared toward shorter and shorter clips.... I’m much more a lay-a-brick-every-day type person." @ds-waldman.bsky.social talks to @bombmag.bsky.social about ATRIA: POEMS, in stores today! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

*NYC Book Launch*

ATRIA @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

When: Friday 2/20/26 @ 7:00 pm

Where: Books are Magic (122 Montague St.)

Featuring: Shira Erlichman, Emily Lee Luan, Francisco Marquez

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Mezghebe’s Debut: Just “What You’re Looking For” For fans of Yaa Gyasi and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, this novel’s fresh and poignant writing is storytelling at its finest.

"What makes Mezghebe’s work so compelling is the way she threads Eritrea into the emotional fabric of the narrative... Mezghebe writes with awareness of how conflict reverberates across generations."

New review of I HOPE YOU FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR by Bsrat Mezghebe. @liveright.bsky.social

Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison? We are seated. Plus, the latest from Gabriel Tallent and Heather Fawcett. @candlewickpress.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @liveright.bsky.social @delreybooks.bsky.social @marinerbooks.bsky.social

I am excited to reintroduce you to The Ephemera Collector
published by @liveright.bsky.social out in paperback with a new cover on March 3rd!

You can request The Ephemera Collector from your favorite #library, preorder from your local bookstore, or @bookshop.org!

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I HOPE YOU FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, historical novel of ripples from 1990s seismic shifts I HOPE YOU FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR BSRAT MEZGHEBE Liveright/Well-Read Black Girl Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $27.99...

I HOPE YOU FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, debut novel by BSRAT MEZGHEBE via @liveright.bsky.social/Well-Read Black Girl Books, is an historical novel set in the 1990s (sob!): #Booksky
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This Friday night (2/20) at 7 PM in the shop, Bsrat Mezghebe will discuss her debut novel from Well–Read Black Girl Books and @liveright.bsky.social, I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For, with Tochi Eze!

#authorevent #charlottesville #wellreadblackgirl

‘How to Know Your Self’ Review: Self-Help You Can Use Human psychology has burdened us with anxiety about the future and regret about the past. It may be fruitful to look outwards.

Human psychology has burdened us with anxiety about the future and regret about the past. It may be fruitful to look outwards. on.wsj.com/4qX0Y0j

‘After the Flood’ Review: Dylan’s Rebirth A dive into Bob Dylan’s late career has produced the best book on the musician in ages.

A dive into Bob Dylan’s late career has produced the best book on the musician in ages. on.wsj.com/4ahnTMO

"Our need to 'matter' — to feel valued and deserving of attention — is 'the most peculiar and the most human thing about us,' argues Goldstein... in this engaging book populated with stories of people both famous and ordinary." @nytimes.com on THE MATTERING INSTINCT: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...

After the Flood Blending biography and archival history, <em>After the Flood</em> asks of Bob Dylan, &#8220;If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?&#8221;, After the Flood, ...

Happy pub day to Robert Polito, whose new book AFTER THE FLOOD: INSIDE BOB DYLAN'S MEMORY PALACE is available wherever books are sold!

“Polito brings a scholastic zeal and care [to] Dylan.... A feat of hyper-attuned reading and listening." (@mojomagazine.bsky.social)

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Author copies have arrived!

Thanks to the folks at @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com for taking such good care of the book

ATRIA 2/17/26

Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/atri...

Today on the program, a conversation with Brenda Navarro and Megan McDowell. Brenda’s new novel, EATING ASHES, is now available from @liveright.bsky.social in an English translation by Megan, a past recipient of the National Book Award.

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.

I look forward to joining this cast of excellent writers tonight for @adroitjournal.bsky.social 8:00 pm on zoom

I’ll be reading from ATRIA, out 2/17/26 @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

Dante: The Essential Commedia Prue Shaw&#8217;s absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come., Dante: The Essential Commedia, Dante Alighieri, Prue Shaw, 97813240...

“Those who have previously quailed or failed before the Commedia will relish Prue Shaw’s new version. It cleverly runs its commentary in and out of the text, and (whisper it quietly) is not afraid to cut or summarize the boring bits.” —Julian Barnes wwnorton.com/books/978132...

March 25th at 7pm: I'll be in conversation with @popcultureamerica.bsky.social about DARKOLOGY: BLACK FACE AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF ENTERTAINMENT @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge, MA (2/3)

Our next Chicago Writers Showcase reader is @adrianmatejka.bsky.social reading from BE EASY ( @liveright.bsky.social). The Editor-in-Chief of POETRY magazine, Adrian has published several book-length works of poetry and one graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century🧵

This Novel About a Sister’s Grief Skips the Five Stages

"A rising star of Latin American literature has written a novel that refuses to reduce grief to a scheduled tour through ennobling sorrows... Navarro is a major talent who knows that the most important stages of grief are ambivalence and guilt." — @nytimes.com

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I spy VICTORIAN PSYCHO! #libfaves25 @liveright.bsky.social

The Jaguar's Roar Check out The Jaguar's Roar - In 1817, two German scientists traveled across Brazil and into the Amazon gathering flora and fauna to study and display in Europe. Among the collection they brought to…

Founding Editor @samanthaschnee.bsky.social is looking forward to THE JAGUAR’S ROAR by Micheliny Verunschk (tr. Juliana Barbassa), from @liveright.bsky.social. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

With all of the craziness out there, we have to celebrate the small joys, right? I received the (uncorrected) full dust jacket for my forthcoming book from @liveright.bsky.social and @wwnorton.com and it made my day.

Thanks to @thebaffler.com for publishing “Pt. Reyes,” a poem about love and microdosing with friends

it’s drawn from ATRIA, out next month w/ @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

Review: Jason Mott on a new translation of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations” An accidental masterpiece and a companion in hard times

New on Book Post → What makes for a good translation of Aurelius’s Meditations? Jason Mott reflects on the latest translation, by Aaron Poochigian, which renders Aurelius’s thinking with empathy and without distortion.

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The Jaguar's Roar An American Booksellers Association's Indie Next Great Read (December 2025) The story of an Indigenous girl&#8217;s kidnapping during a colonial expedition intertwines with a young woman&#8217;s mode...

#SFinTranslation Out Today:

The Jaguar's Roar by Micheliny Verunschk, tr from the Portuguese by Juliana Barbassa (from @liveright.bsky.social)
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"Your Life in Parties" by Amber Sparks "...your retirement party, the one they threw for you at the atrocious Italian restaurant. Surprise!, they all yell, which is so awkward because this isn’t a surprise party...."

My favorite writing thing I did this year beside publish my book was get back into short story writing, including writing this one and getting published at a dream pub. If you haven’t read it, I’ll say that i think it’s a very good end of year kind of story to read

A bleak December It was a rough week on the democracy front

A week full of gut punches…
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