@peninaroth.bsky.social
Curator of Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
@poynterinstitute.bsky.social on the decline of book reviews: "When a community loses book coverage, it creates a ripple effect. Writers lose visibility...Readers lose out on books....Local arts lose support. Freelancers and critics lose income." shorturl.at/Hfpfv
#booksky h/t @lhertzel.bsky.social
Huge congrats to Franklin Park Reading Series stars Justin Haynes (Ibis) and Chet'la Sebree (Blue Opening), finalists for @latimes.com Book Prizes!
19.02.2026 02:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We love hosting you—and you’re welcome anytime! Thanks for sharing your amazing new story!
15.02.2026 19:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I had such a good time at Franklin Park, as always - wish I could be there for the March bash!
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Huge thanks to February’s mesmerizing Franklin Park Reading Series stars— @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social, and Sanibel! 🗓️Save the date for our anniversary bash on March 9!
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Creative Resistance returns with this wonderful piece on “the shame of writing through catastrophe” by Emma Copley Eisenberg
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Congratulations!!!
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Happy Valentine’s Day. Love always wins 🤍
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TONIGHT, 8PM! Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series for a night of poetry & fiction with @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social, and Sanibel! #FreeAdmission 618 St. Johns Pl. #crownheights
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Thrilled to announce that HORSE GIRL FEVER is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award - Ken Kesey Award for Fiction!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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TACOMA by Aaron Burch
Seahawks championship and my new book officially out on Tuesday. Just a giant day for SeaTac. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING!
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Missed Bad Bunny’s halftime show? Want to rewatch? (4x and counting for me). The NFL posted the whole performance on YouTube: on pace for 500k views in the first 30 minutes.
09.02.2026 05:47 — 👍 1828 🔁 817 💬 30 📌 57Tomorrow night! Come out, come out, Brooklyn, come get warm with words
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"Clutch, a book about friendship and endurance and the ups and downs and trainwrecks of growing up and into midlife together, has a lot of music in it."
Emily Nemens shared a playlist for her novel Clutch at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2026/02/04/e...
MONDAY, 8PM, at Franklin Park: So excited to host @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social, and Sanibel! #Free raffle for these stunning books! Books sold by Unnameable. www.facebook.com/share/1CV72Y...
618 St. Johns Pl. #crownheights
MONDAY, 8PM: The Franklin Park Reading Series hosts superstars @ambersparks.bsky.social, @laurenfsharma.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Keetje Kuipers, @erin-ce.bsky.social & Sanibel! #FreeAdmission, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! facebook.com/events/s/fra...
06.02.2026 17:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1🚨 MARLON JAMES RETURNS, SEPTEMBER 2026 🚨
THE DISAPPEARERS is a propulsive and deeply human story of men forced to make compromises to survive what the society they live in demands.
Learn more about the Booker Prize–winner's riveting novel now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742603...
That first story is great. The whole collection is amazing—every store resonated for me, and I love the blend of poignancy and humor.
06.02.2026 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love "The Heiress"--so haunting!
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I shared some February book recommendations at @insidehook.bsky.social! www.insidehook.com/books/books-...
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Read Lucy Yu's recommendations for 2026's most anticipated books by women of color, featuring titles by Toni Morrison, Larissa Pham, Camonghne Felix, Han Kang, Reena Shah, and more!
Explore the list here:
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“Carson: There better be a gd pool.” Read from @emilynemens.bsky.social’s new novel, Clutch.
04.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Such a loss. You built a great books section—I loved the wide range of coverage plus all the new contributors!
04.02.2026 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats!!! Looking forward to this!
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The Publishers Marketplace announcement of my book, which reads “Rahawa Haile's IN OPEN COUNTRY, a personal and political hybrid memoir of the author's transformative Appalachian Trail thru-hike, exploring the history of freedom of movement in the United States, and reckoning with America's foundational myth of conquered wilderness, the violence of national borders, and the legacy of diasporic placelessness, moving to Bryn Clark at Little, Brown, at auction, by Julia Kardon at HG Literary (NA).”
Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.
04.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 395 🔁 66 💬 61 📌 27We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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Author @erin-ce.bsky.social joins me on tomorrow's show to discuss her debut novel Junie.
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10% of classes purchased through Monday will go to a member of the co-lab community on the ground in Minneapolis, providing groceries & rent support to families who are essentially on house arrest because of ICE. Please spread word & help support artists & grassroots resistance
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Lauren Francis-Sharma talks to Bethanne Patrick!
@laurenfsharma.bsky.social
@thebookmaven.bsky.social
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Episode 337D is here! Jessikah sat down with Erin Crosby-Eckstine, author of JUNIE, part ghost story, part historical fiction and weaving tension which will leave you thinking about this book way after you’ve turned the last page. @erin-ce.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social
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