Krista Eastman

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

My friend @morriscollins.bsky.social's novel is out today. It has the brilliance of A.S. Byatt, minus the fussy, four-page digressions about wallpaper. I agree with this blurb: it's smart, ambitious, and *somehow* light on its feet. So happy for this gifted writer.

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The Tavern at the End of History The afternoon that Jacob called, the Yitzhak Bloom Senior Curator of Modernist Paintings came down to Rachel’s office in the basement of the Museum of Jewish Art and asked her, as he sometimes did,…

My novel, The Tavern at the End of History, comes out next week. In the meantime there's another excerpt (about bad curators, worse museums and who actually lives in Maine) up as one of Literary Hub's daily fiction offerings. lithub.com/title/

large banner that reads ICE OUT OF MN FOR GOOD at lake and lyndale

Large banner hangs over a building at Lake Street and Lyndale Avenue on a snowy morning.

It reads "ICE OUT OF MN" "FOR GOOD" with the names of those killed by federal agents.

Minneapolis, February 2026

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One small thing you can do *right now* — donate $5, $10, $50, whatever you're able — to this rent fund for South Minneapolis daycare workers whose families are sheltering in place. Can we raise $5k today??

Whatever you can give matters. And if you can't give, can you share?

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Angela Woodward can write. I mean, Angela Woodward can WRITE.

I wrote about nostalgia and my hometown movie theater in the 1990s. If you've ever wondered about your own propensity for "sad, soppy yearning," boy do I have an essay for you!

Thanks to @newlettersmagazine.bsky.social, Christie Hodgen, & Ashley Wann!

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ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge

"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

Galleys dropped! My weird novel abt art, the angels of history, Kabbalah, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, & the dangers of trauma narratives. I pitched it (not well) as a Jewish Magic Mountain, but shorter. It's a strange book & I can't wait to share it with you. Feb 10th from Dzanc.

The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner In 1921, the Pulitzer Prize for drama went to Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett, which she had adapted from her best-selling novel. The New Republic claimed that Gale had done what “only a feminist…and …

The #pulitzerprize writer you've never heard of wrote funny, smart stories in which women fight back against unsafe & unsanitary business practices. Sadly, her work is still relevant thanks to RFK et al, she is. Glad to have this essay in @literaryhub.bsky.social today: lithub.com/the-politics...

This is 90% of my retirement plan so thank you.

Preordered. I look forward to reading it!

Such a pleasure and honor to be included in this, with all these amazing writers. It's been really nice hearing from so many readers about my strange story...

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

The essayist Krista Eastman who doesn't do social media is now on this site & has a new essay out. She writes things that appear in places like Conjunctions and The Georgia Review and in this book, The Painted Forest, which is a strange & smart & beautiful collection. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Fourth Genre - Michigan State University

I've got a fresh nougaty essay out in the Fourth Genre. I believe it to be suitably melancholy for our times, though it also contains some good old-fashioned, time-pissing weirdness. Volume 26, Number 2, Fall. 2024, pp. 84-90, "Pionier."

msupress.org/journals/fou...

Do any of you do work in other genres to support larger projects? Working on novel edits and got thinking abt this poem I wrote while drafting the book...About my wife's illness at the time but framed, or hallucinated, through the book's themes. From The Florida Review 46.1

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Here for community & to mumble abt lit & to find new people to read. Not big on self-promo, but also: Art, sanitoria, the angels of history in a state of decline, Kabbalah and bad sex, fake memoirs, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, diasporic longing, inherited trauma & the dangers of commemoration...

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