Jonny Diamond

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…

“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.”

My latest for LitHub:

lithub.com/tending-to-t...

Librarian leaves job after declining Melania Trump’s demand for a sword. Today in headlines I never thought anyone would I’d write, the head of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library has resigned after a spat with Melania Trump over an original Eisenhower sword s…

The Idiocracy presidency continues apace. lithub.com/librarian-le...

Ron DeSantis is about to “gift” Donald Trump a $200 million plot of land for his “library.” Florida man and failed presidential candidate Ron DeSantis will vote today—along with the state’s attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner, all republicans—to approve …

The corruption is just so obvious (as it usually is in an incipient dictatorship) lithub.com/ron-desantis...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

A common technique of Holocaust deniers is to look up Red Cross statistics for disease in the concentration camps, and insist this proves that Jews and Romani were not deliberately murdered.

Again it's all spelled out here, but we're looking for books that were published between 2013-2022 roughly and not covered by the NYT book review under Paul (and shoulda been). This is a collaboration btw me and @maris.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social

www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

I’m working on an exciting new book reviews-related project in collaboration with Maris Kreizman for Lit Hub. I’m interested in receiving recommendations of books written by a trans and queer authors that you feel were overlooked by the NYT book review between ~2013 - 2022 (under Pamela Paul’s leadership). If you are an author and you feel your book was overlooked, feel free to write me (or let me know on Bluesky). If you are a reader and you want to recommend a queer- or trans-authored book you adore that again the NYT did not review when it was released during this time-frame, again please feel free to let me know, either via this site or on Bluesky. If you’re a book reviewer and you want to pitch a book to review for the aforementioned series, please pitch me via email. If you’re interested in reviewing a book: Email me a paragraph or two explaining why this book in particular (not much longer). Please share a brief bio for yourself and a website. Also include a couple of your best clips, ideally previously published book reviews. Please reach out via my contact form. Book reviewers: This is a paid opportunity; I’m just coordinating on behalf of the publication; they’re saying $250 per ~800 - 1000 word review (and we’ll be assigning many so please tell your friends about this too, if they’re also book reviewers). We may have some flexibility, depending on what the outlet decides. I will discuss further specifics with those whose pitches we follow up with. Thank you! We are setting a September 1 deadline.

Thank you @jonnydiamond.bsky.social for greenlighting this!! Thanks everybody who's already sent in pitches and ideas. Again, now have a September 1 deadline and we'll circle back with folks after then.

Again all details re: pitching etc. can be found here: www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

Will journalists across the world speak out on the murder of their fellow journalists? Or will many remain quiet as they have before on the intentional murder of their colleagues for doing their work?

The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal.
The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

Eternal thanks to Lithub EIC @jonnydiamond.bsky.social, whose support means more than I can say. This is my first essay at Lithub, a publication I’ve admired for years, one of the few that has stood consistently with Palestine and its people. It’s an honor to publish with them.

hey ... 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

if you're a queer / trans author whose book didn't get reviewed by the NYT during you-know-who's era as book editor, can you please reach out?

you can email me via my site (in bio) or just make yourself known here. this is for a story ...

REPOSTS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

thanks!!!

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way) “The woman is a footnote in the man’s history.” –Rebecca Hazelton * There’s this photo of Lana Clarkson that I think about often. She’s outside, backed by a blue sky, the green and brown spotted hi…

The move between registers, the way the academic and incisive meets the personal honesty. The courage of it, sure. But more the messiness, the refusal of narrative as the only way to own narrative. . . credit to the good doctor @megpillow.bsky.social . A great piece of writing about a terrible thing

We are starving My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

"We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. It already happened to my sister: while searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, she suddenly collapsed to the ground. Her body didn’t even have the strength to stay upright."

What ICE’s Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America “Mom is gone. They took her away.” These are the words of an 8-year-old Mexican-American girl I will call Maria, in my hometown of Oxnard, California. She spoke them to her summer school teachers t…

Great reporting from @thrasherxy.bsky.social here, about the danger of ICE to us all.

lithub.com/what-ices-as...

At this point, if a public figure does anything remotely literary, it’s ours.

For my first submission to @literaryhub.bsky.social I feel pretty good about a B+.

(But I also felt good about coming in 3rd with 11% of the vote, so it may be that I’m falling victim to the era of grade inflation).

Come see me on tour? Starting next week!

The Supreme Court just approved anti-LGBT book bans. On the last day of its term, America’s highest court gave legal backing to bigoted attempts to ban books and to erase queer people from public life. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Court ruled that Montg…

I’m sick of being told it’s not practical to want a better world by people who have forgotten how to dream (for @literaryhub.bsky.social)

Hello, I’m Jewish. I think genocide is bad and Zohran Mamdani is good. Hope this help.

Copaganda and Me Maris Kreizman writes about the way police are mythologized in popular culture in this excerpt from her book 'I Want to Burn This Place Down'

Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays by Maris Kreizman Lit Hub columnist Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210) bucks the stereotypical trend of growing more conservative with age in this fi...

PW says these "sharp and entertaining essays deliver the goods!" www.publishersweekly.com/9780063305823

One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps” According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staf…

I’m always happy to recommend Madeline ffitch: lithub.com/one-great-sh...

It’s me, talking about my TBR pile

I get it, this was a weird little story with a ton of unattributable background

Thanks so much for including "The Front Runner"! What great company to be in. Beyond thankful. 🤘💀🤘

Hegseth on his phone more than a New York City cop