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Executive Director, National Book Foundation. Opinions mine alone.

Brooklyn
nationalbook.org
Joined October 2008
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    7 Sep 2017

    Hi. It's me on PBS Newshour. (I'm kind of proud of this one, watch it if you don't mind taking a moment.)

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    Books "make us more empathetic" and "connect us to one another," says Executive Director .
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    3 hours ago

    There's an event 1) in Chicago 2) about prison and literature 3) starring SERGIO DE LA PAVA?!?!?! You know I'm there. Thursday, 6 o'clock, Join me and & . Guarantee you'll leave with your brain buzzing.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Super excited that we'll be back at NYPL this year with Notes from the Reading Life! Here's this year's crew!

    We are thrilled to share details for the second season of Notes from the Reading Life, which will bring , , and to branches across the boroughs to discuss the books that inspire and excite them!
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    7 hours ago

    Tomorrow at — Art for Action Youth Summit with Firelei Báez, , , , , and

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  5. 6 hours ago

    Just now in the office: “You really need to learn how to form an opinion, Lisa” 😂

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  6. 9 hours ago

    Friendly reminder to publishers: National Book Awards Submissions are due tomorrow by midnight PT. No late entries! xo!

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  7. 9 hours ago

    I'm sorry but I loved this.

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  8. 10 hours ago

    Oh god, CKOne.

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  9. 10 hours ago

    I appreciate very much that this rightly includes me (AND EVERYONE MY AGE) as part of Gen X.

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  10. 10 hours ago

    The hits keep coming! Here she is on Phoebe Waller-Bridge (who I am currently obsessed with)

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  11. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    “THIS BOOK IS ultimately about the basic struggle we’re all in, the struggle to be human and to see that others are fully human.” Coming 8.20.19. . .

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  12. 12 hours ago

    Many thanks to extreme jet lag for helping me to catch up in a timely manner.

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    May 13

    Naomi Shihab Nye, who’s a literary legend in her hometown of San Antonio, is the new Young People’s Poet Laureate:

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    May 12

    Old Town Thrones

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    May 13

    Ugh: "Susan Sontag was true author of ex-husband's book" & had to trade authorship claim to keep her child

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    21 hours ago

    I’m annoyed that put this at the front of the book I had to slam it down as soon as I read this!! Damn, damn, Deaf Republic is such a gorgeous and earth-shaking offering

    from ‘Deaf Republic’, Ilya Kaminsky
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    23 hours ago

    Wednesday at — Art for Action Youth Summit with Firelei Báez, , , , , and

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  18. 23 hours ago

    Being three episodes behind on GoT is a real problem

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    May 13

    1. On a Monday, like today, May 13, 1985, a major U.S. city dropped a bomb on its own residents. My first political memory was this, the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, 34 years ago today.

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    May 12

    At this point, the only acceptable outcome is to put Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the Iron Throne

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  21. May 13

    Today, a year ago, a dear friend was singing for my father as he lay dying. My dad was still squeezing my hand, telling me he loved me, still smiling. It has been a year since that week of loss, the fading away of my favorite person, my heart breaking. Dreading Sunday.

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