y’all I have some news: THE INCENDIARIES is being developed as a TV show!!!
& I am so very excited about working with & & 😭 ahhhhh
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the news is really like, “a Black man was yelling and a fellow citizen killed him. did he deserve to die? perhaps. what do you think?”
and this is why we yell Black lives matter cuz what the fuck are y’all even talking about right now
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This is so "girl who wears the band t-shirt to the concert" embarrassing but I was annoyed that only novelists got a WGA solidarity image but not writers of other genres so I made these, they took 2 seconds on Canva (I did not make the novelist one)
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Following his speculative and satirical collection FRIDAY BLACK, ’s new novel CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS () depicts a world where prisoners literally fight for their freedom as celebrity gladiators. Interview by .
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A 1.5-minute film about forgetting your first language as an immigrant. “Halmeoni” by Kevin Jin Kwan Kim #AAPIHeritageMonth
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THIS IS SALVAGED on 's wonderful annual list at of anticipated books of writers of color. (The others all sound so good, toooooo?) electricliterature.com/62-books-by-wo
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I wrote about what Toni Morrison’s archive (on view now at Princeton) reveals about her creative process for
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Announcing the Twenty-Third #YoungLionsFictionAward Finalists!
@asgharthegrouch for #WhenWeWereSisters
@elainehsiehchou for #Disorientation
@zaintkhalid for #BrotherAlive
@y_si_rey_quiere for #TheBookOfWanderers
#DavidSanchez for #AllDayIsALongTime
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This week alone:
1. A boy shot for ringing the wrong doorbell
2. A girl shot for pulling in the wrong driveway
3. A girl shot for going up to the wrong car
4. A girl shot for rolling a ball into the wrong yard
The common denominator is NOT the kids. 🤷♀️
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AGAIN: Kinsley White, 6, was shot by a North Carolina neighbor who was upset that a basketball rolled into his yard. The gunman also shot her parents and other family members. White was released from the hospital overnight. #ncpol qcnews.com/news/u-s/north
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We are one week away from this 2-part lecture class with writing prompts, and there's still time to sign up.
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I’m doing a glossary of creative writing terms for my beginners. Do you remember the words everyone else in class seemed to know? One I remember being afraid to ask about was “novella.”
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anyway here is the Korean edition cover of They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us and…folks, they went off, this shit way too cold
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Preorders are now open for LAND OF MILK AND HONEY. I am entranced by this cover: its feminine power and eroticism, its mystery and sense of transport, its earthiness and unearthly beauty. Step into this world with me; preorders mean so much
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some wildly wonderful early support from writers I so admire, including & Gabrielle Zevin
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This was such a beautiful conversation. lost her underinsured father to kidney disease. She lost her mother to cancer during the pandemic. Wrenching loss and societal failures colliding, and a huge lesson in grace.
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holy shit
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The furniture for reading and storing them too, any costs related to moving, reading and writing the books, any space used for that, utilities too. Meals and drinks where books come up, any travel to those, any vehicles kept for travel to and from the books and talk about books.
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hey publishing friends, do y'all like...write off books you buy on your taxes? is that a work expense.
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Public Service Announcement: I successfully got my last eight free home Covid tests, as I have been every 30 days. According to my pharmacist, you can get a last set until May 11, 2023. Stock up for you & neighbors cuz it’s getting awfully hard to find testing sites these days!
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Hey! This is a form asking people to report others for receiving gender affirming care. It would really suck if people filled it out with bullshit and submitted it! Definitely don't do that!
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Thank you for writing this piece. I just read it, having googled “sad Asian femmes” and while I still feel strangely isolated, it is good to know people who do care are out there
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I'm getting a lot of really lovely support and solidarity, which I am so grateful for.
And for those who'd like action items:
1. Tell Scholastic how you feel about this.
2. Buy books by POC authors.
3. Support groups like that fight censorship / book banning.
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This is unacceptable and you’re a badass. Let us know how to help.
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Ralph Yarl should be home with his family, dreaming about his future. Instead, he is fighting for his life. Ralph was only trying to pick up his younger siblings, but was shot twice in the head after ringing the wrong doorbell.
Being Black is not a crime. Ralph deserves justice.
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Feinstein's refusal to retire is currently wrecking Biden's entire judicial agenda. It's erasing the advantage that Senate Democrats gained in 2022. It's grinding confirmations to a halt. It's giving GOP senators even more leverage over noms. The damage here is just astounding.
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.@SenFeinstein's plan to temporarily swap herself out with another Democrat on the Judiciary Committee isn't going well.
Republicans are making clear they'll block it.
@SenSchumer needs unanimous consent from the Senate to do it smoothly.
All it takes is one senator to object.
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I really appreciated this thoughtful review of #BEEFNetflix by for . While she agrees the writing and performances are undeniably superb, she also puts important culutral context around the show, including questioning David Choe's casting. ❤️
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What makes @Netflix #Beef compellingly watchable is the crackling chemistry between @AliWong and @steveyeun, writes @hanbae Read the full review
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OK. No more subtweeting. This is what happened. Full story at the link.
I'm so disappointed and furious and unsurprised. But I also have receipts.
Scholastic wanted to feature my book, but ONLY if I censored the word RACISM from the author's note.
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If you ever wondered what publishers are doing in the face of school book bans, it's not what you'd hope, and it's exactly what you'd think.
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Korean-American Writer R.O.Kwon | Korea24 youtu.be/avFneVjsx8I via
Check out our interview with right here!
#TheIncendiaries #인센디어리스 #권오경작가 #ROKwon
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We are proud to announce that we have a new editor: .
Oscar has been our stalwart managing editor for 11 years. He takes over for Laura Cogan, who is staying on as editor at large. Please join us in congratulating Oscar and thanking Laura!
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“In a love affair, it is usually the lover who is handsome and the husband who is not, whereas it was just the reverse in my case.” A new Laurie Colwin story, rescued from her papers.
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Missouri Republicans have voted to defund all public libraries. It is an apparent extortion attempt to try to force libraries to remove books that include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes. (per )
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For this week’s #TouchBaseinSeoul, the Korean-American writer of 'The Incendiaries', R. O. Kwon joined us via video. Translated into Korean by the publisher in January, she tells us more about her novel and her life.
#인센디어리스 #권오경 #작가 #소설가
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Thank you at for this feature on Korean literature in translation! Gotta love any article where me, , and #RM share a photo spread!!! straitstimes.com/life/arts/from
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not even going to get started about the food, will save that for the piece, but good lord the FOOD ✨
(description: ribs being exuberantly grilled at Mongtan)
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I mean, I teared up 💀 hello, city of my birth, no matter how long I am away the animal in my body somehow knows this place to be a home
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home from a quick trip to Seoul for a piece & lord the cherry blossoms were OUT & Seoul is simply one of the most beautiful cities I know of, I will brook no arguments on this obvious truth tysm
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Someone asked me what I thought I’d learned from reading all of these essays, and I said, that’s a really big question, and a few months later here we are.
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@AlexanderChee editor of Best American Essays 2022 + author of bestselling essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, will guide you through the possibilities of the essay form. 1/2
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for all the people who are so perplexed by poets writing novels… here is a new poem of mine about trying to write a novel. and berlin. and being lost in berlin 🔪💓 in the april issue of — thanks to editor of my heart
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been waiting for this magnificent book by to be out for y’all for months & months & it’s out today at lasttttt ❤️🔥
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A Living Remedy is out today. Everything I am is in this book. It means more to me than anything I have ever written. If you read it, I really hope that it means something to you, too.
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got the idea about keeping notes on what kind of day it was from , & it helps so much! For one thing, it reminds me I’m a person in the world, & that my writing is often affected by said world
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