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editing @ atria and @wspbooks.bsky.social

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Vulture @vulture.com · 03/03/2026
In Madeline Cash’s ‘Lost Lambs’ and Honor Levy’s ‘My First Book,’ progressive ideals are the ultimate bogeyman, writes Malavika Kannan.
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How Should a White Woman Writer Be?
In Madeline Cash’s ‘Lost Lambs’ and Honor Levy’s ‘My First Book,’ progressive ideals are the ultimate bogeyman, writes Malavika Kannan.
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Come and talk about food and politics with Amber Husain and @andrealongchu.bsky.social at Books are Magic 2/25 www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-a...
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In-Store: Amber Husain: Tell Me How You Eat w/ Andrea Long Chu
"A vital and compelling investigation of eating—and a profoundly original analysis of some people’s inability to do so." —Rebecca May
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/09/2025
This year, The New Yorker published poems from six of the ten poetry collections that appear on this year’s National Book Awards longlist for Poetry. See what made the list. #NBAwards
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The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist
Through Friday, The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Join us in DC on Monday!
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Columbus event on Tuesday! We’d love to see you there. 💙
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Brooklyn on Wednesday! This one will be special. I hope you can join us. 💙
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Thursday in the Boston area! See you there 🦃🦃🦃
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Saturday in Burlington with @theferocity.bsky.social & @alexanderchee.bsky.social. I hope you’ll join us. 💙
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Phoenix Books in Burlington, Vermont made this incredible storefront display for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT!! @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I will be there in person on 9/13 for an event with @alexanderchee.bsky.social and we’re so excited!!!!
The storefront displays features a crowd of blue silhouettes all marching with the sign “Art Is Resistance” and “The People’s Project.”
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It's September 1st, which means the fall "Big Book Event" season is just around the corner! Our first ticketed event his fall is @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social with Tiana Clark, Koritha Mitchell, Imani Perry, and Jason Silverstein! portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...
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TICKETED: Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith, editors of The People's Project, ft. Tiana Clark, Koritha Mitchell, Imani Perry, and Jason Silverstein
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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
wrote about thomas chatterton williams www.vulture.com/article/post...
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Zero Tolerance
Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?
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wspbooks.bsky.social @wspbooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"In The Mind Electric, Anand demonstrates the empathy, humility and profound interest in humanity that demarcates and exceptional doctor—and which, in a perfect world, would be consistent across the profession." #medsky #medtwitter
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Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains
Neurologist Pria Anand recounts curious tales of the workings of the human mind in an elegant debut that is being compared to the late, great Oliver Sacks
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
so.... i have some big awesome news that i am so excited to share!!!!! i am going to write a book about sandwiches!!!!!!!!
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THE BOOK OF NOTABLE
SANDWICHES
By Talia Lavin
Imprint: Atria
Author of CULTURE WARLORDS and WILD FAITH Talia Lavin's THE BOOK OF NOTABLE SANDWICHES, an A-to-Z exploration of our favorite portable meal across borders and time periods, layering hidden histories with memoir, cultural criticism, and culinary critique on sandwiches ranging from the American sub to the Polish zapiekanka, to Jenny Xu at Atria, in a pre-empt, by Dan Mande at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (world English).
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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
wrote about ocean www.vulture.com/article/ocea...
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The Romance of Being Unreadable
In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Can’t wait to publish these truly incandescent poems 💕
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Michael Valliant @mvalliant306.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"Life is a one-off, as far as we know. This is it. And the one-time-only-ness of life makes it one big beauty emergency--astonishing and temporary. Look. Listen. Lean in. Right now. Pay attention." —Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
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kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
got to talk to @andrealongchu.bsky.social for Interview Magazine: www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...
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"I Think Most Things Are Bad": Andrea Long Chu on Cruelty, Criticism, and Conviction
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic joined us to discuss her reputation for being a hater and her brand-new collection of essays, "Authority."
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I found out this morning that the new issue of Kirkus Reviews celebrates “The Best Books of the Century (So Far)” and my memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES is one of them! If you see a black gay man running through the streets of Boston trying to find a magazine stand, now you know why.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
#Massachusetts folks: Advocates are hosting an emergency rally for Rumeysa Ozturk in Powder House Square Park in Somerville this evening at 5:30PM.
Stand With Rumeysa Ozturk: Tufts PHD Student Abducted by Trump Administration

Emergency Rally

March 26, 5:30 PM

Powder House Square Park

STand up and Fight Back

Keep Ice out of our community.

There is a picture of protesters waving a Palestinian flag.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION!
RELEASE MAHMOUD KHALIL
HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS ICE OFF OUR CAMPUSES
MON. MAR 10 • 4PM
JACOB K. JAVITS FEDERAL BUILDING
26 FEDERAL PLAZA, NYC
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“While incarceration is far more common than many of the rare diseases taught in medical schools, most doctors and nurses report that they don’t know what their hospital’s policies are on shackling, privacy, and surrogate decision-makers for incarcerated patients.” —Dr. Pria Anand
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The Way Hospitals Care for Incarcerated Patients Must Change
The question of how to care for incarcerated patients in hospitals is an urgent one. We can’t afford to get it wrong.
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Joseph Osmundson @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was ironic patriotism such that it could trick philistines into thinking it was in support of Stalin's empire when it was really pointing out the sad and violent futility of it, in this essay, I will...
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Tiana Clark on Kendrick: “It’s a diss track to America, an audacious indictment delivered as a rallying anthem designed to unite us and revive our weary, burned-out reserves.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Was Political Art, if You Knew Where to Look
With an audience of over 120 million people, Kendrick’s show broke viewership records. But at times it seemed designed to speak directly to me.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
HIRE MORE BLACK CULTURAL CRITICS, YOU LOSERS. (Don’t ask me tho; y’all can’t afford my rate.)
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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
bye girl nymag.com/intelligence...
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Goodbye, Pamela Paul
The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.
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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
97% of @nymagunion.bsky.social members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox, if you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
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READER PLEDGE — New York Mag Union
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Like so many of you, my friend @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I have been having a conversation about this country’s future. Now we’re turning our dialogue into a book featuring poems and essays from Marlon James, Alexander Chee, Ashley C. Ford, Chase Strangio, Imani Perry and more!
Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith's THE PEOPLE'S PROJECT, an anthology of essays, poetry, and art on perseverance, action, and care in the face of political uncertainty to act as a guidebook for the years ahead, from 25 contributors including Marlon James, Alexander Chee, Ashley C. Ford, Chase Strangio, Hala Alyan, Alice Wong, and Imani Perry, to Jenny Xu at Washington Square Press, for publication in fall 2025.
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Sebastian Stockman @substockman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I have updated this starter pack with more critics, and the @bookcritics.bsky.social account. Are you a book critic or responsible for the care and feeding of one? Let me know and I’ll add their handle. go.bsky.app/aSiQqh
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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
oh also i should probably mention that a very pretty second edition of females is coming out on march 4, new afterword by me www.versobooks.com/products/898...
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Females
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the...
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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
april 8 nerds us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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Authority
A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? Sinc...
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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
wrote about dnd www.vulture.com/article/is-d...
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Why Is ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ So Misunderstood?
At 50, the game is more popular than ever, but its core appeal is still a great secret.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 08/12/2024
As of yesterday booksellers at The Strand are on strike. Solidarity with them. Don’t cross the picket line, even virtually.
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Local 2179's Strand Booksellers on Strike
After months of stalled negotiation and three separate contract extensions, UAW Local 2179 members at the Strand Bookstore walked off the job today, December 7, marking the first strike at the iconic ...
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Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com · 07/12/2024
My husband has been in the hospital for a low white blood cell count, zero neutrophils, and plenty of opportunistic infections with no end in sight. I’m raising money to help pay for my lodging, which I’m doing to be closer to the hospital. NO PRESSURE at all, but if you’d like: gofund.me/23f3543a
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Donate to Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital, organized by Esmé Weijun Wang
My name is Esme Weijun Wang and I'm an author, speaker, and teacher. My hus… Esmé Weijun Wang needs your support for Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Urgent mutual-aid request: trying to help raise some funds asap for a friend, organizer, & BIPOC sex worker currently undergoing chemo and unable to work. She’s at risk of having her kids taken away—please DM for her cashapp info if you have the means?
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The only harm reduction org awarded so far is—per their contract—forbidden from purchasing syringes & needles with “federal award funds.” But these funds are NOT federal dollars. They received their contract in June. In Nov, the director told me they were still hoping for clarity “any day now.”
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
IL is getting $1.3 in opioid settlement money, but the state won't say who is reviewing and making those awards decisions--or appeals. Harm-reduction, nonprofit leaders, and state lawmakers described to me their serious concerns about transparency here: chicagoreader.com/news-politic...
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Illinois's convoluted process for allocating opioid settlement funds - Chicago Reader
Questions about who reviews applications for opioid settlement money remain unanswered by the state.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Another essay I loved recently is Simon Wu at the Paris Review, on a trip with his parents he booked through Costco. Am reading his essay collection, Dancing On My Own, and finding it very satisfying--he's one of my new favorite writers. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/07...
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Costco in Cancún - The Paris Review
On Costco aesthetics, at home and abroad.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
161 authors have donated over 300 books to this book fair! Go check it out and maybe knock out some of your holiday gift shopping while supporting Addameer? brewandforge.com
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Brew & Forge | For writers, activists, & movement builders
Brew & Forge amplifies the collective power of writers and other artists to alchemize dreaming and build capacity in movements for liberation, justice, and survival. Through our annual book fair, retr...
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
publishing & bookstore friends…reviewers…havers of brains… If you’re looking for a read that will change your life and rewire that noggin, in the spirit of Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, hmu for a galley! Coming next spring from @wspbooks.bsky.social
Navy blue with bouquet of flowers in the shape of a brain, an advanced reading copy of THE MIND ELECTRIC, a neurologist on the strangeness and wonder of our brains, by Pria Anand, held in hand in front of a window.
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Well well well look who’s finally here and skeeting
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
If you would like to volunteer or give a gift in Jeff (Kelly’s) memory, please consider the Chicago Recovery Alliance (anypositivechange.org) or the Night Ministry (www.thenightministry.org)
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CRA is an organization for those interested in directly serving, supporting, educating and advocating with others for reducing drug related harm.
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
There’s so much demonization and cruelty now for unhoused people, trans people, and people who use drugs, and there is more coming. Don’t believe it. Queer people, poor people, and drug users are not your enemy. Our safety and liberation are intertwined. I love my friend.
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
On Sunday, my friend Jeff died. He was a queer elder, harm reduction teacher, and rock n roller of Lower Wacker Drive. There are many people living and dying like Jeff all over this country, but he was the only Jeff to me. I wrote a memorial for him here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Jeff <3
My friend Jeff died Sunday. He was tall and lanky, loved rock and hip hop, hated men who hit women, and sometimes drew dragons all over his tent with lipstick. He was proud of who he was, unspeakably ...
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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hellooooo!! Ty for the warm welcomes! We’ve also just moved @WSPbooks over, so watch this space for more, including TWO new books from Saeed 🖤
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Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
Disabled queer bipoc debut unagented authors: Atria’s first novel contest will open for a 2 week submissions period on 9/29/23! If you have a full manuscript ready, we’d love to read. Winner gets 50k advance and publication with us, top 3 will get help finding an agent. bit.ly/3Efm6YR
Books Like Us by Simon & Schuster First Novel Contest

An annual opportunity to highlight underrepresented writers and celebrate the diversity of the readers we serve.

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