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Jessica Papin

@jkpapin.bsky.social
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Vice President, Literary Agent, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, on the lookout for book-shaped holes in the universe.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
Badgie says you should buy my book because it's only $1.99 today. Or else . . . no LLAP.
Me and a Badgie cosplayer at the 2026 60th anniversary STLV Trek to Vegas
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/05/2026
Pretty awesome to see The Edge of Space-Time as Maggie Smith's book "I’m most eager to read this year"!!! www.elle.com/culture/book...
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Maggie Smith Shares the Book She Considers a 'Perfect' Read
Plus, more literary recommendations from the author of A Suit or a Suitcase.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/04/2026
Back on my non-trinary neutrinos push on this week’s episode of The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week: www.popsci.com/science/why-...
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Why do female reindeer have antlers? Cannibalism, probably.
Plus wild neutrinos and other weird things we learned this week.
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Jessica Papin @jkpapin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Looking forward to adventures at The Edge Of Space-Time: tonight at the B&N Upper West Side, @chanda.blacksky.app in conversation with @miwamesser.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/04/2026
Ok, I just listened to the audio sample of my book for the first time and WOWOWOWOWOWOW Joniece Abbott-Pratt gives life to the words in ways that I could not even imagine Even if you're not gonna read the book, just go here and listen to the sample because her narration is INCREDIBLE
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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos “With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status.....
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Jessica Papin @jkpapin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Delighted to spot @bschillace.brandyschillace.com’s The Intermediaries from @wwnorton.com on this terrific longlist.
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 07/08/2025
I’m featured in the @washingtonpost.com !! Most #autistic people are accustomed to “masking,” […and] will do so more when there is an increased sense of social hostility. “It’s more important than ever that Jo is her authentic self,” Schillace said. Fighting back through ♿️ representation!
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In writing a detective with autism, a novelist investigated herself
Speaking to The Post about her new cozy mystery, “The Dead Come to Stay,” Brandy Schillace explains how her Jo Jones novels helped her come out as autistic.
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Pantheon Books @pantheonbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
📣 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 In THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME, @chanda.bsky.social blends physics, post-colonial history & Black feminist thought to show why “the edge” is the best place to see the big picture. On sale 4/7/26! Cover designer: Tyler Comrie www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
📣📣 BOOK NEWS 📣📣 I'm excited to share the cover and release date of Book #2, #EdgeOfSpaceTime, which is now available for PREORDER!! You can order from ANY bookstore, including your local indie! More details on preordering here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817... What's the book about? 🧵
[neon rainbow pattern background]
THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME

The universe reimagined -- through pop culture, poetry, and theoretical physics.

From the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos

image of the cover of the book which features circular artwork in the center, one half of it a black and white pattern and the other half a neon rainbow pattern

PREORDER NOW Coming 4/7/26 
image of the Pantheon logo
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Jessica Papin @jkpapin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v... great interview with Alix Dick and @anterobot.bsky.social Antero Garcia’s The Cost of Being Undocumented, just out from @beaconpress.bsky.social
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Authors Alix Dick and Antero Garcia discuss their new book, “The Cost of Being Undocumented”
Antero Garcia says studies show individuals labeled as undocumented pay for themselves, and offer support to the country, as Alix Dick shares her story of living as an undocumented child and the strug...
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Amanda Frost @amandafrost.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For those interested in the history of birthright citizenship, my recent article explores connections between the abolitionist movement and the Constitution's Citizenship Clause. openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.50...
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Dred Scott's Daughter: Gradual Emancipation, Freedom Suits, and the Citizenship Clause
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Amanda Frost @amandafrost.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I was happy that this reporter actually gave me time to explain the devastating consequences of eliminating birthright citizenship (for everyone, not just for immigrants). www.cbsnews.com/video/what-1...
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What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship
President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship is on temporary hold after a federal judge last week called it "blatantly unconstitutional." Birthright citizenship derives from section...
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 30/01/2025
I spent 3 years tracking how people turned to hatred in advance of Nazis—we are speed-running the Weimar, right now, on the verge of collapsing into 1933. THERE IS STILL WAYS TO FIGHT. We can’t despair. But DAMMIT history is repeating with precious little adaptation. wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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The Intermediaries
The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich., The Intermediaries, A Weimar Story, Brandy Schillace, 9781324036319
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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 28/01/2025
"The story of Devine Street, the story of Detroit, and indeed the stories of many other cities across the U.S. are, in fact, tales of predatory governance,” law scholar Bernadette Atuahene writes in her new book 'Plundered,’ out today.
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Excerpt: New book ‘Plundered’ examines the racist policies behind Detroit’s foreclosure crisis
The story of Detroit and many other cities across the U.S. are tales of predatory governance
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Jessica Papin @jkpapin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
literary-arts.org/2025/01/anno... Congratulations to @rclarren.bsky.social whose brilliant book, The Cost of Free Land, is a finalist for The Oregon Book Award. @vikingbooks.bsky.social
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ANNOUNCING THE 2025 OREGON BOOK AWARDS FINALISTS AND SPECIAL AWARDS RECIPIENTS
Literary Arts is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards. The winners of each category will be announced live at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony,
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/11/2024
Yes, this from @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social in @londonreview.bsky.social: "The Tories are now lurching right . . . under a Black leader whose moral cover will allow them to unlock new levels of hostility." #UKPoli www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...
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Arianne Shahvisi | Moral Immunity
Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that Black...
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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
New book review of Lauren Oakes' TREEKEEPERS in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #bookreview #naturewriting
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Tomorrow’s trees
An ecologist probes the future of forests
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