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as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie Scott’s signature philanthropic style is giving unrestricted gifts—a rarity in the industry. trib.al/DjrurgM
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
News from Iran, via @publisherswkly.bsky.social #indiebookselling www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
News from Iran, via @publisherswkly.bsky.social #indiebookselling www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Restless Books celebrates the 10th anniversary of, and announces finalists for, their annual immigrant fiction prize. The prize was recently saved by, and renamed in honor of, comp lit professor Steven Kellman www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Restless Books’ Immigrant Writing Prize Turns 10
The recently renamed Kellman Prize, which got a new underwriter in September, has served has served as a launchpad for immigrant writers for nearly a decade. Finalists for this year’s prize were annou...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Restless Books celebrates the 10th anniversary of, and announces finalists for, their annual immigrant fiction prize. The prize was recently saved by, and renamed in honor of, comp lit professor Steven Kellman www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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CONFIRMED: Oxford University Press has named ‘rage bait’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2025.
#OxfordWOTY
#OxfordWOTY
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
CONFIRMED: Oxford University Press has named ‘rage bait’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2025.
#OxfordWOTY
#OxfordWOTY
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
The Opera Theater of Yale College presents Eric Schorr and Book Post author Cynthia Zarin’s brand-new opera, "Hey! Get Off Our Train" on December 6!
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December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The Opera Theater of Yale College presents Eric Schorr and Book Post author Cynthia Zarin’s brand-new opera, "Hey! Get Off Our Train" on December 6!
collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows...
collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows...
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard
“Stoppard is one of those rare playwrights like Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, Pinter whose very name becomes an adjective summoning up the world they’ve created on stage.” –John Guare
Read the piece from our archive here → books.substack.com/p/review-joh...
“Stoppard is one of those rare playwrights like Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, Pinter whose very name becomes an adjective summoning up the world they’ve created on stage.” –John Guare
Read the piece from our archive here → books.substack.com/p/review-joh...
Review: John Guare on Hermione Lee’s Tom Stoppard, or The Secret Room (Part One)
In "The Invention of Love," Tom Stoppard has the Oscar Wilde of his own making declare, “I took charge of my own myth.” Stoppard, who had derided biographies, asked Professor Hermione Lee of Oxford to...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard
“Stoppard is one of those rare playwrights like Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, Pinter whose very name becomes an adjective summoning up the world they’ve created on stage.” –John Guare
Read the piece from our archive here → books.substack.com/p/review-joh...
“Stoppard is one of those rare playwrights like Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, Pinter whose very name becomes an adjective summoning up the world they’ve created on stage.” –John Guare
Read the piece from our archive here → books.substack.com/p/review-joh...
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Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
R: I've frequently not been on boats.
G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
R: I've frequently not been on boats.
G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
R: I've frequently not been on boats.
G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
R: I've frequently not been on boats.
G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
New on Book Post → Christian Caryl considers Jonathan Slaght’s riveting Tigers Between Empires.
Caryl writes on the beauty of these ineffable animals and on the precarity of the habitats that sustain them. books.substack.com/p/review-chr...
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Caryl writes on the beauty of these ineffable animals and on the precarity of the habitats that sustain them. books.substack.com/p/review-chr...
@ccaryl.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
Review: Christian Caryl Among the Amur Tigers
A new book on saving the tigers of Russia’s far east
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November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
New on Book Post → Christian Caryl considers Jonathan Slaght’s riveting Tigers Between Empires.
Caryl writes on the beauty of these ineffable animals and on the precarity of the habitats that sustain them. books.substack.com/p/review-chr...
@ccaryl.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
Caryl writes on the beauty of these ineffable animals and on the precarity of the habitats that sustain them. books.substack.com/p/review-chr...
@ccaryl.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
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Louise Erdrich also owns a bookstore in Minneapolis. In addition to having tons of recommendations for indigenous authors (including kids’ books) you can order jewelry and other gifts from indigenous creators
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Louise Erdrich also owns a bookstore in Minneapolis. In addition to having tons of recommendations for indigenous authors (including kids’ books) you can order jewelry and other gifts from indigenous creators
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The wild turkey makes far more sense as the national bird than the bald eagle.
A lot to admire about the wild turkey: “Despite their weight, wild turkeys, unlike their domesticated counterparts, are agile, fast fliers [and] have many calls: assembly call, gobble, plain yelp, purr, cluck and purr, cluck, cutt, excited yelp, fly-down cackle, tree call, kee kee run, and putt.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The wild turkey makes far more sense as the national bird than the bald eagle.
“Today a global icon becomes a quintessential New York City experience... The ball will be more than a centerpiece of New Years Eve, it will become a touchpoint.” An icon, an experience, a centerpiece *and* a touchpoint! Some ball, @nyctourism.bsky.social !
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Today a global icon becomes a quintessential New York City experience... The ball will be more than a centerpiece of New Years Eve, it will become a touchpoint.” An icon, an experience, a centerpiece *and* a touchpoint! Some ball, @nyctourism.bsky.social !
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heavy is the head that clings to its happiness crown
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
heavy is the head that clings to its happiness crown
New on Book Post → Barry Yourgrau reviews Sjón’s Red Milk, a novel about a young neo-Nazi that reveals how the darkest ideologies can take root not in monstrous exception but in ordinary, everyday spaces.
Read here: books.substack.com/p/review-bar...
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Review: Barry Yourgrau, A Neo-Nazi in Iceland
A mostly invented regular boy, on a dark path
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November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New on Book Post → Barry Yourgrau reviews Sjón’s Red Milk, a novel about a young neo-Nazi that reveals how the darkest ideologies can take root not in monstrous exception but in ordinary, everyday spaces.
Read here: books.substack.com/p/review-bar...
Read here: books.substack.com/p/review-bar...
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I will participate in small poem Sunday with this mysterious two line koan I found among my notes
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I will participate in small poem Sunday with this mysterious two line koan I found among my notes
See our Notebook on Alabama dissenters books.substack.com/p/announcing...
"The board overseeing Alabama public libraries on Thursday voted to remove books that discuss being transgender from the teen and children’s sections of all public libraries in the state."
State sanctioned censorship from some of the biggest bigots out there.
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State sanctioned censorship from some of the biggest bigots out there.
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Alabama board votes to remove books about being transgender from public library youth sections
The board overseeing Alabama public libraries on Thursday voted to remove books that discuss being transgender from the teen and children’s sections of public libraries.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
See our Notebook on Alabama dissenters books.substack.com/p/announcing...
All those temps aren’t going to report themselves ( @washingtonpost.com story on 😉 firing factcheckers)
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
All those temps aren’t going to report themselves ( @washingtonpost.com story on 😉 firing factcheckers)
.@rabihalameddine.bsky.social, who just won the National Book Award for Fiction, is wearing a tie with Nancy on it #NBA2025 books.substack.com/p/review-mic...
Review: Michael Robbins on “Nancy”
From 1933 for a half century, a weekly comic strip about how you never know what’s going to happen or why
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November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
.@rabihalameddine.bsky.social, who just won the National Book Award for Fiction, is wearing a tie with Nancy on it #NBA2025 books.substack.com/p/review-mic...
Omar El Akkad, winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: "If we are to do this work of language, we have an obligation to stand in opposition to any force … that would happily stand in opposition to free expression.” #NBA2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Omar El Akkad, winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: "If we are to do this work of language, we have an obligation to stand in opposition to any force … that would happily stand in opposition to free expression.” #NBA2025