Diane Mehta
@dianemehta.bsky.social
Happier Far: Essays UGAP 3/25. Tiny Extravaganzas 11/23 New Yorker, Kenyon, VQR, A Public Space. Poet in residence New Chamber Ballet. Bombay-NYC
Books: https://www.dianemehta.net/
Editing: https://www.dianemehtaediting.com/
Books: https://www.dianemehta.net/
Editing: https://www.dianemehtaediting.com/
Conversation about poetry between the wonderful Phillis Levin and me in @commonmag.bsky.social
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Hitting a Wall and Making a Door: A Conversation between Phillis Levin and Diane Mehta
PHILLIS LEVIN <br> A flood of associations and memories ensues, a fantasia of cultural and personal histories—casualties of natural disasters, casualties of human massacres; and a need to escape (or b...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Conversation about poetry between the wonderful Phillis Levin and me in @commonmag.bsky.social
www.thecommononline.org/hitting-a-wa...
www.thecommononline.org/hitting-a-wa...
Thrilled to contribute 3 translations to the anthology of writing in Crimean Tatar @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
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What Russia stole, these Crimean Tatar authors endeavor to reclaim with literature
To much of the world, Crimea is mostly synonymous with the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine — once a precious Black Sea resort, the peninsula was seized at gunpoint in 2014 and transformed into a...
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August 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Thrilled to contribute 3 translations to the anthology of writing in Crimean Tatar @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
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New Chamber Ballet's Poet-in-Residence and Happier Far author dianemehta.bsky.social captures the essence of three dance scenes in her new piece for The parisreview.bsky.social. Check it out here: https://loom.ly/Wh4C114
Rehearsal Scenes by Diane Mehta
June 18, 2025 – “Choreography is a way of organizing chaos.”
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June 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New Chamber Ballet's Poet-in-Residence and Happier Far author dianemehta.bsky.social captures the essence of three dance scenes in her new piece for The parisreview.bsky.social. Check it out here: https://loom.ly/Wh4C114
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Re-upping this given today's awful news about curtailing medical care for our trans fellow citizens: lithub.com/how-trumps-a...
May 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Re-upping this given today's awful news about curtailing medical care for our trans fellow citizens: lithub.com/how-trumps-a...
"Each dance is a small—four- or five-minute—collaboration."
Clair Wills on dancing, and talking about dance. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Clair Wills on dancing, and talking about dance. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Stepping Out | Clair Wills
I hold hands with strangers. I do it quite often, and for long minutes at a time. I wrap my arms around them to bring them close in an embrace. I search their faces. I fit my body to their dips and ho...
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May 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Each dance is a small—four- or five-minute—collaboration."
Clair Wills on dancing, and talking about dance. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Clair Wills on dancing, and talking about dance. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
An important book, take notice!
Huge thanks, @literaryhub.bsky.social for choosing TOGETHER IN MANZANAR: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp, as one of the week's featured nonfiction titles. Especially meaningful during #aapi and #jewish heritage months💜 link.lithub.com/view/6818dfd...
May 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
An important book, take notice!
Sharing this piece, my favorite from my essay collection, which I read at @interintellect.bsky.social last week.
"We spend our whole lives learning that we already have everything we need to survive. We torture our spirits and try not to bleed out, hoping that we have gambled on the right life with the right people." @dianemehta.bsky.social
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Her Greatest Hits - Longreads
"Maybe it's only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover."
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May 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sharing this piece, my favorite from my essay collection, which I read at @interintellect.bsky.social last week.
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A Reading List for Jewish American Heritage Month 2025: clmp.org/news/a-readi...
Thank you for including TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by Diane Mehta (@dianemehta.bsky.social), @clmporg.bsky.social!
Thank you for including TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by Diane Mehta (@dianemehta.bsky.social), @clmporg.bsky.social!
May 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
A Reading List for Jewish American Heritage Month 2025: clmp.org/news/a-readi...
Thank you for including TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by Diane Mehta (@dianemehta.bsky.social), @clmporg.bsky.social!
Thank you for including TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by Diane Mehta (@dianemehta.bsky.social), @clmporg.bsky.social!
Fantastic night at a packed house thx to @peninaroth.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Fantastic night at a packed house thx to @peninaroth.bsky.social
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MONDAY, 8PM: Can't wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night with acclaimed authors Jamie Hood, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social! #Free, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights
May 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
MONDAY, 8PM: Can't wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night with acclaimed authors Jamie Hood, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social! #Free, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights
After playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social
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Word Games
Diane Mehta on learning the frantic art of scrambling for words from her speedy and strategic 21-year-old son.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
After playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social
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Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
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April 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
Proud of this essay! Thx @ditmaslit.bsky.social 8pm looking forward to reading for and with you at Urbane Arts Club in Brooklyn 4/23 at 8pm.
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 4/23! Check out reader @dianemehta.bsky.social’s essay On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante From the Wilderness in Harvard Divinity Bulletin bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/on-assignmen...
On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante from the Wilderness
A Divine Comedy reading group with two artist friends deepens the author’s understanding of Dante’s transcendent friendship with Virgil. By Diane Mehta
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April 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Proud of this essay! Thx @ditmaslit.bsky.social 8pm looking forward to reading for and with you at Urbane Arts Club in Brooklyn 4/23 at 8pm.
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These funding cut offs—like those at Penn, Columbia, etc.—are illegal. Will anyone sue to vindicate their interests, or those of students, staff, and the general public?
Breaking News: The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern, two officials said.
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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April 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
These funding cut offs—like those at Penn, Columbia, etc.—are illegal. Will anyone sue to vindicate their interests, or those of students, staff, and the general public?
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Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
April 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
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April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Mike Johnson changed the House rules so that a vote for Congress to reclaim authority to do tariffs will never be scheduled, by declaring the rest of this Congressional term one single calendar day. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/house-quie.... He could fix all of this before the US markets open.
House Quietly Ducks Trump Tariff Vote
Congress forks over more power to the president.
www.wakeuptopolitics.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Mike Johnson changed the House rules so that a vote for Congress to reclaim authority to do tariffs will never be scheduled, by declaring the rest of this Congressional term one single calendar day. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/house-quie.... He could fix all of this before the US markets open.
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@dianemehta.bsky.social reflects on racism, religious experiences, and how visions of freediving helped her finish her novel.
How Visions of Freediving Helped Diane Mehta Finish Her Novel
When I feel most invisible, I turn to YouTube and watch videos of freediving. I became enthralled when I was researching the motions and rhythms of being proficiently underwater for a scene in my n…
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March 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@dianemehta.bsky.social reflects on racism, religious experiences, and how visions of freediving helped her finish her novel.
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Today @dianemehta.bsky.social takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. Her memoir-in-essays, "Happier Far," is just out from University of Georgia press.
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #87: Diane Mehta
"Be yourself in prose, allow ideas to emerge, and go on riffs—into brambly, wild places. I don’t mean let just anything happen, but follow your mind."
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March 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Today @dianemehta.bsky.social takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. Her memoir-in-essays, "Happier Far," is just out from University of Georgia press.
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“This slim volume is packed with poetic and penetrating insights into the human condition,” writes Lauren Gilbert, in a review of Diane Mehta’s book, HAPPIER FAR: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/happier...
#essays #book #newbook #DianeMehta @dianemehta.bsky.social
#essays #book #newbook #DianeMehta @dianemehta.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“This slim volume is packed with poetic and penetrating insights into the human condition,” writes Lauren Gilbert, in a review of Diane Mehta’s book, HAPPIER FAR: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/happier...
#essays #book #newbook #DianeMehta @dianemehta.bsky.social
#essays #book #newbook #DianeMehta @dianemehta.bsky.social
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Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 4/23! We’re excited to welcome Anton Solomonik, @dianemehta.bsky.social, @joannanovak1986.bsky.social, & Timothy Ree. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
March 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 4/23! We’re excited to welcome Anton Solomonik, @dianemehta.bsky.social, @joannanovak1986.bsky.social, & Timothy Ree. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
I hope you will come to one of my bookstore events! Happier Far launches in 3 days..
March 20 P&T Knitwear with Vivian Gornick ($7)
April 15 Community Books w/Minna Zallman Proctor
March 20 P&T Knitwear with Vivian Gornick ($7)
April 15 Community Books w/Minna Zallman Proctor
March 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I hope you will come to one of my bookstore events! Happier Far launches in 3 days..
March 20 P&T Knitwear with Vivian Gornick ($7)
April 15 Community Books w/Minna Zallman Proctor
March 20 P&T Knitwear with Vivian Gornick ($7)
April 15 Community Books w/Minna Zallman Proctor
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A celebration of an incredible new essay collection, "Happier Far":
@notorioustib.bsky.social is hosting @dianemehta.bsky.social on Interintellect 📖
Online and April 10!
Tix: interintellect.com/salons/what-...
Find an expert - the essay Her Greatest Hits - here: longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...
@notorioustib.bsky.social is hosting @dianemehta.bsky.social on Interintellect 📖
Online and April 10!
Tix: interintellect.com/salons/what-...
Find an expert - the essay Her Greatest Hits - here: longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...
February 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
A celebration of an incredible new essay collection, "Happier Far":
@notorioustib.bsky.social is hosting @dianemehta.bsky.social on Interintellect 📖
Online and April 10!
Tix: interintellect.com/salons/what-...
Find an expert - the essay Her Greatest Hits - here: longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...
@notorioustib.bsky.social is hosting @dianemehta.bsky.social on Interintellect 📖
Online and April 10!
Tix: interintellect.com/salons/what-...
Find an expert - the essay Her Greatest Hits - here: longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...
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Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including THE FAREWELL LIGHT by Nidia Hernández @nidiahernandez.bsky.social and TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by @dianemehta.bsky.social in their reading list for Women’s History Month 2025! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
March 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including THE FAREWELL LIGHT by Nidia Hernández @nidiahernandez.bsky.social and TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by @dianemehta.bsky.social in their reading list for Women’s History Month 2025! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...