Paisley Rekdal
@paisleyrekdal.bsky.social
Author and poet. NEA, Guggenheim, Fulbright Fellow. See paisleyrekdal.com
Sharing because I'm hiking around Patagonia for a month and I need to remember which books to put on library e-reader--
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sharing because I'm hiking around Patagonia for a month and I need to remember which books to put on library e-reader--
No, seriously: can we PLEASE not learn anything more about Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK JR? As a poet, I implore the universe to black- hole vaccuum those sexts up. There is no basement to the awfulness of this story.
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
No, seriously: can we PLEASE not learn anything more about Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK JR? As a poet, I implore the universe to black- hole vaccuum those sexts up. There is no basement to the awfulness of this story.
Look at this beautiful poem by my friend, Lisa Bickmore!! poets.org/poem/flit-sp...
flit [sparrow]
a ghost garden last year’s still blooms / on the patio an undying marigold
poets.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Look at this beautiful poem by my friend, Lisa Bickmore!! poets.org/poem/flit-sp...
Today, today: come hear Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger read from BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD, 7 PM, Finch Lane Gallery. Free!
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Today, today: come hear Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger read from BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD, 7 PM, Finch Lane Gallery. Free!
Huge contragulations to Patricia Smith and Rabih Alameddine for winning National Book Awards!! www.nationalbook.org/winners-of-t...
Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced
Winners of the National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony
www.nationalbook.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Huge contragulations to Patricia Smith and Rabih Alameddine for winning National Book Awards!! www.nationalbook.org/winners-of-t...
Every time I get on this site I learn something else I didn't want to know about Olivia Nuzzi.
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Every time I get on this site I learn something else I didn't want to know about Olivia Nuzzi.
In memory of Joe Hill today! www.mappingslc.org/this-was-her...
Mapping Salt Lake City | Stories, Memories & History - Joe Hill
After his execution on November 19, 1915, envelopes containing Joe Hill's ashes were sent to IWW union halls around the country. Every state but one received their share of the famous labor organi...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In memory of Joe Hill today! www.mappingslc.org/this-was-her...
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Honestly, as a young writer, I thought I'd grow up and live in NYC but clearly that did not happen.
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Honestly, as a young writer, I thought I'd grow up and live in NYC but clearly that did not happen.
This Thursday! Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms event, celebrating launch of BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD. Come hear Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger read at Finch Lane Gallery, 7 PM. Free and open to the public--
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This Thursday! Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms event, celebrating launch of BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD. Come hear Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger read at Finch Lane Gallery, 7 PM. Free and open to the public--
$50K #SchnitzerPrizeoftheWest honors exceptional collaboration and innovation in addressing issues such as water scarcity, tribal rights & sovereignty, conservation, wildfire & climate adaptation, and the dynamics of human communities, migration & identity. See highdesertmuseum.org/schnitzer-pr...
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
$50K #SchnitzerPrizeoftheWest honors exceptional collaboration and innovation in addressing issues such as water scarcity, tribal rights & sovereignty, conservation, wildfire & climate adaptation, and the dynamics of human communities, migration & identity. See highdesertmuseum.org/schnitzer-pr...
World may be on fire, but sometimes it's pretty to witness:
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
World may be on fire, but sometimes it's pretty to witness:
Not featured: my tequila cocktail.
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Not featured: my tequila cocktail.
Imagine that a child sex trafficker calls *YOU* the worst person he knows.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Imagine that a child sex trafficker calls *YOU* the worst person he knows.
The view from home tonight:
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The view from home tonight:
!!!!
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
!!!!
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
Just me in a stained t-shirt in hotel room, watching crap TV while eating a small bucket of eating cheesy potatoes and writing Guggenheim recommendations and an intro for my talk tomorrow. This is it, guys. The very definition of "mid-career writer." Also, possibly, "future heart disease patient."
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Just me in a stained t-shirt in hotel room, watching crap TV while eating a small bucket of eating cheesy potatoes and writing Guggenheim recommendations and an intro for my talk tomorrow. This is it, guys. The very definition of "mid-career writer." Also, possibly, "future heart disease patient."
Reposted by Paisley Rekdal
ALLLIGHT SAVING TIME
Turn your clocks
sideways
to the hour
where
no- body
can get a good clean
shot at you.
--Kenneth Patchen
Turn your clocks
sideways
to the hour
where
no- body
can get a good clean
shot at you.
--Kenneth Patchen
November 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
ALLLIGHT SAVING TIME
Turn your clocks
sideways
to the hour
where
no- body
can get a good clean
shot at you.
--Kenneth Patchen
Turn your clocks
sideways
to the hour
where
no- body
can get a good clean
shot at you.
--Kenneth Patchen
C'mon, guys, this isn't a Coldplay concert--
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
C'mon, guys, this isn't a Coldplay concert--
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Well, Jane Goodall never gave up, either activism or hope. So I won't either. Rest in Power.
October 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Well, Jane Goodall never gave up, either activism or hope. So I won't either. Rest in Power.
Now, call me a bleeding-heart liberal who got canceled by the USAFA, but I think telling the military to have a "war war war war war all the time war" mentality is probably not going to lead to great outcomes for its soldiers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Now, call me a bleeding-heart liberal who got canceled by the USAFA, but I think telling the military to have a "war war war war war all the time war" mentality is probably not going to lead to great outcomes for its soldiers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
This #AmericanWestCenter event is coming up and I can't wait! Free and open to the public--
September 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This #AmericanWestCenter event is coming up and I can't wait! Free and open to the public--
Just so long as it's not about the plums in your icebox: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Wildest Blackberry Poems by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Others (Gift Article)
Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just so long as it's not about the plums in your icebox: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...