Derrick Austin
@paradiselaust.bsky.social
Author: THIS ELEGANCE (Spring 2026), TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Wannabe Art Historian | He/Him
📍Chicago
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Derrick Austin
@paradiselaust.bsky.social
· Oct 23
My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026.
Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.
Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.
Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
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Mary of Burgundy in her Book of Hours in 1477, reading her book of hours, and envisioning the Virgin Mary there in a church. Brilliant, or what?
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Mary of Burgundy in her Book of Hours in 1477, reading her book of hours, and envisioning the Virgin Mary there in a church. Brilliant, or what?
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Pretty sure this is the first (and probably only) time I’m on a podcast. ☺️
This is my first attempt to capture a live event of this size.
I’m thankful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social for letting me adapt the launch of their tremendous book.
I think these episodes will be an additive supplement to it.
I’m thankful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social for letting me adapt the launch of their tremendous book.
I think these episodes will be an additive supplement to it.
February 10, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Pretty sure this is the first (and probably only) time I’m on a podcast. ☺️
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“'That’s ICE,” I said. “What’s ICE?” he answered. I pointed. “Oh God!” he exclaimed. Because suddenly he found himself in the trap. Show you’re afraid, and they can really give you something to cry about."
So pleased the full and better version of this is in @literaryhub.bsky.social Please read!
So pleased the full and better version of this is in @literaryhub.bsky.social Please read!
@deardara.bsky.social on the brutal impact of ICE on Twin City businesses.
Letter From Minnesota: Life Inside an Economic Blockade
Greetings from inside the economic blockade zone of occupied Minneapolis. What do you know about cities inside economic blockades? I know about the Prussian siege of Paris, when the trapped Parisia…
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February 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
“'That’s ICE,” I said. “What’s ICE?” he answered. I pointed. “Oh God!” he exclaimed. Because suddenly he found himself in the trap. Show you’re afraid, and they can really give you something to cry about."
So pleased the full and better version of this is in @literaryhub.bsky.social Please read!
So pleased the full and better version of this is in @literaryhub.bsky.social Please read!
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Pete Muntean is CNN's correspondent covering aviation and transportation. His bio says he's also a pilot and flight instructor.
"A ban on all flights over a U.S. city—including medevac and police helicopters—has no modern precedent."
URL:
x.com/petemuntean/...
"A ban on all flights over a U.S. city—including medevac and police helicopters—has no modern precedent."
URL:
x.com/petemuntean/...
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Pete Muntean is CNN's correspondent covering aviation and transportation. His bio says he's also a pilot and flight instructor.
"A ban on all flights over a U.S. city—including medevac and police helicopters—has no modern precedent."
URL:
x.com/petemuntean/...
"A ban on all flights over a U.S. city—including medevac and police helicopters—has no modern precedent."
URL:
x.com/petemuntean/...
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My latest review for @bookforum.bsky.social is also out now. In it, I think alongside Namwali Serpell’s resplendently rigorous new book on Toni Morrison about the last greatest living writer’s legacy and how we’re meant to read her.
A Heartbreaking Work of Swaggering Genius
Namwali Serpell’s study of Toni Morrison – Omari Weekes
www.bookforum.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM
My latest review for @bookforum.bsky.social is also out now. In it, I think alongside Namwali Serpell’s resplendently rigorous new book on Toni Morrison about the last greatest living writer’s legacy and how we’re meant to read her.
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
For the afternoon crew
What journals are open to essays over 10,000 words?
February 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
For the afternoon crew
An incredible fall debut to keep on your radar, available for preorder ✨
☕🌱 Cover reveal for SMALL TALK by Acie Clark, winner of our New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize, selected by @paradiselaust.bsky.social! Read "Small Talk" and preorder the book, out 9/22, at hubcity.org/smalltalk
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
An incredible fall debut to keep on your radar, available for preorder ✨
What journals are open to essays over 10,000 words?
February 9, 2026 at 5:15 AM
What journals are open to essays over 10,000 words?
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Elegant Egotist
December 3, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Elegant Egotist
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This sonnet was so much fun to write. It’s in This Elegance and thank you to @newenglandreview.bsky.social for originally publishing it 💜
February 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
This sonnet was so much fun to write. It’s in This Elegance and thank you to @newenglandreview.bsky.social for originally publishing it 💜
This debut is worth a preorder. Kameryn Alexa Carter is an incredible poet.
Read poetry from our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list!
The speaker of Kameryn Alexa Carter’s ANTEDILUVIAN attempts “to wade through agoraphobia, parse out their relationship with God, and navigate falling in love.” @upittpress.bsky.social
upittpress.org/books/978082...
The speaker of Kameryn Alexa Carter’s ANTEDILUVIAN attempts “to wade through agoraphobia, parse out their relationship with God, and navigate falling in love.” @upittpress.bsky.social
upittpress.org/books/978082...
Antediluvian - University of Pittsburgh Press
|9780822967675|Poems|Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book’s speaker calls on an…
upittpress.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This debut is worth a preorder. Kameryn Alexa Carter is an incredible poet.
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Look I’m just pointing out Valentine’s Day is around the corner you get them this book you get them chocolates you get them flowers you win win win, baby
The discourse around Wuthering Heights has gotten predictably weird, so why not read the book instead with a fantastic afterword by @noreenmasud.bsky.social and yours truly, courtesy @sandtclassics.bsky.social?
February 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Look I’m just pointing out Valentine’s Day is around the corner you get them this book you get them chocolates you get them flowers you win win win, baby
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If you think this cover is gorgeous, you should check out the afterword!
The discourse around Wuthering Heights has gotten predictably weird, so why not read the book instead with a fantastic afterword by @noreenmasud.bsky.social and yours truly, courtesy @sandtclassics.bsky.social?
February 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
If you think this cover is gorgeous, you should check out the afterword!
It was such a beautiful day
February 7, 2026 at 2:53 AM
It was such a beautiful day
Who up sharing pics of the field behind The Brontë Parsonage?
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Who up sharing pics of the field behind The Brontë Parsonage?
Bust of a Man in Turban. Artist Unknown. 1880.
February 7, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Bust of a Man in Turban. Artist Unknown. 1880.
Self-Portrait. Beauford Delaney. 1944.
February 7, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Self-Portrait. Beauford Delaney. 1944.
The discourse around Wuthering Heights has gotten predictably weird, so why not read the book instead with a fantastic afterword by @noreenmasud.bsky.social and yours truly, courtesy @sandtclassics.bsky.social?
February 7, 2026 at 1:27 AM
The discourse around Wuthering Heights has gotten predictably weird, so why not read the book instead with a fantastic afterword by @noreenmasud.bsky.social and yours truly, courtesy @sandtclassics.bsky.social?
Rachel Weisz really is one the best doing it
February 7, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Rachel Weisz really is one the best doing it
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So moved by this Carl Phillips poem in our new issue.
February 7, 2026 at 12:05 AM
So moved by this Carl Phillips poem in our new issue.
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For those in the UK, just wanted to put on your radar that @deadinkbooks.bsky.social is republishing Randall Keenan’s first novel, A Visitation of Spirits, as part of their Outside Classics series and yours truly has written the introduction. Pre-order your copy today!
A Visitation of Spirits - Dead Ink Books
A Visitation of Spirits is the powerful story of a popular and high-achieving sixteen-year-old boy who wrestles with the guilt of discovering who he is...
deadinkbooks.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
For those in the UK, just wanted to put on your radar that @deadinkbooks.bsky.social is republishing Randall Keenan’s first novel, A Visitation of Spirits, as part of their Outside Classics series and yours truly has written the introduction. Pre-order your copy today!
The Testament of Ann Lee
Peter Hujar's Day
Charade
Die My Love
Peter Hujar's Day
Charade
Die My Love
February 2, 2026 at 2:04 AM
The Testament of Ann Lee
Peter Hujar's Day
Charade
Die My Love
Peter Hujar's Day
Charade
Die My Love
Triolet by Sandra McPherson
January 31, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Triolet by Sandra McPherson