Excited about next week’s nearly daylong @economichardship.bsky.social event at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social starring @jeffsharlet.bsky.social , @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social , @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social Ray Suarez and others!

Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social

It has been three years and one day since Barbara Ehrenreich left us. She meant a great deal to me personally and professionally, as a literary and political figure & weirdly, as a metaphysical guide. Here we are after a book event I did with BE in Vogue. @economichardship.bsky.social @ips-dc.org

My new piece on what I call "citizen insecurity" in @theguardian.com @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social

For any of you still on here, this is my piece about my mother, art, affordability and mortality in
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @hyperallergic.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @artforum.com @artnews.com.web.brid.gy @anya1anya.bsky.social

Amazing news I can now share! Our organization @economichardship.bsky.social just received at $1.65 million BUILD grant @fordfoundation.org for five years. Thanks so much (esp. Lolly Bowean)! Appreciate u @deborahjianlee.bsky.social! @insidephilanthropy.com @npquarterly.bsky.social

Bombing Iran. Cuomo still fooling NYC.
Then this beautiful literary magazine arrives and I went to my friend's stoop sale and worked on poetry with my friend @celinasu.bsky.social and the day was a little better.

Honored to be talking to Joan Williams-- a heroine-- at on June 12 at 7 a @92ndstreety.bsky.social Streaming, so listen in! We are discussing her new book Outclassed and social class in media and on the Left and probably Bootstrapped. And @economichardship.bsky.social

I wrote for #LitHub and @economichardship.bsky.social about the bizarre kitsch of Trump and Vance going about dolls. Social class kitsch. They have taken a real issue-- kid consumerism-- and turned it into sexist gibberish. #branded

Hey there! Poem page with @celinasu.bsky.social in @currentaffairs.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social Check it out @poetrydaily.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org

I loved doing this sensational event with @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social at the Brooklyn Public Library's Night of Ideas...#nightofideas we saw @mollycrabapple.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social and so many others.... @economichardship.bsky.social

Hey if you want some community consider attending this mind blowing yearly event Brooklyn Public Library's Night of Ideas on March 8th...doing an event with Hamilton Nolan and co. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @publiclibrariesmag.bsky.social @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

Things are pretty bleak right now. I've been finding meaning and connection wherever I can, even in conversations on BookTV! Like this one with Adam Chandler about his new book and the American Dream. No lie. @economichardship.bsky.social #americandream

Happy to have a new poem in Current Affairs this month along with EHRP documentary poetry contributor Brendan Joyce! @currentaffairs.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social

Thanks @nytimes.com & Frank Bruni for liking one of my sentences enough to put it on the Sentences of 2024 list. Writers care about this category :) Think #barbaraehrenreich would approve: satire out of misery @meaganday.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social