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University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I'm THRILLED to reveal the cover to my forthcoming anthology. What do you think?
For more information about the 28 contributors to this evocative collection, go here: www.descooper.com/black-summer... #booksky #blacksky
For more information about the 28 contributors to this evocative collection, go here: www.descooper.com/black-summer... #booksky #blacksky
September 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I'm THRILLED to reveal the cover to my forthcoming anthology. What do you think?
For more information about the 28 contributors to this evocative collection, go here: www.descooper.com/black-summer... #booksky #blacksky
For more information about the 28 contributors to this evocative collection, go here: www.descooper.com/black-summer... #booksky #blacksky
HELP! I'm speaking to the Children's Defense Fund's Freedom School in Hampton (VA) and want to give the 50 little scholars free copies of "Nothing Special." Will you help me raise $1000 for the books? Tag your tax-deductible gift "Nothing Special." Books are $20 ea. THANK YOU!
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July 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
HELP! I'm speaking to the Children's Defense Fund's Freedom School in Hampton (VA) and want to give the 50 little scholars free copies of "Nothing Special." Will you help me raise $1000 for the books? Tag your tax-deductible gift "Nothing Special." Books are $20 ea. THANK YOU!
tinyurl.com/2kpjxkar
tinyurl.com/2kpjxkar
This Juneteenth, I hope that people of color and their allies join in passing on the beautiful breadth of our history and culture. Nothing Special in on sale now at the link below. Use the coupon code: RYAY40
#BookSky #BlackSky #Juneteenth
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#BookSky #BlackSky #Juneteenth
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May 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This Juneteenth, I hope that people of color and their allies join in passing on the beautiful breadth of our history and culture. Nothing Special in on sale now at the link below. Use the coupon code: RYAY40
#BookSky #BlackSky #Juneteenth
wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349731/
#BookSky #BlackSky #Juneteenth
wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349731/
Get the mother in your life what she really wants for Mother's Day... wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341490/ #BookSky #BlackSky #MothersDay
April 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Get the mother in your life what she really wants for Mother's Day... wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341490/ #BookSky #BlackSky #MothersDay
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During this podcast, I got to read three of my flash fictions from Know the Mother, and then we did a group “story autopsy.” It was so fun. I hope you enjoy this and every episode of Let's Deconstruct a Story! Thanks Kelly! #booksky #blacksky
During this podcast, I got to read three of my flash fictions from Know the Mother, and then we did a group “story autopsy.” It was so fun. I hope you enjoy this and every episode of Let's Deconstruct a Story! Thanks Kelly! #booksky #blacksky
April 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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During this podcast, I got to read three of my flash fictions from Know the Mother, and then we did a group “story autopsy.” It was so fun. I hope you enjoy this and every episode of Let's Deconstruct a Story! Thanks Kelly! #booksky #blacksky
During this podcast, I got to read three of my flash fictions from Know the Mother, and then we did a group “story autopsy.” It was so fun. I hope you enjoy this and every episode of Let's Deconstruct a Story! Thanks Kelly! #booksky #blacksky
This story started in my head the first time I visited a plantation while pregnant --37 years ago. We revisited the site last summer with my grandchildren, and finally, the story came together for me. Thx @fracturedlit.bsky.social! #booksky
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fracturedlit.com/marked/
Marked – Fractured
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March 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This story started in my head the first time I visited a plantation while pregnant --37 years ago. We revisited the site last summer with my grandchildren, and finally, the story came together for me. Thx @fracturedlit.bsky.social! #booksky
fracturedlit.com/marked/
fracturedlit.com/marked/
Resist, writers. Resist. #booksky
Canadian author Louise Penny announces U.S. boycott amid 'unprovoked trade war'
In a Facebook post, the murder mystery author said she does not feel she can enter the U.S. "until that economic sword, that could throw hundreds of thousands of Canadians (as well as Americans) into ...
www.nbcnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Resist, writers. Resist. #booksky
Write right now...especially now.
"Marilyn Nelson wrote in an email, 'current events seem to cry out to be written about in poetry and fiction as well as journalism, because people have to understand them in order to stop them.'”
#booksky
"Marilyn Nelson wrote in an email, 'current events seem to cry out to be written about in poetry and fiction as well as journalism, because people have to understand them in order to stop them.'”
#booksky
How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss (Gift Article)
When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Write right now...especially now.
"Marilyn Nelson wrote in an email, 'current events seem to cry out to be written about in poetry and fiction as well as journalism, because people have to understand them in order to stop them.'”
#booksky
"Marilyn Nelson wrote in an email, 'current events seem to cry out to be written about in poetry and fiction as well as journalism, because people have to understand them in order to stop them.'”
#booksky
Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions
#Booksky
#Booksky
Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions (Gift Article)
A letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions
#Booksky
#Booksky
When in the Dr. Seuss have children's books NOT been about uniqueness and being "different?" Listen, my friends. If they came come after white women and freckles, they can come for you.
Julianne Moore says her book about embracing differences was removed from Pentagon-run schools | CNN
Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.
www.cnn.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
When in the Dr. Seuss have children's books NOT been about uniqueness and being "different?" Listen, my friends. If they came come after white women and freckles, they can come for you.
This is wonderful.
‘Demon Copperhead’ Explored Addiction. Its Profits Built a Recovery House. (Gift Article)
Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is wonderful.
I just read Remains of the Day almost in one sitting. I was left in tears. It hit different in this moment when I am searching so hard for the answer to the question about how so many good people can be caught up and complicit with today's horrors.
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Reading guide: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro | The Booker Prizes
Whether you’re new to The Remains of the Day or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide
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February 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I just read Remains of the Day almost in one sitting. I was left in tears. It hit different in this moment when I am searching so hard for the answer to the question about how so many good people can be caught up and complicit with today's horrors.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Black history is American history. www.descooper.com/nothing-spec...
February 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Black history is American history. www.descooper.com/nothing-spec...
The worst thing that happened to me yesterday (MLK Day, Inauguration Day) was finding out that my friend who is a Mexican immigrant with mixed race Black children and grandchildren was unaware of both. Jesus, Joseph, and Mary how in the world????????
January 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The worst thing that happened to me yesterday (MLK Day, Inauguration Day) was finding out that my friend who is a Mexican immigrant with mixed race Black children and grandchildren was unaware of both. Jesus, Joseph, and Mary how in the world????????
We have lost a great warrior. What a day for her to leave us.
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Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president, has died | CNN
Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, has died, her family said Monday in a statement. She was 67.
www.cnn.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We have lost a great warrior. What a day for her to leave us.
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He’s moving the inauguration indoors bc it’s too cold and he wants to invade Greenland? It’s a damn ice sheet!
January 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
He’s moving the inauguration indoors bc it’s too cold and he wants to invade Greenland? It’s a damn ice sheet!
I guess it's good they didn't burn it down a year ago.
Trump's inauguration will be held indoors due to frigid weather forecast
The last time a swearing-in was held indoors was Ronald Reagan's second inauguration.
www.nbcnews.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I guess it's good they didn't burn it down a year ago.
Here's my question: how many times can we build intricate, meaningful communities on volatile, privately-owned platforms?
It's like you build a world and then it disappears (or you're forced to flee).
It's like you build a world and then it disappears (or you're forced to flee).
Supreme Court Backs Law Requiring TikTok to Be Sold or Banned: Live Updates (Gift Article)
The decision came a week after the justices heard a First Amendment challenge to a law aimed at the wildly popular short-form video platform used by 170 million Americans that the government fears cou...
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Here's my question: how many times can we build intricate, meaningful communities on volatile, privately-owned platforms?
It's like you build a world and then it disappears (or you're forced to flee).
It's like you build a world and then it disappears (or you're forced to flee).
January 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Tonight's waxing gibbous. How small our planetary chaos must look from there.
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Tonight's waxing gibbous. How small our planetary chaos must look from there.