Quan Barry, re her new novel @literaryhub.bsky.social: "...I’m really an instinctual writer. I don’t have a scholarly bone in my body, i.e., nothing in me vibes with literary analysis or criticism. At its heart, my book is a novel about memory." @groveatlantic lithub.com/quan-barry-o...

Flashback to 2019, Gregg Barrios and I welcoming #tommyorange to @bookcritics awards ceremony, when he received the NBCC John Leonard award for best first book for #therethere Today he's honored by the @macarthur.foundation with a MacArthur Fellow grant. More books TK! (Link in comments.)

Karen Russell re The Antidote: "The word ‘apocalypse’ also means a revelation, an uncovering. I was interested in what this disaster reveals—what truths come to light, what injustices and possibilities are laid bare in the aftermath of a storm." lithub.com/karen-russel... via @lithub @AAKnopf

Masterful magical Mexican writers #CristinaRiveraGarza & #GuadalupeNettel, who were in the @baybookfest.bsky.social Juan Rulfo panel I moderated a few years back, have new fiction coming in 2025.

Sebastopol has the best changing leaves. #autumn2024 #Sonomacounty