We've just restocked our New Dominion Bookshop mugs! These gorgeous pottery mugs are stamped with Lana Lambert's design of our grand staircase and are made in small batches by an artisan pottery studio here in America. Stop by the shop to purchase yours!

#IndieBookstore #Charlottesville #ShopMerch

How lovely that My Monticello has been translated into Japanese!! 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵

Looking forward to the diversion, spectacle and grandeur of the MET GALA runway this eve! ✨✨✨ anyone else watching? 👀https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5372642/2025-met-gala-black-dandyism-tailoring-style

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

www.monticello.org/exhibits-eve... Bryan Stevenson at Monticello this morning!

So glad you are still teaching this story, Ben💪🏽

Folks were wrapping up, but there were A LOT of folks for our relatively small community—🙌🏾 #handsoff #charlottesville

Love seeing We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik (@patrycjasara.bsky.social) on @debutiful.bsky.social's list of the Best Debut Books of March!💜

debutiful.net/2025/03/03/1...

Some of my earliest public writing sprung from motherhood, so I’m excited to be a guest in Rachel Yoder’s Writing Motherhood series. Find out more at Off Assignment or my author webpage.

'Something Sweet on the Tongue' a translated collection of the 5 short stories in My Monticello, is out today from Alpha Decay--along with the article in Vogue Espana. www.vogue.es/articulos/jo...

What rough leadership under which to head into Black History Month— and yet, there are SO many books and stories : beautiful, heartrending, complicated, courageous black stories for all readers! A testament. Happy Black History Month, everybody—Thanks Chapel Hill Library & Leila Motley)

So much is going on in this world rn, still it brings me some joy to be able to lead a fiction workshop at the 2025 Colgate Writers Conference in June! Join this inspiring week of workshops, craft talks & literary community. Scholarships available. More info at colgate.edu/cwc

About a year ago, in speech at Mt. Zion church, I explored the idea that maybe there is a secret utopia in the *act of working in community toward justice, toward equity, toward love, toward repair. Happy MLK jr day, everyone!

Just putting up my sign post, checking out the new digs & holding space here for when I'm ready to rock SM again. Looking good, everybody! 🤍