We’re heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Ann Godoff, Penguin Press’s founder, President, and Editor-in-Chief.
Ann lived by the words of poet Mary Oliver, an author she had worked with for years: “to pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
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We're going to hear from bigger writers, better writers, and writers who worked more closely with her, and I will read every one of their stories. I'm so grateful to have been a small part of her big world.
Gift link:
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To those of you who have read and enjoyed any of my three books, the reason they wound up in your hands is that in 2004, Ann Godoff, the editing and publishing giant who founded Penguin Press, took a chance on me. She died yesterday at 76. I owe her more than I can say. She changed my life. >
I am teaching a class on Ursula K Le Guin online through McNally Jackson!
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I'm most grateful to Ben - and to Megan Cummins at @publicbooks.bsky.social - for publishing my thoughts on @daveydavis.bsky.social and @emotrophywife.bsky.social
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David Brooks laments that literary fiction has been declining in quality, because of its supposed progressivism and "a general loss in confidence and audacity across Western culture." To this, @reproutopia.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social simply asks: "Is the cissexual literary world okay?"
Really grateful to @harrissolomon.bsky.social for interviewing me for @publicbooks.bsky.social
“I do hope that we can get there, to the point that people truly feel free.”
New at PB: Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social) talks with Harris Solomon (@harrissolomon.bsky.social) about Bonhomme’s new book, “A History of the World in Six Plagues.”
"I say the word, again, as I keep paying attention to the articulations of life on the ground, to the possibility of the overflowing of that life, of the over-being that outlives erasure and annihilation, and therefore exists beyond the war, beyond occupation, beyond violence, after."
"I say the word, again, as I keep paying attention to the articulations of life on the ground, to the possibility of the overflowing of that life, of the over-being that outlives erasure and annihilation, and therefore exists beyond the war, beyond occupation, beyond violence, after."
me in @publicbooks.bsky.social thinking through what a philology beyond liberalism might look like via one book which really shows us a path forward and one which very much so does not // the age of babel is dead, long live the age of the pentecost!
Fun professional news: I'm one of the two new Editors at Large at @urbanomnibus.bsky.social, a publication of the Architectural League of New York. please get in touch if you have ideas you'd like to develop into commissions on any broadly-defined NYC architecture and/or urbanism topics!
So proud to see my friend and colleague @katiejwells.bsky.social ‘s critical research on the front page of today’s NYTimes!!!!
Katie, you are a trailblazing scholar! ❤️
The Wall Street Journal says this investigation led Instacart’s stock price to fall.
Seize the Means of Knowledge Production!
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
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When the world is on fire… review a novel about the world being on fire?
New at PB: Stephanie Wong interviews Seth Rockman (@sethrockman.bsky.social) about his latest book, "Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and his experience learning to work on a late 18th-century loom.
A belated but huge congratulations to @calebgayle.bsky.social for the release of his superb work of history, which was longlisted for the National Bool Award!
A short read on why a wide range of people have a stake in shutting down mass surveillance and overcoming the politics of fear and othering.
Our commons are being gifted to tech. Private equity has its eyes on buying up parts of the grid to fuel a speculative dystopian future where AI data centers drink our water and energy resources. Just this month, blackrock buys an entire public utility and it barely makes waves.
The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️
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This is absolutely stunning. "We see BlackRock positioning itself very aggressively to take advantage of the entire supply chain when it comes to AI and data centers, and power generation is a really key part of that,” Schafer told the Prospect. "
This was a $2.2 billion dollar project, less than 15 years old, and already getting shut down. You can see it driving from LA to Las Vegas - it looks like the eye of Sauron and apparently incinerates 6000 birds per year.
🎉Today we're celebrating two Riverhead titles on the @nationalbook.bsky.social Nonfiction Longlist! 🎉
CONGRATULATIONS to @calebgayle.bsky.social and Jordan Thomas on this recognition of their incredible and important books!!!
Still can’t believe it
Congratulations, @calebgayle.bsky.social!!! BLACK MOSES is a contender for the National Book Award in Nonfiction!!! @nationalbook.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
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It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!
A pink folded sheet shown next to a bone folder with the title: TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO What follows is a preliminary list of 25 recommended tasks in advance of the pointless military occupation of Chicago by the National Guard, ordered by the president. These tasks may be completed in no particular order but they must be completed. Once finished to our satisfaction, new tasks can be assigned as needed. Good luck, troops.
If you saw my earlier posts with this same intro header, Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago, they have become the latest Public Collectors zine. I finished it this morning. It's a single folded sheet and I made 425 copies. Get one free on 8/31, 11-6 at the Hairpin Arts Center, at #ZineMercado
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.
Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.
Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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