Angela Flournoy

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

Thank you for reading 💜

I didn’t want this book to end. @angelaflournoy.bsky.social captures adult female friendship and so much of the mundane (and profound) moments that it can entail, especially in this moment.

Yiyun Li | To Remember in America When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...

‘If bad things happen, you are the problem; do not provoke; keep up the hope; things will be better – by the midterms, in four years, some day.’

Yiyun Li on enduring America, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

The Publishers Marketplace announcement of my book, which reads “Rahawa Haile's IN OPEN COUNTRY, a personal and political hybrid memoir of the author's transformative Appalachian Trail thru-hike, exploring the history of freedom of movement in the United States, and reckoning with America's foundational myth of conquered wilderness, the violence of national borders, and the legacy of diasporic placelessness, moving to Bryn Clark at Little, Brown, at auction, by Julia Kardon at HG Literary (NA).”

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis Videos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power.

i wrote about watching it, about evidence, about witness.

www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On — Especially During the Coronavirus Pandemic In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas — currently being deployed in Minneapolis — can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses.

The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods.

From our 2020 investigation:

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. She was also a prize-winning poet.

Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

TONIGHT, 8PM: We’re celebrating an outstanding year of lit at the Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale, featuring @angelaflournoy.bsky.social
Tim Blake Nelson @drovarela.bsky.social @megancummins.bsky.social @jennifersears.bsky.social &
Wah-Ming Chang! #Free + book raffle, drink specials!

ONE WEEK AWAY--MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 8PM: Can't wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale with superstars @angelaflournoy.bsky.social, Tim Blake Nelson, @drovarela.bsky.social, @megancummins.bsky.social, @jennifersears.bsky.social, and Wah-Ming Chang! #Free
Details: shorturl.at/9gnfC

I hear that if you take this quiz you might be matched with a certain novel about friendship 👀

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 8PM: Join us for the Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale, featuring
@angelaflournoy.bsky.social, Tim Blake Nelson, @drovarela.bsky.social, @megancummins.bsky.social, @jennifersears.bsky.social, and Wah-Ming Chang! Details: shorturl.at/9gnfC #Free #crownheights

Bid on a personalized holiday note from Angela Flournoy, award-winning author of "The Turner House" and "The Wilderness" in our annual postcard auction!

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@harpercollins.bsky.social

Angela Flournoy’s new novel shines its light on the power of friendship - The Boston Globe Friendship isn’t typically included in the conventional American dream of a home and 2.5 kids, and yet for many of us it’s a port in the chaos of modern life.

I was so happy for @laurenleblanc.bsky.social to review THE WILDERNESS, @angelaflournoy.bsky.social's thrilling new novel about what it means to be a friend. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/a...

I kicked off #BannedBookWeek at Kindred Stories in #Houston Listening to #KieseLaymon speak with @angelaflournoy.bsky.social about her new book was everything I needed! Do yourself a favor & get a copy of #TheWilderness.

Announcing the 2025 #PDXBookFest author line-up. ☔📚

We will be joined by more than 80 authors to celebrate books! These authors include @staceyabrams.com, Rebecca Yarros, Nicholas Boggs, @emmadonoghue.bsky.social, @angelaflournoy.bsky.social, and @susanorlean.bsky.social

More on: pdxbookfest.org

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Evidence that DOGE has not only accessed sensitive data, but also removed data illegally, covering their tracks as they did so.

Like hackers would do. Not what a legitimate government organization would do.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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I’m going to figure out how to be in this space in a way that makes sense/doesn’t drive me crazy, then I will be in this space.