Michelle R. Brady
@bradymicheller.bsky.social
Author // Pushcart Nom x2, BOTN Nom x2 // rep: Katie Grimm at Curtis Brown // EIC at HouseofArcanum.org // www.MichelleReneeBrady.com // MichelleReneeBrady.substack.com // MichelleReneeBrady.podbean.com
My new episode with Daniel Seifert is up tomorrow!! michellereneebrady.podbean.com youtube.com/shorts/Ifcsl...
The Comedy of Holden Caulfield with Daniel Seifert (How Literature Can Save the World)
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PEOPLE!!! My loan was approved! I OWN A BOOKSTORE!!! TELL EVERYONE!! @bradyreadery.bsky.social
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When culture is a target of war, who ensures it lives on? In our latest blog, we interview PEN Ukraine members about their tireless work—restocking the shelves of damaged libraries, hosting conversations on culture, and promoting the work of Ukrainian writers. Read more: pen.org/fighting-for...
These people have tried to break so many of us without lifting a hand. Let's not let them.
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 5mo agoThey're utterly clueless.
My conversation with literary translator, Ibrahim Fawzy is up at all the places!! michellereneebrady.podbean.com @deepvellum.bsky.social l @consequencef.bsky.social #booktok #translation
Sneak peek of a conversation with literary translator, Ibrahim Fawzy of @consequencef.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social. Full episode up Friday! youtube.com/shorts/hTLRs...
A Lifeline in Conflict Zones with Ibrahim Fawzy (How Lit Can Save the World) #podcast #booktok
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A new Texas law restricting protests on college campuses means that "the theme of this academic year is anxiety and fear,” says Kristen Shahverdian, program director of campus free speech at PEN America. Learn more at: https://pen.org/harsh-penalties-for-protests-on-campus/
Beyond grateful for such an incredible review of my podcast from @consequencef.bsky.social! It's been an honor to discuss things that matter with people I admire and respect. @hughmartin.bsky.social @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social consequenceforum.substack.com/p/how-literature-can-save-the-world
How Literature Can Save the World: A Podcast with Michelle R. Brady
By Rya Vallabhaneni. “Michelle always brings it back to empathy. She brings it back to reading.”
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"The stories of the genocide in Gaza are unbearably difficult to tell, but I believe they are most truthfully carried in a poem, surrounded by an expanse of white space that mirrors both silence and grief." Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue, for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/12/08/7...
7 Questions for Ibrahim Fawzy - The Massachusetts Review
Not just one death,one victim tells another:they killed me by the roadside. —from Ibrahim Fawzy’s translation of Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s “Not Just One Death” (Volume 65, issue 4) What role does language ...
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“I had to run in every direction, to explore this life myself.” In Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy), childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself.
“A Plan to Save the World,” a poem by Hassan Akram translated and read by Ibrahim Fawzy has been anthologized in @bestliterarytranslations 2025 edition. To hear the poem, check out @deepvellum for a reading by Ibrahim Fawzy.
This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 5mo agoMS NOW: There is growing outrage today over the death of a blind father who was dropped off by Border Patrol agents miles away from home and in the cold. Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a Burmese refugee. He had been reported missing by his family and then found dead after a five-day search.
with Mara Karlin, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, Brookings Institute Fellow and Director for Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and author of The Inheritance. michellereneebrady.podbean.com/e/12-social-...
Full episode of How Literature Can Save the World up Friday with former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Brookings Fellow, Mara Karlin! www.youtube.com/@BradyMichel... youtube.com/shorts/S0-O1...
Theater of War with Mara Karlin (How Literature Can Save the World)
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In Minnesota, despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained by ICE for days or weeks. But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.
ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.
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2026 is already shaping up as an unforgettable year for book lovers, packed with new works by favorite authors and exciting debuts that we at PEN America can't wait to dig in to. Here are 100 books we can't wait to get our hands on: bookshop.org/lists/pen-am... #books #newbooks #readinglist
With the release of my new book and other craziness, I’m a little late to post, but check out last week’s episode of RFW where we talk tense and share original #flashfiction Find us wherever you get podcasts! #writingcommunity #writingprompts #indieauthor podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Fanfaron: Writing the Pluperfect Tense Without Sounding Forced
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Hey, #readerscommunity! Join Matt K. Parker and I as we discuss some of the MANY books he's read and loved. 🥳🥳 www.podbean.com/eas/pb-cv2ip... #books #literature #read
"It is possible to not follow down the path of your parents and grandparents, and you can find healing and move on from these cycles that feel inescapable." Read Christ’s interview with “A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing” author Alice Evelyn Yang here:
Colonial Violence and an Old Prophecy Haunt a Chinese Family Across Generations and Continents - Electric Literature
Alice Evelyn Yang on the challenge of seeing your parents as people and the role of folklore in her debut novel, “A Beast Slinks Toward Beijing”
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PEN America's 2023 PEN/Barbey #FreedomToWrite Awardee Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to yet more prison time in Iran. We stand in solidarity with Narges and call for her release, as well as many others unjustly jailed for their writing, expression, and activism narges.foundation/nobel-peace-...
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