Diane Mehta
@dianemehta.bsky.social
Happier Far: Essays UGAP 3/25. Tiny Extravaganzas 11/23 New Yorker, Kenyon, VQR, A Public Space. Poet in residence New Chamber Ballet. Bombay-NYC Books: https://www.dianemehta.net/ Editing: https://www.dianemehtaediting.com/
Conversation about poetry between the wonderful Phillis Levin and me in @commonmag.bsky.social www.thecommononline.org/hitting-a-wa...
Hitting a Wall and Making a Door: A Conversation between Phillis Levin and Diane Mehta
PHILLIS LEVIN <br> A flood of associations and memories ensues, a fantasia of cultural and personal histories—casualties of natural disasters, casualties of human massacres; and a need to escape (or b...
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Thrilled to contribute 3 translations to the anthology of writing in Crimean Tatar @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social kyivindependent.com/what-russia-...
What Russia stole, these Crimean Tatar authors endeavor to reclaim with literature
To much of the world, Crimea is mostly synonymous with the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine — once a precious Black Sea resort, the peninsula was seized at gunpoint in 2014 and transformed into a...
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New Chamber Ballet's Poet-in-Residence and Happier Far author dianemehta.bsky.social captures the essence of three dance scenes in her new piece for The parisreview.bsky.social. Check it out here: https://loom.ly/Wh4C114
Rehearsal Scenes by Diane Mehta
June 18, 2025 – “Choreography is a way of organizing chaos.”
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Re-upping this given today's awful news about curtailing medical care for our trans fellow citizens: lithub.com/how-trumps-a...
How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans
Since the current administration began rolling out its draconian immigration policies, people have frequently cited the WWII Exclusion and Incarceration of Japanese Americans as a historical preced…
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Abby Chava Stein@abbystein.bsky.social · last yr.They are doing everything they can to legislate us, trans people, out of existence. It was never about feigned care for trans youth. It was always about exterminating trans people 🏳️⚧️
"Each dance is a small—four- or five-minute—collaboration." Clair Wills on dancing, and talking about dance. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Stepping Out | Clair Wills
I hold hands with strangers. I do it quite often, and for long minutes at a time. I wrap my arms around them to bring them close in an embrace. I search their faces. I fit my body to their dips and ho...
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An important book, take notice!
Tracy Slater@tracyslater.bsky.social · last yr.Huge thanks, @literaryhub.bsky.social for choosing TOGETHER IN MANZANAR: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp, as one of the week's featured nonfiction titles. Especially meaningful during #aapi and #jewish heritage months💜 link.lithub.com/view/6818dfd...
Sharing this piece, my favorite from my essay collection, which I read at @interintellect.bsky.social last week.
Longreads@longreads.com · last yr."We spend our whole lives learning that we already have everything we need to survive. We torture our spirits and try not to bleed out, hoping that we have gambled on the right life with the right people." @dianemehta.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...
A Reading List for Jewish American Heritage Month 2025: clmp.org/news/a-readi... Thank you for including TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by Diane Mehta (@dianemehta.bsky.social), @clmporg.bsky.social!
MONDAY, 8PM: Can't wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night with acclaimed authors Jamie Hood, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social! #Free, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights
After playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/word-games
Word Games
Diane Mehta on learning the frantic art of scrambling for words from her speedy and strategic 21-year-old son.
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Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
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Proud of this essay! Thx @ditmaslit.bsky.social 8pm looking forward to reading for and with you at Urbane Arts Club in Brooklyn 4/23 at 8pm.
Ditmas Lit@ditmaslit.bsky.social · last yr.Ditmas Lit is Wed. 4/23! Check out reader @dianemehta.bsky.social’s essay On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante From the Wilderness in Harvard Divinity Bulletin bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/on-assignmen...
These funding cut offs—like those at Penn, Columbia, etc.—are illegal. Will anyone sue to vindicate their interests, or those of students, staff, and the general public?
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Breaking News: The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern, two officials said.
Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
Mike Johnson changed the House rules so that a vote for Congress to reclaim authority to do tariffs will never be scheduled, by declaring the rest of this Congressional term one single calendar day. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/house-quie.... He could fix all of this before the US markets open.
House Quietly Ducks Trump Tariff Vote
Congress forks over more power to the president.
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@dianemehta.bsky.social reflects on racism, religious experiences, and how visions of freediving helped her finish her novel.
How Visions of Freediving Helped Diane Mehta Finish Her Novel
When I feel most invisible, I turn to YouTube and watch videos of freediving. I became enthralled when I was researching the motions and rhythms of being proficiently underwater for a scene in my n…
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Today @dianemehta.bsky.social takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. Her memoir-in-essays, "Happier Far," is just out from University of Georgia press. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #87: Diane Mehta
"Be yourself in prose, allow ideas to emerge, and go on riffs—into brambly, wild places. I don’t mean let just anything happen, but follow your mind."
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“This slim volume is packed with poetic and penetrating insights into the human condition,” writes Lauren Gilbert, in a review of Diane Mehta’s book, HAPPIER FAR: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/happier... #essays #book #newbook #DianeMehta @dianemehta.bsky.social
Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 4/23! We’re excited to welcome Anton Solomonik, @dianemehta.bsky.social, @joannanovak1986.bsky.social, & Timothy Ree. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
I hope you will come to one of my bookstore events! Happier Far launches in 3 days.. March 20 P&T Knitwear with Vivian Gornick ($7) April 15 Community Books w/Minna Zallman Proctor
A celebration of an incredible new essay collection, "Happier Far": @notorioustib.bsky.social is hosting @dianemehta.bsky.social on Interintellect 📖 Online and April 10! Tix: interintellect.com/salons/what-... Find an expert - the essay Her Greatest Hits - here: longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...
Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including THE FAREWELL LIGHT by Nidia Hernández @nidiahernandez.bsky.social and TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by @dianemehta.bsky.social in their reading list for Women’s History Month 2025! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
Anticipating the release of my book Happier Far next week, I wrote this piece about my mother’s letters home, and her reading, when she was in her twenties and on her first European tour. Link at JBC or my website for my book! xo
Letters from My Mother
With one thousand dollars in her pocket, my mother went on a European tour in June 1957, when she was twenty-three years old. She took a ferry to England and caroused across several continents.
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Everyone read passionately tonight. A joy! The room was rapt. Thx Kevin Young, 92nd St Y, New Yorker, Deb Garrison, Terrance Hayes, Richie Hoffman, Eliza Griswald, Mary Carr, Mary Jo Bang, and Ed Hirsch. Get the book! I love the 60s/70s. Find the Howard Hughes poem. bit.ly/4hOv7dz
A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker by New Yorker Magazine Inc: 9780593801932 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy...
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"We spend our whole lives learning that we already have everything we need to survive. We torture our spirits and try not to bleed out, hoping that we have gambled on the right life with the right people." @dianemehta.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...
Her Greatest Hits - Longreads
"Maybe it's only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover."
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Eager to read @tracyslater.bsky.social book and it couldn't be more timely, about a Jewish woman who demands that the US government imprison her with her Japanese-American husband and their son.
Tracy Slater@tracyslater.bsky.social · 2y agoThe US has been roiled before by fake rumors of “danger from within,” from fellow citizens based on immigration status of their parents, or race, or lifestyle. Here’s the true story of one American family who lived through it—but almost didn’t. Preorder @ a.co/d/b56VZF5
Diane Mehta @dianemehta.bsky.social 's lovely poem "Backbend" at the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Backbend”
“I think you must be limber / in the heart the way I used to be.”
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