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

Black Dandyism takes the spotlight at the 2025 Met Gala

Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter calls it "a full circle moment" as she reclaims history at the 2025 Met Gala.

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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!

Founder's Day Keynote Address

Join us to celebrate the birthday and lasting achievements of our favorite Founder, Thomas Jefferson.

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

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · last yr.

As usual, student responses to @jocelynjohnson.bsky.social's magisterial "Control Negro" are among the most engaged & thoughtful of the semester. If you haven't read the most provocative & powerful 21st century American short story yet, check it out ASAP! 🗃️ www.guernicamag.com/control-negro/

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...

10 noteworthy debut books you should read this March

Debutiful’s Adam Vitcavage recommends noteworthy debut books for readers to discover each month.

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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...

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, escritora: “Creo que lo que nos salva es llevar a cabo las acciones correctas, incluso cuando no obtenemos el resultado correcto”

Alpha Decay publica en español Algo dulce en la lengua, un libro de relatos de la escritora estadounidense Jocelyn Nicole Johnson en el que la psicología de los personajes queda en el centro.

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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! 🤍