Pamela Petro

@pamelapetro.bsky.social

Writer and artist treading water in the Atlantic between New England (live there) and Wales (love it there). Books include The Long Field — a Best Travel Book of 2021 — Travels in an Old Tongue, Slow Breath of Stone and Sitting up with the Dead.

We're thrilled to announce our 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Huge congratulations to these 223 exceptional individuals in the Creative Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and a range of interdisciplinary fields. You can find out more at www.gf.org. 🎉

Guggenheim Fellowship: Supporting exceptional individuals in more than 50 fields — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists

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I'm honored to have been named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow and thrilled it will allow me to dig in on my next book, The Long Resistance: Dissent and Disunity in China's War with Japan. So grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation and the many who have supported my work in so many ways. #guggfellows2026

Guggenheim Foundation@guggfellows.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're thrilled to announce our 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Huge congratulations to these 223 exceptional individuals in the Creative Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and a range of interdisciplinary fields. You can find out more at www.gf.org. 🎉

Topaz and I highly recommend Menna Elfyn’s sparkling new poetry collection, Parch, from Bloodaxe. Patch means respect in Welsh—I nothing but great respect for this volume. (And Topaz takes my word for it.)

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Fantastic book on turning biography into a two-way mirror. Can’t recommend Hester Kaplan’s memoir/biography (of her father, gleaned from his own award-winning biography of Mark Twain)/fictional speculation more highly. It’s thought provoking, wise, and beautifully written. #biography #memoir #books

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Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this. He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in. "I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller." 📚❤️

An index card with handwriting in blue ink that says, "'I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller.'" Below is the source, "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller" by Will J. Darling (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1932).