looks like my poem “The World” just baaarely snuck into the emily wilson/odyssey issue lmao
Patricia Lockwood · Poem: ‘The World’
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It’s time for Books We Like the Looks Of for August! Read about how the Booker judges are copying off me (this is a neg so they’ll make me a judge sometime). Anyway, here’s the books we’re excited about coming out in August! 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...
Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in August 2026
We have great taste and you should subscribe to Who Even Reads to discover the Next Big Thing before the Booker people get their grubby hands all over everything. Here are the Books We Like the Looks ...
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🎉🎉It’s Tuesday! It’s pub day! 🎉🎉Check out Books We Like the Looks Of for August before the Booker people get their grubby hands on everything. New releases from @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, Claudia Rankine, LaToya Watkins, and more! 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...
Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in August 2026
We have great taste and you should subscribe to Who Even Reads to discover the Next Big Thing before the Booker people get their grubby hands all over everything. Here are the Books We Like the Looks ...
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5. I exclusively buy books from the fine establishments that protect their communities by encouraging or requiring masks so that everyone can shop and participate in events safely! You can buy from their websites! 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/indie-bookst...
Indie Bookstores with Masking & Covid Policies in 2026
The trajectory of Covid awareness may not go exactly as many expect, and in the meantime, bookstores are one of the community spaces that can offer a transition point to a different possible future.
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Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Very excited to listen to David’s conversation with Claudia Rankine on the eve of the publication of Triage 📚💙
David Naimon@davidnaimon.bsky.social · 2d agoDon't miss Claudia Rankine's return to Between the Covers to discuss her powerful new book TRIAGE Audio⚡: milkweed.org/between-the-... @graywolfpress.bsky.social
Yes! Yes! Bookstores that promote masking! Another for the list! Read our article on this phenomenon if you haven’t already 😷📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/indie-bookst...
Indie Bookstores with Masking & Covid Policies in 2026
The trajectory of Covid awareness may not go exactly as many expect, and in the meantime, bookstores are one of the community spaces that can offer a transition point to a different possible future.
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MaskTogetherAmerica@togetherwemask.bsky.social · 3d ago“We’ve never stopped requiring masks (though we’ve taken hits for that). We’re a small, owner-operated used and new bookstore in Western Massachusetts.”—Hillary Hoffman, owner, Federal Street Books, int by @msjulieslam.bsky.social 📚😷 www.instagram.com/p/DbjIn0gxLFp/ www.facebook.com/share/p/1HcU...
The Bolaño character who said that poems are homosexual, short stories are bisexual, and novels are heterosexual was wrong. I mean, everyone knows poems are gay and short stories are bi (novellas even more so - have you considered being a novel? one asks), but novels are just generally queer
Instagram: Look at this sandwich! Doesn't it look good? It's in your face! Bluesky: Let me tell you about the best sandwich ever... Facebook: When I make a sandwich, I like to start by emptying a whole jar of peanut butter onto a baking sheet. Just like that. Yeah. Really spread it around on there
“It was one of his personal commandments that a couch must absolutely always be made of leather. If your couch was made of chintz or something, go live on fairy island.” - Priestdaddy, by @tricialockwood.bsky.social 📚💙 Highly recommend the audiobook
What’s Piper reading today? Oh wow, it’s God’s Country by Percival Everett! Great taste, Piper! 📚💙 @april-now.bsky.social
🎉🎉 It’s Tuesday! It’s pub day for Beginning Middle End by Valerie Luiselli! I love a good book about an author attempting to return a stolen artifact! Read about this one and the other Books We Like the Looks Of for July below! 🎉🎉📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...
Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in July 2026
This month, in the midst of deodorant-testing heat and confused displays of patriotism, we bring you an all-fiction batch of July books, including Colson Whitehead's appealingly named Cool Machine.
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What am I always saying? We have great taste! Subscribe to Who Even Reads now so you can start getting ahead of next year’s Booker list 📚💙
Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social · last wk.Congrats to our friend @kenanorhan.bsky.social on making the Booker long list! We knew you when! 😀 Read our interview with Kenan below to learn more about The Renovation 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/a-thing-and-...
iPhone cameras do this thing when photographing a cat in low light that I call “sad clown face.” I swear he doesn’t look like this! He’s a perfectly pleasant cat!
If you’ve ever posted “Hillary predicted all of this” or “I wish Obama was still president” on Bluesky, your penance is to read my review of Claudia Rankine’s Triage, publishing Aug 4. I know you people respond well to abuse 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/claudia-rank...
Review: Triage by Claudia Rankine | Who Even Reads
How can one live like this, Triage asks, at the same time it declares the question beside the point. What is the alternative?
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Does the news make you feel like jumping in front of a speeding car? Find the antidote in Lisa’s review of Triage, the latest genre defying book from Claudia Rankine, a brilliant chronicler of our times 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/claudia-rank...
Review: Triage by Claudia Rankine | Who Even Reads
How can one live like this, Triage asks, at the same time it declares the question beside the point. What is the alternative?
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Hey! Here it is! My review of Triage by Claudia Rankine, publishing Aug 4 from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. If you don’t know how to live with the toomuchness of it all, I encourage you to read this book 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/claudia-rank...
Review: Triage by Claudia Rankine | Who Even Reads
How can one live like this, Triage asks, at the same time it declares the question beside the point. What is the alternative?
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Saw these chickens on my walk today. I encounter chickens with surprising frequency for someone who has never lived in a rural area. Look at that thing’s feet! #birds
Odysseus and his men landing on an island where they have to play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters
Lit mag: BIPOC, ur welcome 2 submit here BIPOC: Well we should fucking hope so LM: And guess what. We pay. Send us ur diverse stories BIPOC: How much LM: Like $19? Something. We want ur diversity. Give us it BIPOC: Who are you 10 white people in a trenchcoat: We r just a smol team
This week we’re publishing our review of Claudia Rankine’s newest book Triage, out in two weeks from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. If you haven’t read any of Rankine’s books you are missing out. Her literary/visual pastiche format is so smart and effective 📚💙
Minority Mental Health Awareness Month shines a light on the mental health experiences within BIPOC communities. Here are nonfiction/memoirs aimed at helping BIPOC people with their mental health. Book lists in ALT text. #minoritymentalhealthawarenessmonth #mentalhealthbooks #bipocbooks #booksky
ICYMI we reviewed Names Have Been Changed by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow. Featuring a shoutout to @mldavies.bsky.social’s excellent Current Affairs article on delayed processing of Covid-19 (and the ongoing nature of the pandemic). 😷📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/names-have-b...
Review: Names Have Been Changed by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Balasingamchow’s novel speaks to realities of queerness, marginalization, criminality and criminalization, of what not being able to live openly or straightforwardly does to a person and perhaps can’t...
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