Douglas A. Martin

Thank you @parisreview and @spencerquong & thank you @nightboatbooks for publishing this difficult book.

@john_vincler @poetshouse Congrats on the new job.

@CampMarmalade Tried to explain this to my mom this afternoon.

code-switching is a phenomenal tonal and rhetorical resource—admire it whenever and wherever it appears, flashing its doubleness—and understand its history

@RyanShead thank you for what you are doing on this thing.

Synchronize your watches. New Directions publishing 🚨ESSEX HEMPHILL🚨 is on the horizon!

@CampMarmalade Maaza insisted.

@73DAM Brave triumphant boy.

I got my earlobes pierced today, and I feel symmetrical, glinting, gendered, and insurmountable.

@73DAM Are yours pierced?

@CampMarmalade I got them done when I got tenure finally.

Love to everyone hurting today. The details in the piece are too resonant. The healing the siblings are doing is too rare. Protect kids, not sexual abusers.

The Imitative Impulse | The Point Magazine thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Right-wing erosion of reproductive rights, LGBT rights, democratic rights etc, are part of an attack on the working class; and if you don’t believe that strong working class movements in NA can meaningfully support Palestine, pardon me if I won’t heed your strategic counsel

This is horrifying — a clear case of political persecution by an authoritarian government. Seven Stories stands in support of our author Arundhati Roy, now facing prosecution by the Modi government for a comment she made on a panel almost 15 years ago. theguardian.com/world/article/…

@frumpenberg @HogarthBooks @randomhouse Already?? Amazing!!!

When I started writing to Palestinian prisoners, I shared Bhanu Kapil’s 12 questions from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers. Written after Kapil, these are the questions I wrote in my most recent letter. I invite you to write a letter with your own questions (1/ )

I thank Anthea Bell for having made it possible for me (and so many others!) to read “Austerlitz.”

Meeting Steve Albini and working with him changed the course of my life. He taught me so much about music, and life. Steve was a great friend - wise, kind and generous. I am so grateful. My thoughts are with him and his family and friends as we suffer his loss.

@g_e_howard A place called “Forbidden Planet” that no longer exists.

@73DAM That sounds perfect and magical

Going to always remember the night I sat with Paul Auster drinking scotch.