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Presenting our new audio series: “Personals,” writers reading first-person essays. Featuring work from Ottessa Moshfegh, Mihret Sibhat, @jetvgc, Lisa Carver, and J. D. Daniels. Our first episode drops September 8, listen wherever you get your podcasts.

This week's great long reads from: @nickripatrazone @seanpasbon @terrence_mccoy @falamarina @DevinGordonX @VarshaaBansal @AlanSiegelLA @zakcheneyrice @lpandell @Masonboyowen @FranklinFoer @jetvgc @piersgelly @heatherhaddon @chafkin @EdLudlow @dankois longformprofiles.substack.com/p/edition-84-l…

🚨 New on Lab: Games 🚨 An essay by @jetvgc on playing the survival game Palworld with his daughter 🎮️⁠ ⁠ 🖇️ And don't forget, 1️⃣ more week to submit your own work in response to the Games issue! graywolflab.org/2025/07/18/pal…

“Blue crabs were the only kind we killed ourselves. Their supple flesh was our first symbol of fresh food when everything else came from a box or can.” —Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc) for our column Objects of Desire yalereview.org/article/joseph…

Faculty Writing | @jetvgc in @verge on the parent as non-player character | buff.ly/XjQqPeb

2023 alum Joseph Earl Thomas’s (@jetvgc) new essay “Ganny” appears in the new issue of @Harpers! Gorgeous, fraught, loving, and furious–read it here. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

"These stories exist in the same universe—dilapidated and hyper-developed, inhabited by emotionally fragile and lonely characters desperate for some type of human connection." Merilyn Chang on Daisuke Shen's "Vague Predictions and Prophecies" @CLASHBooks clereviewofbooks.com/writing/daisuk…

“Ganny’s murder was no mystery or accident, and I needed to convince all attendees specifically of their true proximity to her open casket.” A personal essay from Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 15: Vampires! | In which @materialist_jew @isilitke and @jetvgc analyze the psychosexual, political economic, Orientalist, literary, genre, social, and even epidemiological metaphors, allegories, and tropes that have made the figure of the vampire of such perennial—if shifting—fascination | buff.ly/ZmPOx6B

@lilyscherlis @magsrdoherty “Perhaps seeing my grandmother as she actually was, rather than the way I want to feel about her now, helps me avoid all the lying that would make me a good subject and this a good essay.” A personal essay from Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Our April issue is here: with @lilyscherlis on social-skills; a new story by Charles Portis; Kent Russell on the Guardian Angels; a photography portfolio from Henry Roy; a personal essay from @jetvgc; @lidijalidijjja on Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and more. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Congrats @jetvgc winner of @center4fiction 1st Novel Prize. My own grandpa cleaned city buses. Grandma cooked in a school cafeteria. Here's to writing the full experience of our people. Listen to the full convo here: evergreenpodcasts.com/wild-precious-… And grab Joseph's books today.

Congratulations to this year's finalists for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction! 👏 ‘Pemi Aguda (@PemiAguda) Jessica Elisheva Emerson Jiaming Tang Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc) Julian Zabalbeascoa (@JZabalbeascoa) Learn more: latimes.com/bookprizes25

Faculty Writing: @jetvgc in @vanityfair on Black men and sexuality in pop culture | buff.ly/3EF8jyf

Today, @jetvgc on playing basketball at a military base in Philly theparisreview.org/blog/2025/01/2…

Bragging on my MFA advisee Joseph Earl Thomas @jetvgc whose brilliant novel GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER won the Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize. Yah! centerforfiction.org/2024-first-nov…

Congratulations are in order for Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc), author of GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER, and winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize!

Colman Domingo for Issue 35 – interview @jetvgc, photography John Edmonds, shot with the @montblanc_world Meisterstück . On sale now and available here > buff.ly/3yOxjgS

Philly readers and writers, come listen to local authors Phillip B Williams, author of Ours, and Joseph Earl Thomas @jetvgc, author of God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, in conversation this Thursday! Register: philaathenaeum.org/event-detail/?…

Welcome to Miami, @jetvgc. Catch Joseph at the 2024 @MiamiBookFair this Saturday. 📚: miamibookfair.com #MiamiBookFair #MiamiReads