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New Yorkers, join @PENamerica @PENworldvoices Festival of International Literature from April 29–May 2, featuring 140+ writers from 40+ countries in NYC for a celebration of global literature! MOME's proud to support. 📚 Learn more and sign up: on.nyc.gov/2PJMVKF.

We’re thrilled to announce the 2026 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award’s Top 20 Longlist! Below are our selections of excellent debut novels published in 2025.

Addiction is about the people we love. Emily Dufton shows how real change has always come from families and communities pushing for better care and better policy — not from Washington. Her work traces how public pressure shaped every major shift in bit.ly/4sknZtV

ADDICTION, INC. by @emily_dufton is out now! This eye-opening book explains how the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction—until America’s opioid crisis got privatized for profit. Read an excerpt over at @medpagetoday. buff.ly/KvFgg4v

Opinion | America's Forgotten War on Drugs medpagetoday.com/opinion/second… The lesson from Switzerland is clear: you cannot punish your way out of addiction. Harm reduction, treatment, prevention, housing, medical care, and sensible law enforcement must work together. The U.S. needs less ideology and more public health realism.

How did the U.S. fumble the opioid epidemic? @emily_dufton joins me to discuss how early treatment experiments, a crackdown that sidelined medically assisted treatment, and pharma companies capitalized on addiction. A perfect storm — and we paid the bit.ly/4sknZtV

El Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes presentará su primera exposición dedicada al arte chicanx. Próximamente: “AztLÁn, túnel del tiempo”. Marzo de 2026. ▫️ “Veteranas y rucas”, ca. 1990. Guadalupe Rosales. ▫️ “Neshgj Na Shoglashe CC”, 2024. 3B Collective. ▪️ “Veteranos Rollcall”, río Arroyo Seco, Los Ángeles, 1975. Kathy “Blades” Bojorquez.

“I never use the word arbitrary. And here’s why: because all of these have been political decisions.” In an interview with @SaysSandoval, Daisy Hernández on the legislation and the activism that have led to wins & losses in the fight for social justice. buff.ly/VXFibDG

On 4/15 I’ll give a virtual talk with Dr. Jerome Jaffe, Nixon’s deeply misremembered drug czar who was responsible for launching a nationalized system of addiction treatment clinics in 1971. The talk is hosted by @librarycongress, where I did most of my research. See you there!

In the DC area? Join @emily_dufton, author of ADDICTION, INC., at @PoliticsProse at the Wharf on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00 PM. Learn more: buff.ly/yU1d75W

Northwestern professor Daisy Hernández delves into the meaning of citizenship evanstonroundtable.com/2026/03/13/nor…

Booksellers! It's time to vote for the ABA Indies Choice Book Awards and TILT by Emma Pattee is shortlisted for Debut Adult fiction! Vote here: bit.ly/3PzYC9D Voting closes 3/25

Daisy Hernández on the Myth of Citizenship 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/c24CPVu

Una hija de inmigrantes latinos denuncia en su nuevo libro que la ciudadanía es «un mito» en EE.UU. ✍ Pedro Pablo Cortés efe.com/cultura/2026-0…

I pitched this as if Meadow Soprano moved to CA to heal but kept getting pulled back to Jersey, or if Carmie on THE BEAR moved back to a gambling den in Scranton instead of a Chicago kitchen. Like big, love-filled, dysfunctional families? Get ready to meet the Rinaldis. #NewBook

"A riveting exploration of idolatry—its alluring gifts & ultimate perils...Tajja Isen is a phenomenal writer & every page of this book brims w/intelligence, heart & stunning prose."—Melissa Febos, bestselling author of The Dry Season & Girlhood, winner of the NBCC Award #NewBook

Daisy Hernandez's CITIZENSHIP is out today! Braids memoir, history & criticism to unpack citizenship not as a fixed legal status but as a living, breathing story shaped by race, gender, immigration & power. “An essential book for these contentious times.”-Booklist, Starred Review

Daisy Hernández’s new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth,” is partly a family memoir and partly a world history. trib.al/ivg4xmp

Happy Pub Day to Lidia Yuknavitch & contributors on THE BIG M: Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Nana-Ama Danquah, Gina Frangello, Joey Soloway, Darcey Steinke, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Pam Houston, Julia Alvarez, Reyna Grande, Monica Drake, Lan Samantha Chang. @GrandCentralPub #booktwt

Cheryl Strayed on Entering Her “Crone Age” and the Freedom of Menopause oprahdaily.com/entertainment/…