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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · 1d

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MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · 1d

Flashback to 2019, Gregg Barrios and I welcoming #tommyorange to @bookcritics awards ceremony, when he received the NBCC John Leonard award for best first book for #therethere Today he's honored by the @macarthur.foundation with a MacArthur Fellow grant. More books TK! (Link in comments.)

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · 14d

And how an AI hallucination inspired the newest story in his collection…the last in the book.

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 15d

Jonathan Lethem talks to @janeciab.bsky.social about writing, revising, and seeing the world through a Marxist lens.

Jonathan Lethem on Revisiting Old Short Stories While Writing New Ones

Jonathan Lethem appears steadily in the contemporary literary livestream, He’s earned the title “bard of Brooklyn” for fiction about his native borough. He’s invented eccentric narrative voices lik…

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15d

Sasha Bonét, whose new memoir, “The Waterbearers,” traces the lives of her mother and grandmother, discusses four other books that examine complex mothers.

The Mother as Antihero

Sasha Bonét, the author of “The Waterbearers,” shares four books about mothers who are both incredible and imperfect.

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · 23d

Happy publication day to @angelaflournoy.bsky.social Her beautifully crafted new novel, The Wilderness, ranges from 2008 to 2027, revealing moments from ecstatic & heart breaking, & the value of friendship.

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 23d

@janeciab.bsky.social interviews @angelaflournoy.bsky.social about her new novel, The Wilderness: “ I am a proud maximalist when it comes to things that might add depth to a character’s world…”

Angela Flournoy on Writing a Polyphonic Novel of Black Female Friendship

Angela Flournoy follows her highly honored first novel, The Turner House (2016), with an illuminating polyphonic exploration of the glorious heights and darkest lows of friendships among four women…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jul 8

“I think precocious children in fiction can be pretentious. But what are you gonna do? Write about a dumb one?” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @shteyngart.bsky.social.

Gary Shteyngart on Channeling a Precocious Child Narrator

Vera, the buzzy, brilliant and preternaturally observant ten-year-old central to Gary Shteyngart’s sardonic and profoundly relevant new novel, brings a fresh, necessary perspective to our evolving …

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jun 24

“Love and toxicity are hardly unfamiliar bedfellows.” Hal Ebbott tells @janeciab.bsky.social about writing a novel of male friendship.

Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

Hal Ebbott’s extraordinary first novel, Among Friends, opens with a brief prelude in which the two friends, Amos and Emerson, meet in college. It’s August, only athletes have returned. “In the dist…

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Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social · Jun 4

Lovely time at the Bay Area Book Fest. Thanks to @janeciab.bsky.social for hosting and so great to speak with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai-Chu, and @jacqlyy.bsky.social about spec fic! Check out their weird and wonderful books, HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and MENDING BODIES

Book covers for MENDING BODIES by Hon Lai-Chu (translated by Jacqueline Leung), HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS by Anita Felicelli, and THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by Marguerite Sheffer

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Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social · May 15

Bay Area! I'm going to be IN you May 30-June 3 for the Bay Area Book Festival

On the panel "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai Chu, @jacqlyy.bsky.social, moderated by @janeciab.bsky.social 12:30 Sunday, June 1

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Poster for the session described in the post: "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" at the Bay Area Book Fest, Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Sunday June 1 at 12:30 pm

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Laurie Ann Doyle @ladoyleauthor.bsky.social · May 13

🌿Please join us this Sat 5/17 @ LitCamp's #reading at Sebastopol's #Litcrawl when 15 #writers-- including me--share short takes on a having a super bad attitude! 5pm, 186 N. Main Street. FREE. It'd be great to see you! 💜

#writer #writing #books

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · May 17

Looking forward to this @baybookfest.bsky.social speculative fiction conversation!

Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social · May 15

Bay Area! I'm going to be IN you May 30-June 3 for the Bay Area Book Festival

On the panel "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai Chu, @jacqlyy.bsky.social, moderated by @janeciab.bsky.social 12:30 Sunday, June 1

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Sarah Russo @sarahrusso.bsky.social · May 16

Dear friends, we've launch a change to the way we offer grants to underrepresented writers at @pageonem.bsky.social. I hope you'll read and share with your colleagues and writers. Thanks!

Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · May 16

Page One Media is offering one pro bono publicity campaign for 2026 to an underrepresented writer. For more info, check out the blog - https://page1m.com/blog/

If you want to submit your 2026 title, apply here: https://page1m.co/2026grant

#authorthreads #authortips #bookpublicity

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · May 13

“The most interesting fiction, to me, contains this element of strangeness, whether it’s set in the real world or an alternative one.” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @karenebender.bsky.social.

Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction

My last Lit Hub conversation with Karen E. Bender was in 2018, just before her collection The New Order was published. She mentioned that she read John Cheever’s short stories in graduate school: “…

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · May 13

My @literaryhub.bsky.social conversation with award winning short story author @karenebender.bsky.social re: her new collection, The Words of Dr L and Other Stories, just our from Counterpoint Press.

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · May 13

“The most interesting fiction, to me, contains this element of strangeness, whether it’s set in the real world or an alternative one.” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @karenebender.bsky.social.

Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction

My last Lit Hub conversation with Karen E. Bender was in 2018, just before her collection The New Order was published. She mentioned that she read John Cheever’s short stories in graduate school: “…

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · May 5

Congrats @bookcritics.bsky.social poetry finalist @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social !

Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social · May 5

My essay “After the Rooster Crows” is out today at @literaryhub.bsky.social.
It’s about exile, poetry, and what I’ve brought with me.
Thank you for reading.

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After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · May 5

Congratulations to Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists www.pulitzer.org/winners/22691

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · Apr 20

Happy book launch month to #GuadalupeNettel & #CristinaRiveraNettel

Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · Dec 8

Masterful magical Mexican writers #CristinaRiveraGarza & #GuadalupeNettel, who were in the @baybookfest.bsky.social Juan Rulfo panel I moderated a few years back, have new fiction coming in 2025.

Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · Apr 3

Incredible list for @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social shortlist, congrats to all!

The Carol Shields Prize For Fiction @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social · Apr 3

The 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Shortlist:

• Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin
• Liars by Sarah Manguso
• River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · Mar 23

Oops that’s Christoph! Typo,

Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · Mar 23

A joy to intro Maxine Hong Kingston, NBCC fiction award winner 1976, distinguished guest at 50th anniversary awards ceremony. Gratitude to my co-chair Jacob Appel, NBCC president @hspartington.bsky.social & awards co-vps @irisjamahldunkle & CristophIrmscher.

National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Mar 20

NBCC board member @janeciab.bsky.social introduces honored guest Maxine Hong Kingston, calling her “the woman who has changed so many lives through her genius, her brilliant wordplay, her visionary narratives, her inimitable presence.” #NBCCAwards

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Sarah Russo @sarahrusso.bsky.social · Mar 20

@janeciab.bsky.social co-chair of the @bookcritics.bsky.social 50th anniversary committee. Tells us about when the prize was founded in 1974 and reminds us that there used to be syndicated literary columnists! (not even that long ago)

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · Mar 21

Such an honor and a joy!

National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Mar 20

NBCC board member @janeciab.bsky.social introduces honored guest Maxine Hong Kingston, calling her “the woman who has changed so many lives through her genius, her brilliant wordplay, her visionary narratives, her inimitable presence.” #NBCCAwards

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · Mar 12

Karen Russell re The Antidote: "The word ‘apocalypse’ also means a revelation, an uncovering. I was interested in what this disaster reveals—what truths come to light, what injustices and possibilities are laid bare in the aftermath of a storm." lithub.com/karen-russel... via @lithub @AAKnopf

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Mar 7

For the New English Review, NBCC member Kevin Anthony Brown published an essay-review of six Jean Giono titles, reissued by Archipelago Books and New York Review Books Classics, and translated by Paul Eprile, Jody Gladding and Bill Johnston:

Organizing Solitude: Jean Giono by Himself - New English Review

Portrait Writer Jean Giono (Eugene Martel, 1937)

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Mar 7

NBCC member Clea Simon’s upcoming psychological suspense novel, "The Butterfly Trap," was reviewed by Booklist. Clea will be celebrating the book’s release at Harvard Book Store in discussion with Nina MacLaughlin on March 4 at 7 p.m.

Clea Simon at Harvard Book Store | Harvard Book Store

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