. an earthquake is a shaking of the surface of the earth is now available for pre-order. (out nov 19)

 when participation came out, I asked coffee house press to donate the highest percentage of sales they could to support the essential food-justice and land-access work my neighbors and friends at Catskills Agrarian Alliance are doing. CAA still needs and deserves support! you can find out about them and donate here.

. I just turned in final edits on a strange short novel coming out this fall: An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth (Soft Skull, November 2024). It’s been beautiful to work with my agent Akin Akinwumi and my editor Mensah Demary on this book, each of them an example of what those roles can mean, and as far as I can tell rarely do 

. I have been making herbal tinctures and salves, mostly from home-grown and locally gathered plants and fungi, for five years, and I am starting to sell them (affordable / sliding scale) as Good Utopian Herbs + Care. I’ll send an update to my mailing list when there’s more news, but you can also email me at [email protected] to find out what’s available now   

. My address book is a mess, and I would like to be able to send out notices of things now and then. Please join my mailing list if you would like to receive them

. A new video + text piece called Film Three: Timeblind was included in the group exhibition ‘On the Verge’ at Bushel Collective

. I join in the urgent international calls to stop the genocide in Palestine and to stop US funding to the state of Israel, including by participating in a cultural boycott (PACBI): Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG); WAWOG Now; Adalah Justice Project, Middle East Children’s Alliance  

. Grateful for the generous review of Participation in the  Anarchist Review of Books, one of my favorite new publications

. Nice review of Participation in Rain Taxi

. Grateful for this review of Participation in The Capilano Review

. I posted some writing-in-progress at FutureFeed as their guest blogger from mid-December to mid_January

. Happy to see Participation on this year-end list from Clare Sestanovich on The Millions, alongside a beautiful shout-out to Barbara Browning’s The Gift

. LitHub chose Participation’s book cover, designed by Tree Abraham, as one of the best book covers of the month

. Participation is thoughtfully and thoroughly reviewed in Bookforum by Jess Bergman

. I got to speak to Amina Cain about Participation for the Skylit podcast from Skylight Books. 

. Sweet write-up and excerpt from Participation in open book 

.Diana Arterian was kind enough to annotate my giant pile of in-process/to-read books at Lit Hub (right after Ross Gay was kind enough to have Participation in his own annotated stack)

. Sadie Graham wrote an extremely generous review of Participation in the Toronto Star. 

. Nice to see Participation on these lists from Lambda Literary and Lit Hub

 . Here’s an extremely mixed review of Participation in the Harvard Crimson

. It made me happy to see Participation in such good company on Ross Gay’s nightstand

. *food justice fundraiser* 20% of proceeds on copies of Participation ordered from the Coffee House Press web store will go to the Catskills Agrarian Alliance to support their food justice, land-access and mutual aid efforts toward building a healthy and just food system in the Catskills region of New York. Please consider supporting the Alliance whether or not you buy my book. They are doing amazing and necessary work.

. I am about to finish recording the audiobook for Participation. Thanks to the folks at Recorded Books for letting me audition, and to the beautiful engineers at CDM Sound Studios for treating me like a pro.

. Gage Saylor reviewed Participation in Gasher

. Participation was reviewed in Publishers Weekly (starred)

. Participation was reviewed in Kirkus

. Participation was named a “most anticipated” fall book in The Millions

. My site was hacked and I lost everything from June 20 to sometime in early October. Maybe I’ll re-add some things, though this site is essentially a memory aid for me (my bad memory is one of the subjects of my next book. I don’t know if that counts as news.) Anyway. Thanks waybackmachine for the snapshot from June <3

. A very in-process excerpt from “Preliminary Notes on Risk”  has been published by the loves at Belladonna* as a chaplet, alongside those by Zahra Patterson and 최 Lindsay.

. My forthcoming novel, Participation, is now available for pre-order from Coffee House Press in the US and from Book*hug in Canada

. At Night All Blood Is Black is shortlisted, in great company, for the Dublin Literary Award

. A video of the reading I did for Belladonna’s Close Distances series – along with the wonderful Zahra Patterson and 최 Lindsay – is now posted at Penn Sound. 

. Immanuel Iduma wrote about At Night All Blood Is Black for The New York Review of Books

. Big thanks to the brilliant M.C. Hyland for inviting me to be the July 2021 poet for Folder Magazine, and publishing the first part of my poem-in-progress, “Preliminary Notes on Risk” 

. My novel Participation will be published by Coffee House Press in fall 2022 – many thanks to Erika Stevens, Lizzie Davis, and Amanda Annis!

. David Diop and I were co-awarded the International Booker prize for At Night All Blood Is Black

. I have signed on to StrikeMoma’s Free Palestine letter. Grateful for their organizing. 

. ANABIB has also been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfield translation prize

. ANABIB has won the LA Times Book Prize, and has been shortlisted for the International Booker.

. At Night All Blood Is Black has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize, and is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

. I will be teaching a three-day writing workshop (online) via Haystack in August

. I had a blast visiting George School’s brilliant high school writers and editors, thanks to Zahra Patterson. 

. My Mo(0)on chapbook is out! it’s a hinge-bound dual pamphlet, beautifully handbound with riso-printed covers. The texts, AT SOME POINT I BECAME (a Fiction) and THIS ONE IS CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING are connected by a hinge that has to do with trying to learn not to stab yourself in the same place twice. I am so grateful to the folks at Mo(0)on for making this beautiful object! <3

. Very happy to see so many great reviews for David Diop’s amazing novel, At Night All Blood Is Black. It was such a pleasure to translate this book. See the aggregated reviews on the FSG site here. I have some extra copies—hmu if you want me to mail you one!

. So thrilled and grateful that Mo(0)on is putting out a new chapbook of my work, alongside a chapbooks by favorites of mine: Johannes göransson and Sara Tuss Efrik, & Vi Khi Nao and Sophia Dahlin

. At Night All Blood Is Black gets a starred review in Kirkus Review

. Review of At Night All Blood Is Black in Publishers Weekly

. Library Journal gave At Night All Blood Is Black a starred review

. I love this review of ANABIB on Words Without Borders. It’s nice that notably more reviews are mentioning the translation

. The New York Times‘ review of ANABIB is a generous read by Chigozie Obioma

. ANABIB reviewed in The Spectator (UK)

. The Historical Novel Society published a sensitive review of ANABIB by Jean Huets

. Fiction Writers Review had this to say about ANABIB

. A review of the UK edition of ANABIB, on Culturefly

. The Bromsgrove Standard reviewed the UK edition of ABABIB

. Complete Review‘s review of ANABIB

. Many thanks to Kristina Marie Darling for this LARB blog post about silence in Eleanor, Or and Alison Benit White’s The Wendys.

. My translation of David Diop’s remarkable prize-winning novel At Night All Blood Is Black (Frère d’âme) is forthcoming from FSG!

. Excited to be translated into Greek for the first time. Some poems and an essay will be in the winter issue of FRNK magazine, thanks to Katarina Iliopoulou.

. Katie  Willingham interviewed me for The Adroit Journal 

. I contributed an autobiographical fragment about dual nationality and expired passports to This Long Century

. LitHub issues fake Oscar nominations for books, and Eleanor, Or got one in the category of  Best Work of Experimental Literature (Film Editing) along with Emma Glass, Olivia Laing, and Harry Mathews

. My conversation with Renee Gladman is in the new issue of The Believer and is available online.

. Very excited to have just turned in my interview-conversation with Renee Gladman to The Believer. It should come out in the next issue.

. The New Yorker agrees that ‘plot is incidental’ to Eleanor, Or.

. I was interviewed by David Naimon for the podcast and radio show Between the Covers.

. Jennifer Kabat’s interview of me from the summer 2018 issue of BOMB magazine is now online.

. Very happy for Sakada’s review of Eleanor, Or, in the Los Angeles Review of Books

. Eleanor, Or was excerpted in Longreads

. There’s a long and and thoughtful review of Eleanor, Or, by John Spurlock in Cleaver

. The Wall Street Journal calls Eleanor, Or a ‘witty anti-novel,’ which I’ll take because witty and anti aren’t terrible things for a novel to be

. So happy for this review by Daphne Sidor of Eleanor, Or in Lambda Literary

. Though blurbs are as weird as the word ‘blurb,’ I  write them when I can for books and authors I love—almost always for small presses—including recently Jennifer Hayashida (Gramma), Vi Khi Nao (Black Sun), Jane Gregory (Song Cave), Dawn Lundy Martin (Coffee House), and Kate Colby (Noemi). Their books are wonderful and I’m happy to have tried to articulate some small thing about them

. The Arkansas International (interesting publication I didn’t know before) published a nice capsule review of Eleanor, Or

. The BBC named Eleanor, Or one of ten books to read this August

. BOMB magazine‘s Summer 2018 print issue has an interview of me by Jennifer Kabat [PDF]

. Thrilled to have been a guest editor for Futurepoem’s open reading period—along with Tracie Morris and Vincent Borqua—for which we selected amazing manuscripts by Sean D. Henry-Smith and 최 Lindsay

. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reviewed Eleanor, Or

. The Paris Review Daily published an excerpt of my essay ‘The Capacity to Be Alone’. The full essay will be published as a limited-run chapbook by Guillotine (in such good company, I’m thrilled). Date TBD

. I will be teaching a ‘master class’ in fiction in the Columbia MFA this fall (no comment on ‘master’)

. Pank reviewed Eleanor, Or

. LitHub named Eleanor, Or one of 15 books to read this August

. Publishers Weekly reviewed Eleanor, Or and they seemed to find it mildly annoying

. I love this review by Sarah Resnick of Eleanor, Or in Frieze

. Veronica Scott Esposito wrote a beautiful and much appreciated review of Eleanor, Or in The Brooklyn Rail

. Nylon wrote up Eleanor, Or as one of 13 books to read this August

. Kirkus Review gave Eleanor, Or a nice starred review

. Sweet review of Eleanor, Or in Commonplace

. The brilliant 최 Lindsay wrote a beautiful poem inspired by my ‘compromised translation’ (with/for Samira Negrouche). It’s in The Operating System