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Wow Thank you for all the love. It means so much 🥹💜🫶

Am deeply honored to be named the New York State Author Laureate for 2025-2027. My congratulations to NYS Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn. My profound thanks to @nyswi and to the jury.

Hello! Today is my first day on the job as a national disability reporter for @nytimes, as part of its 2025-26 fellowship class. My inbox is open for tips/pitches ✉️➡️ sonia.rao@nytimes.com.

I’m doing a fundraiser over the next 10 days to help the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, a nonprofit based in LA, save its mobile shower program. More info below but—if you donate enough, I’ll send you a video message or a custom painting like this one. Please share

Look what made it all the way to Italy. 😭 @riverheadbooks. If you want one (editors, reviewers, critics, etc) let me know.

I have not written and will not be writing a novel called “Nightshade Market.” Thank you.

Putting out a pitch call for Esquire: If any AAPI writers want to send me their incredibly thoughtful and well written essays that reflect on media, film, tv, music that's prescient and resonates with our current cultural climate, please send them to me: sirena.he@hearst.com

We're thrilled to announce the fourth annual #GoldGala on May 10, 2025 at the iconic Music Center in Los Angeles. This year's theme, First Lights, honors those whose firsts have guided us through darkness and uncertainty, illuminating the path forward for all.

We're so excited for all our authors on the @KirkusReviews best books of the 21st century list! Congrats to Julian Barnes, Edwidge Danticat, @junotdiaz, @minjinlee11, @ValeriaLuiselli, @rebeccamakkai, Donna Tartt, Ocean Vuong, and @colsonwhitehead 🤩🍾🥂 https://t.co/c7rsjetUhG

Proud of fellow Korean American @minjinlee11 for her beautiful writing and illustration of our community’s culture through Pachinko. I am happy to #InvestinLibraries to share these stories with New Yorkers while also uplifting Korean heritage!

What a joy to receive a shout out from @minjinlee11 in @Ellemagazine. Feeding the Hungry Heart is about people who have experienced the battle against a hunger that goes deeper than a need for food, and I am moved that it continues to touch lives + hearts. https://t.co/NXEpXacv2O

Thrilled to see Donna Tartt, Colson Whitehead, Junot Díaz, and @minjinlee11 on this list from @latimesbooks!✨ https://t.co/dalDj19lQW @littlebrown @doubledaybooks @riverheadbooks @GrandCentralPub

Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby! Our new centennial edition of one of the most iconic American novels features an introduction by @minjinlee11 and includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men! Learn more: https://t.co/fXMBHPPBmK

At the 2014 #CelebratingWomenBreakfast, we honored Wall Street powerhouse @carlaannharris and literary force @minjinlee11. Relive this powerful moment and #CelebrateWomen! Join us in May: https://t.co/usFBMXJNkd Can’t attend? You can still fuel this work: https://t.co/LhYEIWchqt

Frustrated with politics and ready to tune out? Wondering what Democrats can do to win again? Welcome to The People’s Cabinet podcast. Let's get to the truth behind the headlines and chart a positive vision of a government that works. Subscribe now: https://t.co/fxx8haxnJl

Gwen Akiko Robinson is gone. I was supposed to see her in the fall. She was my dear beloved friend. My Brenda Starr. I loved her so. https://t.co/tDWAI0XoRp

Here's the book tour schedule as it currently stands. Launch event is on 4/29 at @mocanyc with @minjinlee11 and then I'm off on a cross-country sprint. More details on individual events on my tour page! https://t.co/NW0AHgOgtj

Not to alarm you guys, but we announced this year’s slate of Smith&Taylor classics today.

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Dua Lipa unironically has one of the best culture and literature podcasts. She interviews indie writers to heavy-hitters, and more people should know about it