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So many excellent books on these lists. So many excellent books NOT on these lists. But still—what a week! Thrilled for Morgan Thomas and their groundbreaking, radically empathetic debut MAD EDEN, and for Matthew Swanson & Robbi Behr and their huge-hearted, philosophically profound LIFE ON THE MOON. 💜🐉🌛 @jaxonhoward @fsgbooks @nationalbookfoundation @robbi.and.matthew
17 Sep 2026
Happiest of birthdays to my great love, a man of many hats and transformations, a man of passionate enthusiasms aplenty, who has moved through this particular year of love and loss with his trademark largesse of heart and resilient grace, who just as easily embodies Sports Enthusiast (go Hibs!) as Italian Film Star...delightfully dapper wherever he goes, endlessly curious, wise, kind, handsome, and really QUITE funny, here’s to our karaoke-belting, football-fanatic, Italophilic, nature-loving, beloved Eric. You have our hearts entire!
21 Jul 2026
So proud, @isaac.fitzgerald! @aaknopf @kelfarbs @atreediary (aka The Dream Team—may we all keep “walking away from loneliness” together <3) #AmericanRambler
"Fitzgerald has a gift for intelligent, gimlet-eyed straight shooting, for writing with a bared soul but minimal ego (he does have some ego; he’s a writer after all). In times often defined by cynicism and trolling, he doesn’t seem to have a mean bone in his body. American Rambler isn’t a diagnosis of how America went wrong. It’s a suggestion in practice of how to overcome by putting one foot in front of the other." —@bostonglobe
"I'm a huge Johnny Appleseed devotee—so for that (and for many other reasons) I loved this book. It felt like hanging out with a friend. A friend I'd always wished I'd had, but never actually met until these pages. It's not really like any book I've ever read. It meanders and breaks rules—and it works. I'm going for a walk." —@ethanhawke
22 May 2026
A big week for the incandescent @hala.n.alyan, whose light only ever shines more fiercely and irrefutably. And more poetry soon to come, via @washingtonsquarepress! How lucky we are.
I’LL TELL YOU WHEN I’M HOME (Avid Reader Press) is a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize (and was longlisted for the NBCC, an NPR Book of the Year, and one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of the Year). If you haven’t read it yet:
“Gorgeous, lyrical . . . . [Alyan’s memoir] examines with a poet’s precision the many ways in which storytelling is rooted in matriarchy, carrying messages between mothers and daughters as a means of survival. . . . In such scenes of compelling intimacy, the author’s narrative gifts shine through, the brief fragments making for quick, propulsive reading. . . . I’ll Tell You When I’m Home shows the power of even a single narrative to resist the deliberate erasure of a people and their homeland, the violence of colonization.” —Safiya Sinclair, The New York Times Book Review
“The memory of past wars, their imprint on the personalities of the people swept up in them, and the slow festering of unhealed wounds help shape the psychological landscape of Palestinian American author Hala Alyan’s moving, kaleidoscopic memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home. . . . What fascinates in this memoir is Alyan’s own story. . . Her hard-won sobriety, her professional accomplishments, and the life she has built in the US still leave her wondering: What of all this will her child inherit? In lieu of an answer, she offers up this book, a record of loss and hope.” —Leslie Camhi, 4Columns
“A beautiful, soul-bearing book.” —Elle
“An exquisite book about many things. . . . At its heart, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home is an exploration of the art and act of storytelling itself: to bear witness, to locate that which has been lost, to heal and to wound. . . . Alyan also brings her considerable literary strengths as an award-winning poet and novelist to the memoir, imbuing the language with such ravishing beauty that the reader will resist moving too quickly through the book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
12 May 2026
some very good news several years in the making 🌷 with big, bright thanks to the incredible @we_were_here 🌺 I am beyond excited to work with Masie at @zandoprojects 💐
30 Apr 2026
We lost Eric’s father and my beloved father-in-law Howard Simonoff today. Howard had charm and elegance to spare. He had an incandescent smile, a joke for every occasion, a spirit tilted toward gratitude and justice, a deeply curious mind that kept learning and embracing new views even well into his final years. He took such pride in his family and was so generous in welcoming me into it. Howard was, for decades, a prominent union-side labor lawyer. A fierce humanist, he loved Santa Fe and baseball, adored opera and made the best popovers. We got to see him this past Tuesday to tell him how much we’ve loved him in this life. So much. The last thing that old charmer did before we left was blow us a kiss goodbye.
https://www.legacy.com/legacy/howard-simonoff
11 Apr 2026
43 today. Love you. 💜
15 Feb 2026
AMERICAN RAMBLER took me to so many places I didn’t know I needed to go but am so grateful to have traveled, in the care and company of a guide I’d swear was my dear and raucous pal from the very first page, even if he weren’t already a beloved friend. From Massachusetts to Indiana, and home again; from a historical legend (John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed) who serves as window into the dark and light of the larger American cultural imagination, to the dark and light of family mythologizing too; from axe throwing competitions (does Isaac throw an axe? I won’t tell!) to TinCap baseball games to forest-shrouded memorials to a truly ill-advised trip down a river; from mid-life restlessness to mid-life reckoning, the deepest of griefs to the greatest of love stories—AMERICAN RAMBLER has it all, with plenty to go around, and that’s the point. Because this is also a work of history x memoir x travelogue that, in addition to making me laugh as often as it makes me cry, is about the kind of faith that friendship builds, the kinds of families and communities and stories we actually get to choose for ourselves. I can’t wait for you to read it come May, 2026. To @isaac.fitzgerald: you and @kelfarbs have been to hell and heaven and back to get here. I’m so, so proud to be along for the ride (with @atreediary as crackerjack navigator). @aaknopf @thegernertco (Cover by the legendary @chip__kidd!)
02 Nov 2025
It feels like just yesterday that I married this beautiful man, but it happened ten years ago today. Last month, we went to Umbria for an early celebration. @jazzeric, loving you (& @lucy.simonoff & @fadedselfimage) makes any dark so much brighter. Thanks for being my double rainbow. 🌈
16 May 2025
There isn’t room here to capture all the beautiful, aching, surprising, hopeful things @elianaramage’s debut novel TO THE MOON AND BACK does to my heart, but these two early quotes come close:
“To the Moon and Back is a singular, sonorous, wholehearted novel, one I wanted to devour and savor at once. Eliana Ramage is a dynamite writer—every sentence positively shimmers.” —@claire_lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had and Same As It Ever Was
“A novel that has the generosity to be many things—bittersweet, thrillingly perceptive, multi-threaded, enormously funny. To the Moon and Back is a wonderful reckoning with the true price of an at-any-cost ambition and a powerful story about the mixture of combativeness, compromise and love that forms the heart of a family.” —Kaliane Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of The Ministry of Time
26 Feb 2025
42 arrived with a gust of snow, and included a bracing morning walk, a hot bath (not pictured), and perfect things to read and eat (pictured especially with awe: @jazzeric’s homemade curried chicken pot pies, before & after). also some rather sweet ducks. Very grateful for the love; love you back.
15 Feb 2025
Here’s to friendship on this last eve of the year — that gift which sustains and buoys, soothes and delights, wickedly entertains and challenges, stretches and bears witness, and without which I would be utterly lost. I’ve given myself the gift of a little Laurie Colwin this break and this passage from HAPPY ALL THE TIME got me. Not because life is so wonderful according to external measures (how frequently it falls short and breaks our hearts), but because friendship, serious friendship in all its forms — romantic and familial love when we’re lucky, sibling-like kinship (spoken as an only child with only chosen sisters), old dear friends, new dear friends, professional relationships fueled by admiration and solidarity turned fierce and real, large-scale friendship in the form of community-driven connection — is, to my mind, one of the most reliable cornerstones (and one within our control!), of what makes life, especially amidst darkness, ‘truly wonderful.’ Grateful for the bright hours spent in the company of friends new and old in 2024. Here’s to more in 2025.
(And here, too, are two poems I return to again and again this time of year. First, @heatherchristle’s “Advent” - for the heart. And then a snippet of Edna St. Vincent Millay, because oh to be very tired, and very merry.)
31 Dec 2024
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