Jesmyn Ward

Writer. Sing,Unburied,Sing. The Fire This Time. Men We Reaped. Salvage the Bones. Where the Line Bleeds. National Book Award Winner (deuce!) she/her

[Scribner @ScribnerBooks]

Excited to share that #LetUsDescend by @jesmimi is one of the @amazonbooks editors’ Best Books of 2023–and it’s on a billboard in NYC! See the full list here: https://t.co/7P2VUF5Vxi

[Oprah's Book Club @oprahsbookclub]

We’re excited to announce our next @oprahsbookclub selection is… “Let Us Descend” by best-selling author @jesmimi.

@oprah calls it “a vital work for our culture.” Join us as we read this extraordinary novel together. #ReadWithUs

Learn more here: https://t.co/Z7wA57hFZv

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

EXCLUSIVE: The latest @oprahsbookclub pick is “Let Us Descend” by @jesmimi, who @oprah calls a “powerful, vital voice in our culture today.”

Jesmyn Ward shares how she learned her book was picked — and why writing the novel was healing.

[Jesmyn Ward @jesmimi]

On October 24th, I’m going on tour for Let Us Descend, and I’m in conversation with some of my favorite writers and booksellers. Come through.

[Nicole's View 🇺🇲 @BLKLiberation84]

This is why they really want to get rid of TikTok and it's not because the Chinese own the platform. It's because videos like this get hundreds of thousands if not millions of views at a time. So many comments on this video expressed not knowing of this history and being well into their 60s and 70s. This is only the tip of the iceberg with the black history of atrocities against us that's hidden in this country.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Jack Dorsey who helped recruit and make sure Musk takes Twitter, mocking Twitter users to touch grass rather than protest the destruction of what had been a public square. Billionaires gonna billionaire.

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

Made verification meaningless. Eliminated Translate Tweet. Now this. Yeah he's an idiot but he's also a right winger who's buddy buddy w/a bunch of right wingers. He's methodically gutting the app that criticizes & mobilizes against the right more than any other app on the planet

[Ryan Ken @Ryan_Ken_Acts]

I’m thinking about the person who told me that when we were kids their mom would punish them whenever I placed higher than them at an orchestra audition. It didn’t matter that I had been playing longer or that I was more skilled. They should have at least beaten the Black kid.

[Jeffrey Wright 🥜 @jfreewright]

@SIfill_ Her father came to America on the back of progressive immigration policy reform and then taught, throughout his career, at an HBCU. His daughter grew up to ape rednecks.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Y’all wanna hear the TRUE story of Nikki Haley?

A thread

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

To be clear, Nikki didn’t change her name. She chooses to go by her middle name instead of her first. And maybe it’s not fair to point out her actual name.

Im sure people in SC wouldn’t care.

Ask Barack HUSSEIN Obama

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

She was “empowered” by the work and the freedom that America offers

Because BLACK PEOPLE GAVE IT TO HER.

And she even got a pair of free bootstraps

You’re welcome, Nimrata

Glad we could help.

[Hier/Nicht Hier @bigneon_glitter]

@MorganJerkins Gen X were the captive students of Ende & Wolfgang Petersen's bleak, unblinking German existentialism. The universe is "unfair, hungry, without meaning, full of sorrows, & ultimately nothing other than what you imagine it to be".

Dude, we were 7.

[Starre Julia Vartan @thecurioushuman]

@MorganJerkins I say without irony or hyperbole that movie changed my little life in its way. I learned that self-destruction looks like giving up from Artax. And that your friends—the weirder the better—can help keep you safe from the Nothing (depression, sadness) but can't stop it.

[Amanda P. Williams, MD, MPH @apw_mdmph]

Story after story after story. It's my life's work, my purpose and my passion, but sometimes, i just can't read another...

Your fitness, your notariety, your income, your education and still at risk

#maternalhealth
#healthdisparities
#preeclampsia
https://t.co/3kKt2vjtuj

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

So what do the parents of Black or queer parents think about this? Oh that’s right, you didn’t talk to them.

Are there any Black moms are any people of color part of MFL? Oh that’s right, you didn’t ask.

Great journalism.

[W. Ralph Eubanks @Wralpheubanks]

I'm proud to be part of Mississippi's first Banned Books Festival. And what makes it great is to talk about banned books with @KieseLaymon and @jesmimi .
https://t.co/7mLYfzLiVA

[Seven Stories Press @7StoriesPress]

She needs no introduction. Our Octavia E. Butler reissue series is now complete, with the addition of this gorgeous new hardcover edition of Bloodchild. Featuring new cover art by @Paullewinart, and an introduction by @jesmimi — coming soon!