Wole-Fash

Renaissance Man| Wordpecker

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

'Tis not in mortals to command success
But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.'

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

American Morality
https://t.co/X899UyBwFB

[Granta @GrantaMag]

We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages.

https://t.co/Es0Gu9cZGU

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Barbara Kingsolver’s last book, “Demon Copperhead,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2023, sat on the Times best-seller list for more than a year, and was voted the best book of the 21st century by the newspaper’s readers. But after she finished it, Kingsolver struggled with writer’s block. “I think it should actually be called writer’s fear,” she says. A Substack post, of all things, got her writing again. The headline was “Barbara Kingsolver Is a Fraud. “I had to know why,” she says, explaining her decision to click on the link. “Maybe I am a fraud!”

But Kingsolver, who writes what she calls socially engaged fiction, has always believed that the arts belong to everyone, and has spent her life writing books that she hopes can be read by anyone. Her latest book, “Partita” wrestles with the questions that have fuelled her whole career: who is art for, what makes it good, and what can it actually accomplish? Casey Cep talks to Kingsolver about her work, her family, and what it has meant to come from and return to a rural part of the country: https://t.co/NGGmn6FtO7

[deji toye @dejitoye]

King Sunny Ade as soundtrack in the movie Breathless (1983) starring Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky.

The pedal steel guitar solo was taken from the track '365 is My Number' off Juju Music (1983), KSA's first International album.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jon Stewart on the Supreme Court: “They have single-handedly made it impossible for us to reform and save our democracy. The way they have made it that corporations are people and money is speech. There has to be a process of amending the Constitution. This idea that Citizens United stands as the law of the land is the biggest bunch of shit. The Constitution is in a suicide pact and money in elections is killing this country”

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has moved countless readers with her novels about Nigerians at home and abroad. After the death in Lagos of her toddler son, her homeland no longer feels as much like home.'
https://t.co/bZ3o1L4YPu

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

Just saw the visuals to James Arthur’s ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’ for the first time (must have listened to the song a million times) , and boy did it pull every string in my heart.

[foxygen @foxypiano]

Teju Cole: 'in one enciphering corner of my mind I believe still that every line in every poem is the orphaned caption of a lost photograph. By a related logic, each photograph sits in the antechamber of speech.

1/2

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

What a shitshow #FRAENG

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

Wild. This GOAT debate is redefining the meaning of a proxy war.

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

time and time again, and still weigh in on the game post-match with the same cocky confidence with nary a sliver of irony has been interesting to see.

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

I hate to say it buy what passes for professional football punditry these days is mostly Dunning-Krueger with a topping of post-hoc rationalization.

I should stipulate that I'm not a football enthusiasts, but to have some people fail abjectly--but confidently-- at predictions

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

And Pedro makes it 2.

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

When it rain it pours #England

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Earl Jones reads Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (2003)

[Rony @Ronycoder]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 8-minute talk by Conor Neill will teach you how to start any speech in a way that instantly grabs attention and keeps people engaged.

Bookmark it and give it 8 minutes, no matter what.

[Wole-Fash @fashwole]

I have to be the only one under the age of 60 not pulling off the shorts in this city. Tomorrow we pay the legs its dues

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Pope Leo: “We tend to think...that the only issue of morality is sexual....I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that" issue.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I love how MAGA apologists who ignored or even celebrated Trump’s character flaws now suddenly discover them and pretend to be brave truth tellers. When it would have cost them, they happily promoted the cult. Now they’re like “oh my God it’s a cult! Why can’t you see it?!”