JETVCG

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[The Paris Review @parisreview]

Presenting our new audio series: “Personals,” writers reading first-person essays. Featuring work from Ottessa Moshfegh, Mihret Sibhat, @jetvgc, Lisa Carver, and J. D. Daniels.

Our first episode drops September 8, listen wherever you get your podcasts.

[How I Make Money Writing @longformprofile]

This week's great long reads from:

@nickripatrazone @seanpasbon @terrence_mccoy @falamarina @DevinGordonX @VarshaaBansal @AlanSiegelLA @zakcheneyrice @lpandell @Masonboyowen @FranklinFoer @jetvgc @piersgelly @heatherhaddon @chafkin @EdLudlow @dankois

https://t.co/5vjmIEjL1n

[Graywolf Press @GraywolfPress]

🚨 New on Lab: Games 🚨 An essay by @jetvgc on playing the survival game Palworld with his daughter 🎮️⁠
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🖇️ And don't forget, 1️⃣ more week to submit your own work in response to the Games issue!

https://t.co/jgimEC82Sg

[The Yale Review @yalereview]

“Blue crabs were the only kind we killed ourselves. Their supple flesh was our first symbol of fresh food when everything else came from a box or can.”
—Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc) for our column Objects of Desire
https://t.co/s5fsah5lyy

[Brooklyn Institute @BklynInstitute]

Faculty Writing | @jetvgc in @verge on the parent as non-player character | https://t.co/hDGiddorGe

[Disquiet ILP @DisquietILP]

2023 alum Joseph Earl Thomas’s (@jetvgc) new essay “Ganny” appears in the new issue of @Harpers! Gorgeous, fraught, loving, and furious–read it here. https://t.co/ab3a1kkLxC

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"These stories exist in the same universe—dilapidated and hyper-developed, inhabited by emotionally fragile and lonely characters desperate for some type of human connection."

Merilyn Chang on Daisuke Shen's "Vague Predictions and Prophecies" @CLASHBooks
https://t.co/vp9r180REA

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

“Ganny’s murder was no mystery or accident, and I needed to convince all attendees specifically of their true proximity to her open casket.”

A personal essay from Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc).

https://t.co/ST8v6buWyu

[Brooklyn Institute @BklynInstitute]

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 15: Vampires! | In which @materialist_jew @isilitke and @jetvgc analyze the psychosexual, political economic, Orientalist, literary, genre, social, and even epidemiological metaphors, allegories, and tropes that have made the figure of the vampire of such perennial—if shifting—fascination | https://t.co/1aQ0NwLF1S

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

@lilyscherlis @magsrdoherty “Perhaps seeing my grandmother as she actually was, rather than the way I want to feel about her now, helps me avoid all the lying that would make me a good subject and this a good essay.”

A personal essay from Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc).

https://t.co/ST8v6buWyu

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

Our April issue is here: with @lilyscherlis on social-skills; a new story by Charles Portis; Kent Russell on the Guardian Angels; a photography portfolio from Henry Roy; a personal essay from @jetvgc; @lidijalidijjja on Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and more. https://t.co/sFCydRVpcY

[Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh @annmariek_h]

Congrats @jetvgc winner of @center4fiction 1st Novel Prize. My own grandpa cleaned city buses. Grandma cooked in a school cafeteria. Here's to writing the full experience of our people. Listen to the full convo here: https://t.co/dF6RlqxlVZ And grab Joseph's books today.

[LA Times Festival of Books @latimesfob]

Congratulations to this year's finalists for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction! 👏

‘Pemi Aguda (@PemiAguda)
Jessica Elisheva Emerson
Jiaming Tang
Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc)
Julian Zabalbeascoa (@JZabalbeascoa)

Learn more: https://t.co/QwKGRdFy9Q

[Brooklyn Institute @BklynInstitute]

Faculty Writing: @jetvgc in @vanityfair on Black men and sexuality in pop culture | https://t.co/X0Q6KQHKNR

[Sophie Haigney @SophieHaigney]

Today, @jetvgc on playing basketball at a military base in Philly

https://t.co/LXEkzuM1Ou

[Unfollow @RoyScranton]

Bragging on my MFA advisee Joseph Earl Thomas @jetvgc whose brilliant novel GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER won the Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize. Yah! https://t.co/6AR23HxBAT

[The Center for Fiction @Center4Fiction]

Congratulations are in order for Joseph Earl Thomas (@jetvgc), author of GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER, and winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize!

[PORT Magazine @portmagazine]

Colman Domingo for Issue 35 – interview @jetvgc, photography John Edmonds, shot with the @montblanc_world Meisterstück . On sale now and available here > https://t.co/qtDFaDMDhH

[The Athenaeum of Philadelphia @PhilaAthenaeum]

Philly readers and writers, come listen to local authors Phillip B Williams, author of Ours, and Joseph Earl Thomas @jetvgc, author of God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, in conversation this Thursday! Register: https://t.co/vxsgqlYong

[Miami Int'l Airport @iflymia]

Welcome to Miami, @jetvgc. Catch Joseph at the 2024 @MiamiBookFair this Saturday.
📚: https://t.co/6daa6qrjcL
#MiamiBookFair #MiamiReads