The Mayor is trying to cut $75M from libraries over the next four years.
“We have become more efficient, but at some point you get to the bone,” the head of NYPL told the Council. “This may push us over the edge.”
$75M is 0.013 of the NYPD’s operating budget for just one year.
We are thrilled to announce the recipients of The Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil 2022-2023 Emerging Writer Fellowships. Congratulations to Sara Aboulafia, Natalie Adler, Han Chang, JP Infante, Diana Kole, Emmanuel Lachaud, Sabrina Helen Li, Juliana Roth and Jiaming Tang!
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for our 2022 First Novel Prize! Congratulations to Daphne Palasi Andreades, Jessamine Chan, Isabel Kaplan, Noor Naga, Alyssa Songsiridej, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and Vauhini Vara. Learn more here: https://t.co/cggZWnTdyo
We're psyched to announce the special guests for Born Freaks: A Katherine Dunn Reading Group! Mary South, Chloé Cooper Jones, Jeff VanderMeer, Michelle Tea, and Rachel Yoder will discuss Geek Love, Toad, and Dunn's impact on their work. Register here: https://t.co/hbKB7S8TLO
We're hiring! Are you our next Assistant Librarian? Help manage our 200 year-old membership library. Candidates must have an MLS degree or be in the final stages of their MLS degree program. Learn more here: https://t.co/OA5XCIJjxt
Hey everybody! I have an outrageous request. Please help me RT this to 240 here on Twitter. Since one program is postponed I want this one to go extremely well especially because its in conversation with the great Joan Nathan. Once we are at 240 I will shut up lol. #Philadelphia
Linda Gregg, who would have turned 80 today.
“It is possible to be with someone / who is gone. Like the silence which / continues here in the desert while / the night train passes through Marfa / louder and louder, like the dogs whining / and barking after the train is gone.”
A week of headlines about how Britain was going thru a heatwave this summer and the climate catastrophe in Pakistan where thousands are dead or missing is buried in every mainstream news site I read. A disgrace.