Read Nonfic

Creative/Narrative/Literary nonfic lit study + celebration 📝💥 Lotsa places teach craft; here we’re hittin the books 📖😎 Community at #ReadNonfic insta👇

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

Today The Climate Book is finally released in many parts of the world!

I want to use my platform to share the reality of the climate crisis – to communicate a holistic picture of how the world is changing and what we need to do about it. That is why I created this book.
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[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

A few years ago, I wrote a little essay about how my friendship with @IsaacFitzgerald saved my life. The lovely folks at @OprahDaily just re-published it: https://t.co/kqcaFDMCc2

[Read Nonfic @readnonfic]

What a phenomenal podcast episode—I listened 3x and sent to my whole fam! 🎧 Take a listen 👇

[Read Nonfic @readnonfic]

"We are multitudes and we are more than enough."
-Alice Wong (author of new memoir YEAR OF THE TIGER)

Click below for her love letter to Asian American disabled women + girls still finding their way and feel alone and unsure of their place in the world 👇

[Teen Vogue @TeenVogue]

@SFdirewolf wants you to know that you're more than enough ❤️ https://t.co/KLKHftSz89

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

This quote by Arundhati Roy lives rent-free in my head: “There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

[Read Nonfic @readnonfic]

“whatever leads to joy, they always answer”

this navigational compass 👇❤️

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

—James Baldwin

[National Book Foundation @nationalbook]

You can read more about the 2022 #NBAwards Longlist for Nonfiction on our website.

https://t.co/sICQ5kAW8x

[Stephanie Kaylor @sm_kaylor]

Erich Fried (translated by Georg Rapp)

[Read Nonfic @readnonfic]

“At any moment, the Tuba City Boarding School staff members said, the 7-year-old would be called upon. Not knowing what that meant, he obeyed, and, in the middle of the night, they woke him.”

“We were treated in Tuba City like we were in the military.”
- Willie Grayeyes

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[Alastair Lee Bitsóí @AlastairBitsoi]

JUST IN: My first piece on Indigenous Boarding Schools for @HighCountryNews! Take a read: “The night the greyhounds came.” https://t.co/flKTlhCd3N via @highcountrynews

[Deesha Philyaw @DeeshaPhilyaw]

To show our support for new voices in literature, @KieseLaymon, Robert Jones Jr., and I came together to create #LIT16, a quarterly reading series celebrating sixteen debut authors and their works! Introducing our inaugural cohort:

[Autotheory Conference 2022 @Autotheory2022]

Today's highlighted quote is from our conference speaker Brit Schulte!

[Francisco Cantú @_franciscocantu]

Fabulous profile of @jzsalvipoet in the NYT. SOLITO comes out tomorrow, and is, for me, perhaps the most staggering and essential memoir of this or any other year in recent memory, to be read, re-read, and taught for decades to come.

https://t.co/khco5RcRB8

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

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Going to Odesa, Ukraine this summer, I knew it will be a long car ride from the border, so I picked a book to read.

I won't talk about the trip here, but about the book, or rather, about translation.

First, here is a passage:

[Read Nonfic @readnonfic]

“[T]hey talked right past each other, oblivious, missing each other’s points entirely. It never mattered. They were together, his hands in hers, the eighty-five years between them an inconsequential flickering.”

Read more of this beautiful essay 👇

[Read Nonfic @readnonfic]

Today's expansive + thoughtful #ReadNonfic memoir is titled "All Who Go Do Not Return," by @shdeen. Written with great care and ethics, head to instagram at the link below to learn more about this unforgettable narrative 👇
https://t.co/QWYbN8TEAf

[Read Nonfic @readnonfic]

Last week's crackling, fast-paced #ReadNonfic 📖 was by Quiara Alegría Hudes! A prolific playwright, Hudes ushers readers into a new artistic work: “My Broken Language” — a memoir spanning geographies, faiths, ethnicities, and languages. Read more!👇
https://t.co/DH8sSEJo8B

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

These are stories we often hear about in the abstract yet to receive them over & over again in a compressed time period like this has been eye opening & deeply saddening. And again I ask: What is a woman’s worth?

[Autotheory Conference 2022 @Autotheory2022]

Interested to hear the full paper? Register for Autotheory Conference 2022 from here:
https://t.co/Xb6Bfp9cxb

[Read Nonfic @readnonfic]

Love this whole🧵— so much grounded, thoughtful wisdom ❤️

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

when i think back on the happiest days of my life so far, most of those have not occurred in any public way. they have been deep private joys, including writing poems that will never be published. i wrote them because they are my way to be alive