Alex Peterson

writer, editor, creative director. he/him.

[Leslie Jamison @lsjamison]

A new essay ❤️‍🔥 This one was a true joy, and a long time in the living and the making. On Disneyland, photo-mercantalism, churros, putting pressure on our kids to be happy, Space Mountain & the uses of fantasy.
https://t.co/H7L4kCXwmM

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman have acquired the Rumpus from current owner and publisher Alyson Sinclair, effective May 1. https://t.co/vbOEF9QRzO

[UCity Review Editors @UCityReview]

W.S. Merwin's "Home for Thanksgiving" from The Moving Target. https://t.co/1LeZZ2WqCe "I bring myself back from the streets that open like long / Silent laughs..."

[Alex Peterson @zanderoc]

@BWDR 🙌

[Alex Peterson @zanderoc]

@mayhewbergman The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra

[Dan Kois @dankois]

I wrote for @NewYorker about Lorraine Louie, an underappreciated graphic design pioneer who designed the iconic Vintage Contemporaries covers that I love so much. Thanks to Paula Scher, Peter Mendelsund, and Louie's family for talking to me https://t.co/S7GgNruWOK

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Marguerite Duras’s early novel "The Easy Life" is proof that artistic singularity is built slowly and deliberately, writes @lynnsstrong: https://t.co/nqMeslhTTT

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you

—W. S. Merwin

https://t.co/kGF23KJXus

#Thanksgiving

[Alex Espinoza @alex_esp]

This piece by my SGV homie Michael Jaime-Becerra beautifully captures the nuances of father/son relationships. On this day, when I remember my father’s life, this helps me. https://t.co/TvL5nlh5oR

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

A wonderful poem about mothers by @adalimon:

[David Ulin @davidulin]

“That’s the thing about Los Angeles: Everything we say about it is both true and false.” Thanks to @Borisk for asking me to write this essay for @latimes’s Lit City package about America’s most underappreciated literary landscape. https://t.co/h2sQEOveWN

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

“[O]ne of Alejandro’s greatest gifts is his ability to capture something ineffable about daily life, the small wounds and joys and disappointments bound up in ordinary moments.”

On the signature tenderness and humor of past contributor Alejandro Zambra:https://t.co/JYTVxgb6Nh

[Literary Hub @lithub]

Patricia Dunn recommends books about the secrets families keep. https://t.co/cId5JzdHIG

[Alex Peterson @zanderoc]

@kirstin_chen Congrats! 🎉

[Taproot Press @PressTaproot]

Bookshops matter.

Read this beautiful essay by @myetcetera, editor of our upcoming book 'Open Secret: Hong Kong Since the Umbrella Movement, on the legacy of one of the best: Bleak House Books in Hong Kong.

https://t.co/fWtMBuj4lr

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

For Karina Longworth, the most salacious or conspiratorial version of Hollywood gossip is often the least likely to be true, but the reasons that people believe it are almost always worth exploring. https://t.co/2LxpEffeOC

[Alex Peterson @zanderoc]

@jiminhanwriter @PublishersLunch @vivianwmlee @littlebrown Woohoo! 🎉

[Nicole Blades @NicoleBlades]

This young woman is so very wise. Check poet @TheAmandaGorman’s answer to the @nytimes’ question: “If you’d known that you’d be isolated for so long, what would you have done differently?”

Just inspired. Truly. ✨✨✨

[Animal Riot Press @AnimalRiotPress]

Friends & Enemies, The Author has a new piece in @lithub! David Hollander tells a cautionary tale for us all about publishing his debut and second novel twenty years apart!

https://t.co/cCThTKKxBd

@TheFexo #anthropica