Recent Posts and Upcoming Events:
It's the 20th anniversary of my first book, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China (WW Norton, 2005). What a wild ride then and now. Thank you to everyone who has read FBIB over the years and written to me -- and thank you to all the Beijingers and fellow laowai I loved and love. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/18/foreign-babes-in-beijing
Join me tonight at the Chicago Humanities Festival in conversation with Fredrik Backman about his lively new novel, My Friends.
Join Thea Goodman, Lisa Lee, and me tonight for a celebration of Elise Paschen and her new collection Blood Wolf Moon. ❤️
Travelers in the Mist: A Celebration of Poet Elise Paschen
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Friday, April 11, 2025 — Elise Paschen, one of Chicago's most important writers, releases her sixth poetry collection, <em>Blood Wolf Moon</em>, on April 10, 2025. The following night, the Chicago L...
this poetry reading i got to do this week with carolyn forche is one of my favorite events of all time. if you missed it, here's a recording - her wisdom during the q&a is astonishing— about the poetry of witness, the power of poetry in general, and what we can do now in the world (refuse).
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thank you, to the bridge, for this thoughtful and lovely review of absolute animal:
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Rachel DeWoskin’s book is a journey through feelings, behaviors, and actions. The poems within act as a bridge of expression between how all living fauna act on their experiences. There are tales of...