'After [Bryan] Stevenson surveyed the global range of memorial architecture, he realized that America needed language and story. Art was useful, too, as a handmaiden to the urgent problem of narrative.' -- doreen st. félix via The New Yorker
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on Wednesday March 13th i'll be at Greenlight Bookstore—hometown icon—discussing my novel Great Expectations with my beloved friend and colleague doreen st. félix. you can register and pre-order the book now! INDULGE: greenlightbookstore.com/event/vinson-c…

This is the longest piece I ever published, and with the New Yorker.

“A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza”

It’s about my painful experience of being separated from my family, beaten and shackled, as well as the terrorizing days before and after.
It’s published…

Today, I learned that the poet @mosababutoha has been taken from his family and detained in Gaza. He is reportedly in Israel Defense Forces custody.

I've had the privilege of editing Mosab for @newyorker. He has a wife and three kids.

I call for his immediate release. newyorker.com/news/essay/the…

van jones, 1993

Doctors in Gaza held a press conference among the bodies of the massacred Palestinians in the Israeli strike that targeted Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.

This is the most surreal zoom-out you will ever see!

Wrote about Jacqueline Rose + her beautiful, capacious mind newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

nyff programmers after releasing this year’s slate

Also the legendary doreen st. félix in @newyorker on FWB fam Sudan Archives with a shout to the best club night in the world, IYKYK. If you read one thing today, let it be this.

I profiled Samuel R. Delany—sci-fi pioneer, gay radical, literary genius—for The New Yorker’s fiction issue newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

i wrote about the suburban/privatized american mind and how it fuels anti trans (and anti everything else) panic for The Nation thenation.com/?post_type=art…

Stealing this picture because I couldn’t take one. THANK YOU to Pioneer Works, genius doreen st. félix, & the hilarious Sigrid Nunez for making this such an intelligent & fun talk about the politics of essentialism, exceptionalism, style, beauty, publicity, & the f-word (feminism).

May 30: Join us at Pioneer Works for a book launch and conversation celebrating the publication of Susan Sontag’s On Women, with Merve Emre (Merve Emre), Sigrid Nunez, and Doreen St. Félix (@dstfelix). RSVP now: pioneerworks.org/programs/3-wom…

LIVE NOW!

Super Sad Black Girl

Join Diamond Sharp for a conversation with doreen st. félix, in celebration of the launch of her book, hosted by Books Are Magic

Stream here: youtube.com/watch?v=J7aPO7…

THIS: Memphis Police Department’s pretense that it wants to & can reform itself. “It’s a myth that strengthens our necropolitics: the death of Tyre Nichols as a kind of sacrifice, in the name of a far-off but attainable improvement.” ⁦doreen st. félix⁩ newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

.martinesyms made a list of influences on her art world skewering debut feature The African Desperate screening at ICA from tomorrow bit.ly/3TGslKO

Letterboxd: boxd.it/is43M

“Generational Anxiety' with b is a talk show pairing artists and activists from different generations in conversations about art, culture and society.

In the premiere coming Nov. 8, writers #NikkiGiovanni and doreen st. félix talk love. Learn more: bit.ly/3rTUMZY

The Emmy Award-winning actor, producer, and author quinta brunson will join doreen st. félix in conversation at this year’s #NewYorkerFest . Get your tickets: nyer.cm/bAOw4l6