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Book publisher. Gardener. Haggard cat spinster. Strong opinions that belong only to me. 🐝

Brooklyn
Joined October 2008
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2 years
Nearly a year later, this profile of me/Pantheon/the history and state of diversification in publishing is here at last! It’s a hard thing to do, show your work, expose yourself, but literature matters and I hope you’ll read this.
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Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business (Published 2022)

For generations, America’s major publishers focused almost entirely on white readers. Now a new cadre of executives like Lisa Lucas is trying to open up the industry.

www.nytimes.com
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This is too real.
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When do things get precedented again
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8 months
PEOPLE IT IS TIME TO START WRITING ABOUT YOGURT h/t @RonCharles
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WHO DID THIS 😂
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I know we're watching some royals go through this, but a lower stakes version of this happens to interracial couples every damn day.
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Sure sex is great, but have you and your nation ever escaped the clutches of fascism at the absolute last second?
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How in the world was a whole ass generation of 9-12 year olds allowed to read Flowers in the Attic? 😭
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Philly knew.
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5 years
Can we just do a whole Toni Morrison quotes thread? FOR COMFORT
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I don’t totally understand why folks who aren’t in NYC don’t realize that they have like a week left before they are in the same boat. We’ve been through this before.
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Thinking endlessly about Brittney Griner. Two weeks of unknown whereabouts en route to a Russian penal colony possible in Siberia. I just can’t. She was just minding her business. 💔
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It me.
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Wow someone really did this
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I'm not crying, you're crying. Mom, I NEVER KNEW THIS. Heart just exploded.
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@likaluca This was written when you were being born. It’s about you.
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“Tesla segregated Black workers into separate areas that its employees referred to as “porch monkey stations,” “the dark side,” “the slave ship” and “the plantation,” the lawsuit alleges.”
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Horrific allegations of racism prompt California lawsuit against Tesla

Racist slurs were hurled daily at Black workers at Tesla’s California plant, delivered not just by fellow employees but also by managers and supervisors, California’s civil rights agency alleges in...

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😂😂😂
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AOC Becomes First Woman Encouraged to Turn 35

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the first woman in history to be encouraged to turn 35 in a watershed moment for women everywhere.

thehardtimes.net
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2 years
Can we normalize scheduling 15 minute meetings? Lots of things don't need more than 15 minutes!
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4 years
What was the last book by a Black woman that you read?
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3 years
If the pandemic completely and totally surprise ended today at 3pm, what would you be doing by 6?
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4 years
I will literally never get over that man mocking Biden for mask-wearing while potentially infecting him with COVID.
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2 years
Anyone else feeling crazy about having avoided COVID thus far? Seems impossible!
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Pretty sure no one was paying attention to kids from 81-93
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8 years
Hi! My name is Lisa, I'm an African-American and I don't live in hell.
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Is anyone the same person they were in February 2020? I’m not.
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I think nearly daily about where we would be if we were the kind of country that could possibly have elected Elizabeth Warren as president.
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2 years
I just saw someone wearing these. I beg you, youth, please don’t do this. They were a crime the first time! Were our sacrifices in vain?
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Someone I know (30s, healthy) just had to move in with their parents after 3 months of being totally bed-bound with long COVID (following a mild, mild case in March), and no assured road to recovery or independent living. Be safe.
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Me on Monday / Me now
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3 years
Can we have a national week off to just like... have a break from the relentlessness of the past 13 months?
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4 years
I think it's probably time to fully let go of what things were like before 2020.
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Is everyone hearing WAY MORE bird chirping lately?
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5 years
Pro-tip: It is super super easy and extremely affordable to never ever ever dress in blackface! You just get up, don't dress in blackface and go! No muss, no fuss, no racism scandal!
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6 years
MY AUNT WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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EMILYs List
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Congrats to @JulianaforLG on winning her election and becoming the first African American woman elected to be Illinois' lieutenant governor!
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She was just so damn cool.
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This concludes my short explainer on how some truly age inappropriate books delighted and perplexed a whole generation of young Gen X/ elder Millenial weirdos. ❤️
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This is from 9 days ago. I can only imagine that the numbers have grown from the 7k killed, and the 670k already forced out. No cherry picking disasters.
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Sudan conflict: Ethnic cleansing committed in Darfur, UK says

Analysis of satellite images provides evidence that dozens of Darfur villages have been burned down.

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By 30 you should have… lol nothing. 30 is a tiny new adult! I didn’t even work anywhere near books when I was 30. I am a whole ass different person.
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3 years
They really gave folks 1200 bucks months and months ago and then just peaced out. Unreal.
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How is every not screaming about what TX and SCOTUS just did? It’s horrific.
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3 years
As a person who never wed, I am *deeply* envious of folks who got registries. Unmarried folks need stuff too 😭😭😭
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I'm THRILLED to announce that I'll be joining team Penguin Random House as SVP and Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books!!!
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Lisa Lucas, head of National Book Foundation, to join Knopf

The head of the organization that presents the National Book Awards is leaving

www.washingtonpost.com
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6 years
A 26 yr old in my office just said “I don’t think a person *your* age could know what is cool for a person my age” should they live y/n
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5 years
Only two people in my office have ever heard of Jodeci, so we are now hiring for nearly every position.
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4 years
If you think this is fun, just wait until half the country refuses to get vaccinated.
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3 years
I will alway RT this clip when it appears.
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Toni Morrison asking “Are you any good?” with that facial expression will forever live rent free in my head.
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Hi. It's me on PBS Newshour. (I'm kind of proud of this one, watch it if you don't mind taking a moment.)
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Books "make us more empathetic" and "connect us to one another," says @nationalbook Executive Director @likaluca . #BriefButSpectacular
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Something is missing here but I can’t quite put my finger on it
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4 years
If we want to have bookstores when this is over, we have to support them now.
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August Bookstore Sales Dropped 30.7%

Bookstore sales tumbled 30.7% in August compared to August 2019, putting an end to a brief rally that saw the rate of sales declines slowing compared to 2019.

www.publishersweekly.com
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6 years
My most important work-from-home /snow day tip is to shower when you normally do, otherwise IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
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We lost bell hooks. The heart breaks.
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4 years
I am now 178 years older than I was yesterday.
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I would like to go back in time and snatch the Hillbilly Elegy proposal out of every inbox it landed it.
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An absolutely stunning (and grief-saturated) essay from Jesmyn Ward in Vanity Fair. We truly do not deserve her heart. We are so lucky to have her heart. We are so much better for her strength and love and staggeringly brilliant mind. Please do read.
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On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic

The acclaimed novelist lost her beloved husband—the father of her children—as COVID-19 swept across the country. She writes through their story, and her grief.

www.vanityfair.com
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Rushdie has sacrificed a whole hell of a lot more than most of us ever will in our whole lives for the love of literature and the crucial importance of ideas, writing, and freedom. Prayers up.
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Semi-regular reminder that our First Lady @DrBiden voluntarily attended the National Book Awards ❤️📚🎉
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What time is the Stacey Abrams parade?
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1 year
Next generation: please consider sending your kids to public school, even if you can afford 60k a year for 3rd grade. It matters to every child. Isolation from reality never helps.
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2 years
I personally derive a lot of pleasure and comfort and community from this place, for whatever reason, and I’m actually just really sad about all this.
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2 years
Which is all to say: was absolutely obsessed with all things VC Andrew
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And I’m not talking censorship, I’m talking PARENTS 😂
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Too real
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There’s a woman in my field, bananas good at her job, and the number of women (not men) who consistently negatively describe her as “complicated” “challenging” or “tough” is wild man. She’s a peach compared to so many biz dudes. We gotta do better on loving our own, ladies.
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I am so sorry but I am so glad I don’t have kids! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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My dad's songs were very hard to listen to over the past two years, but I get so much comfort from them now. This is the one I turn to most. (Co-written/produced w Mtume) #fathersday
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Stephanie Mills-Never Knew Love Like This Before

enjoy!

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NYC Covid is, like, on planes headed all over the country RIGHT NOW.
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I'm not Embarrassed. I'm MODERN DAY EMBARRASSED.
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Please vaccinate the whole world. This is a nightmare. Thank you.
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I am hunger games level ready to compete
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4 years
So let me get this straight, I am watching the DNC and HBCUs and the AKAs got a shout out and we listened to Mary J Blige for several minutes, before Kerry Washington introduces closing act Jennifer Hudson? 🙏🏾👏🏾❤️
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6 years
Who wants to Ocean’s 8 this with me
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The books of the Future Library were never meant to be read, at least not in our lifetime. The anthology, made up of 100 previously unpublished books by some of the world's most celebrated writers, will be released in 2114.
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3 years
There are approximately zero “I or people I love got vaccinated” tweets that I won’t like.
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4 years
Order some books folks.
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June Bookstore Sales Fell 35%
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“This pandemic may break our spirit but clearly it’ll never break capitalism”
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The new safe space bubbles are a little bit claustrophobic
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When was the last time you asked someone if they were racist and they said yes?
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4 years
For the record: I AM SCREAMING. SO excited. This is a damn dream.
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6 years
One of the single most attractive qualities on planet earth is when a person can read a book entertainingly and well to children.
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Shout out to the 11-yr old who was like "I wrote a 122 page book about a squirrel." I offered congrats. She said "no, I need a publisher." 😂
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I just walked by a playground and a little girl ran up to the fence and said: “hello! You look soooooo nice!” goodness gracious little kids can just bust your little heart wide open sometimes. Gonna make a point of harnessing my inner little and give lots of compliments today.
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I would be boarding a flight for SURE.
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Are we trapped in a stupid-off with the UK?
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Everyone everywhere should be worried about the state of the media.
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When was the last time that someone in TV created something as impactful as Sesame Street?
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Be extra gentle with folks these last few anxious days. Everyone is stressed!
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I would literally rather lick the subway platform than live through whatever fresh hell he is referring to
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Big week coming up!
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Did you read James Baldwin as part of your high school curriculum?
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I wept.
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I am here to remind you that You Oughta Know still, inexplicably, slaps.
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Everyone I know is full on struggling with the aftermath of the past year+ and a still unknown future. Truly, be patient and kind with the folks around you. The fragility out here is near universal and we all need every drop of the love that the people in our lives can spare us.
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Laugh-weeping as I consider what would happen to me if 62 men accused me of anything.
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Sad news that my great uncle, Chuck Harrison, has passed away at 82. He was an incredible industrial designer (Ever use a viewmaster? He designed that. Ever use a plastic trash can? He designed the first one.)
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Charles Harrison - Industrial Designers Society of America

Charles "Chuck" Harrison is a designer, educator and speaker specializing in industrial design across multiple consumer products areas. The primary portion of

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Con: “but you don’t wanna”
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What’s the point of worrying about anything if you aren’t worrying about climate change?
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I wish books had credits like films and tv does, or programs like dance and theater does. It’s a damn shame that most people don’t know how many people it takes to make a book!
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Really over “woke” as a slur.
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@CollinRugg @POTUS whelp I guess someone had to have the WORST take! Congrats, it's you!
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Omg yes. Yes. Yes.
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Publishers Weekly
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Powell's Books rehires over 100 employees after surge of online orders | @KGWNews
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People declaring NYC dead forever are... not real NYers. Just my humble opinion. 💃🏾
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Super exciting that Neil Young, Peter Frampton and Barry Manilow are standing up to Spotify, but I’m sorry this is a mixtape from hell
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I AM SO TIRED OF MAKING MYSELF SMALL FOR MEN ON THE SUBWAY
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