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A few years ago, I was going through a hard time. I reached out to an unlikely figure for help. Here, in @NewYorker, are my Letters to Jeb
Adam Dalva
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Adam Dalva
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Writing in @NewYorker, @ParisReview, @NYBooks. President, @BookCritics. Professor, @RutgersU. Contributing Editor, @YaleReview. Rep: Duvall Osteen
- Just saw a man park, walk into a movie theater, walk out two minutes later with a large popcorn and a fountain soda, get in his car, and drive away. A hero of our time.
- I've done a Zoom Yoga class for 18 months. Sometimes the teacher tells the group, "Adam is doing really good work." I nod proudly. When talking about the health benefits of poses, he says "Adam knows!" I give a thumbs up. Anyway he thought I was an ambulance driver the whole time
- Replying to @adalva3 million people have seen this tweet and no one has mentioned the Seinfeld where Elaine stops for Jujyfruits on the way to the hospital 😭
- Every time I fly, I remember: ten years ago, cross-country trip from SF. The girl next to me gets up to use the bathroom. As she does, her laptop screen tilts toward me. On it, a gchat. She has written “the guy next to me isn’t cute AT ALL” and her friend Josh has replied “EW!!”
- I'm beyond excited to announce that I'm the new Senior Fiction Editor at @GuernicaMag. Guernica has published some of my favorite fiction of the last 15 years, and I'm moved to be leading an extraordinary new team of editors and readers. We can't wait to read your stories!
- I told my mom she should read "Doppelgänger" by Naomi Klein - one of my faves this year - and she said that she hated Klein's stance on COVID and I said that now she really needs to read it.
- The most Brooklyn thing happening to me lately is that my landlady, who calls herself "the parking wizard," has started parallel parking for me. When she sees me in my car, she rushes out insisting that she wants to do it. And she is a maestro.
- Absolutely heartbroken to share that my little brother, Robert, passed away earlier this week - it's hard to write. But I also know how much he would have liked people seeing this photo of him, in which he's very handsome. I loved him so much, and I miss him.
- My fiction team collectively and unanimously resigned from Guernica today. I'm proud of them, and the work we did over the last two years - six editors and nine readers, volunteering and collaborating with great writers to publish weird, beautiful stories. I'll miss it.
- A year ago, a novel was mailed anonymously to me. I became obsessed with tracking the author down. Here, in @NewYorker, is the story of Foodie by Stokes Prickett.
- I have never gone a semester without teaching a story by Alice Munro - and when my students read and discuss "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," or "The Albanian Virgin," or "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage," their worlds expand. And every time, mine does tooAlice Munro, Canadian author who won Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 92 dlvr.it/T6sqpw
- I know that loving Joan Didion is not exactly a bold stance, but she was marvelous. I teach “Goodbye To All That” every semester, but today, I’m thinking of this passage from The Year of Magical Thinking:
