
Author of the novel THE PARTY UPSTAIRS from @PenguinPress, SUBCORTICAL from @JHUPress, 2020 @NEAarts fellow
Joined August 2013
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Definitely the most joyful way possible to wrap up my first year teaching in the creative writing dept at @SUNY_Purchase -- congrats, @uhhok4y!
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Our Summer 2024 issue is live! Feat. the Extinction folio w/ @abugoddess, @SaddiqDzukogi, @mespadapoet, @LeeConell, @BambrickTaneum, and more! Guest edited by @davidbakerpoet, the latest Nature’s Nature feat. @PhilipMetres, @literari_ana, @ireidjasmine.
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“Some folks make me see shapes that I have to make—other folks don’t” choosing to interpret this as an excellent burn by Georgia O’Keeffe
Thanks @JenLouiseWilson for including such a perceptive analysis of The Party Upstairs in this really thoughtful take in @nytimesbooks on student debt in fiction.
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I’m not on twitter much atm in an attempt to remain not-too-cynicism-drenched, but this is very kind, and goshhhh, so many beautiful books (and art! And music!) launched out into that early chaos!
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This #RoeVWade news dropping during this Gilded Age themed Met Gala is pretty dystopian
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Alito’s draft heavily references English legal precedent, including that of famed jurist Sir Matthew Hale who, it should be noted, had at least two women executed for witchcraft and wrote a treatise supporting marital rape
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In “Organic Material,” a hallucinatory work of fiction by @LeeConell, suburban mothers seek refuge from impossible responsibilities in bathtubs full of dirt, where they find the vitality that they’ve been denied. #Dirt
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Today in Texas you can carry a gun without a permit but you can’t register to vote online or get an abortion after 6 weeks
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Exclusively for subscribers via ZYZZYVA Studio—Editor Laura Cogan talks to @LeeConell about her story from Issue 120, “My One and Only Very Incredible Amazing Love," and its sardonic commentary on our social media age: zyzzyva.org/2021/08/10/shop-…
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"The novel reminds us that most of the contemporary Jewish art we consume has been created by the rich (and certainly not because they’re better artists)." @joshnlambert on @LeeConell's THE PARTY UPSTAIRS. jewishcurrents.org/jews-with…
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Nestlings have evolved various markings to encourage their parents to deposit food into their mouths, including big, brightly colored gapes and other bold signage. Cedar waxwing parents can’t miss the iridescent strips marking the entryway to their kids’ Tunnel of Food Fun.
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Join us for our Issue Celebration virtual event today at 6 pm. PST with @Booksmith.
Featuring readings by Juhea Kim, @TroyJollimore, @WilliamCBrewer, @LeeConell, and @alex_g_torres.
RSVP to attend.
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The evidence of our eyes met at last by accountability in the eyes of justice.
#DerekChauvinTrial
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My dear friend @LeeConell and I are reading @VandyWriting this Friday at 7 pm ct. No post-reading reception cheese cubes, but now anyone can tune in: vanderbilt.zoom.us/webinar/r…
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Tonight 3/23 @ 7pm EDT, Join us for our 2nd Great Jewish Books Lecture, "Jews, Art, and Inequality: Lee Conell's 'The Party Upstairs,'" with @joshnlambert. @LeeConell Via Facebook or Zoom. For more info & to register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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The SNOWY OWL on a west ballfield of the Central Park North Meadow, perhaps the first-ever documented record of this species in the park, with its new buddy, an American Crow.
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Thursday Jan. 14, @LeeConell will be in convo with Nancy Reisman, thanks to the good folks at @GordonJCC, and you should be there! Register: nashvillejcc.org/jewish-life…
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Nine weeks of hustle & outreach. Nine weeks of believing we are in this together. Decades of strategy, grit + building. Wednesday’s terrorism seeks to distract us from what has been & what will be. So let’s take today to celebrate the orgs that brought us Tuesday’s victory:
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Thank you, Georgia grassroots organizers.






















