The Cullman Center

@CullmanNYPL

The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of @NYPL

Manhattan, NY

Joined June 2015

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The Cullman Center@CullmanNYPL · Jun 16

ATTENTION WRITERS OF ALL GENRES — ACADEMICS, VISUAL ARTISTS, TRANSLATORS: The application for the 2026-2027 Cullman Center Fellowship @CullmanNYPL @nypl is now live: nypl.org/about/fellowsh… Deadline to apply is Friday, September 26, 2025. SPREAD THE WORD!

CullmanNYPL's tweet card. The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen...

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The Cullman Center@CullmanNYPL · Jul 14

Congratulations to David Greenberg (@republicofspin), whose book 'John Lewis: A Life' is a finalist for the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize! Greenberg worked on 'John Lewis' during his 2021-2022 @CullmanNYPL Fellowship. daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2025-awards/

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The Cullman Center@CullmanNYPL · Jul 7

"'Why aren't you sleeping, habibi?' I asked him. He said: 'There's a butterfly flying round inside my head and stopping me from going to sleep.'" A beautiful piece by past @CullmanNYPL Fellow @Imanmersal in the latest @nplusonemag: nplusonemag.com/issue-50/essay…

CullmanNYPL's tweet card. Delivered Youssef to the place in Maine. I say “the place,” because I don’t know how to describe it. Is it a camp? A hospital? An asylum?

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"While Mamdani’s ascent has been shocking to an entrenched political order, it also echoes a major shift in New York politics a century ago—one with consequences that transformed the city." Past @CullmanNYPL Fellow Kim Phillips-Fein in @JewishCurrents: jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from-l…

CullmanNYPL's tweet card. Can Zohran Mamdani reshape New York—and national—politics like Mayor Fiorello La Guardia once did?

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The @nytimes Book Review podcast talks best books of the year so far, including three by past @CullmanNYPL Fellows! Hear why they love 'The Sisters' by @jhkhemiri, 'Daughters of the Bamboo Grove' by @BarbaraDemick, and 'The Director' by Daniel Kehlmann: nytimes.com/2025/07/18/boo…

CullmanNYPL's tweet card. 2025 is more than halfway gone. On this week’s podcast, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib discuss some of the books that have stayed with them most this year.

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The Cullman Center@CullmanNYPL · Jul 18

"You take nothing with you—your home is in your heart now, your country wherever your steps may lead." Read Doha Kahlout on evacuating Gaza, beautifully translated by past @CullmanNYPL Fellow @yasmineseale, in @nybooks: nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

CullmanNYPL's tweet card. I had been in Paris for more than a week when Gaza surfaced again, like a scar the body has come to accept. On the train to Argenteuil I sat facing the

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The Cullman Center@CullmanNYPL · Jul 15

I wrote a book review.

BBookforum Magazine@bookforum · Jul 15

The Summer issue is here! Featuring a talk with Susan Choi, essays and reviews by John Jeremiah Sullivan, @blgtylr, @livingcurrency, @_josiemitchell, @JezewskaJ, Elias Altman, Audrey Wollen, @3LVVIA, @sophiefkemp & more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3104

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Frontline@frontline_india · Jul 8

#Bookmarks | "Textbooks are often unimaginative, boring things. And they are anathema to any notion of delight that reading affords. And we have mastered this fatal art in India." @amitavakumar spoke to @MaqboolMajid. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/amitav…

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NY Public Library@nypl · Jul 8

Celebrate #DisabilityPrideMonth with these books for all ages, available in accessible formats! on.nypl.org/3ZYLxJD

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Pantheon Books@PantheonBooks · Jul 3

The Haitian Times sat down to chat with @IAmRichBenjamin about his latest book, TALK TO ME haitiantimes.com/2025/06/23/hai…

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Harper's Magazine@Harpers · Jul 2

“As the earth’s wobbling axis rotates through the signs of the zodiac, the Age of Aquarius will end, but it’s comforting to know that, in the fullness of time, it will return.” Lewis Hyde on butterflies, deep time, and climate change. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

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The Cullman Center@CullmanNYPL · Jul 1

"Almost all the students I interviewed in the past few months described the same trajectory: from using A.I. to assist with organizing their thoughts to off-loading their thinking altogether." Read past @CullmanNYPL Fellow Hua Hsu on how A.I. is changing higher education:

TThe New Yorker@NewYorker · Jul 1

A 2024 study found that 58 per cent of English majors at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens that “they would not be able to read the novel on their own.” nyer.cm/njOOC9o

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Barbara Demick@BarbaraDemick · Jun 29

New York Times Editors' Choice.... Daughters of the Bamboo Grove "The story packs a wallop."

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NY Public Library@nypl · Jun 18

“I wanted to see what happens in the space where biography and fiction collide.” @CullmanNYPL Fellow Heather Clark talks about her debut novel 'The Scrapbook,' out now: on.nypl.org/4kPhah6

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The Cullman Center@CullmanNYPL · Jun 18

"After living for years with the feeling he’d been 'kidnapped by a curse,' Jonas Hassen Khemiri began writing a novel to save his own life." Past @CullmanNYPL Fellow Jonas Hassen Khemiri talks his new novel 'The Sisters' (@fsgbooks), out now: nytimes.com/2025/06/17/boo…

CullmanNYPL's tweet card. Call it autofiction, supernatural or a comedy of dislocation: In “The Sisters,” Jonas Hassen Khemiri takes his biggest swing yet.

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Heather Clark@Plathbiography · Jun 17

THE SCRAPBOOK is published today by @PantheonBooks. Thank you to everyone who has supported me on this long road. It wasn’t easy to research and write a novel about the Nazis’ lingering legacy of hate, but I’m glad I did. This is a book for our times

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The New Yorker@NewYorker · Jun 16

“I’d hoped that having a baby would force us to find a better version of our relationship,” @lsjamison writes, about the dissolution of her marriage after having a baby. “But it seemed to be doing almost the opposite.” Revisit her essay. nyer.cm/wgBCZ9E

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Jenny Croft@jenniferlcroft · Jun 16

Irena Rey is an Indie Next pick—again!! Only six paperbacks a month make it onto this fantastic list compiled by independent booksellers. And since independent booksellers are the smartest people I know about contemporary fiction, this is the highest prize I could possibly get!

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