Kerri Arsenault
@KerriArsenault
Author MILL TOWN; Co-director @TESS_studio; Ensemble @NAnthropocene; Associate @MHCHarvard & ✍️ WaPo, NYRB, NYT, Globe. Active at http://kerriarsenault.bsky.social
Important to stay and keep our eyeballs on the bad people and the bad news
I Covered the Epstein Case for Decades. These Are 9 Questions We Actually Need Answered. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…
We all know Trump is in the list. I’m just curious who else is. And who is helping to avoid release of all the Epstein files, including the videos our FBI director admits they have
There are not enough jail cells in the world, let alone The Hague, for the number of people responsible for the Gaza genocide. Images of maimed and emaciated children should haunt every Israeli, and every silent American, for the rest of their days.
The Bangor State Paper runs an op-ed calling for Thanksgiving to be abolished
"We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families," says joint statement by Reuters, BBC, AP and AFP haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Excited to see Kate Russo's new novel, UNTIL ALISON, celebrated in @WritersDigest, @thenerdaily, and on @KMUW's Marginalia podcast, hosted by @BethGolay! @PutnamBooks writersdigest.com/kate-russo-exp… thenerddaily.com/until-alison-b… kmuw.org/podcast/margin…
Yeah but Epstein files.
LIVE VIEW: The White House? She’s in her Golden Age ✨ Haters: “tHiS iS AI!!” 🤬 Her: “24K Magic in the aaairrrr 🎶”
Julie Brown is who we all need to be listening to.
Trump's name (along with many other names) was on Epstein's plane logs, his name is in his "black book" phone directory -- and his name was on phone message pads seized by police from Epstein's Palm Beach home in 2005. All these have long been part of the federal investigation…
The Center for Fiction revealed the longlist for its First Novel Prize, with Rob Franklin, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and Kate Folk among the 29 nominated authors. A shortlist will be announced in the fall, with the winner revealed on December 9. @Center4Fiction ow.ly/NJeO50WubtV
Do any of you want to mention who is starving people in Gaza to death… who is responsible for this?
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
My review of this revelatory book will be in this Sunday’s @BostonGlobe and online now bostonglobe.com/2025/07/23/art…
THE TREMBLING HAND by Mathelinda Nabugodi coming 7.29.25 💛 📖 Learn more: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/719891/t…
It’s still a mill town.
I spent some time in Canton, North Carolina — a small town with some great characters, that lost its paper mill and then faced Hurricane Helene, and has had to figure out: What's a mill town without a mill? nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/…
Thrilled to see @omarelakkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, shortlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards. middleeastmonitor.com/20250722-annou…
What Dan said
I cannot say this loudly enough: If you’re a US author still too afraid or careerist to talk publicly about Gaza—about what we, Americans, have done to Gaza—STFU about the rise of Trumpian fascism. Just stay quiet, write your little fictions, and wait till it’s safe to come out
Israel used our bombs to double-tap a kindergarten earlier today. But please, continue to write op-eds about the slogans Zohran Mamdani will or will not disavow.
Another day, another complete absence of Gaza coverage from the New York Times homepage despite continued massacres of aid seekers and 21 children dying of starvation over the past 72 hours.
I'm here on X for a minute to repost good things like this:
As Scooby Doo taught millions of TV watchers: if the deceased villain's best friend tells you there's nothing worth seeing inside the locked closet ... there's probably something worth seeing inside the locked closet.
simply said, we are obsessed with individuals we perceive as extraordinary. the solution is, we need to rely on ordinary people
Ronan Farrow is asking a very important question. 🎯🎯🎯👇
It's a mad mad world with a mad mad "king"
.@realDonaldTrump is ignorant about countless things. Perhaps foremost among them is the Streisand Effect.