Introducing: The 2026 QWF Mentorship Pairs!
From February to May, seven emerging writers and one emerging translator will work with their mentors to make the transition to the next stage of their careers, culminating in a public reading in June.
See the pairs 👉️ qwf.org/announcing-t...
Announcing: The 2025 QWF Literary Awards finalists!
35 finalists have made the shortlists in seven categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, first book, translation, spoken word, and children's and young adult literature.
See the finalists and learn more about the gala. 👇
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Cover of Homesick by Nicholas Shapiro. A small white mobile home is at the center of cover image, with a single window and a pipe protruding from its base. The scene is quiet and minimal, with gravel and asphalt in the foreground and large trees framing the background. The title “Homesick” appears in large, minimalistic serif text across the bottom, with the author’s name in smaller capital letters beneath it.
In "Homesick," Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/MiN6Otd
In his new book Gone Gone, McGill professor Todd Meyers goes beyond the headlines about the opioid crisis to movingly convey the grief of those who have lost loved ones to overdose deaths mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/sharing-the-...
Watch @totomcgee.bsky.social speak on Gone Gone, in conversation with @meghanor.bsky.social at the Remarque Institute last month.
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Still coming down from my conversation about GONE GONE with Meghan O’Rourke at the NYU Remarque Institute this past Wednesday. @dukepress.bsky.social
Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.
The @nytimes.com says @totomcgee.bsky.social 's new book "Gone, Gone" is a stand-out among many books on the opioid crisis. Molly Young says it's "the first account I’ve found that must be respirated rather than read. Effortlessly intricate."
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I've updated this list of great books on global health!
New authors include: @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @rutgerbregman.com @carolinelenette.bsky.social @totomcgee.bsky.social Thomas Homer-Dixon, Don McNeil, Raina MacIntyre, @murray-journo.bsky.social
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Incredible list. And thanks for including Gone Gone!
Big congrats to @totomcgee.bsky.social for this profile of his fantastic, important, and harrowing new book Gone Gone from @dukepress.bsky.social!
Covers of Bangkok after Dark, The Politics of Collecting, A Sense of Arrival, Unruly Comparison, Learning to Lead, Gone, Gone, Artery, and Emergent Genders, arranged in a 4x4 grid.
May brings author events with @burrata.bsky.social , @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social , @drbrowne.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , @jennrnajera.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @azeiderman.bsky.social , & @michellehsho.bsky.social . Hope you can attend some of them! buff.ly/fNYWRXg
So happy you’ll be there!
Todd Meyers ( @totomcgee.bsky.social), Gone Gone - @dukepress.bsky.social, March 2025
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Thanks @stuartelden.bsky.social for the shout out!
So so so so excited about this book: www.dukeupress.edu/the-visual-a... @dukepress.bsky.social
Book launch prep for May 7th @healthsciences.mcgill.ca social studies of medicine! @dukepress.bsky.social
In the wild! (at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal) @dukepress.bsky.social
My review of Maggie Nelson’s wonderful new book, Pathemata Or the Story of My Mouth (Wave Books, 2025) in The Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I wish I could report that there are plans for audiobooks, but nothing yet…
“Here is a new language for grief, for tragedy, for the things about which we should rightfully be outraged, but which have come to feel grimly routine. Gone Gone is a book that has stayed with me; a book that deserves to stay with us all.” - Sam Byers, author of Come Join Our Disease
So grateful @sambyers.bsky.social ! Your words of support continue to resonate:
Front and back covers of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers, out now from Duke University Press.
I had the great privilege of reading @totomcgee.bsky.social’s deeply moving, brilliantly inventive book in manuscript. Now it’s out in physical form from @dukepress.bsky.social. Very highly recommended.
Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.
A white man with glasses and short gray hair and a gray beard sits in front of a radiator. He is wearing a grey hoodie. There is a plant over his shoulder.
"Gone, Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social uses a blend of prose, poetry, and ethnography to reckon with grief in the face of overdose death. Read a Q&A with him about the book: buff.ly/PKcAdIX
Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.
Among the great new books we have coming out this month is "Gone Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social . #Anthropology #MedicalHumanities
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Covers of When Monsters Speak, The Personality of Power, Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, Terracene, Atmospheres of Violence, Slaves to Fashion, In the Land of the Unreal, The Aesthetics of Resistance Vol 3, Made in NuYoRico, and The Inner Life of Race, arranged in a 5x5 grid.
Authors holding in-person and virtual events in March include @lmgm.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , and @lorimarso.bsky.social . Hope you can make it to some!
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POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely!
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It arrived @totomcgee.bsky.social ! Super keen to read this and find inspiration for the writing ahead of me
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Cover of Gone Gone by Todd Meyers. Cover has an image of a variety of fruits, flowers, and cigarettes. The title in written in a large font in all capital letters, sideways across the cover. The author's name is written to the right of the title, sideways in all capital letters.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Gone Gone" by @totomcgee.bsky.social , which blends prose, poetry, and ethnography to reckon with grief in the face of overdose death and the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis.
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!!!!!!! Thank you EW!!!
