Together, we will publish thoughtfully and creatively, elevate a community of established and new writers, and consider who our next readers can and will be.' I am excited to work alongside Dan Frank and the entire Pantheon and Schocken team.

In this same spirit, I look forward to joining Pantheon and Schocken, with an aim of building on the rich publishing history of those imprints and judiciously remixing their lists. Lucas said, 'The National Book Foundation gave me the opportunity to simultaneously celebrate great literature and imagine just how big the audience for excellent books could be if we only dared to dream bigger. She has also served as co-chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival's nonfiction programming, consultant for the Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Literature, and juror for the United States Artists Fellowships, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Before that, she was publisher of the online magazine Guernica from 2012 to 2016. Since joining the Foundation in 2016, she revitalized and expanded its programs and the National Book Awards. Lisa Lucas is leaving her position as executive director of the National Book Foundation at the end of the year to become senior v-p, publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books at Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The sense of community and purpose this place provides me, and so many others, is what makes all of this worth it.

I think even in the midst of the exhaustion, the piled up boxes we can't possibly deal with in a single day, the backed-up shipping queue, the e-mails that go days without being answered, the voicemail that (let's not even go there). We're not the same store we were before all this. I don't say this often enough not to mean it when I do: you are the best. 'That, in the midst of all this, you've showered us with not only orders, but so much love and genuine kindness, it's. At a time when even the people we need most in our lives, the strangers and friends alike, are termed potential 'vectors of transmission,' every decision carries a weight its seams weren't designed to hold together. Everything is happening not only so quickly but all at once. 'As time has wore on, it's become harder to articulate the most identifiable (and maybe shared) sentiment: exhaustion.

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