GalleyCrush: Brown Girls
Daphne Palasi Andreades’s Brown Girls, forthcoming from Random House on January 4, 2022.
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Daphne Palasi Andreades’s Brown Girls, forthcoming from Random House on January 4, 2022.
“It was a fever dream process of creation.” —Casey Plett, author of A Dream of a Woman
The author of The Devoted recommends looking around the edges of a story to locate the unexpected places and times where drama can unfold.
Thrity Umrigar’s Honor, forthcoming from Algonquin Books on January 11, 2022.
“There was so much shame in this project for me to dispel and bury.” —Mahogany L. Browne, author of I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
The author of The Devoted searches for the unexpected door in her fiction.
Siri Hustvedt’s Mothers, Fathers, and Others, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on December 7.
“The moment you walk away from the conversation with a poem, you lose it, and it will never return.” —CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE
Juhea Kim’s Beasts of a Little Land, forthcoming from Ecco on December 7, 2021.
“In the mornings—or when I roll over from a dream—there’s only God and me talking to each other.” —Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
Christopher Gonzalez’s I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat, forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project on December 1, 2021.
“I find it really hard to follow a routine in almost every part of my life.” —Kat Chow, author of Seeing Ghosts
John Edgar Wideman’s Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone, forthcoming from Scribner on November 9, 2021.
In a new graphic novel, comic artist Theo Ellsworth adapts Jeff VanderMeer’s tale of a mysterious building where “office culture” connotes secret languages and unspoken rituals.
Acclaimed author and agent Catherine Cho discusses her start as an agent; her decision to open her own agency, Paper Literary; and her advice for writers daunted by the process of finding representation.
The critic on the importance of respecting the artist’s labor, reviewing books published by independent houses, and more.
The author examines her personal relationship to the professional work of translation, forms of responsibility unique to the genre, and the complex notion of translation as a labor of love.
Felicia Rose Chavez, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Matthew Salesses join Namrata Poddar to discuss decolonizing the writing workshop and the effects of gatekeeping on BIPOC writers.
The agent representing Chris Belcher, Kate Broad, Delia Cai, Duy Doan, and others offers advice about working with a coauthor, changing a memoir to fiction, why agents don’t consider previously published work, and how to become an agent.
The nonprofit press in Asheville, North Carolina, publishes eight poetry, fiction, and nonfiction books a year with a mission to bring an inclusive ethos to books illuminating “the life of the spirit.”
Roxane Gay Books, a new imprint of Grove Atlantic, will publish three books a year in a variety of genres, with the author herself casting a wide net in terms of the submissions she’s seeking and dispensing with the usual requirements.
To recruit talented BIPOC professionals into literary agenting and ensure social justice in the field, Literary Agents of Change offers a paid internship program as well as a mentorship program focusing on retention.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr and Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.
The author of the new poetry collection Gumbo Ya Ya discusses four journals that first published their work, including BOAAT, TriQuarterly, Southeast Review, and Ploughshares.
Artist Nathan Langston put a unique spin on a game of Telephone by using a fragment of poetry to inspire one artist then another—growing into a multifaceted project with contributions from artists from seventy-two countries.