GalleyCrush: Radiant Fugitives
Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives, forthcoming from Counterpoint on August 3, 2021.
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Ten Questions for Donika Kelly
“I need the volume of more than one trusted reader to hear suggestions over my own investment in being right.” —Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations
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Craft Capsule: Self-Deprecating Humor
The author of With Teeth writes that her affinity for self-deprecating humor is inextricable from her queerness.
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GalleyCrush: The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, forthcoming from Harper on July 27, 2021. Editor’s Note: This book’s publication date has been changed to August 24, 2021.
Ten Questions for Kelli Russell Agodon
“There are so many journeys I’d like to take” —Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides
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Craft Capsule: What’s So Funny?
The author of With Teeth examines how a single joke can be successfully repackaged and retold over time.
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GalleyCrush: The Woman From Uruguay
Pedro Mairal’s The Woman From Uruguay, translated by Jennifer Croft, forthcoming from Bloomsbury on July 6, 2021.
Ten Questions for Carey Salerno
“I often worried what would come out would be scary, accusing, not close enough to the truth or too close.” —Carey Salerno, author of Tributary
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GalleyCrush: Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch, forthcoming from Doubleday on July 20, 2021.
Reviewers & Critics: Jennifer Szalai of the New York Times
The critic on how she began writing reviews, how she and the Times staff pick books to cover, and how social media affects her work.
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Small Press Points: Black Ocean
Established in 2004, the indie press strives to treat poetry as a genre with “frontlist potential” while also publishing fiction, nonfiction, and literature in translation from new voices.
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Andy Weir and the Digital Revolution in Publishing
An excerpt from Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing, published in May by Polity.
Saddle Up and Read
To foster a love of reading among kids in North Carolina, Caitlin Gooch started a program through which children can read books to horses.
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Words Matter: Copyediting as a Process for (or Against) Social Change
Copy editors are adapting to increasing cultural awareness of racial injustice and new approaches to representing identity on the page. How can their work can help or hinder social change?
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Agent Advice: Iwalani Kim of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
The literary agent answers questions about submitting story collections, getting an agent’s attention, and querying two agents at the same agency.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Second Place by Rachel Cusk and The Renunciations by Donika Kelly.
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Literary MagNet: Alex McElroy
The fiction writer and essayist on five journals that published their work and helped shape their debut novel, The Atmospherians.
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The Power of the PERIPLUS Collective
The PERIPLUS collective aims to democratize writing and publishing by matching emerging BIPOC writers with established authors and publishing professionals for yearlong mentorships.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
Three new anthologies including Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry and There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis.
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The Legacy of June Jordan
An excerpt from The Essential June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller and published in May by Copper Canyon Press.
Q&A: Ehrlich Speaks to Mother-Writers
Lara Ehrlich, the host of the podcast Writer Mother Monster, debunks the superwoman myth and considers how to balance writing and motherhood.
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The Thousand Pages: Tips for Transitioning to the Novel
The author of The Step Back offers strategies for short-story writers trying to draft a novel for the first time and shares how a new approach—aiming to pen a thousand pages—led to his first novel.
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Twelve Pieces of Advice for Mother-Writers
Author Lara Ehrlich, the host of Writer Mother Monster, shares a selection of the best insights and advice offered on the podcast.
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A Decade of Women Who Submit
Ten years after its first meeting, Women Who Submit has grown to a global community that continues to empower women and nonbinary writers to seek publication.
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Ten Questions for Justin Jannise
“There’s something sort of final and fulfilling about discovering, say, that a poem’s floor is also its ceiling.” —Justin Jannise, author of How to be Better by Being Worse
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