Ten Questions for Neel Patel
“This was the book I was meant to write my whole life.” —Neel Patel, author of Tell Me How to Be
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Article Archive
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
Craft Capsule: On Cultural Specificity, or the Brazilian Padaria
The translator of Migratory Birds and Permafrost expresses the limits of translation when it comes to culturally specific institutions and terms.
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Ten Questions for James Hannaham
“Thinking is really about 90 percent of the work.” —James Hannaham, author of Pilot Impostor
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Craft Capsule: On Google Maps
The translator of Migratory Birds and Permafrost uses Google Maps to immerse herself in the settings of her translation projects.
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Ten Questions for Truong Tran
“I wrote this book with the constraint of honesty.” —Truong Tran, author of book of the other
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Ten Questions for Claire Oshetsky
“It felt as if my protagonist was in the room with me.” —Claire Oshetsky, author of Chouette
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Craft Capsule: The Thing About Food
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat revels in writing about food and the varied contexts surrounding its consumption.
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Ten Questions for Domenico Starnone and Jhumpa Lahiri
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Domenico Starnone and Jhumpa Lahiri, the author and the translator of Trust.
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Craft Capsule: Pet Sitting
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat leverages his intrusive thoughts from pet sitting for fiction.
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GalleyCrush: Eleutheria
Allegra Hyde’s Eleutheria, forthcoming from Vintage on March 8, 2022.
Running a Marathon: Writing Lessons in 26.2 Miles
An author finds similarities between training for a marathon and finishing a book: Both require stamina, perseverance, good habits, maybe a ritual or two, and the ability to keep fear at bay.
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Ten Questions for Okezie Nwọka
“What does it take for any of us to change our core beliefs?” —Okezie Nwọka, author of God of Mercy
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Craft Capsule: Bisexuality on the Page
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat shares the evolution of his thinking on how to represent bisexuality and queerness in fiction.
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Cover Reveal: Fighting Is Like a Wife
A first look at Eloisa Amezcua’s Fighting Is Like a Wife, which is forthcoming from Coffee House Press on April 12, 2022.
Ten Questions for Shayla Lawz
“I was using the text as a future image of what my own life could be.” —Shayla Lawz, author of speculation, n.
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Craft Capsule: On Writing Fat Characters
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat seeks to write fat characters for whom fatness is not always an immediate concern.
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GalleyCrush: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World
Sasha Fletcher’s Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World, forthcoming from Melville House on February 8, 2022.
Ten Questions for Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
“I need to be involved with life, its business, its noise.” —Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, author of The House of Rust
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GalleyCrush: Return Flight
Jennifer Huang’s Return Flight, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions on January 18, 2022.
5 Over 50: 2021
In this online supplement to our annual print feature celebrating debut authors over the age of fifty, Jeffrey J. Higa, Ursula Pike, Megan Culhane Galbraith, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Vinod Busjeet share excerpts from their first books.
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Q&A: Abdurraqib Edits for Tin House
MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib talks about his new position at the independent press, the relationship between writer and editor, and the abundant talents of the Black literary community.
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The Written Image: The Hotel
Writer Sophie Calle took a job as a maid at a Venice hotel to secretly study the lives of its guests. Her diary of observations and photos compose The Hotel, a book whose provocative methods have inspired other artists.
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The African Poetry Digital Portal
Founded in 2017, the African Poetry Digital Portal serves as singular resource for studying contemporary African poetry. Now, with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project’s leaders aim to expand their offerings.
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Literary MagNet: Ye Chun
The author on five literary journals that published selections from her story collection, Hao.
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Small Press Points: Bloof Books
The small press in Blue Hill, Maine, savors close relationships with its writers and publishes three paperback books and six handmade chapbooks annually.
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