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Donald Hall may not be producing any more new poems, but the eighty-six-year-old author of more than fifty books is still revising; still polishing his prose, including the pieces in his new book, Essays After Eighty; and still reminiscing about a golden age of American poetry.
In the essays in his new collection, Loitering, published this month by Tin House Books, Charles D’Ambrosio places the emphasis on language and sympathy to uncover the story behind the story.
In a pair of new books, Gabriel and A Poet’s Glossary, poet Edward Hirsch draws from two very different sources of inspiration—the inexhaustible passion of a critic and the unanswerable grief of a father—to bring us closer to understanding what it means to be human.
We take a look inside the New York City offices of Simon & Schuster as its staff prepares to launch Matthew Thomas’s debut novel, We Are Not Ourselves, a title the publisher acquired for more than a million dollars.
For our fourteenth annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction, we asked five established authors—Maggie Shipstead, Victor LaValle, Ru Freeman, Chad Harbach, and Amanda Eyre Ward—to introduce this year’s group of talented debut authors: Courtney Maum, Scott Cheshire, Celeste Ng, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and Mira Jacob.
The author of thirty-three novels, including his latest, Wayfaring Stranger, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in July, James Lee Burke is larger than any of the genres—crime, mystery, thriller—critics use to label his work. At seventy-seven he is, quite simply, a literary giant.
In her new novel, An Untamed State; her essay collection, Bad Feminist, forthcoming in August; and her memoir, Hunger, slated for publication in 2016, Roxane Gay offers a joyous, complicated, even radically nuanced view of women.
With his new collection of poems, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, Willie Perdomo offers a soulful melody that is as deep and vital and dynamic as the poet’s roots in New York City’s Nuyorican poetry scene.
Susan Golomb, whose clients include Jonathan Franzen, Rachel Kushner, and William T. Vollmann, talks about the ebb and flow of submission season, the art of the preemptive offer, and the gems she finds in her slush pile.
Iraq War veteran and The Yellow Birds author Kevin Powers talks about his new book of poems, writing about the effects of violence as a perpetrator and a victim, and about the sense of isolation that drives his work in both poetry and prose.
