Truth: A Q&A With Ayad Akhtar
In Homeland Elegies, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar blurs the line between fact and fiction in an attempt to reclaim the novel.
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Transformation: A Q&A With Nate Marshall
In his second poetry collection, Finna, Nate Marshall explores the failures and triumphs of language, the power of community, and abolition as a poetic praxis.
I’m Writing to You: Letters From Writers of the Black Literary Community
Eleven writers pen letters addressed to fellow Black writers, to their ancestors, to gatekeepers, to members of the media, and to allies, among others.
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A Poetics of Resilience: A Q&A With Natasha Trethewey
In her new book, Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, the former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner contends with persistent trauma, both personal and cultural, going beyond witnessing to seek truth in all its complexity.
First Fiction 2020
Our annual debut fiction roundup features Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Corinne Manning, Megha Majumdar, and John Fram.
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Double Doors Open: A Q&A With Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong breaks new ground with her first essay collection, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, published in February by One World, in which she fearlessly probes the intersections of race, art, and literature.
Force of Will: A Profile of Emily St. John Mandel
The story of how Emily St. John Mandel followed up her best-selling book Station Eleven with her new novel, The Glass Hotel, holds valuable lessons for writers about hard work and persistence.
Energy: A Q&A With Natalie Diaz
“We are alive because of story. It is one of our ancestors’ most powerful technologies. And we are all storytellers.” Poet Natalie Diaz talks with Jacqueline Woodson about storytelling, truth, and her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem.
Dream House as Interview: Q&A with Carmen Maria Machado
In her new book, In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado reimagines the memoir form by examining her personal story of domestic abuse using different tropes and shines new light on the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
5 Over 50: 2019
In our fourth annual installment of this series, five debut authors over the age of fifty—Julie Langsdorf, Valencia Robin, Timothy Brandoff, Margaret Renkl, and Peter Kaldheim—share excerpts from their first books.
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