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Novelist and scholar Myriam J. A. Chancy mourns the damage of the recent earthquake in Haiti; the winners of this year’s American Book Awards; Literary Hub reacts to Sally Rooney’s limited publicity schedule; and other stories.
The next poet laureate of Alabama will be Ashley M. Jones; Joshua Henkin describes his drafting process; Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois picked for Oprah’s Book Club; and other stories.
Carlina Duan discusses reckoning with history; Nina MacLaughlin writes about the Sturgeon Moon; fellowship program serves young refugees in central New York; and other stories.
NPR rounds up favorite fantasy and science fiction titles; Jessica J. Lee considers the brassica; Alix Ohlin asks what caretakers take; and other stories.
John Edgar Wideman’s Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone, forthcoming from Scribner on November 9, 2021.
The finalists for this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize; Megan Stielstra reflects on the reissue of her first two books; the cover of Sheila Heti’s next novel; and other stories.
Greenlight Bookstore employees vote to unionize; Caleb Azuma Nelson discusses his use of second-person narration in Open Water; Alice McDermott muses on the art of the first sentence; and other stories.
Kristin Wong finds comfort on a John Steinbeck–inspired road trip; Jordan Kisner considers grief and the art of mending; Ross Gay describes the ethos of his writing practice; and other stories.
“Combining unsparing humor with heart is a superpower.” —Jaime Cortez, author of Gordo
Finalists revealed for this year’s New American Voices Award; Christian Lorentzen rebuts the n+1 editorial on the state of the book review; Julie Marie Wade discusses the reparative power of art; and other stories.
