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Karen Jennings reacts to being longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize; Alexandra Kleeman questions what constitutes realist fiction; John Williams of the New York Times earns a promotion; and other stories.
Meron Hadero has won this year’s AKO Caine Prize for African Writing; Kristen Arnett explains how people are like onions; Sarah Braunstein discusses time and setting; and other stories.
Literary scout and agent Lynn C. Franklin has died; Charlotte McConaghy explains how fiction can help inspire climate action; Suchitra Vijayan discusses centering the voices of her subjects; and other stories.
“Show up no matter what so your writing knows you are there.” —Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues
National Student Poet RC Davis reflects on his evolving poetic practice; Martha Cooley discusses using a lottery jackpot as a plot device; Alexandra Kleeman talks her preference for the speculative; and other stories.
The author of Southbound and The Parted Earth makes time for both community organizing and writing.
Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions on October 12, 2021.
Rahul Raina discusses giving his debut “an Indian down-to-its-core sensibility”; Christopher Notarnicola uncovers writing that features rings in the Paris Review archives; London Book Fair hails second all-virtual program a success; and other stories.
Zan Romanoff recommends books to make sense of the fire crisis; California poets consider how poetry and poetry communities have transformed during the pandemic; Amanda Gorman’s debut poetry collection has a new title; and other stories.
The Margins debuts a collection of queer Taiwanese literature in translation; Jonathan Kozol revisits his letters from Eric Carle; Begoña M. Rueda shares a new window into the pandemic; and other stories.
