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Maggie Shipstead considers the difference between disappearance and death; Jean Kyoung Frazier vindicates the character of the female slacker; twenty-five recommended novels in translation; and other stories.
The author of With Teeth writes that her affinity for self-deprecating humor is inextricable from her queerness.
Elizabeth McCracken finds writing wisdom at the swimming pool; author organizations confront the Walt Disney Company; publishing executives Jynne Dilling Martin and Lisa Lucas share recommended reading; and other stories.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, forthcoming from Harper on July 27, 2021. Editor’s Note: This book’s publication date has been changed to August 24, 2021.
Nancy Reddy unpacks the poetry book contract; Jhumpa Lahiri discusses the art of translation; Dorany Pineda writes about groundbreaking Black comics and comics artists; and other stories.
Michelle T. Boone to serve as the next president of the Poetry Foundation; Crystal Wilkinson has been inducted as Kentucky poet laureate; designer creates “book covers for unwritten memoirs”; and other stories.
J.T. Bushnell awaits his family’s reactions to his debut novel; Kirstin Valdez Quade retraces the origins of The Five Wounds; Nina MacLaughlin shares notes on the Pink Moon; and other stories.
“There are so many journeys I’d like to take” —Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides
John Edgar Wideman uses basketball as a metaphor to describe writing; Anjali Enjeti discusses persevering despite rejection; Kathie Coblentz, a longtime employee of the New York Public Library, has died; and other stories.
The author of With Teeth examines how a single joke can be successfully repackaged and retold over time.
