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Sigrid Nunez reflects on writing about friendship; Emma Cline shares strategies for writing about extreme incidents; publishers discuss the new normal of virtual events; and other stories.
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins the Pulitzer Prize Board; Doubleday announces promotions and new executive hire; Peter Blackstock named publisher of Atlantic Books in the UK; and other stories.
“Choose the bilingual, the multilingual, and the polyglot.” —Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, author of The Life Assignment
Booksellers across the country reflect on independent bookstore day; Sabrina Orah Mark analyzes the talking animals that appear in fairy tales; Elisabeth Egan profiles former first daughter and publishing insider Jenna Bush Hager; and other stories.
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Marie NDiaye and Jordan Stump, the author and the translator of That Time of Year.
The author of RENDANG reflects on the value of uncertainty in his reading and writing lives.
Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby, forthcoming from One World on January 12, 2021.
Poets gather to remember Hurricane Katrina; Bertelsmann and HarperCollins signal interest in acquiring Simon & Schuster; Daniel Nayeri renders his experience as a refugee in fiction; and other stories.
Poet Claudia Castro Luna on fostering a diverse literary community; Aya Kanai describes her day-to-day as editor in chief of Marie Claire; Kimberly Alidio turns to Language poetry in times of crisis; and other stories.
Jesmyn Ward mourns the death of her husband; Alyssa Cole tackles gentrification and anti-Blackness in her first thriller; Kevin Young reflects on curating a new anthology of African American poetry; and other stories.
