5 Over 50: 2024
Excerpts from debut books by Suzette Mullen, Dorsía Smith Silva, Uchenna Awoke, Deborah Jackson Taffa, and Parul Kapur.
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Format: In Print and Online
The Marine Biologist Inside the Writer at Play in the Microworlds of an Overgrown Pool: A Profile of Jeff VanderMeer
In Absolution, the surprise fourth volume of the Southern Reach series of literary speculative novels, Jeff VanderMeer continues to provoke critics and eschew labels while plunging readers into the unpredictable wilds of Area X.
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Q&A: Regina Brooks Leads the AALA
The new president of the Association of American Literary Agents speaks about the state of agenting today, what writers misunderstand about agents, and the numerous irons she has in the literary fire.
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Small Press Points: New Michigan Press
“Take pleasure in publishing work you love,” says Ander Monson, founder of New Michigan Press. Steered by this guidance and a taste for the off-kilter, the press has produced chapbooks and the magazine Diagram for over twenty years.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems by A. B. Spellman and The Charterhouse of Padma by Padma Viswanathan.
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The Definition of Poetry: An Interview With Mosab Abu Toha
For Mosab Abu Toha, whose entire life and body of work, including his new collection, Forest of Noise, have been shaped by war, poetry is a way for all of us to document, to try to understand, and to act in times of suffering.
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Literary MagNet: Brittany Rogers
The author of the debut poetry collection Good Dress highlights a thoughtful selection of literary journals that helped shepherd her poems into the world, including Underbelly and Hopkins Review.
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Book Drop Nourishes Native Youth
This past April, NDN Girls Book Club loaded up a big pink truck to distribute over ten thousand free books and care packages throughout the Hopi Reservation and Navajo Nation, improving accessibility to Indigenous literature.
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New Small Press Incubator Fellowship
The Center for Book Arts’s new fellowship program supports BIPOC creatives with essential resources to start a small press, planting seeds for a more diverse and equitable vision of publishing.
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The Lynx Watch Fights Book Bans
Led by best-selling author Lauren Groff, the Lynx Watch helps distribute books banned or challenged in the state of Florida to local readers and works with advocacy organizations to bring awareness to other threatened freedoms.
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