Marie Arana, literary advisor at the Library of Congress, presents a video tribute of the late Denis Johnson, who was awarded the 2017 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Johnson’s second story collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden (Random House, 2018), is featured in Page One in the January/February 2018 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Holes in the Mountain is a poetry film by Kai Carlson-Wee, shot during a freight-hopping trip from Oakland, California to Portland, Oregon in 2014. Carlson-Wee’s debut poetry collection, Rail, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in April 2018.

You Were Never Really Here, Jonathan Ames’s crime thriller about a tormented gunman hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a senator, has been adapted into a feature film. Directed by Lynne Ramsay, the film stars Alessandro Nivola, Joaquin Phoenix, and Ekaterina Samsonov.

The Alienist (Random House, 1994), Caleb Carr’s historical suspense novel, has been adapted into a television series. The series stars Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, and Dakota Fanning, and follows an investigative duo using innovative forensic science techniques to solve a serial murder crime in nineteenth-century New York City.

Daniel Borzutzky, who won the 2016 National Book Award in poetry for The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), reads poems from the collection at a reading for the finalists hosted by the New School. Borzutzky’s forthcoming poetry collection, Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), is a series of nineteen lyric poems.

“Empathy, organization, and good cursive.” Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018), talks about the useful skills she learned from a recent job and recounts her beginnings as a writer.

Natalie Eilbert reads from her poem “Liquid Waste” for Real Pants, a literary community website cofounded by Adam Robinson and Amy McDaniel. Eilbert’s second poetry collection, Indictus (Noemi Press, 2018), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“I don’t have any heroes in fiction but I have been influenced by fictional heroes many, many times.” In this video, Karl Ove Knausgaard responds to the Proust Questionnaire for the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona’s Kosmopolis Continuous Programme series. His most recent novel, Winter (Penguin Press, 2018), translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey, is featured in Page One in the January/February 2018 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“I think books have been my true constant in my life.” Sarah Jessica Parker, editorial director of SJP for Hogarth, a Hogarth imprint of Penguin Random House’s Crown Publishing Group, talks about how books have played an important role throughout her life. The imprint’s inaugural book, Fatima Farheen Mirza’s debut novel, A Place for Us, will be published in June 2018.