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In this Green Apple Books event, Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures (Scribner, 2024), and Cindy Juyoung Ok, author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024), read from their poetry collections and join Aracelis Girmay for a conversation. Ok is featured in an installation of our Ten Questions series and Nguyen’s Root Fractures is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Phillip B. Williams talks about the makings of his debut novel, Ours (Viking, 2024), and how his characters led him to shape the story. For more from Williams, read his installment of our Ten Questions online series.
Jamel Brinkley reads from his new story collection, Witness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), and speaks about tone, reveals, and the themes in his stories with Garth Greenwell in this Books Are Magic event. From more from Brinkley, read his installment of our Ten Questions series.
In this 2020 Kirkus Reviews interview, Emma Cline talks about her story collection Daddy (Random House, 2020) and discusses the experience of writing about contemporary subjects, inhabiting the voice of a male narrator, and the power of the imagination. For more from Cline, read her installment of our Ten Questions series about her second novel, The Guest (Random House, 2023).
“If you write a poem you’re in conversation with every poem ever written,” says Emily Lee Luan, author of 回 / Return (Nightboat Books, 2023), in this promotional video for the Jersey City Reads Poems series, presented by Monira Foundation and ROQ Initiative, in which she discusses her writing process and reads a poem from her chapbook I Watch the Boughs. For more from Luan, read her installment of our Ten Questions series.
Watch this surreal animated book trailer for Colin Winnette’s new novel, Users (Soft Skull, 2023), animated by Casey Jarman with music by Ben Morton and Kyle Morton. For more about the book, read this installment of our Ten Questions series featuring Winnette.
In this video, DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark, author of How to Communicate (Norton, 2022), performs a Protactile poem called “The Rebuttal” with Jelica Nuccio and Heather Holmes, and voiced by Halene Anderson. For more on Clark, read his installment of our Ten Questions series.
“For a time I believed / myself in love with Orpheus, which only meant I loved // what I could make if I were free from what happened to my body.” In this reading from the 2022 Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, Safia Elhillo reads “Orpheus” from her poetry collection Girls That Never Die (One World, 2022). For more from Elhillo, read her installment of our Ten Questions series.
Akwaeke Emezi talks about their love of romance novels, exploring stories of grief, and writing seven books in four years, including Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir (Riverhead Books, 2021) and You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty (Atria Books, 2022), in this interview for The Daily Show With Trevor Noah. For more from Emezi, read their installment of our Ten Questions series.
In this Waterstones video, Sloane Crosley speaks about her second novel, Cult Classic (MCD, 2022), and offers her book recommendations, which include All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews and Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark. For more from Crosley, read her installment of our Ten Questions series.
