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In this Charis Circle virtual event celebrating the essay anthology It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Feminist Press, 2022), editor Joe Vallese speaks with contributors Sumiko Saulson, Richard Scott Larson, Addie Tsai, and Jude Ellison S. Doyle about the relationship between horror and queerness. The collection is featured in The Anthologist in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Watch TIME Magazine’s compilation of their one hundred must-read books of 2022, which includes books by Nuar Alsadir, Franny Choi, Isaac Fitzgerald, CJ Hauser, Jay Hopler, Oscar Hokeah, Yiyun Li, Sarah Thankam Matthews, and Ocean Vuong.
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an FX limited series adaptation starring Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg as a couple going through a bitter divorce.
It’s National Novel Writing Month! In this NaNoWriMo video, Rachel from the YouTube channel Rachel Writes offers five tips to help overcome perfectionism during writing sessions, which include short writing sprints and limiting revision time.
In this interview for MSNBC’s American Voices, Ada Limón speaks to host Alicia Menendez about becoming the first Latina U.S. poet laureate, her journey to a writing career, life in Kentucky, and how poetry can bring people together in “those moments when we can put everything down for one minute and just see ourselves, each other.”
Watch the trailer for Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a new film adaptation of the 1928 novel of the same name by D. H. Lawrence. Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre with a screenplay by David Magee, the movie stars Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell and premieres in December on Netflix.
Abigail Chabitnoy reads from her collections How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) and In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan University Press, 2022) after an introduction by poet Peter Gizzi for this event presented in conjunction with University of Massachusetts MFA for Poets & Writers’ Visiting Writers Series. Chabitnoy is featured in Literary MagNet in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“What I like about teaching is that it is always an experiment in unfolding a new language of value that isn’t a dominant value of the day, that needs to be developed to stay human,” says Ben Lerner, author of The Hatred of Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), about some of his approaches to mentoring and teaching poets in this interview with his Danish translator Tonny Vorm at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
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.
For a haunting Halloween treat, watch the trailer for Bones and All, a film adaptation of the award-winning 2015 novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis. Directed by Luca Guadagnino with a screenplay by David Kajganich, the film stars Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, and Mark Rylance.
