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Justin Torres reads from his second novel, Blackouts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), and joins Melissa Febos for a conversation in this event hosted by the Chicago Public Library and the Women & Children First bookstore. Torres won the 2023 National Book Award in fiction for Blackouts. (This video has been removed by its host.)
Award-winning author K-Ming Chang reads from her latest novel, Organ Meats (One World, 2023), and joins Amanda Mei Kim for a conversation about the sensual qualities of language and the intimate relationship between writing and the self for this event hosted by the Center for Literary Arts of San José at the Hammer Theatre.
“Humor is humanizing and it helps us remain in a space of authenticity and lightness.” In this video for PBS NewsHour’s “Brief But Spectacular” series, Megan Fernandes offers her take on humor and humiliation in poetry and reads a poem from her collection I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House, 2023). For more from Fernandes, read her installment of our Craft Capsule series.
In this National Book Festival event, George Saunders accepts the 2023 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and speaks about his writing process, how problems in a work-in-progress contain opportunities, and the place of empathy in storytelling in a conversation moderated by Library of Congress literary director Clay Smith.
“I know a few things about my body, it’s the only one that I have and it becomes everything I say it is.” In this Button Poetry video, Rudy Francisco reads his poem “A Few Things,” which appears in his collection Excuse Me as I Kiss the Sky (Button Poetry, 2023), at Icehouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
American Fiction is a film adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, a satire about a frustrated Black author and professor who uses a pen name to write a successful book playing into racial stereotypes and tropes. Directed by Cord Jefferson, the film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown.
“It’s very disconcerting to translate oneself, but it’s a kind of pure contact with the work you make.” In this event welcoming Jhumpa Lahiri as the new Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author reads from her new collection, Roman Stories (Knopf, 2023), translated from the Italian by the author and Todd Portnowitz, and joins Brandon Taylor for a conversation about her work.
In this live event at Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Curtis Chin reads from his debut memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant (Little, Brown, 2023), and speaks about growing up as a Chinese American son of restaurateurs in Detroit with author Dominic Lim. For more from Chin, read his installment of our Ten Questions series.
Watch the trailer for All the Light We Cannot See, a Netflix limited series adapted from Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Mark Ruffalo. The series is set to premiere in November.
In this virtual Poets & Writers event, 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize winner Sandra Lim reads a selection of poems from her latest collection, The Curious Thing (Norton, 2021), and speaks about her writing process with poet Carl Phillips, the 2021 winner of the prize.
