To the Mulberry Tree
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Ross Gay reads "To the Mulberry Tree" from his poetry collection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), which is a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.
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Ross Gay
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"Listen, to everything." Ross Gay speaks with Furious Flower's Elizabeth Hoover about line breaks, gardening, and his advice to young writers. Gay's latest poetry collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), is longlisted for the National Book Award.
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Karen Bender
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"The relationship between reader and writer is about trying to connect through honesty." Karen Bender speaks about expressing and processing complex emotions through her writing. Bender's debut short story collection, Refund (Counterpoint Press, 2015), is a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.
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Fortune Smiles
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Adam Johnson reads from his second short story collection at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. Fortune Smiles (Random House, 2015) is a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Fiction.
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Angela Flournoy
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Angela Flournoy reads from her debut novel, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), and speaks about family, food, and her writing process for Well-Read Black Girl. Flournoy is one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 for 2015.
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A Celebration of Primo Levi
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"I was captured by the Facist Militia on December 13 1943." So begins Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, republished as If This Is a Man in the new three-volume collection, The Complete Works of Primo Levi (Liveright, 2015), edited by Ann Goldstein. Robert Weil, David Remnick, and John Turturro read selections from the edition at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
Jérémie Guez
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"I wanted to do something with Paris because I thought that it was such a generous city." Jérémie Guez talks about what compelled him to write his noir novel set in contemporary Paris. Eyes Full of Empty (Unnamed Press, 2015), translated from the French by Edward Gauvin, is the first of Guez's books to appear in English.
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The Pickle Index
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This short clip presenting the hardcover boxed edition set of Eli Horowitz's newest novel and multimedia project, The Pickle Index (Sudden Oak Books, 2015), demonstrates the ways in which artist Ian Huebert's illustrations from the two volumes match up when placed side by side. A collaboration with developer Russell Quinn, the story is also told through a paperback version, published by FSG Originals, and an interactive app.
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The Sunlit Night
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This animated trailer for Rebecca Dinerstein's debut novel, The Sunlit Night (Bloomsbury, 2015), was created by Jonty de Klerk. Read more about Dinerstein in “First Fiction 2015" in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, and catch her tour in the Reading Tour Manager.
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The Hopeful
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Tracy O'Neill's debut novel, published by Ig Publishing, explores the life of a sixteen-year-old ice skating prodigy after a traumatic injury. O'Neill is one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 for 2015.
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