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“I wanted to try and write something more fun and more upbeat.” In this Waterstones interview, Alex Michaelides talks about the spontaneous and playful experience of writing his latest novel, The Fury (Celadon, 2024), and how both his upbringing in Cyprus and career in Hollywood shaped his thrilling story.
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.
“Some people say fiction is all a lie. To me, fiction is one of the best ways we can learn truth.” In this Unban Coolies interview, Amy Tan talks about the importance of observation in her writing, identity and biodiversity, and how her interest in bird conversation inspired her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Knopf, 2024), which is featured in “The Written Image” in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this video for the Disability Poetics series, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson speaks about the intersection between disability and enslavement, and reads his poem “Eating the Other,” which appears in his second poetry collection, Watchnight (Nightboat Books, 2024). Watchnight is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this PBS NewsHour video, Kaveh Akbar speaks about writing his first novel, Martyr! (Knopf, 2024), and how pop culture as well as Persian and contemporary literature mix into the narrative in an interview with Jeffrey Brown. The novel is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this interview for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Kwame Alexander talks about winning an Emmy Award for the television adaptation of his novel The Crossover, and reads one of his poems which appears in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Little, Brown, 2024). For more on the anthology, read “The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections” in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“Words are the intricate bonds of language. Words make a family, a tribe, and a civilization. Language is the context of our experience.” Poet, novelist, and Native American scholar N. Scott Momaday speaks about the power of storytelling and his extensive writing career in a conversation with Dean Nelson from his home in New Mexico for the 2023 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Momaday died at the age of eighty-nine on January 24, 2024.
Amanda Gunn speaks about her debut poetry collection, Things I Didn’t Do With This Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2023), in this installment of the Line / Break series hosted by Copper Canyon Press publicist Ryo Yamaguchi. Gunn is featured in “Performing the Future: Our Nineteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Lauren Groff discusses how she unpacks the history of British colonialism in America and reckons with the frontier narrative in her new novel, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, 2023), in this conversation with Atlantic managing editor Andrea Valdez held at the 2023 Atlantic Festival.
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.
