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"What it means / is, what it's showing is, there's this unseen / eye, on the inside. And she's marking it." Listen to Amit Majmudar, a radiologist and Ohio's first poet laureate, read the title poem from his new collection, Dothead (Knopf, 2016). This reading took place at the 2015 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture hosted by the University of Oklahoma.
"I'm a graphomaniac!" Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk talks about his love of writing for the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club. His newest novel, A Strangeness in My Mind (Knopf, 2015), is longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
"I totally understand the vulnerability that my voice makes people feel." In an interview with Maria Hinojosa, author Diane Rehm speaks about living with the voice-destroying illness spasmodic dysphonia. Rehm's memoir On My Own (Knopf, 2016) is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"My name is Tiro. For thirty-six years I was the confidential secretary of the Roman statesman Cicero." So begins Imperium (Simon & Schuster, 2006), the first volume in Robert Harris's celebrated Cicero trilogy. Dictator (Knopf, 2016) is the final installment of the series.
"The snow was dancing like cotton wool in the light of the street lamps. Aimlessly, unable to decide whether it wanted to fall up or down..." The opening lines of Jo Nesbø's most recent novel, Blood on Snow (Knopf, 2015), translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith, are read in the audio edition by Patti Smith.
"Because when I was a child, God would pull me up into her lap." Robin Coste Lewis reads her poem "The Body in August" on the campus of Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Lewis's debut poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (Knopf, 2015), won the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry.
"In my own mind I have fashioned countless statues of writers who have honored me with their attention." Robin Coste Lewis, who won the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry for her debut collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (Knopf, 2015), thanks her literary mentors, tells a story from the Mahabhrata, and reads a poem by Pablo Neruda.
In this forthcoming novel from the Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, a couple set off on a journey to find a son they have not seen in years. The Buried Giant (Knopf, 2015) is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
This novel by Emily St. John Mandel, published by Knopf this month, tells the story of a theatre troupe and their survival through a deadly plague. The book is longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award in Fiction.
The film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild (Knopf, 2012), with a screenplay by Nick Hornby, was released today. Reese Witherspoon served as a producer and plays Strayed in the story of her three-month hike and journey.
