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In this video for the Poetry Society of America’s Storefront Poems series, Kimiko Hahn reads her poem “Ode to the Mud in Corona Park,” which appears in her collection The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2024). For more from Hahn, read her installation of our Ten Questions series.
In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast with guest host Chris Gillespie, award-winning author Richard Powers discusses how the issues of environmental exploitation and artificial intelligence inspired his new novel, Playground (Norton, 2024), which is set on the island of Makatea in French Polynesia.
In this event hosted by the Royal Society of Literature, Claire Messud, author most recently of This Strange Eventful History (Norton, 2024), and Anne Michaels, author most recently of Held (Knopf, 2024), speak about the shared themes of history and memory in their new novels in a conversation with novelist Elif Shafak.
In this video for the African Speculative Fiction Society, ’Pemi Aguda reads an excerpt from her award-winning short story “Masquerade Season,” which appears in her debut collection, Ghostroots (Norton, 2024). Aguda is featured in “First Fiction 2024” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this 2023 Charleston Literary Festival event, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Paul Harding talks to Geoffrey Harpham about his latest novel, This Other Eden (Norton, 2023), which is inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, home to one of the first racially integrated towns in the American Northeast.
For this LIVE From NYPL event, award-winning author Vauhini Vara reads from her short story collection, This Is Salvaged (Norton, 2023), and discusses exploring the intimacy of relationships between children, parents, friends, siblings, neighbors, and lovers in a conversation with novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison.
“I was born to tell my story and the story of my people, to make everyone aware that we exist still, that we breathe still.” In this virtual Charis Circle event, Leah Myers reads from her debut memoir, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity (Norton, 2023), and discusses how Native folklore informed the structure of her book in a conversation with author Kung Li Sun. Myers is featured in “The New Nonfiction 2023” in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“At one time, / I asked for everything.” Sandra Lim reads from her poetry collection The Curious Thing (Norton, 2021) for this virtual reading hosted by UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems reading series with an introduction by poet Noah Warren. Lim is the recipient of the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize.
“Nowadays, I lie down in the sunlight / To see my mama moting around / As sympathetic ash. / Yes, one morning whether misty or yellow / I’ll be soot with her.” In this installment of PBS NewsHour’s “Brief But Spectacular” series, Kimiko Hahn reads her poem “A Dusting,” which appears in her collection Foreign Bodies (Norton, 2022), and speaks about the power of poetry to connect us with our loved ones.
“Last night the moon lifted itself / on one wing / over the fields.” In this 1992 recording for Howard County Poetry and Literature Society’s The Writing Life, Linda Pastan reads her poem “Elegy,” which appears in her collection Imperfect Paradise (Norton, 1989). Pastan died at the age of ninety on January 30, 2023.
