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“It is very weird to be written about in fiction or nonfiction.” In this event at Politics and Prose Bookstore, Susan Cheever reads from her book When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), and discusses the life events that shaped the short stories written by her father, John Cheever, in a conversation with Molly Jong-Fast.
“I’ve been working only as a novelist for twenty-five years, and the summation of what I’m capable of is here.” In this Politics and Prose event, Mark Z. Danielewski reads from his latest novel, Tom’s Crossing (Pantheon, 2025), and talks about how he felt possessed by the voice of the story and how he balances writing with a day job.
In this Politics and Prose event, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo reads from her debut novel, The Tiny Things Are Heavier (Bloomsbury, 2025), and talks about how writing a coming-of-age story helped her understand her own experiences in migrating to the United States from Nigeria in a conversation with Gbenga Adesina.
In this Politics and Prose event, Kevin Young reads from his latest poetry collection, Night Watch (Knopf, 2025), and discusses the importance of place, both for his life and his writing, in a conversation with Steve Lickteig. Night Watch is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this Politics and Prose event with novelist Angie Kim, Ed Park discusses the twenty-five-year process of writing his first story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House, 2025), which is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. For more from Park, read his installation of our Ten Questions series.
In this Politics and Prose bookstore event, Christina Li, author of The Manor of Dreams (Avid Reader Press, 2025), talks about her decision to write a family saga with gothic sensibilities and how the Mandarin and Cantonese languages affected her writing process in a conversation with Martha Anne Toll.
In this Poetry Night Panel event at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., Brandel France de Bravo, author of Locomotive Cathedral (The Backwaters Press, 2025), and Julie Choffel, author of Dear Wallace (The Backwaters Press, 2024), read a selection of poems and join María Fernanda for a conversation about how literature helps one grapple with the challenges of life.
In this Politics and Prose Bookstore event, Katie Kitamura talks about how a newspaper headline about a woman meeting her estranged son inspired her to write her latest novel, Audition (Riverhead Books, 2025), in a conversation with Kat Chow.
In this Politics and Prose Bookstore event, Caryl Phillips reads from his latest novel, Another Man in the Street (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), and talks about his immigrant characters and how “the idea of the outsider is very much rooted in British life.”
In this Politics and Prose Bookstore event, Lauren Francis-Sharma reads from and speaks about her third novel, Casualties of Truth (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025), in a conversation with Kwame Alexander. The novel is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
