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"To the naked eye Boudicca is a haze of noxious green that lurks among fronds of seaweed looking exactly like the aftermath of a chemical spill." Helen Oyeyemi reads her short story "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" at the British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin. Oyeyemi's collection of stories, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (Riverhead Books, 2016), is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"He will give me these hands, my perfect empty nests." Rita Mae Reese reads a selection of poems at the Crosshatxh reading series in 2011. Her second collection, The Book of Hulga (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016), is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"Caress what can't be blessed, cup shadows under breasts." Poet Sharon Dolin reads from her sixth collection, Manual for Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), which is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Stuart Dybek reads an excerpt of his story "Tosca," from Paper Lantern: Love Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), as part of the Chicago Icons segment of Poets & Writers Live in Chicago on June 20, 2015.
Poet and live lit performer Parneshia Jones reads three poems from her debut collection, Vessel, published by Milkweed Editions in 2015, as part of the Page on Stage segment of Poets & Writers Live in Chicago on June 20, 2015.
Essayist and live lit performer Megan Stielstra—author of the collections Once I Was Cool (Curbside Splendor, 2013) and Come Here Fear, forthcoming from Harper Perennial—reads an essay as part of the Page on Stage segment of Poets & Writers Live in Chicago on June 20, 2015.
Fiction writer and live lit performer Lindsay Hunter—author of the novel Ugly Girls (FSG, 2014), and the story collections Don't Kiss Me (FSG, 2013) and Daddy's (Featherproof Books, 2010)—reads a new story called "Hit or Miss" as part of the Page on Stage segment of Poets & Writers Live in Chicago on June 20, 2015.
Charles D'Ambrosio reads from his new collection of essays, Loitering: New and Collected Essays, published by Tin House Books in November 2014.
Darryl Pinckney, author of the new novel, Black Deutschland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), reads from "In Ferguson," an essay he wrote for the New York Review of Books on witnessing the demonstrations occurring in Ferguson, Missouri, in November 2014.
"The days pass very slowly leading up to our departure for the autumn palace." Alexander Chee reads from his new novel, The Queen of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn.
