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John Edgar Wideman uses basketball as a metaphor to describe writing; Anjali Enjeti discusses persevering despite rejection; Kathie Coblentz, a longtime employee of the New York Public Library, has died; and other stories.
Eve L. Ewing and Evan Narcisse reflect on writing Black superheroes; literary community gears up for Independent Bookstore Day tomorrow; Chelsea Leu writes against the optimization of reading; and other stories.
Concentrate spotlights poetry collective by and for women of color in Michigan; Margaret F. Chen recounts her self-publishing experience; Ron Charles writes about the piecemeal database management at major online book retailers; and other stories.
Alexandria Juarez celebrates literary fan fiction; Jhumpa Lahiri reflects on translating her own work; Dennis James Sweeney discusses whiteness and loneliness; and other stories.
Entertainment Weekly shares an interview with the late Eric Jerome Dickey; Ada Limón writes about her relationship to her body under lockdown; Michelle Zauner discusses grieving her mother on the page and in music; and other stories.
Book Industry Charitable Foundation seeks author donations for matching fund; Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris write about how the pandemic has affected book discovery; Ravynn Stringfield finds a community of Black women writing and studying Black girl fantasy; and other stories.
Profits from pandemic anthology go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation; Julia Skinner writes about how libraries evolved during the 1918 influenza pandemic; Sarah Kortemeier spotlights exquisite artist’s books; and other stories.
The National Coalition Against Censorship calls attention to bills that seek to limit teaching on social justice; Zando has made its first acquisition; romance writers and industry members discuss the evolution of the genre; and other stories.
Brandon Taylor writes about Black Horror on and off the screen; the New York Times reports on the posthumous publication of Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground; Mark Athitakis critiques “healing” literature; and other stories.
The Paris Review announces annual prizewinners; Cindy Myers to serve as interim executive director at Small Press Distribution; Emily Raboteau writes about New York City at the height of the pandemic; and other stories.
Poetry East celebrates fortieth anniversary; Los Angeles Times profiles five local poets; Kemi Alabi has won the Academy of American Poets First Book Award; and other stories.
Finalists for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award announced; Asian and Asian American photographers and Celeste Ng on what love looks like; the future of Barnes & Noble; and other stories.
Amanda Gorman graces the cover of Vogue; Women’s Prize defends inclusion of Torrey Peters on longlist; Rena Priest named next poet laureate of Washington State; and other stories.
Deesha Philyaw talks career and community; Caleb Azumah Nelson discusses the breakout success of Open Water; Harron Walker reflects on her relationship with author Torrey Peters; and other stories.
Christian Lorentzen writes a tribute to Giancarlo DiTrapano; Cleveland Foundation announces winners of Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards; Catapult launches Don’t Write Alone; and other stories.
Editor and publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano has died; n+1 establishes fiction prize in honor of Anthony Veasna So; Boston Review reprints Binyavanga Wainaina’s first short story; and other stories.
Kaitlyn Greenidge shares the question at the heart of Libertie; Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on writing for his community; Jen Sookfong Lee evades categorization; and other stories.
Mentorship program offers support for writers from underrepresented groups; Sulaiman Addonia writes about his education in storytelling; Ambai reflects on the limits of translation; and other stories.
Poet and Hanging Loose Press editor Robert Hershon has died; Ingram launches new fund-raising campaign to support indie bookstores; Hanif Abdurraqib on joy and obsession; and other stories.
Longlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize announced; workers at Duke University Press seek to unionize; poet Sally Wen Mao on what drives her; and other stories.
David Gardner writes in praise of Poetry Unbound; the Margins publishes folio on Bangladesh’s independence; the Massachusetts Review pens open letter to Amazon; and other stories.
Six works shortlisted for Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize; one hundred women of color write about their first experience with racism; Jordan Rothacker discusses faith and religion; and other stories.
Edmund White analyzes Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley; PBS NewsHour profiles poet-physician Fady Joudah; Brandon Taylor writes about the “Internet Novel”; and other stories.
Announcing the finalists for the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards; Yaa Gyasi criticizes how books by writers of color are treated as “medicine”; U.K. Competition and Markets Authority investigates Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger; and other stories.
Eight writers receive 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes; Paris Book Fair canceled due to the pandemic; Claudio Saunt and Andy Horowitz receive 2021 Bancroft Prizes; and other stories.
