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In this video, finalists for the 2022 National Book Award in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translated literature, and young people’s literature read excerpts from their honored works. The event, hosted by writer Saraciea J. Fennell, is presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation and the NYU Creative Writing Program.
Watch the video for musician Andrew Bird’s interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” a duet with Phoebe Bridgers included in his album Inside Problems. Of the poem, Bird says, “I came across this Emily Dickinson poem and found it to be the most vivid description of an inner world I’ve ever encountered.”
Black Lawrence Press’s Immigrant Writing Series was launched in response to a lack of book-publication options for immigrant writers, whose unique perspectives might not resonate with nonimmigrant editors.
Faced with two separate causes of potential vision loss, an author reconsiders her identify as a “visual writer,” which has been integral to her mode of creating.
This collection of case studies in self-publishing offers independent authors advice, warnings, encouragement, and inspiration.
“Your waking world is shaped by dreams.” The Sandman is a television adaptation of the beloved and award-winning DC Comics series written by Neil Gaiman. Co-developed and executive produced by Gaiman, the ten-episode Netflix series stars Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, Stephen Fry, Patton Oswalt, and David Thewlis.
“To me, reading becomes a lot more palatable if young people realize that the stories, the books that exist within them are as valuable as the books that exist on the outside of them.” In this CBS Sunday Morning interview, Jane Pauley speaks to Jason Reynolds, award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, about lifting up children through storytelling, his journey as a writer, and the importance of friendship.
“Recalling the terror we experienced long ago, I wonder, is that something they wanted, to be acknowledged?” Belongings is a short film about the loss of a mother and a haunted childhood home directed by Alex Coppola and written by and starring Morgan Talty, author of the debut story collection, Night of the Living Rez (Tin House, 2022). Talty is introduced by Brandon Hobson in “First Fiction 2022” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
CJ Hauser speaks about the surprise of their viral essay “The Crane Wife” and their process for writing essays in this 2021 virtual reading and conversation with author and journalist Charlie Gilmour for the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts in England. Hauser’s first nonfiction book, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays (Doubleday, 2022), is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books including The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by CJ Hauser and Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang.
