Genre: Fiction
Daniel Alarcón on Radio
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“For me personally, it’s about recovering and celebrating a language.” Daniel Alarcón talks about his work as the executive producer of NPR’s Radio Ambulante, the Spanish-language podcast that presents long-form Latin American narratives. Alarcón’s second story collection, The King Is Always Above the People (Riverhead Books, 2017), is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Spooky Halloween Reads, WME Drops Bill O’Reilly, and More
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak joins Future Library; Publishers Weekly’s best books of 2017; Bill Cain, pseudonymous author of Murder, She Wrote, dies; and other news.
Mark Twain’s Financial Schemes, Colin Kaepernick’s Book Deal, and More
Rome soccer team plays Anne Frank’s diary on loudspeaker; a mobile pop-up library of Filipino American literature; writers try on clothing subscription services; and other news.
Ed Lin’s Trilogy
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Ed Lin’s hardboiled thriller trilogy, This Is a Bust (Kaya Press, 2007), Snakes Can’t Run (Minotaur Books, 2010), and One Red Bastard (Minotaur Books, 2012), is being reissued by Witness Impulse. The mystery novels take place in the 1970s, and feature Chinese American detective and Vietnam veteran Robert Chow solving crimes in New York City’s Chinatown.
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Rumored Salinger Books, Poe’s Hatchet Jobs, and More
Stephanie Burt on gender transition literature; Angela Flournoy and Issa Rae to develop HBO drama; the story behind Netflix’s Alias Grace; and other news.
An Appetite for Spiders
Earlier this year, scientists published a finding that all of the spiders in the world together consume a total of four to eight hundred million tons of prey every year, which is more than the estimated weight of all humans in the world. In its report of this study, the Washington Post offered the nightmare-inducing headline, “Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human on Earth in One Year.” Write a short story that could adapt this headline as its title and considers a confrontation between human being and spider, whether one-on-one, or perhaps a freakishly larger-scale battle. Can you find both humor and horror in the scene?
Garth Greenwell on Opera, Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, and More
Kazim Ali on the purpose and place of pop poetry; never-before-seen photos of Joan Didion; John McCain to publish memoir in April; and other news.
George Saunders’s Booker Prize Speech
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“This tonight is culture, it’s international culture, it’s compassionate culture, it’s activist culture—it’s a room full of believers…” In this video, George Saunders accepts the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury, 2017). Saunders is the second American in a row to win the award.
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Marilynne Robinson on the Importance of Humanities, Neruda’s Cause of Death, and More
Tracy K. Smith visits China as U.S. poet laureate; Xerox releases free story anthology about the workplace; women share experiences of sexual harassment in the publishing industry; and other news.
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