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Richard Ford set to receive the Paris Review’s lifetime achievement award; Daphne Merkin considers the shifting and disappearing literary communities of her time; Thessaly La Force revisits a vital work of Japanese American literature; and other stories.
A debut memoirist speaks up about post-publication blues and offers some suggestions for how to cure them.
Jami Attenberg on solitude; Elif Batuman reads and rereads Edith Wharton; the Astro Poets discuss their origins; and other stories.
Translators in conversation; Yanyi on adapting to a new creative schedule; horror in the new world; and other stories.
Alexander Chee on writing the other; Helen Garner burns her diaries; Jaquira Díaz talks the risks and rewards of writing a memoir; and other news.
New Elena Ferrante forthcoming; Téa Obreht on water; listening to Tracy K. Smith in the rain; and other news.
Sheila O’Connor on the things we can never know; Lilly Dancyger talks anger and writing; the New Yorker revisits T. S. Eliot; and other news.
Kathryn Court of Penguin Books announces retirement; Fiona Benson discusses her Forward Prize–winning collection; Leland Cheuk talks humor writing; and other news.
Carl Phillips considers the history of the Yale Younger Poets Prize; Saeed Jones finds home in Columbus, Ohio; Molara Wood charts the rise of Nigerian fiction; and other news.
A dynamic reading series in Austin, Texas; Tessa Hadley on setting; Kristina Marie Darling on dismantling tradition; and other news.
