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Margaret Atwood faces backlash for controversial piece on the #MeToo movement; Ocean Vuong wins T. S. Eliot Award; twelve noteworthy Spanish-language women writers; and other news.
“I don’t have any heroes in fiction but I have been influenced by fictional heroes many, many times.” In this video, Karl Ove Knausgaard responds to the Proust Questionnaire for the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona’s Kosmopolis Continuous Programme series. His most recent novel, Winter (Penguin Press, 2018), translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey, is featured in Page One in the January/February 2018 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Last-minute book gifts; HarperCollins to publish Zora Neale Hurston’s interviews with the last survivor of the slave trade; Paul Muldoon awarded 2017 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry; and other news.
Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large of Merriam-Webster, explains why there is a special set of shelves in the basement of their offices filled with 315,000 words spelled backwards and catalogued. A Q&A with Sokolowski is featured in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Illustrator and author Edward Carey talks to the editor in chief of Poets & Writers about art, hope, and seeing the light amid darkness.
Merriam-Webster’s editor-at-large, Peter Sokolowski, discusses how the popular dictionary is driven by both definitions and data, and reveals the 2017 Word of the Year: feminism.
The program supports a pamphlet publication series. Interested students have the opportunity to curate and edit a pamphlet with the support of fellow student collaborators and a faculty coordinator.
“If you believe in literature...then you believe that some of these books have the power to transform people and the way they see the world.” Danny Schaffer, a member of the Books Through Bars volunteer collective, which matches and sends requested books to incarcerated people, talks about the importance of access to knowledge, history, and literature in the prison system.
December’s must-read poetry books; the tricks of menu design; LARB Books acquires Les Figues Press; and other news.
Three Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes totaling up to $120,000 will be given annually for print and digital publications. The new awards program is intended to support both “nimble upstarts as well as established journals.”
