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George Saunders has launched a Substack; Christopher Gonzalez discusses the emotions at the heart of his debut; Eric Nguyen talks reading diaries and memoirs; and other stories.
Idaho library book turns up after more than a century; Percival Everett explains his belief in the primacy of the reader; Lydia Davis reflects on her “exhaustive impulse”; and other stories.
Bryan Washington describes visits to gay bars across the country over the past year; Emma Ramadan reflects on the art of translating experimental writing; veteran editor and publishing executive Charlie Conrad has died; and other stories.
Time recommends one hundred books published this year; the Bay Area Book Festival establishes new leadership positions; Farah Bashir discusses rendering life and death in Kashmir; and other stories.
Deesha Philyaw writes in praise of Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether; Talya Zax considers the state of Egyptian fiction in the wake of the Arab Spring; Electric Literature seeks to determine the best book cover of the year; and other stories.
Poet Kevin Goodan reflects on how fire has shaped his life; Salt Lake Community College hosts events to mark Native American Heritage Month; the New York Times Book Review seeks reader input to determine the best book of the past 125 years; and other stories.
Poet Robert Bly has died at age ninety-four; Niki Herd unpacks the writing process behind her poem “Bird”; Beth Morgan discusses conjuring the world and characters of her debut novel; and other stories.
The Washington Post picks top ten books of the year; a new design has been revealed for the Paris Review; Roxane Gay and Elizabeth Uviebinené address issues of gatekeeping; and other stories.
Understanding a surge in attempts to ban books; Hannah Howard endorses better writing through smell; Sara Lippmann’s review of Lily King’s debut story collection; and other stories.
Michele Kirichanskaya writes on Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are; Randon Billings Noble discusses editing an anthology of lyric essays; John Warner writes in praise of Graywolf Press director and publisher Fiona McCrae; and other stories.
