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“As someone who is now a part of the next generation of Black queer writing, I pull a lot from what James Baldwin stood for,” says George M. Johnson, author of All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), in this video for GLAAD’s NEON series. Johnson, whose book has been banned from school libraries, is the 2022 honorary chair of Banned Books Week.
The new editor of Poetry shares his aspirations for shaping the 110-year-old magazine to reflect an expansive literary landscape.
A special “unburnable” edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was crafted to raise awareness about recent efforts to ban books from schools and libraries.
The author of What We Fed to the Manticore highlights five journals that published her stories, including the Minnesota Review and Ecotone.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books including The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li and Togetherness by Wo Chan.
Banned Books Week raises awareness of the rise in attempts to remove titles from schools and public libraries through a series of special events to be held across the country starting on September 18.
This virtual round-robin reading of new Asian American fiction features Nawaaz Ahmed, author of Radiant Fugitives (Counterpoint, 2021), Jackson Bliss, author Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022), Melissa Chadburn, author of A Tiny Upward Shove (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), Tracey Lien, author of All That’s Left Unsaid (HarperCollins, 2022), and Soon Wiley, author of When We Fell Apart (Dutton Books, 2022). The event was hosted by the Center for Fiction and presented in partnership with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
