“It is strikingly like they have removed their eyes.” Matthew Rohrer, whose poetry collection The Others (Wave Books, 2017) is featured in Page One in the May/June 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads “Poem” for the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series.

Rebecca Skloot’s nonfiction book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown Publishing Group, 2010), which explores the life and legacy of an African American woman whose cells became the basis of numerous scientific breakthroughs, has been adapted into a television movie starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.

“The novel is the lab that has studied jealousy in every possible configuration.” In this TED Talk, literary critic Parul Sehgal discusses how jealousy has influenced fiction throughout history. Sehgal is featured in Reviewers & Critics in the May/June 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Lesley Nneka Arimah reads “War Stories” from her debut story collection, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky (Riverhead, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“I looked down and saw the man stop against the wall, like he was trying to get the strength to breathe.” Mary Gaitskill reads from her novel The Mare (Pantheon Books, 2015) at the 2015 New York State Summer Writers Institute. Her first essay collection, Somebody With a Little Hammer (Pantheon Books, 2017), is featured in Page One in the May/June 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Min Kym talks about the life experiences that inspired her debut memoir, Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung (Crown Publishing Group, 2017), and plays “Méditation” from the opera Thaïs composed by Jules Massenet on her violin. Kym’s book is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“A single book can be a community.” In this video, Craig Morgan Teicher responds to the question, “What is your ideal reading experience?” His third poetry collection, The Trembling Answers (BOA Editions, 2017), is featured in Page One in the May/June 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this video, Challis Popkey speaks with author Sarah Gerard about her novel, Binary Star (Two Dollar Radio, 2015), and her first essay collection, Sunshine State (Harper Perennial, 2017). Gerard’s debut essay collection is featured in Page One of the May/June 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.