Ten Author Readings to Mark the End of 2020
Ten author readings that reflect the beauty, hope, resilience, and strength of writers to confront the failures of the past and to rejoice in the promise of what lies ahead.
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Joan Didion’s Blue Nights
Kimberly Farr reads an excerpt from the memoir Blue Nights (Knopf, 2011) in which Joan Didion writes with stunning frankness about the death of her daughter, Quintana Roo, as well as her own mortality.
and then we became by devorah major
devorah major reads three poems from her new collection, and then we became, published in November by City Lights Publishers.
Women by Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell reads an excerpt from her novella, Women, published in October by Short Flight / Long Drive Books.
What I know for certain about this time: My pupils were expanding. I never did figure out if this was a symptom of falling in love or...
The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum reads two excerpts from her essay collection The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, forthcoming in November from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
From the Introduction
For more than twenty years now I have been making something of...
Descent by Tim Johnston
Tim Johnston reads an excerpt from his novel Descent, published in January by Algonquin Books.From The Life Before Her name was Caitlin, she was eighteen, and her own heart would sometimes wake her—flying away in that dream-race where finish lines...
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Ada Limón reads five poems from her new collection, Bright Dead Things, published in September by Milkweed Editions.
ADAPTATION
It was, for a time, a loud twittering flightof psychedelic-colored canaries: a cloudof startle and get-out in the...
Antidote for Night by Marsha de la O
Marsha de la O reads three poems from her new collection, Antidote for Night, published in September by BOA Editions.
Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
Idra Novey reads an excerpt from her debut novel, Ways to Disappear, published in February by Little, Brown.
The Book of Hulga by Rita Mae Reese
Rita Mae Reese reads a crown of sonnets from her latest poetry collection, The Book of Hulga, published in March by the University of Wisconsin Press. Illustrations by Julie Franki. Milledgevilleis the nothingness from which she flees& the...
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