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Melissa Broder reads an excerpt from her essay collection, So Sad Today, published in March by Grand Central Publishing.I Want To Be a Whole Person But Really ThinI am an eater of numbers. I prefer packaged foods, foods with a bar code, because they...

Karan Mahajan reads from his latest novel, The Association of Small Bombs, published in March by Viking.The Association of Small BombsThe bombing, for which Mr. and Mrs. Khurana were not present, was a flat, percussive event that began under the...

Brenda Shaughnessy reads from her latest poetry collection, So Much Synth, published in May by Copper Canyon Press.   How It Is It isn't every day I can wrap my mind around it.It being just what you'd think it is. Not a thing or a condition of being...

Aracelis Girmay reads two poems from her latest poetry collection, The Black Maria, published in April by BOA Editions.   from prayer & letter to the dead While the room is stilldry here, while the page is stillwhite, still here, more shore than...

Tyehimba Jess reads from his latest poetry collection, Olio, published in April by Wave Books.   Hagar in the WildernessCarved Marble. Edmonia Lewis, 1875 My God is the living God,God of the impertinent exile.An outcast who carved meinto an outcast...

Alejandro Zambra reads from his book of fiction, Multiple Choice, in the original Spanish alongside the book's translator, Megan McDowell, who reads her English translation. The collection was published in July by Penguin Books.IV. Sentence...

Chloe Caldwell reads an excerpt from “Hungry Ghost,” included in her new essay collection, I’ll Tell You in Person, published in October by Emily Books.

Peter Orner reads “Upper Moose Lake, 1990,” from his new essay collection, Am I Alone Here?, published in November by Catapult.   Upper Moose Lake, 1990 I’m twenty-two, I’m drunk, I’m in a canoe. The Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota: Midwestern...

Craig Morgan Teicher reads three poems from his new collection, The Trembling Answers, published in April by BOA Editions.  Every Turning Every turning toward is a turning away:poets have always known the truthof this. I readmy book because time in...

Jay Baron Nicorvo reads an excerpt from his new novel, The Standard Grand, published in April by St. Martin's Press.