Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen new books, including Feel Free by Zadie Smith.
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Literary MagNet: Dionisia Morales
Dionisia Morales on five journals that published essays from her debut collection, Homing Instincts.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips and No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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The American Prison Writing Archive
A free online archive collects writing from more than 1,200 incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, as well as correctional officers and prison staff, from across the country.
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The Unknown Yet Inevitable: Debut Literary Nonfiction of 2017
A look at some of the year’s best debut literary nonfiction by Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Venegas, Mike Scalise, Jeannie Vanasco, Durga Chew-Bose, and Thomas Mira y Lopez.
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
After the death of her mother, a writer considers the ways we increasingly write our own obituaries in this excerpt from The Art of Death, forthcoming from Graywolf Press.
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Roxane Gay’s Hunger and Julia Fierro’s The Gypsy Moth Summer.
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Somebody With a Little Hammer by Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill reads from her new essay collection, Somebody With a Little Hammer, published in April by Pantheon.
Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello
Elena Passarello reads from her new essay collection, Animals Strike Curious Poses, published in February by Sarabande Books.
excerpt from War Pigs
CHER AMIBy the second day under mortar fire, the 77th Division—...
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos reads from her new essay collection, Abandon Me, published on February 28 by Bloomsbury.
Call My Name
When I was seven, my sea captain father at sea, my mother a strobing lighthouse of missing, I stood alone in...
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