Silent Book Clubs, the Poetry Marathon, and More
WNYC talks to poet Evie Shockley about her #DearPresident message; on great sentences; librarians’ top-ten September books; and other news.
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Saving Langston Hughes’s Home, World’s Most Mysterious Book, and More
Poet Yona Harvey on writing for Marvel Comics; publishers react to recent firing of Barnes & Noble CEO; fiction writer Leopoldine Core on voyeurism and obsession; and other news.
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Pamela Paul Promoted, Fight Club and The Great Gatsby, and More
Judge opens investigation into Lorca’s death; Chinese poems translated into Kiswahili for the first time; how book reviewing is like restaurant reviewing; and other news.
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Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities’ Red Dress Code by Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss reads three new poems from her latest collection, Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities' Red Dress Code, published in September by Persea Books.
Blackacre by Monica Youn
Monica Youn reads three poems from her new collection, Blackacre, published in September by Graywolf Press.
GOLDACRE
We have seen claims that Twinkies . . . aren’t baked, the sponge cake instead being “a pure Chemical...
A New Center for Black Poetics
At the University of Pittsburgh, poets Dawn Lundy Martin, Terrance Hayes, and Yona Harvey recently established the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics—a creative think tank dedicated to African American poets.
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President Obama’s Summer Reading List, Brave New World Series, and More
Fact-checking nonfiction books; a cognitive psychologist’s answer to the listening vs. reading debate; Wallace Stevens and Trump supporters; and other news.
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Poetry and the Olympics, National Book Lovers Day, and More
Literary female friendship; Harry Potter exhibit to open next year at the British Library; working at Faber & Faber with T. S. Eliot; and other news.
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Federico García Lorca Revisited, Regional Literature of the United States, and More
Learning to love a non-native language; fiction writer Brian Evenson on narrative uncertainty; the U.S. Constitution becomes best-seller following Khizr Khan’s DNC speech; and other news.
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Best American Essays Data Project, Reading Leads to Longer Life, and More
James Patterson tops highest paid authors for third year in a row; America’s most beautiful libraries; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child sells two million copies in three days; and other news.
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