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In this Books Are Magic event, Jimin Han reads from her novel Dreamt I Found You (Little, Brown, 2026) and talks about the book’s setting and the diversity of Korean American enclaves in New England in a conversation with Marie Myung-Ok Lee. For more from Han, read “A Win Right on Time: Contests for Older Writers” in the May/June 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this ABC News segment, Joshua Bennett talks about how his parents nurtured his interest in African American history leading him to write his new book, The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time (Little, Brown, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this interview for the Otherppl With Brad Listi podcast, Leslie Jamison discusses important relationships throughout her life and how she sought to capture them in her memoir, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story (Little, Brown, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this live event at Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Curtis Chin reads from his debut memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant (Little, Brown, 2023), and speaks about growing up as a Chinese American son of restaurateurs in Detroit with author Dominic Lim. For more from Chin, read his installment of our Ten Questions series.
Luis Alberto Urrea reads from his new novel, Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023), in this Sewanee Writers’ Conference reading with playwright David Adjmi. A profile of Urrea by Bethanne Patrick appears in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“For me, poetry is the act of paying attention. It pushes me to pay attention to a moment, a feeling, an idea, an image.” Clint Smith speaks about what poetry means to him, the themes in his new collection, Above Ground (Little, Brown, 2023), and reads his poem “All at Once” in this interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
In this video, Sabrina Imbler speaks about their debut book, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Little, Brown, 2022), with journalist Heather Smith after an introduction by Rebecca Solnit for this event hosted by the Green Arcade in San Francisco. Imbler’s book is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“It is a new kind of survivor narrative, one that I wish that I had when I was growing up,” says Chantal V. Johnson about her debut novel, Post-traumatic (Little, Brown, 2022), in this reading and conversation with Torrey Peters at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn.
“It’s the nature of the segregation [in Bristol] that makes it so interesting to write,” says Moses McKenzie in this video about bringing the city of Bristol, England to life as a character in his debut novel, An Olive Grove in Ends (Little, Brown, 2022).
“In the summer of 1929, after completing his freshman year at Harvard, James Agee headed west to spend a few months working as a migrant farm hand,” reads Leslie Jamison from her essay collection Make It Scream, Make It Burn (Little, Brown, 2019) in this 2019 Harvard University event with writer and critic James Wood.
