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Watch the trailer for the television series Vladimir, adapted from the 2022 novel of the same name by Julia May Jonas. Starring Rachel Weiss and Leo Woodall, the eight-episode series follows a writer and professor who becomes obsessed with a new colleague as her life starts to unravel.
In this Gays Reading podcast interview with host Jason Blitman, T Kira Madden talks about the events that led to writing her debut novel, Whidbey (Mariner Books, 2026), and how exploring different points of view of a crime offered new insights. A profile of Madden appears in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“I think that you kind of put everything into a first novel.” In this event hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s Creative Writing Program, Madeline Cash reads from her debut novel, Lost Lambs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), and talks about her range of influences, including artist Henry Darger and filmmaker Wes Anderson.
In this New York Public Library event, Isaac Fitzgerald moderates a discussion with authors Angela Flournoy, Katie Kitamura, and Sebastian Castillo about their novels published in 2025, the current state of literary fiction, and what challenges them to write the next book.
In this Waterstones interview, Maggie O’Farrell talks about the process of cowriting the screenplay for the film adaptation of her novel Hamnet (Knopf, 2020) with director Chloé Zhao. “The film sits alongside the book, and that’s exactly as it should be,” says O’Farrell.
“I’ve been working only as a novelist for twenty-five years, and the summation of what I’m capable of is here.” In this Politics and Prose event, Mark Z. Danielewski reads from his latest novel, Tom’s Crossing (Pantheon, 2025), and talks about how he felt possessed by the voice of the story and how he balances writing with a day job.
Watch the trailer for The Thing With Feathers directed by Dylan Southern and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. A film adaptation of the novel Grief Is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter (Graywolf Press, 2016), the film follows a grieving widow who is greeted by an unwanted house guest while struggling to raise two young sons.
In this Politics and Prose event, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo reads from her debut novel, The Tiny Things Are Heavier (Bloomsbury, 2025), and talks about how writing a coming-of-age story helped her understand her own experiences in migrating to the United States from Nigeria in a conversation with Gbenga Adesina.
In this CBS Mornings segment with cohost Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey announces her latest book club pick, A Guardian and a Thief (Knopf, 2025), and speaks with author Megha Majumbar about the themes of her novel and how becoming a parent changed how she viewed her characters. Read Majumbar’s installment of our Ten Questions series.
In this CBS Boston interview, R. F. Kuang talks about her latest novel, Katabasis (Harper Voyager, 2025), and its forthcoming television series adaptation, her connection to Sylvia Plath and the city of Boston, and the importance of buying from independent bookstores.
