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Aaron John Curtis and Jon Hickey

Redefining Home (Aaron John Curtis, Jon Hickey, moderated by Greg Sarris)

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In this Bay Area Book Festival event featuring Native debut authors, Jon Hickey reads from his novel, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster, 2025), and Aaron John Curtis reads from his novel, Old School Indian (Hillman Grad Books, 2025), followed by a discussion moderated by Greg Sarris on the Native experience through modern political and personal struggles. Curtis and Hickey are featured in “First Fiction 2025” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Indigenous writers

Sarah Yahm: Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation

Sarah Yham | Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation | Petit Foreword

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In this Foreword Reviews interview from their Petit Forward series, Sarah Yahm fields questions about the characters in her debut novel, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation (Dzanc Books, 2025). Yahm is featured in “First Fiction 2025” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation

Money, Money, Money

The Time Is Now

7.2.25

Written and directed by Celine Song, Materialists is a film about a matchmaker at a high-end agency in New York City and her own trials of love. She interviews and maneuvers her clients who have very specific demands for their potential dating partners, testing the mechanics of worth and value, and seeing people through the lens of market capitalism. Characters are bluntly forthcoming about age preferences and job salaries, an honesty that may seem surprising when considered against old-fashioned social norms which deem it vulgar to talk about money. Write a story in which one of your characters is uncommonly direct about financial matters—whether about having a lot or a little, or how much they spend, earn, and save. How does bringing money into the picture illuminate issues of class between your characters?

Sing the Truth: Laura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat, and Princess Joy L. Perry

#PouredOver: Laura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat and Princess Joy L. Perry discuss Sing the Truth

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Laura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat, and Princess Joy L. Perry discuss the making of the anthology Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection (Authors Equity, 2025) and talk about the importance of finding and nurturing emerging writers of color in this live episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer. Read more about the anthology in “The Anthologist” in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Laura Pegram

Edwidge Danticat

Princess Joy L. Perry

Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection

Irene Solà: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

Irene Solá: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness with Shruti Swamy

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In this Green Apple Books event, Irene Solà celebrates the English language release of her third novel, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness (Graywolf Press, 2025), translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem, with a reading and discussion with author Shruti Swamy. Solà’s novel is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | Official Teaser | Netflix

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Watch the trailer for Frankenstein, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel of the same name written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz, the film is set for release in November.

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Lydi Conklin: Songs of No Provenance

Lydi Conklin: Songs of No Provenance w/ Jenny Xie

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In this Books Are Magic event, Lydi Conklin celebrates the release of their debut novel, Songs of No Provenance (Catapult, 2025), with John Shakespear performing an original song, “Green Weeks,” based on the book and a conversation with Jenny Xie about music and writing.

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Songs of No Provenance

All So Different

The Time Is Now

6.25.25

“It was all so different than he expected. / For years he’d been agnostic; now he meditated. / For years he’d dreamed of being an artist living abroad; / now he reread Baudelaire, Emerson, Bishop. / He’d never considered marriage … / Still, a force through the green fuse did drive.” So begins Henri Cole’s poem “At Sixty-Five,” which appears in The Other Love, forthcoming in July from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a collection in which Cole reflects on the shifting observations of a person as they age and gain new perspective on the passing of time and the accumulation of memories. Write a short story from the point of view of someone older than you, which begins with the sentence “It was all so different than I expected.” Is your inclination to plot out key milestones in your character’s life before you begin writing or to simply see where the character’s meditations take you?

Ten Questions for Fran Littlewood

by Staff

Ten Questions

6.24.25

“The research I did for this novel was so intriguing, looking at the psychology and science of siblinghood, memory, identity.” —Fran Littlewood, author of The Accidental Favorite

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City Lights Live: Jon Hickey

CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Jon Hickey in conversation with Tomas Moniz

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In this virtual City Lights Live event, Jon Hickey reads from and talks about his debut novel, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster, 2025), in a conversation with author Tomas Moniz. Hickey is featured in “First Fiction 2025” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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