Eleanor Henderson
Ten Thousand Saints, the debut novel by Eleanor Henderson, whose article about Charles McLeod's first book appears in the current issue, will be published by Ecco in June.
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My American Unhappiness
Leading up to the publication of his second novel, Dean Bakopoulos is releasing a series of videos titled "Inventory of American Unhappiness." Bakopoulos's novel, My American Unhappiness, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June, is the story of Zeke Pappas, the director of a humanities institute in Wisconsin, who is pursuing his life's work: a survey of American unhappiness.
Siri Hustvedt
As part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival, novelist Siri Hustvedt, who is profiled in the current issue of the magazine, read an excerpt from The Summer Without Men, published this month by Picador.
Celebrating National Poetry Month
Sandra Beasley, author of the poetry collection I Was the Jukebox (W. W. Norton, 2010), offers a fortune-cookie guide to the ways of poetry.
Iowa Writers' Workshop at 75
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's oldest postgraduate writing program, is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. Jeffrey Brown delivered this recent report on PBS NewsHour.
Shakespeare Theory
A movie scheduled to be released in the fall presents the theory that the 17th Earl of Oxford wrote all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This trailer for Anonymous, starring Rys Ifans as Oxford and Vanessa Redgrave as Elizabeth I, features music by Radiohead.
Ish Klein
Poet Ish Klein reads "Smoke Outside" from her second collection, Moving Day, published this month by the independent press Canarium Books.
Kevin Young
Last month poet Kevin Young read from his most recent collection, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Random House, 2011), at the Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
Amy Hempel
This brief interview with Amy Hempel, which includes excerpts from her short story "The Harvest," was produced by United States Artists. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel was published by Scribner in 2006.