Publishers Weekly
Read up on U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s The Owl and the Nightingale, a translation of a medieval English debate poem.
NPR
Author Bernardine Evaristo speaks with NPR about her new memoir, Manifesto, and about perseverance.
New York Times
Donald Antrim’s One Friday In April included on this list of 9 New Books We Recommend This Week.
Time
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and Torrey Peters‘ Detransition, Baby included on The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021.
PEN America
BFA authors included on the PEN America 2021 longlists: Rajiv Mohabir, Torrey Peters, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Percival Everett, Mai Der Vang, Phillip B. Williams, Douglas Kearney, George Saunders.
LitHub
Announcing the reveal for the cover of Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust, her first major novel since 2017, which will be published in 2022.
New York Times
Frank Bidart’s Against Silence included in this roundup of Five Poets Who Find Music in the Personal, the Political or in Music Itself.
Harper’s Mag
Read an excerpt from Natashia Deón’s forthcoming novel The Perishing: “My name is Sarah Shipley and I’ve slept with five women.”