The New Yorker
Terrance Hayes reads “American Sonnet for the New Year”: “things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly/things got ugly…”
LitHub
Honor Moor reflects on her new memoir and conjuring her mother: “I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death.”
PBS
Interview with Dunya Mikhail: She stayed there in the garden and refused to move, like a stone. She’s turned into a stone.
The New Yorker
Read George Saunders’ piece “Chicago Christmas, 1984”: The way we knew it was festive was the garage had been cleared of dog shit.
Artforum
Watch this interview with Eileen Myles on their latest Evolution, art installation, and the bodily experience of being in the world.
New York Times
Among other gorgeous titles, Hisham Matar’s The Return included on Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018!
LitHub
Looking forward to all 2019 titles, most especially from the Blue Flowers included here: Jericho, Claudia, Tina, Deborah, and Pam!
The New Yorker
The year 2018 in poems, with lyrical moments from Jericho Brown, Joy Harjo, Nick Flynn, and Geffrey Davis.
Best Books 2018
Brenda, Forrest, Aimee, Tracy, Amy! So many gorgeous titles and authors included on this list of The Best Books of 2018!
NYT Book Review
Review of Forrest Gander’s Be With: a book that probes and explores a question: How do we know where we ourselves begin or end?