LA Review of Books
George Saunders and the LA Review of Books on writing and transcendence in conversation with Lincoln in the Bardo.
Bustle
Dani Shapiro on her memoir Hourglass: “Memory is not linear or chronological.”
Independent Creative
Ocean Vuong speaks with The Independent Creative on spirals, time, and being generous in your work.
New York Times
Dani Shapiro’s Hourglass reviewed with other memoirs on the complex calisthenics of marriage.
Smart Girls Blog
Read “Y for YES,”a poem by Amber Tamblyn: Yes, my abdomen opened/like an eye and I blinked you/into being.
NBC News
Dani Shapiro’s latest memoir Hourglass included in TODAY’s 12 must-read books of the spring.
The New Yorker
Osama Alomar on The Teeth of the Comb and his topics of choice: human dignity, success, failure, equality, inequality.
Fresh Air Interview
Mary Gaitskill speaks with Terry Gross about feminism, sexual assault, and Somebody With a Little Hammer.
Ruth Lilly Prize
Congratulations to Joy Harjo, recipient of the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement and contribution to poetry!
Hyperallergic
NYC Artist in Residence Bryan Doerries brings audience to church with a Theater of War production of MLK’s final sermon.