Bobbitt Prize
Claudia Rankine receives the 2017 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for her book Citizen: An American Lyric.
the guardian
Simon Armitage says: “Language is my enemy – I spend my life battling with it.”
NYT Magazine
“You’re so quiet you’re almost tomorrow.” NYT Magazine analyzes a line taken from one of Ocean Vuong’s poems.
SF Chronicle
Sarah Manguso’s 300 Arguments: an edgy sassiness, and a dropout mentality that makes literature from failure.
Orwell Prize
Congratulations to Hisham Matar who was longlisted for this years Orwell Prize for Books for his memoir The Return.
300 Arguments
More of Less: In Sarah Manguso’s romance with concision, she nearly writes off writing.
NY Times Opinion
In Hisham Matar’s essay, Books Can Take You Places Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You To Go he tells how literature is central to both resistance and liberty.
Power of Empathy
George Saunders with UK’s 4News: how our divided nation holds tolerance and the ability to talk with those who disagree.
The Analyst
CBC Radio talks with Molly Peacock about her the decades-long relationship with her therapist and how it entered a new chapter.
Review of The Analyst
Quill and Quire says everyone can gain from Molly Peacock’s exploration of human connection and creativity.