Zookeeper’s Wife
The feature film based on Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife starring Jessica Chastain released in theaters today!
PEN America
Hisham Matar awarded the inaugural PEN Book Award for his memoir The Return at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony.
Huffington Post
Mary Gaitskill speaks with the Huffington Post about rape culture and her new essay collection Somebody with a Little Hammer.
Magdalene: Poems
Marie Howe’s fourth collection of poetry, Magdalene: Poems, released by W. W. Norton & Company today!
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.