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.
Windham-Campbell
Congratulations to Carolyn Forche, one of eight to receive the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize!
KCUR
Listen as best selling author Francine Prose explains her thoughts on the importance of the written word.
The New Yorker Video
Claudia Rankine joins Salman Rushdie & Tony Kushner about bigotry among Trump voters and political apathy in America.
The Guardian
A series of instincts, thousands of tiny adjustments, hundreds of drafts: George Saunders on the real process of writers.
The Washington Post
The U.S. poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, speaks with The Washington Post on what America should be reading.
New Yorker Videos
Watch a breaking down of Tracy K. Smith’s poem “Solstice” with an emphasis on poetry as a refuge.