NY Times
Interview with Elizabeth Acevedo: “People read like they eat. Sometimes we want comfort, sometimes we want to crack something open.”
BK Reader
Watch: Mahogany L. Browne reads at Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue unveiling in Brooklyn, NY.
Audie Award
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo whose Clap When You Land, read by the author and Melania-Luisa Marte, won the 2021 Young Adult Audie Award.
Vanity Fair
United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s latest album, I Pray for my Enemies, arrives as a witness to the emotional undertow of the moment
The Times
Read this interview with Bernardine Evaristo: “I once tried to drive to Australia in a Lada. It didn’t end well.”
LA Times
Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies named finalist for for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Hudson Review
Read “The Punch Line” a new poem from Marilyn Nelson: I lay there smiling and musing, wondering / If death is the punch line, and life the joke.
Crooked
Listen to this episode of You Don’t Have to Always Be Right featuring Mahogany L. Browne.
The Times
Poet and educator Taylor Mali takes on a new challenge: cleaning up Brooklyn of its plastic bag crisis.
The Guardian
Booker-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo recommends forgotten black British novels everyone should read.