Books of the Week
Terrance Hayes‘ How To Be Drawn and Tracy K. Smith‘s Ordinary Light highlighted in Publishers Weekly.
Taxi Driver
Etgar Keret‘s new short story Taxi Driver in New York Times Magazine.
Galaxies Inside
Stephen Burt gives a stunning profile of Terrance Hayes in the New York Times Magazine.
On my Coffee Cup
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has a wonderful new essay about his name in The New Yorker.
PEN Literary Awards
Molly Antopol and Claudia Rankine longlisted for the Robert W. Bingham Prize and PEN Open Book Award, respectively.
PEN Ten Interview
Mat Johnson interviewed by PEN America on the responsibility of a writer and more.
Really Eternal City
George Bilgere‘s poem featured in the Writer’s Almanac.
NBCC Award
Congratulations to Claudia Rankine for winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for her collection Citizen: An American Lyric!
A Person of Limited Palette
Ted Kooser‘s poem from his newest collection Splitting an Order featured in The Writer’s Almanac.
Bluebrain Film
Noah Hutton talks to Alex Witt from MSNBC about his 15-year film chronicling the mapping the human brain.