Anisfield Wolf
Percival Everett wins in fiction for the Cleveland Foundation’s 87th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
LitHub
Woven Stories and Open Letters, a podcast episode with readings by Jericho Brown, Deesha Philyaw, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Fractured Lit
New flash fiction, “Blink and You Miss Her” by Deesha Philyaw.
LitHub
Bernardine Evaristo’s Manifesto included in AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of March.
PBS Newshour
Cornelius Eady joins PBS for a conversation on exploring of the everyday lives of Black people in America.
LitHub
Random House will publish Liberation Day, George Saunders’ new short story collection, this year; his first since 2014.
Brooklyn Rail
What are white people so afraid of? Reflections on Claudia Rankine’s latest play, Help, now playing at The Shed.
McSweeney’s
Peruse this new interview with Pulitzer-prize winning poet Frank Bidart.
The Guardian
Read “Resistance,” a new poem by Simon Armitage.
New York Times
Confronting grief with Margaret Atwood, front line nurses, and Theater of War in The Nurse Antigone.