The Yale Review
Aminatta Forna joins TYR for a conversation on suffering, trauma, and resilience.
The New Yorker
Read “As Long As She Likes” by Ellen Bass: “I’ve never returned to my mother’s grave. / But I see her every day.”
Publishers Weekly
Read this slick, sensitive interview with Lidia Yuknavitch.
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.