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.
People
Amy Bloom sits down to share her journey after her husband, Brian, chose to die by assisted suicide.
The Yale Review
Aminatta Forna pens a reflection on memoir writing and transcending the trauma narrative.
NY Review of Books
Read “Day” a new poem by Jorie Graham: “Lie still it says. / Very still. / Listen.”
NPR
An interview with Meghan O’Rourke where she discusses how a mystery illness cost her a decade of her health.
Ninth Letter
An interview with Major Jackson: “ultimately I believe in the transformative powers of art and poetry.”
LA Times Book Prize Finalists
Mai Der Vang (Yellow Rain) and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (American Estrangement) named among finalists for the 2022 LA Times Book Prize.
Interview Magazine
Interview with Claudia Rankine: “[Racism is] your understanding of who you are and who I am, and my understanding of who you are and what I want.”