PEN America Lit Awards
The finalists: Rajiv Mohabir, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Percival Everett, Torrey Peters, Mai Der Vang, Douglas Kearney, Phillip B. Williams!
Publishers Weekly
Chen Chen and Dawn Lundy Martin among six artists to receive a grant from the United States Artists Organization.
The Atlantic
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “I Could Be a Whale Shark” included on this list of Six Poems to Bring You Comfort This Winter.
The New Yorker
Read Katha Pollitt’s new story, “Brown Furniture,” in the January print edition of The New Yorker here.
NPR
Author Bernardine Evaristo speaks with NPR about her new memoir, Manifesto, and about perseverance.
ABC News
Review of Jonathan M Katz’s Gangsters of Capitalism: “An imperialist repents.”
LA Times
Congrats to the 2021 NBCCA nominees, especially: Rajiv Mohabir, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Torrey Peters, Percival Everett, Cornelius Eady!
bon appétit
Torrey Peters on the end of her marriage: “I thought I could save my marriage by repressing my transness. I couldn’t.”
Elle
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo takes Elle’s literary survey.
Poet Laureate
Congratulations to Airea D. Matthews who was named Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate!