LitHub
Announcing the reveal for the cover of Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust, her first major novel since 2017, which will be published in 2022.
New York Times
Frank Bidart’s Against Silence included in this roundup of Five Poets Who Find Music in the Personal, the Political or in Music Itself.
The New Yorker
Read “pencil & pen” the latest poem by Eileen Myles: “A minute is so / long / on my birthday.”
PBS
Listen to this American Masters’ podcast featuring Jericho Brown as he breaks down the process behind writing The Tradition’s titular poem.
Washington Post
Donald Antrim’s One Friday in April is a vital book about mental illness and recovery.
LitHub
Mary Gaitskill on borrowing from real life in writing (and the dreams that guided her).
Harper’s Mag
Read an excerpt from Natashia Deón’s forthcoming novel The Perishing: “My name is Sarah Shipley and I’ve slept with five women.”
NYT Podcast
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers joins Richard Powers to discuss their latest books: “It’s a gesture to the way that I grew up learning about African American history.”
Town & Country
In his latest piece, esteemed New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik interrogates the politics of excellence through music and art.
New York Review
Read Jorie Graham’s latest poem, “song flight lift/hover settle you/cannot tell from/those not coming.”