NPR
Joy Harjo speaks with All Things Considered on the inspiration behind her most recent memoir Poet Warrior.
The New Yorker
Percival Everett has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In The Trees he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching in a mystery at once hilarious and horrifying.
Publishers Weekly
Congratulations to Douglas Kearney, whose Sho is a finalist for the National Book Awards.
Bustle
Elizabeth Acevedo included on list of 26 Books By Latinx Authors To Read Now & Always.
The New Yorker
Daniyal Mueenuddin reflects on wealth, power, and corruption.
LitHub
George Saunders on the job of a short story: “Ask certain questions and decline to answer them.”
LitHub
Natashia Déon’s The Perishing included on list of 22 Novels to Read This Fall.
New Yorker
A new poem by Deborah Landau: “So whatever’s the opposite of a Buddhist that’s what I am. Kindhearted, yes, but knee deep in gloom.”
Kirkus Reviews
Review of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois: “If this isn’t the Great American Novel, it’s a mighty attempt at achieving one.”
PEN America
BFA authors Saidiya Hartman and Kwame Dawes both recipients of 2021 PEN Awards.