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.
Poetry Society of Am
Congratulations to Erika Meitner who is the 2021 recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemley Memorial Award.
LA Times Book Prize
Deesha Philyaw among 2021 winners for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for her collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
Guggenheim Fellows
Congratulations to Ellen Bass who was awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry!
Whiting Award
Congratulations to Ladan Osman, recipient of a 2021 Whiting Award for Poetry!
The New Yorker
Read Camille Dungy’s latest poem “Let Me”: “Let me tell you, America, this one last thing.”