The Guardian
An interview with Mary Gaitskill on This Is Pleasure, a story about scandal and nuance, an address to the #MeToo movement.
The Guardian
Review of Hisham Matar’s A Month in Siena: “exquisitely measured and precise.”
Publishers Weekly
Tina Chang’s Hybrida and Jericho Brown’s The Tradition included on this list of the Best Books of 2019.
LitHub
A new poem from the brilliant Javier Zamora: “Though/there had been war; I did not know the way to school yet.”
New York Times
Read the new poem “Crossing” by Jericho Brown, a poem dedicated to every next day: “I’m not crossing/To cross back.”
New York Times
Review of Nick Flynn’s latest collection I Will Destroy You: “his new book gestures at redemption and an ambivalent acceptance.”
The Guardian
Interview with Hisham Matar on his art: “Writing is both the easiest and the most difficult thing.”
USA Today
Read Richard Blanco’s latest poem in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month: “O say, when will you have enough faith in us to meet the gleam of our eyes”
PBS News Hour
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discusses why her accomplishment represents a “doorway of hope” for other indigenous people.
National Book Award
Congratulations to Carolyn Forche whose memoir, What You Have Heard Is True, is long listed for the 2019 National Book Awards!