The Millions
Camille Dungy discusses Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden: “gardening offers me a space where I see patience pay off.”
Vulture
How the poet Jorie Graham — living with cancer, reeling from her mother’s death — wrote the best book of her long career.
NPR
Best-selling fiction writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses his new novel Chain-Gang All-Stars.
Washington Post
In Chain-Gang All-Stars, prison fights have corporate sponsors – read this review of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s forthcoming novel.
McSweeney’s
A short conversation featuring Deborah Landau: “Deborah Landau is a poet of the urban body, the urbane.”
Esquire
Excerpt from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s forthcoming Chain Gang All-Stars: “She noticed her own steadiness… Strange. She’d counted herself wretched for so long.”
BOMB Mag
Nuar Alsadir interviewed by Cathy Park Hong: “Racism is a form of perversion.”
McSweeney’s
An interview with Brenda Hillman: “I like the idea of utterances that push through things.”
Viking
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hisham Matar’s latest, My Friends, picked up for publication by Viking.
The Cut
Read an excerpt from Maggie Smith’s forthcoming memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful: “My marriage was never the same after that.”