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.”
National Humanities Medal
President Biden awarded a National Humanities Medal to Richard Blanco for work representing “a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future.”
Lambda Literary
Congratulations to all long listed for the Lambda Literary Awards, with a little extra confetti for Akil Kumarasamy, Bushra Rehman, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.
PBS Newshour
Check out this podcast, “How poetry lets you be so many things at once, with Chen Chen” wherever you listen.