Open Source Radio

Christopher Lydon talks to Eileen Myles about the democratic virtue of individualism: in gender and sexuality, politics and aesthetics.

NYT Book Review

NYT Book Review applauds Young‘s Blue Laws, saying “The formal economy of Young’s best work attunes us to the grammar of living and sorrow alike.”

Lust and Wonder

“It’s an odd thing, watching a memoirist grow up on the page,” writes NPR on Augusten Burroughs‘ newest book.

NPR

NPR interviews Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Peter Balakian.

George Saunders

The news is out! In 2017, George Saunders will publish his first full-length novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.

Salon

Review in Salon of Josh Fox‘s documentary How to Let Go of the World: “a sprawling chronicle of despair — and hope.”

Wesleyan Argus

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh talks writing, empathy, and Pittsburgh at Wesleyan’s Shapiro Creative Writing Center.