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.”
Mud City Journal
Michaelsun Knapp interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the Mud City Journal.
Wesleyan Argus
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh talks writing, empathy, and Pittsburgh at Wesleyan’s Shapiro Creative Writing Center.
The Body
New Poem by Aimee Nezhukumatathil featured in Buzzfeed.
Poet Laureate
Juan Felipe Herrera reappointed to a second year as US Poet Laureate.
Griffin Poetry Prize
Joy Harjo‘s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.