Proving My Blackness
Mat Johnson article on his black heritage in the New York Times Magazine.
Conde Nast Traveler
Richard Blanco article on Cuba: “There, The Sugar was Sweeter.”
The Dead Lands
Benjamin Percy‘s new novel slouches toward dystopia in the review by The Washington Post.
Essay in Elle
Dani Shapiro on her relationship to criticism: What Do You Do When the Internet Hates You?
The Writer
Diane Ackerman discusses The Human Age and science writing in The Writer.
Book TV
Tracy K Smith discusses her memoir Ordinary Light on C-SPAN.
Ask For a Poem
Marie Howe and co. write poems on demand in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Guggenheim
Thomas Sayers Ellis and Rowan Ricardo Phillips both awarded 2015 Guggenheim fellowships in poetry.
LA Times Book Prize
Claudia Rankine‘s Citizen wins the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.
What Lies Beneath
Mark Doty interview on his new collection Deep Lane with Shelf Awareness.