In Technology We Trust: A Q&A With Victor LaValle
The author of four novels, most recently The Changeling, published by Spiegel & Grau in June, talks about the evolution of his new book, minimal dads, and writing a female character.
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Patricia Lockwood’s Hart and Hind: An Answer Song
Novelist and singer-songwriter Ben Arthur finds inspiration in a chapter of poet Patricia Lockwood’s memoir, Priestdaddy.
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Craft Capsule: We Get to Make a Mess
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: the messy art.
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Let’s Play: Intuition, Imagination, and Black Creativity
A new exhibit at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland celebrates the idea of “fun as a revolutionary event” and explores AfroSurreal notions of intuition and imagination.
Craft Capsule: Run On
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: the energy of long sentences.
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Craft Capsule: Before Craft, or Hug Your Independent Bookseller
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: remembering the life-saving importance of reading.
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The Impossible Is Now Possible: Barbara Gowdy and Helen Phillips in Conversation
Barbara Gowdy, whose novel Little Sisters is published this month by Tin House Books, and novelist Helen Phillips discuss profound empathy, how literature can change women’s relationships to their bodies, and writing against the odds.
Craft Capsule: Memory, With Soundtrack
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: how art and pop culture influence memory.
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Ten Writers Reading Ten Short Stories for Short Story Month
In celebration of Short Story Month, we’ve assembled ten of our favorite audio recordings of authors reading from story collections featured in Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin during the past five years.
Craft Capsule: Loving the Rubble
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: the memoirist’s curse.
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Craft Capsule: Gin and Scotch Tape
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: the pleasures and pitfalls of figurative language.
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Inside Indie Bookstores: The Complete Series
Inside Indie Bookstores, a series of interviews with the entrepreneurs who represent the last link in the chain that connects writers with their intended audience, ran in all six issues of 2010.
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Amanda Gorman Named National Youth Poet Laureate
On April 26, nineteen-year-old Amanda Gorman of Los Angeles was named the first national youth poet laureate.
Craft Capsule: Left Brain, Right Brain
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: Gregory Orr’s “Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry.”
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The Two Feet of One Walking: Poets March for Science
Poets for Science is engaging poets from across the country in the March for Science on April 22.
Craft Capsule: The Art of Targeted Revision
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: assigning clear and objective tasks during the revision process.
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Madness, Exile, and Resistance: An Interview With Samrat Upadhyay
Nepali author Samrat Upadhyay discusses his writing process, exile literature, and his new story collection, Mad Country.
Vote of Confidence: The Life-Changing Support of an NEA Fellowship
Nine recipients of the NEA creative writing fellowship recall the profound impact the grant made on their lives and careers.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Mary Gaitskill’s Somebody With a Little Hammer and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky.
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NEA at Risk: The Future of Arts Funding Under Trump
Trump’s 2018 budget outline includes withdrawing funding for the NEA, making him the first president to propose the total elimination of the fifty-year-old federal agency.
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The Writers Studio at Thirty
Since its inception in 1987, the Writers Studio has grown from a small workshop in the West Village of New York City to an indispensable literary institution offering online courses, programming for children, and readings, craft classes, and workshops in five cities in the United States and abroad.
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Writers, Editors Resist
After the election, writers and editors around the country responded by launching new publications as outlets for both literary excellence and impassioned social critique.
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“Grant Me a Voice, and Speaking Eyes”
Poet, playwright, and novelist Angela Jackson explores the teenage years of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Q&A: Nicole Sealey Leads Cave Canem
The new executive director of the Cave Canem Foundation talks about her history with the organization, her vision for the future, and the role of poetry in a hostile political climate.
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Literary MagNet: Alex Dimitrov
Alex Dimitrov takes us through five journals that first published poems appearing in his new book, Together and by Ourselves.
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