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In this 2016 New Yorker video, Robert Battle, former artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, reminds all artists, whether dancers, musicians, poets, or writers, that “it’s important for us to, at this time, see beyond our circumstances.” Battle continues: “I think we can do that through the arts.”
The new president of the Association of American Literary Agents speaks about the state of agenting today, what writers misunderstand about agents, and the numerous irons she has in the literary fire.
Led by best-selling author Lauren Groff, the Lynx Watch helps distribute books banned or challenged in the state of Florida to local readers and works with advocacy organizations to bring awareness to other threatened freedoms.
The Center for Book Arts’s new fellowship program supports BIPOC creatives with essential resources to start a small press, planting seeds for a more diverse and equitable vision of publishing.
This past April, NDN Girls Book Club loaded up a big pink truck to distribute over ten thousand free books and care packages throughout the Hopi Reservation and Navajo Nation, improving accessibility to Indigenous literature.
U.K.-based artist James Cook uses a typewriter to create architectural and portraiture artworks consisting of thousands of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, encouraging viewers to look beyond their first impressions.
The author of Us From Nothing offers an exercise to enhance the body’s role in the act of writing.
The author of Us From Nothing offers an exercise to become mindful of the body’s role in the act of writing.
The author of Us From Nothing revises his thinking about the role of the body in writing.
