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Fiction writer Randall Kenan has died at age fifty-seven; Christina Baker Kline reflects on the lives excluded from mainstream history; Margo Okazawa-Rey shares advice for movement building; and other stories.
“If we want to see evolution, if we want to see this paradigm shift, we have to start being intentional about it, and I believe that starts with the word.” In this Philadelphia Inquirer video, Jeannine A. Cook speaks about opening Harriett’s Bookshop in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, which specializes in the work of Black and women authors. A Q&A with Cook by Jennifer Wilson appears in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Bon Appétit names book publisher Dawn Davis as next editor in chief; Onikah Asamoa-Caesar describes opening a bookstore in Tulsa during a time of growing racial awareness; Atlas Obscura surveys the prominence of public poetry in South Korea; and other stories.
Carlin Romano will remain on the board of the National Book Critics Circle; Ted Kooser to retire from editing American Life in Poetry column; Emma Copley Eisenberg makes the case for book publishers to fact-check their titles; and other stories.
Kelly Harris-DeBerry resists classism in poetry; Preety Sidhu recommends women’s work in translation; Chantel Tattoli considers “mental telegraphy” and Mark Twain; and other stories.
Ta-Nehisi Coates guest-edits a special issue of Vanity Fair; a new translation reimagines Beowulf in contemporary vernacular; essayist Matthew Salesses examines the limits of empathy as an antiracist act; and other stories.
Stimulus package will boost German bookstores; Serendipity Literary Agency celebrates two decades championing Black authors; remembering Geoffrey Nunberg; and other stories.
Swati Khurana uses the Instant Pot as a metaphor for flash fiction; book box subscription company Literati launches five new virtual book clubs; Sarah M. Sala reflects on poetry as a call to action; and other stories.
Katy Waldman observes a “reflexivity trap” in contemporary fiction; Black Book Designers launches website; Aimee Nezhukumatathil imagines life as a vampire squid; and other stories.
Jami Attenberg advises against idealizing resilience; Fatima Bhutto reflects on the young people who join extremist movements; Aja Romano write about the ongoing cultural reckoning with H. P. Lovecraft’s racism; and other stories.
