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Part Armor and Part Theater: Kyle Lucia Wu on Curating Sartorial Courage

Part Armor and Part Theater: Kyle Lucia Wu on Curating Sartorial Courage

Introducing When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

By Kyle Lucia Wu | November 14, 2022

Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

"New scenes unspooled easily once I’d stopped thinking about them."

By Kyle Lucia Wu | November 12, 2021

Celebrating Socially Engaged Fiction at the Aspen Words Literary Prize

Celebrating Socially Engaged Fiction at the Aspen Words Literary Prize

A Report From the Inaugural Ceremony

By Kyle Lucia Wu | April 11, 2018

Snow, Secrecy, and a Speech from the Queen: The 2018 Whiting Awards

Snow, Secrecy, and a Speech from the Queen: The 2018 Whiting Awards

A Report From the Land of Lobster Rolls and Endless Wine

By Kyle Lucia Wu | March 22, 2018

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

"I had that nervous date feeling, like you were all a giant Earth sign”

By Kyle Lucia Wu | December 1, 2017

A Night at the National Book Awards

A Night at the National Book Awards

Surviving by poetry, reading for all, and love for assistants

By Kyle Lucia Wu | November 17, 2017

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The Ebullient Joy of the Inaugural Well-Read Black Girl Festival

By Kyle Lucia Wu | September 11, 2017

A Report from the First-Ever Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival

By Kyle Lucia Wu | July 31, 2017

Attempting to Attend Every Party at Book Expo

By Kyle Lucia Wu | June 5, 2017

At the Cave Canem 20th-Anniversary Celebration

At the Cave Canem 20th-Anniversary Celebration

Luminous Words in a Beautiful Space

By Kyle Lucia Wu | May 30, 2017

Celebrating Literary Contributions Beneath Countless Chandeliers

Celebrating Literary Contributions Beneath Countless Chandeliers

A Report from the Author's Guild Annual Gala
Honoring Toni Morrison and James Patterson

By Kyle Lucia Wu | May 26, 2017

A Literary Party Institution, Both Cheeky and Sacred

A Literary Party Institution, Both Cheeky and Sacred

A Report From One Story's 15th Anniversary Debutante Ball

By Kyle Lucia Wu | May 15, 2017

Celebrating the Birth of Books Are Magic

Celebrating the Birth of Books Are Magic

"To say the book world is excited would really be underselling this"

By Kyle Lucia Wu | May 2, 2017

Partying with a New Generation of the Best Young American Novelists

Partying with a New Generation of the Best Young American Novelists

Asking Important Questions at Granta's Signature Event

By Kyle Lucia Wu | May 1, 2017

Meryl Streep and More Have Whale of a Time at the PEN Gala

Meryl Streep and More Have Whale of a Time at the PEN Gala

Also, Evergreen Advice from Honoree Stephen Sondheim: "Don't Fuck It Up"

By Kyle Lucia Wu | April 27, 2017

Hannah Tinti Learns to Shoot a Gun

Hannah Tinti Learns to Shoot a Gun

In Conversation with the Author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

By Kyle Lucia Wu | April 26, 2017

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