Inventing a New Poetic Form To Honor Gwendolyn Brooks

Inventing a New Poetic Form To Honor Gwendolyn Brooks

A Roundtable Conversation with Poets from The Golden Shovel Anthology

By Literary Hub | June 7, 2017

Silence is an Occupation all Its Own

Silence is an Occupation all Its Own

Speaking with Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman about Israel and Palestine

By Ilana Masad | June 5, 2017

Sherman Alexie:

Sherman Alexie: "I Think We Live in a Constant Funeral"

On Catharsis, PTSD, and Being Unable to Forgive his Mother

By Alden Mudge | June 1, 2017

Imbolo Mbue on Empathy and the Price of the American Dream

Imbolo Mbue on Empathy and the Price of the American Dream

The Behold the Dreamers Author Talks Writing about the Financial Crisis

By Kristen Evans | June 1, 2017

Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

Michele Filgate Talks to the Very Funny Author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

By Michele Filgate | May 31, 2017

What Counts As Standard? On Black English and Black American Sign Language

What Counts As Standard? On Black English and Black American Sign Language

Linguist John McWhorter in Conversation with Novelist and Playwright Kia Corthron

By Literary Hub | May 30, 2017

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Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien

By David Chariandy | May 26, 2017

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

By Literary Hub | May 26, 2017

Vera Pavlova Writes Poems to Be Read By the Light of a Single Match

By Peter Mishler | May 24, 2017

Edan Lepucki on Dick Pics, California, and Motherhood

Edan Lepucki on Dick Pics, California, and Motherhood

The Author of Woman No. 17, in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick

By Bethanne Patrick | May 22, 2017

7 Questions for Ian Buruma, New Editor of <em>the New York Review of Books</em>

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"Go somewhere, physically or mentally, where others have not been"

By Emily Temple | May 22, 2017

Talking to <em>I Love Dick</em> Co-Creator Sarah Gubbins

Talking to I Love Dick Co-Creator Sarah Gubbins

On Collaboration, Spontaneity, and Overcoming Your Own Self-Censor

By Peter Nowogrodzki | May 19, 2017

About Suffering, Robert Lowell Was Never Wrong

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On the Very Contemporary Importance of a Great American Poet

By Literary Hub | May 18, 2017

Julie Buntin on the Joys and Tragedies of Teenage Girlhood

Julie Buntin on the Joys and Tragedies of Teenage Girlhood

The Author of Marlena in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick

By Bethanne Patrick | May 17, 2017

Sharecropper Emma Woods on Meeting James Agee

Sharecropper Emma Woods on Meeting James Agee

Archival video from Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

By Emily Temple | May 16, 2017

Poet Alan Felsenthal Brings the Light With Him

Poet Alan Felsenthal Brings the Light With Him

The Lowly Author on Joy, Regret, and Ghosts

By Thora Siemsen | May 16, 2017

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