Akwaeke Emezi On NPR’s “Weekend Edition”
This weekend, Akwaeke Emezi sat down with NPR‘s Scott Simon to discuss her debut novel, Freshwater, which Simon describes as “the lyrical, nonlinear story of…
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Reintroducing Lindsay Gordon, Val McDermid’s “cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist” heroine
The Lindsay Gordon novels are the series that set internationally bestselling writer Val McDermid on the path to becoming the world-class crime writer she…
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Helen Macdonald On NPR’s “Here & Now”
In her best-selling 2015 book “H is for Hawk,” Helen Macdonald wrote about training a goshawk after her father’s death. Now a new Nature…
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Eileen Myles On ‘How To Be Amazing’
Eileen Myles was Michael Ian Black’s guest on a recent episode of his ‘How To Be Amazing’ podcast. The effortlessly cool author/poet and Michael…
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Patricia Engel and Robert Olen Butler are Dayton Peace Prize Finalists
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction. “This…
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Emily Fridlund ‘Didn’t Expect’ to Land on Man Booker Shortlist
Emily Fridlund had other things on her mind when her editor e-mailed her in late July to say her novel, “History of Wolves,” had…
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Miss Burma Makes The National Book Awards Longlist
This past week, The New Yorker announced the longlists for the 2017 National Book Awards, including Young People’s Literature, Poetry, and Nonfiction. Today, they presented the final…
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New York Times Review: Disasters In the First World
The best of the 13 stories in Olivia Clare’s debut collection flout convention and work in mysterious ways. Two in particular — “Pétur” and…
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Why are we still so obsessed with Lizzie Borden?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY GRADE: A- Whether Lizzie Borden ever really took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks, then turned and gave her father…
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New York Times Raves About Lights On, Rats Out
An Odyssey Through Self-Harm and Out the Other Side Memoir writers, not unlike Blanche DuBois, depend upon the kindness of strangers. Although such writers…
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