For Taint Taint Taint Magazine, Peter Trachenberg writes about reading Katherine Ann Porter's short novel Pale Horse, Pale Rider, set during the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The award honors "an enduring, substantial literary career." The East Oregonian, announcing the award, wrote of Gloss's work, "The arc in Molly’s works [...] takes us away from that damaging mythology into the reality of the American West."

Phillips talks to the Society for American Baseball podcast about his screenplay for Legendary’s biopic on baseball icon Roberto Clemente.

The magazine calls Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu "[an] astonishingly moving and incredibly timely memoir" and "a nuanced portrait of globalisation from the inside in a fractured world in crisis."

Brown discusses the experience of winning a Pulitzer Prize in the midst of the pandemic, why being a poet necessitates the ability to ask hard questions, and how Black churches ignited his childhood interest in poetry.

Joshua Bennett, Jordan E. Cooper, Steven Dunn, Tope Folarin, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Marwa Helal, Sarah Stewart Johnson, Sylvia Khoury, Ladan Osman, and Xan Phillips are recipients of 2021 Whiting Awards for their intrepid, affecting, and electrifying work in drama, nonfiction, poetry, and fiction!

Books by Lysley Tenorio, Catherine Lacey, Yiyun Li, Randall Kenan, Sigrid Nunez, and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum are featured in The Millions most anticipated book list for the second half of 2020.

Books by Terrance Hayes, ZZ Packer, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Tracy K. Smith, Stephanie Powell Watts, Mitchell S. Jackson, Jericho Brown, Jia Tolentino, and Colson Whitehead are on the New York Public Library list of summer staff recommendations.

In a new interview, Jackson muses, "I’ve found the writing of a poem is a kind of plunging, a willful dive below the surface of who I am, that field of mind, feeling, and memories."

Jackson  discusses Jorge Luis Borges’ influence on his new book's opening poem, reads from his collection The Absurd Man, and more.