The The Nobel Prize in literature should go to Dionne Brand

I'm really excited to be in conversation with Caren Beilin about her latest fiercely wild-ride of a book SEA, POISON (New Directions) at the downtown Powell's Books on November 2nd. I hope you'll mark your calendars and join us!

open.spotify.com/episode/4mgSnH… Loved this expansive convo with Olga Ravn about The Wax Child.

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London. ianvisits.co.uk/articles/mappi… ianvisits.co.uk/articles/mappi…

I feel very much like an object a lot of the time. It can be very scary, but sometimes I think that the feeling of being an object is changing into the feeling of being one big ear… —Olga Ravn tinhouse.com/transcript/bet…

Ah yes, the ear-feeling ...

Orison Books Poets & Writers 🧵 Poets & Writers is hosting an online celebration of the five writers in their '5 over 50' series Nov 6, 7.00 pm US ET We five will each read from our work, & respond to interview questions. The event is free to watch, but you need to register here: pw.org/live/events/5_… 💐

Excited to share this conversation with Diana Arterian about her new poetry collection AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER & her upcoming co-translation SMOKE DRIFTS, the first book-length English translations of the remarkable Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman AUDIO📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/diana-…

🎧Listen now to this amazing conversation on Between the Covers with (((David Naimon)))!

Boy o boy do I adore you, #TedChiang. Also, #PopRocks.

the transcript is up for the conversation with Diana Arterian: tinhouse.com/transcript/bet…

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize in Fiction for RAKESFALL! 🌠🌠🌠 ICYMI here is our deep dive together into the book: Audio📻🔥:tinhouse.com/podcast/vajra-…

Let's play some Jeopardy! Starting with Notre Dame for $1,000: A 2022 Guggenheim fellow, the chair of the Notre Dame Department of English, and one of tonight's Jeopardy! contestants. !!!!🛎‼!! Who is Joyelle McSweeney? Tune in at 7:30 p.m. EST on CBS to watch her compete!

Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire Robin Coste Lewis about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robin-…

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..some of the most powerful poetic erasure projects is that it's not just the source text that the people are erasing, it's the kind of standing that English has in the literary world, most of all… —Robin Coste Lewis open.spotify.com/episode/46elMz…