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#ClipOfTheDay: In this NBC News video, New York Times Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz talks about assembling their recently released list of top 100 books of the twenty-first century. at.pw.org/NYT100Books
#FromTheArchive: “Every time I hear the first few bars, my mind settles into a familiar groove, an acknowledgement that it is time to enter the writing space,” says Nawaaz Ahmed on writing to Astor Piazzolla’s music, in #WritersRecommend. at.pw.org/Ahmed
Looking to read a new poetry collection? Check out Carl Phillips’s Scattered Snows, to the North (Farrar,Straus&Giroux), Percival Everett’s Sonnets for a Missing Key (Red Hen Press), and Louise Mathias’s What If the Invader Is Beautiful (Four Way Books). #PageOne at.pw.org/PageOne2024x6
Congratulations to Christina Cooke Christina Cooke, inaugural recipient of the Poets & Writers Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center VermontStudioCenter. This newly established fellowship gives an alum of Get the Word Out, P&W’s publicity incubator for early career authors, three
#ClipOfTheDay: “If the only thing we can give to each other is ourselves, we better do it. Now.” In this inaugural Speak Now series event ColumbiaSchoolofArts, Claudia Rankine discusses the importance of literature in crises in a conversation with Sarah Cole. at.pw.org/SpeakNowRankine
Tonight at 7pm I’m talking w/ Garth Greenwell about his extraordinary new novel SMALL RAIN for Poets & Writers! The event is free but you have to register here: pw.org/live/events/th…
Zara Chowdhary describes freeing “repressed memories” and weaving the personal—her father’s passing—in with the political—“the unspoken horrors of the 2002 pogroms against Muslims in India”—in her debut novel, The Lucky Ones (Crown Publishing). Read more: at.pw.org/ZaraChowdhary
Mashing burlesque with the “bric-a-brac of girl culture,” the new digital anthology Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia.Books), coedited by Arielle Greenberg and Becca Klaver, compiles poetry by writers who embody a “feminist, critical, and campy ethos.” at.pw.org/AnthologistSO24
#ClipOfTheDay: In this Royal Society of Literature event, Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History, and Anne Michaels, author of Held, speak about their novels’ shared themes of history and memory in a conversation with Elif Shafak. at.pw.org/MessudAndMicha…