I wrote a little tribute to Auster.

With deep gratitude to Jack Hanson, Meghan O'Rourke, Jill, and the whole TYR crew for helping me turn this into something.

Paul Auster 'taught us that the acts of novel-writing and crime-solving are kindred.'

Ben remembers the late American novelist: yalereview.org/article/paul-a…

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'The real understanding for me, years now in the making, is that a tree in blossom is more than the fruit it yields, more than its own fleeting beauty. It is a network, a living system of relationships.'

Steve Edwards The Yale Review #longreads
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Congratulations to TYR contributors Jorie Graham and Robyn Schiff, finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; to Yiyun Li, finalist in Fiction; and to Cristina Rivera Garza, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography! 🎉 pulitzer.org/prize-winners-…

A great joy to be nominated alongside the incredible Brandon Som & Robyn Schiff. Congratulations to Brandon!

And it’s an especially great joy to be nominated alongside my beloved former student. Robyn was this astonishing from day 1. And in every book since….❤️

'A fluent yet spare volume about grief, loss, and vulnerability' — Pulitzer Prize Finalist Citation

Congratulations to Jorie Graham and her poetry collection, TO 2040, for being one of this year's finalists for the The Pulitzer Prizes: pulitzer.org/prize-winners-…

Congratulations to The Pushcart Prize winners Merritt Tierce, donika kelly, and @pardlo! ✨

Their work will appear in the prize's 49th edition next year. Revisit their pieces on our homepage today: yalereview.org

May is National Short Story Month and to celebrate we’re publishing a short story from our archives every week. First up: “The White Umbrella” by Gish Jen, from the Spring 1984 issue of TYR:
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Loved the incredible honesty & fine-tuned attention to detail in this beautiful essay by Steve Edwards in The Yale Review

“There would have been things she wanted to say but couldn’t. The trees would have to say them by blossoming.”

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“I have never once written something slowly, due to a fear of being corrected by my own

thinking.”

—Victoria Chang, “Pear Tree,” TYR’s Poem of the Week

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'A tree in blossom is more than the fruit it yields, more than its own fleeting beauty. It is a network, a living system of relationships. Like my writing, and like me, it is a state of becoming.' yalereview.org/article/steve-…

'Maybe we’re not

meant to be anything but many people at once.'

From Victoria Chang's 'Pear Tree,' TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/victor…

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“For years I had built a persona around imagining myself a novelist. I had worked to convince myself and others that, soon enough, I would emerge from my self-imposed exile transformed, with a literary masterpiece in hand.” yalereview.org/article/steve-…

This was an absolute gift to come across in our Submittable, and I could not be more excited about its publication

'I write the way I imagine the botanist’s wife planting trees for her daughters—out of equal parts futility and love, with no expectation of anything in return.' YELLOW BAND Steve Edwards The Yale Review yalereview.org/article/steve-…

Two of our authors—Brian Dillon & Amit Chaudhuri—among the excellent authors in this issue.

If you are interested in literary criticism and near Harvard Uni, today, Chaudhuri will be speaking with James Wood: 5:30pm, Barker Center 114, Kresge Room.

Many thanks to The Yale Review for publishing this essay of mine. I hope you all will read it. ❤️

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In (to say the least!) pretty exciting company, I have an essay in the next issue of The Yale Review, on “poetic criticism” and Michel Chaouli’s recent book on same.