Never Left Behind
In an interview with Daniel Olivas for the Los Angeles Review of Books, debut novelist Natalia Sylvester talks about growing up in Peru, learning characters’ secrets, and what happens when…
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Liv Lansdale
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Liv Lansdale is the book reviews editor for poetsatwork.com. Her favorite sentence of the 18th century is from Wollstonecraft and refers to men as "bugbears." She is actively seeking the perfect mojito.
And the Winner of Best Premise Award Goes to…
Debuting what is surely one of the longer titles in literary history, Bethany Billman has published a piece called, “Lost Scenes from Generic Hipster Indie Romance Films Found in 2076…
Does Poetry Matter?
Yesterday’s New York Times posed this question to poetry superstars Tracy K. Smith, Martin Espada, William Logan, Paul Muldoon, Sandra Beasley, Patrick Rosal, and our own David Biespiel. Whether by…
A Million Pound Book
The first printed book in the English language was just sold at auction for £1,082,500. Coming in at 540 years old, The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye revamps Greek…
Another Unpopular Proverb
Popular novelist Teddy Wayne’s latest entry in his series of proverbs for McSweeney’s is called “Thought.” No, not the deep kind. Read it here.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Poetry
New York’s own Erika Anderson has a reading series unlike any other. Once a month, Brooklynites step up to the mic in a vintage clothing store and read poetry from…