In Praise of Marisa Siegel
Some words from the editors in praise of Marisa Siegel.
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...moreChristopher Gonzalez discusses his debut story collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT.
...moreKathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
...moreDinty W. Moore discusses his new essay collection, TO HELL WITH IT.
...moreElle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
...moreDon’t miss Words of Revolution; Words of Solace on December 5!
...moreThe Challenge creates community through ongoing engagement with it.
...moreAn exclusive first look at the cover of the forthcoming collection, FORESHADOW!
...moreVictoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
...moreWhat exactly is a platform? How do you create one?
...more“We all fail to do the right thing some of the time.”
...moreVanessa Hua interviews her mentor, Susan Straight.
...moreKwoya Fagin Maples discusses her poetry collection, MEND.
...moreMichele Filgate discusses her forthcoming anthology, WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT.
...morePoet Kristina Marie Darling discusses the literary life, collaborative writing, and the power of experimental forms.
...moreNaben Ruthnum discusses CURRY: EATING, READING, AND RACE and FIND YOU IN THE DARK.
...more“I think a safe space is one of deep listening and deep caring.”
...moreTo be named, and yet not named. Something broke in me when I read his synopsis of us, as if I had been summarily dismissed after twenty long years.
...moreTo help kick off the celebrations, we have an exclusive Q&A with Celeste Ng, 2018 National Bookstore Day Ambassador!
...moreLynn Freed discussions her recent essay collection, The Romance of Elsewhere, the importance of a good first sentence, and the risks involved in writing irony.
...moreKate Angus of Augury Books and Joe Pan of Brooklyn Arts Press discuss the challenges and triumphs that come with running an indie press, and the recent decision to make Augury an imprint of BAP.
...moreMorgan Jerkins discusses This Will Be My Undoing, getting her start on the Internet, and why her collection of linked personal essays isn’t just another Millennial read.
...moreOn Thursday night, May 25, an amazing event will take place outside a BART train station in the Mission District of San Francisco, as it has every Thursday night for the past fourteen years. If you were to pass by, you might not even notice what is taking place. The corner of 16th Street and Mission […]
...moreAs a poet I get it: talking about “literary infrastructure” is boring. Who wouldn’t rather talk about poets, poems, or aesthetic movements? When we start hearing a lot about the organizations dedicated to supporting authors, presses, and readings rather than the people making literature it probably means those organizations are threatened. Well, welcome to 2017! […]
...moreAndré Alexis discusses his latest book The Hidden Keys, puzzles, chance, divinity, and the Toronto literary community.
...moreVanessa Hua discusses her debut collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, writing fiction in order to understand life as an American-born child of immigrants, and the importance of literary community.
...moreAlice Mattison discusses her newest book, The Kite and the String, a meditation on her lifelong journey through the craft of writing, the joys of teaching writing, and the importance of community.
...moreOver at The Walrus, Michael Prior talks with poet Hoa Nguyen about the assessment of poetry, poetic communities in the US and Canada, and the role of silence and space in her own poetry: I see spacing as a way to introduce visual interest. It cues the reader to apprehend units of sense and ‘score’ […]
...moreWill Evans, Executive Director of Deep Vellum Publishing, talks about publishing translated works as well as the Texas and Dallas literary scene he wants to help grow.
...moreDavid Rivard discusses his new collection Standoff, writing as both a public and private act, the interiority of reading, and Pokémon GO.
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