Hanif Kureishi: Shattered
James O'Brien meets Hanif Kureishi | LBCIn this 2024 LBC Full Disclosure podcast interview with James O’Brien, author and playwright Hanif Kureishi talks about the life-changing fall which led him to...
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PoetryEdges of Ailey is an immersive exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art centered around the twentieth-century choreographer, dancer, and artist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance...
View ArticleRoosevelt Poetry Reading: Ilya Kaminsky
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Ilya KaminskyIn this Harvard Radcliffe Institute event, Ilya Kaminsky reads a selection of poems from his collection Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019), including...
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Lee Hawkins: "I Am Nobody's Slave"“This book is not about blame, it’s about understanding.” In this Enoch Pratt Free Library event in Baltimore, Lee Hawkins speaks about the history and research he...
View ArticlePoetry and Shame With Matthew Nienow
S3 E7 Poetry and Shame with Special Guest, Matt Nienow“Some things, then, cannot be repaired and must go on, into a kind of dusk that seems somehow endless,” reads Matthew Nienow from his poem “Dusk...
View ArticleSeverance
Creative NonfictionThe science fiction thriller television series Severance, created by Dan Erickson, is centered around a group of characters who work on a classified project at a corporation and...
View ArticleJessie Tu on Second Books
Jessie Tu in conversation with Annabel CrabbAuthor and journalist Jessie Tu talks about her experience and expectations for writing her second novel, The Honeyeaters (Allen & Unwin, 2024), and the...
View ArticleBad Clothes
Fiction“Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær” is a rhyming proverb in Norwegian that means there’s no bad weather, just bad clothing. This sentiment points not just to a high value of...
View ArticleAsako Yuzuki: Butter
Asako Yuzuki: Waterstones Book of the Year Winner InterviewIn this Waterstones interview, Asako Yuzuki discusses the process of writing and publishing her novel Butter (4th Estate, 2024), translated...
View ArticleWalk in the Woods
PoetryIn a Sight and Sound magazine interview from last November, filmmaker David Lynch, who passed away earlier this month, was asked about the inspiration for his latest album with longtime...
View ArticleKarissa Chen: Homeseeking
Karissa Chen with Vanessa Hua: HomeseekingIn this Green Apple Books event, Karissa Chen reads from her debut novel, Homeseeking (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2025), and speaks about how her late grandfather’s...
View ArticlePico Iyer on Learning From Silence
Episode 138: Pico Iyer - What We Can Learn From SilenceIn this episode of the Keep Talking Podcast, Pico Iyer talks about losing his home in the 1990 Painted Cave fire in Santa Barbara, his experiences...
View ArticleHala Alyan: Light Ghazal
Hala Alyan - "Light Ghazal"Hala Alyan reads her poem “Light Ghazal,” which appears in her fifth poetry collection, The Moon That Turns You Back (Ecco, 2024), in this short film directed by Jake McAfee...
View ArticleTo Animate the Inanimate
Creative NonfictionMati Diop’s 2024 hybrid documentary, Dahomey, chronicles the repatriation of twenty-six cultural treasures—including sculptures and a throne plundered during France’s colonial rule...
View ArticleBéatrice Szymkowiak and Monica Youn
GWS — Béatrice Szymkowiak & Monica Youn — 22 February 2024In this 2024 Guest Writers Series event hosted by the University of Utah’s Creative Writing department, Monica Youn reads poems about...
View ArticleRuben Reyes Jr.
I love craft books and advice columns, but I don’t actually think there’s a one-stop solution for writer’s block. It’s like finding the right combination of antidepressants. There’s a lot of trial and...
View ArticleWinter of Our Discontent
Fiction“Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York; / And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house / In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” In the soliloquy...
View ArticleIn Real Life
PoetryAriel Francisco’s poem “On the Shore of Lake Atitlán, Apparently I Ruined Breakfast,” published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poet-a-Day series, recounts a puckish remark which derails the...
View ArticleSolmaz Sharif: Customs
Solmaz Sharif: Can We Ever Really Belong Anywhere? (Bristol Ideas)In this 2023 Bristol Ideas virtual event, Solmaz Sharif speaks with host Zoë Steadman-Milne about the nature of customs and...
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Mickey 17 | Official TrailerWatch the trailer for Mickey 17, a science fiction film based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, Mickey7. Written, produced, and directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Robert...
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