Can a poem make the world a better place by documenting the darknesses around us?
Daniel Borzutzky's newest poetry collection, “The Performance of Becoming Human” feature themes of economic and political dysfunction. The collection was recently awarded the National Book Award for poetry.
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Why do books about women rarely win top literary prizes?
Acclaimed author Nicola Griffith sifted through 15 years of prize-winning books for fiction and found that several of the top literary prizes have rarely awarded anything written from a women's point of view.
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Writer Phil Klay returns to war and the strangeness of coming home for ‘Redeployment’
“Redeployment,” a collection of stories about the Iraq War and the struggles veterans face when they return, was this year’s winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Jeffrey Brown interviews writer and Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay about writing…
Author James McBride talks about slavery and humor in "The Good Lord Bird."…
James McBride talks about the National Book Award winner in fiction, "The Good Lord Bird."…
Alice McDermott invokes a voice little heard in life or literature for 'Someone'…
Poet David Ferry on Writing Verse, Reading Poems, Winning Awards at 88…
Poet David Ferry reads "Soul," a poem from his book "Bewilderment."…
