'I love landing on a strange descriptor that rings true in your bones, that slants new light on a moment.'

#5Under35 honoree Crystal Hana Kim (Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나) chats with BOMB Magazine about her second novel, THE STONE HOME.

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'Don’t be too precious about things. And also: everything has the potential to be precious.'

#NBAwards Finalist Lisa Ko on how writing a novel is like wandering a flea market. | Literary Hub

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There's still time to register for tonight's event in Roanaoke, VA! Join 2024 Science + Literature selected author Arthur Sze and author Brian Teare in conversation. Presented in partnership w/
Roanoke County Public Library, Virginia Center for Book, and the Grandin Theatre.

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'It began as an almost inaudible hum.'

#NBAwards -honored poet Marie Howe reads 'The Hymn.' | The New Yorker

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'I’ve outlived myself not just once, but several times. And by surviving, I’ve gifted myself many new lives at once to pursue.'
— #NBAwards Finalist Hanif Abdurraqib (Hanif Abdurraqib). | The Guardian

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'You’ve been David all your life, and you become Goliath. Your life changes when you become Goliath.'

An interview with #NBAwards Winner James McBride. | New York Times Books

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Read 'At the Door of Integration, I Turned Around,' a new poem by #NBAwards -honored author Camonghne Felix. | The Nation

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'At the moment, my family is American.
We are four people, not five.'

Read 'Write a paragraph about your family,' a poem by #NBAwards Finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen. | The Yale Review

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'In my youth, when I wore a kufi, what my hair looked like became a source of wonder for the people around me. I took a foolish pleasure in holding on to that kind of power,' writes #NBAwards Finalist Hanif Abdurraqib. | The New Yorker

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On April 25, join 2024 Science + Literature selected author Arthur Sze and 2024 Science + Literature committee member Brian Teare in conversation on environmental poetry. In partnership w/Roanoke County Public Library, Virginia Center for Book, and the Grandin Theatre.

Register here: eventbrite.com/e/science-lite…

'It revealed to me an even greater challenge that lay in store—rediscovering a sense of play in reading.'

#NBAwards Longlister Heather Cleary on translating the unfamiliar. | Literary Hub

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Read an excerpt from #NBAwards Winner Ibram X. Kendi's introduction to a new edition of MALCOLM X SPEAKS. | Literary Hub

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'What if my best work is awaiting me through ease, and some level of pleasure?'

The Washington Post profiles #NBAwards Finalist Hanif Abdurraqib. | The Washington Post

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'Writing is a form of our expression, but it’s also, for some of us, a form of our alienation as well.'

The Nation profiles #NBAwards -honored author Viet Thanh Nguyen. | The Nation

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'Between the first book and the second, the Covid-19 pandemic happened, which I think changed everyone’s relationship to time and health. I also had two kids.'

#5Under35 honoree Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나 on craft, motherhood, and her novel THE STONE HOME. | Literary Hub

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'As a man, she would have cut a swathe through nineteenth-century English intellectual life and paid no price for living with her future spouse before marriage.'

#NBAwards -honored Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s THE LAST MAN. | Literary Hub

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On April 19, join editors, publishers, and poets for conversations and readings about Puerto Rican literature from/in the diverse places where the Boricua experience and imagination unfolds.

In partnership w/Humanidades PR and UPR Cayey. More info here: nationalbook.org/events/puerto-…

'Roemer’s books bring Suriname, on the South American Caribbean coast, to the world.'

The New York Times profiles #NBAwards Finalist Astrid Roemer.

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