Alex Crayon

Alex Crayon is a first-year master’s student at the University of Oklahoma, where he studies rhetoric and fiction writing. He is currently the editor-in-chief of The Aster Review, a student arts magazine at OU.

Nappy Roots Books, a Bastion and a Haven: A Conversation with Camille Landry

February 22, 2021 | Alex Crayon

On a visit to an Oklahoma City bookstore, Alex Crayon finds more than books. When I pulled into the snow-covered parking lot of Nappy Roots Books in northeast Oklahoma City, the first thing...
New Midwinter Translations

Winter 2021
Alex Crayon

We love new-translation news. Here, WLT intern Alex Crayon offers four new translations—from Spanish, Korean, French, and Catalan—all releasing in February 2021. Mercedes R...
Intern’s Pick

October 14, 2020 | Alex Crayon

Helene Tursten An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good Soho Crime Trans. Marlaine Delargy I first picked up Swedish writer Helene Tursten’s collection of stories for its title and for its length; I...
Arabic Literature and Antiquarian Bookshops: A Conversation with Richard van Leeuwen

August 10, 2020 | Alex Crayon

Richard van Leeuwen is a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam. This year, he won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other Lan...
Walking The Back Roads to March: To Love the Game

July 2, 2020 | Alex Crayon

Photo by Ben Hershey / Unsplash John Feinstein, when he wrote The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season (Doubleday, 2020), pro...