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December 1, 2021Photo by Diane Picchiottino / Unsplash That Famous Abyss (Wunderkammer, 2020) is a book of exclusive interviews with Enrique Vila-Matas by cultural journalist Anna María Iglesia,…
November 21, 2017Seth Michelson / Courtesy of Washington & Lee UniversityIn October 2017 nonprofit press Settlement House released Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention…
February 13, 2017The Free Minds book club and writing workshop at AWP empowered young inmates to “write new chapters in their lives.” Said Nokomis, “Free Minds encouraged me to be a better writer . . . to be a bigger…
August 26, 2016Photo by Syd Wachs/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The September issue of WLT is here! Get your print or digital copy, or read the entire issue on the website for only $1.25…
July 1, 2016Photo: Frankieleon/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.” Recent WLT…
June 22, 2016Was Lou Andreas-Salomé a writer or a muse, a feminist or a femme fatale? A new film by Cordula Kablitz-Post looks at one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals—and at her complicated life.…
November 30, 2015Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman.“Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still u…- June 19, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsIsraeli writer Etgar Keret was interviewed recently on NPR. Keret discussed how he learned storytelling and survival from his father who survived the Holocaust.Jo…
- August 29, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsThis week, the world mourned the passing of Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim.In her first New York City appearance in over 10 years, Herta Müller disc…
July 28, 2014While staring at the paper on his writing desk, the author wonders whether he’s building a new Tower of Babel.There is a poem I know, by a poet who shall remain unnamed, in which the poet eng…- May 23, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsFollowing success at this year’s London Book Fair, where Korean literature was the main theme and focus, The Korea Times notes that K-Lit is now…
March 18, 2014New Vessel Press recently released The Good Life Elsewhere, Vladimir Lorchenkov’s scathing satire from Moldova. Born and currently living in Moldova, Lorchenkov is a laureate of Russia’s…- September 13, 2013This week is a celebration of several new milestones: the Man Booker shortlist came out, with Colm Tóibín’s novel, The Testament of Mary, coming in as the shortest nominated book in the prize…
July 2, 2013“Dogs bark,” writes Warren Motte, “for the same reasons that I write: it’s our way of coming to terms with things, gropingly, imprecisely, and as best we can.” Photo: Thomas Hawk/FlickrI…
May 7, 2013In my travels around the global literary scene, the question of a writerly identity has never seemed more precarious, conflicted, and urgent than with writers from Africa. More o…- February 21, 2013Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. played himself in the movie Back to School, where he comically helps the wealthy Thornton Melon (played by Rodney Dangerfield) in a homework scheme that backfires.“Dea…
- August 31, 2012This week was full of new items worthy of our "Fun Finds and Inspiration" title. But don't forget to mark your calendars with the events listed under "For Your Calendar"!News, Reviews, and Int…
- August 24, 2012This week was again full of exciting literary news, including several news items about past Neustadt and Puterbaugh participants, which we love to see! (By the way, the 2012 Neustadt Festival…
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