Award-winning poet and writer Téa Mutonji is Western’s incoming writer-in-residence. (Sarah Bodri photo) As Western’s incoming writer-in-residence, Téa Mutonji feels right at home, relating to students. The award-winning poet and author is a student herself, currently pursuing her MFA in the low-residency creative writing program at NYU, where she was awarded the 2021 Jill Davis […]
The folk singer and author tells NME why he was allowed to “run wild” in creating a Secret Lair set for the hugely popular card game 16th August 2023 John Darnielle, with artwork from Magic: The Gathering’s ‘Featuring: The Mountain Goats’ set. Credit: David A. Smith / Getty Images, Wizards Of The Coast. 4 0 […]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of Lilly Dancyger’s forthcoming essay collection about female friendship, First Love , which will be published by The Dial Press in May. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: When Lilly Dancyger’s beloved cousin Sabina was murdered just as both girls were entering their […]
The time had come again. The little white bookshelf in the dining room, two shelves, three feet wide, was full. Overly full. The books were stacked in columns, bottom edges rather than spines showing, each shelf crammed tight. Elsewhere in our compact flat, a few other piles of books bubbled up like springs. These are […]
A panoramic illustration shows a young Black girl in a tutu pushing forward out of a pool of her own tears as if doing the breaststroke. Floating on top of the water beneath her are some of the words that have made her cry: “too big,” “cow,” “ha ha,” “moose.” “The first time I looked […]
The following is from xxx’s Lojman . Ojen was born in 1981 to Kurdish parents in Malatya, Turkey. In 2014, Ojen published her striking debut novel, Aşı (Vaccine) , about a state-sponsored vaccine campaign in an imaginary Kurdish village. That same year, Ojen was recognized among the ten most important emerging voices in Turkish literature. […]
