Announcing the 2023 George Plimpton and Susannah Hunnewell Prize Winners
We are delighted to announce that on April 4, at our Spring Revel, Harriet Clark will receive the George Plimpton Prize, and the inaugural Susannah Hunnewell Prize will be presented to Ishion Hutchinson. The George Plimpton Prize, awarded annually since 1993 by the editorial committee of our board of directors, recognizes an emerging writer of […]
A Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love
The counterintuitive truth about “the love that dare not speak its name” — a late-19th-century term of art for love between men — is that precluding the name “homosexuality,” it was allowed to be quite loud: It was sung, written, verified and moaned about everywhere, from retellings of classical myths to the dormitories of the […]
In “Vintage Contemporaries,” A Young Woman Reconciles Her Idealism With the Realities of Adulthood in New York City
In 1991, 22-year-old white Wisconsinite Emily was the beleaguered assistant to a literary agent. She wants to be a writer, loves Literature with a capital L, and is unimpressed by the feel-good writing of her mother’s college friend Lucy, who wrote a few novels for a small press. But Emily appreciates that Lucy is a […]
M.K. Lobb on Writing Her YA Fantasy Debut “Seven Faceless Saints”
“I hope young people can see the messy parts of themselves in Roz and Damian.” When M.K. Lobb started writing the manuscript that would ultimately become her debut YA novel, she set out to write a book for herself. “I wasn’t trying to impress anyone—it was a compilation of all the things I liked,” Lobb […]