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A new literary crime-and-memoir hybrid by Claudia Rowe ’88 dropped recently, earning a spot on New York Post’s “Must Read Books” list and critical praise from Kirkus Reviews and Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl.
LitHub published an article by Summer Brennan '01 called "Notes From the Resistance: A Column on Language and Power."
This Will Be My Undoing, a collection of essays by Morgan Jerkins MFA '16, was included in the The Millions most anticipated books of 2017 list.
glowingly reviewed Thorsten Dennerline and Michael Dumanis’ “,” writing that the “clouds, sky, [and] text….create a rich brew that has...everything to do with the roots of poetry.”
A poem by Safiya Sinclair '10 was featured on Poets.org as part of their Poem-a-Day series. The series began in 2006 and is "the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 200 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each year."
Earlier this week, Mashable announced their long lists for several categories of the 2017 PEN Literary awards, which include a number of Ź graduates.
This month, two alumni had poems featured on Poets.org's Poem-A-Day. The first was "" by Lynn Emanuel '72, whose book of poem The Nerve of It, was awarded the 2016 Lenore Marshall Prize. The second was an excerpt from "" by Anais Duplan '14, who released his debut collection, Take This Stallion, in June.
Harper's Bazaar published a story on the Literary Brat Pack, featuring Bret Easton Ellis '86, Donna Tartt '86, and Jill Eisenstein '86, all of whom "helped change the course of American literature—and looked great doing it."
Barbara Alfano published an essay on Elena Ferrante’s La Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey, in Stanford’s Arcade in response to Claudio Gatti's exposé of Elena Ferrante’s identity.
Benjamin Anastas' acclaimed memoir Too Good to Be True will be available in paperback on October 25.
Mark Wunderlich published a new poem in the American Academy of Poets called "The Son I'll Never Have." It also appears in the .
Jonathan Lethem '86 has been a fixture in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications following the release of his acclaimed new book A Gambler's Anatomy.
"A tour of the United States through books" on Electric Lit features The Secret History by Donna Tartt '86 as the recommended book for the state of Vermont. MFA faculty member Alexander Chee's novel Edinburgh represents the state of Maine.
With the release of a new biography by Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Jackson's life as a writer, mother, and faculty wife in North Ź has received further attention.
Marguerite Feitlowitz was interviewed by Andrew Graham-Yooll in áԲ12&Բ;as an expert on the subject of the language of dictatorship on how she came to focus her work on Argentina’s history.
Lynn Emanuel '72 has been awarded the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her new book The Nerve of It.
Lydia Martín MFAW '16 has won Ploughshare's 2016 Emerging Writer's Contest Fiction Prize for her story "The Adjustment Act." Fiction judge Anthony Marra called it "a flat-out triumph: richly characterized, gorgeously rendered, deeply humane." Ploughshares, which is published by Emerson College, "has been committed to promoting the work of up-and-coming writers" since 1971.
Franci Revel '18 is the winner of this year's American Academy of Poet's Ź College Poetry Prize for her poem "Pasture." Revel's work was recognized as part of the AAP's University and College Poetry Prizes Program, which "sponsors over 200 annual poetry prizes at colleges and universities across the U.S." The AAP prizes also provide "visibility and financial support to poets demonstrating artistic excellence." Her piece is currently featured on their website.
Two alumni were included in Buzzfeed's list of 21 Incredible New Books You Need to Read this Fall. A "colorful new novel" by Jonathan Lethem '86, A Gambler's Anatomy, was featured, along with Safiya Sinclair's '10 new "lyrical and provocative" book of poetry Cannibal.
Benjamin Anastas’ review of Javier Marías’ Thus Bad Begins, “a novel of espionage and betrayal in post-Franco Spain” was published on Bookforum this month. Anastas writes, “the author is a listener in the aisles of a vast global library, and he can hear the great books whispering.”
Roa Lynn ’60 wrote a piece that appeared in The New Yorker earlier this summer about having lunch with Pablo Neruda in June, 1968, and the poem he wrote for her inspired by that meeting. Lynn links her memory of Neruda to hearing the news of Bobby Kennedy's assassination, and an attempted murder she witnessed from the window of a bus while traveling in Argentina.
The Rumpus published a piece on The Ź Review in their "This Week in Short Fiction" section. The article had only good things to say about the newly revived magazine, and especially praised their choice to include "The Pariah and I" by Porochista Khakpoor, as well as the journal's inclusive mission statement.
Effy Redman '04 recently published a piece in The New York Times about growing up with Moebius Syndrome, a condition that renders her unable to smile or make most other facial expressions. In the article, Redman meditates on the difficulties she deals with as a person unable to participate in the many-layered and surprisingly vital social mechanism that is a simple smile.
The Lost Girls, the debut novel of Heather Young MFAW '11, was published this summer by William Morrow. The Lost Girls, while not her first published work, is her first work of fiction.
The Imperial Wife, by Irina Reyn MFAW '06, has received widespread critical attention and praise, including an article and interview with NPR, and a review in the .
Lee Clay Johnson '07 is the author of Nitro Mountain, which was published this spring by Knopf. It has been favorably reviewed by several literary journals including Kirkus and Electric Literature and most recently, by the New York Times.
Alice Mattison, award-winning author and core faculty of the MFA Program, was interviewed by Sarai Walker MFA '03 in The Center for Fiction on "looking like a writer," and her new non-fiction guide for authors, The Kite and the String.
Marguerite Feitlowitz, faculty member in literature, was interviewed about her book, A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, which explores the verbal atrocities of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, in in the Buenos Aires Herald.
Anaïs Duplan '14, who attended the MFA program at Iowa Writer’s Workshop after graduating from Ź, published his first book of poetry with Brooklyn Arts Press. A number of the poems in the collection, titled Take This Stallion, were first written and published when Duplan was a student at Ź.