Anthony Carelli, Leopoldine Core, Aracelis Girmay, Lucas Hnath, Jenny Johnson, Dan Josefson, Elena Passarello, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi and Anne Washburn are recipients of 2015 Whiting Awards for their clear-eyed, lyrical, and urgent work in fiction, poetry, nonfiction and drama!

Parks receives the $100,000 award for her "unflinching...iconic" trilogy, Father Comes Home from the Wars, currently at the American Repertory Theater. 

Friday, March 6 at 7pm: come hear the ten spectacular writers who have won this year’s Whiting Awards at BookCourt! Recipients’ names to be announced Thursday evening.

Meyer discusses living in the village of Wasteland, China, and the history at the heart of his new book, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China.

“She left us at night. It had felt like night for a long time, the days at once short and ceaselessly long.” Read further in Harvard Magazine.

Vollmann writes on the after-effects of the Fukushima power plant disaster in “Invisible and Insidious.”

Fame and infamy, Warhol, and The Most Wanted List: read Luc Sante’s short story here.

Read Meis’s “Page Turner” post on the late Konwicki’s Polish Complex and his complicated relationship to Poland’s Cold War past.  

Allen will read from Song of the Shank, his 2014 novel described as “the kind of imaginative work only a prodigiously gifted risk-taker could produce” by the New York Times Book Review. 

The essayist and novelist are among Alexander Chee’s twelve picks to fill the unconventional “micro-residencies” at the New York City hotel in a “kind of living anthology.”