The Adroit Journal urges readers to pick up a copy of Jackson's latest, writing, "It is our duty to understand the contexts that lead to the awful negotiation of survival math in the first place. Read the whole book. Read the footnotes. Learn."

Whitehead discusses John Carpenter, space travel, tackling writers block, and more.

The New York Times profiles the "funny and self-examining" Michael R. Jackson and talks to him about his "equally hilarious and brutal, lacerating and tender" show, A Strange Loop.

Publishers Weekly calls Pico's newest collection "riveting" with "moments of stunning beauty."

"Whitehead negotiates a tightrope walk between the need to depict the experience of race and racism," writes Slate, "and a stubborn individualistic resistance to the claims of collective identity."

Newsday says Whitehead's new novel has "the hot breath of a true story" and "a beautiful, unforgettable young hero who walks right off the page into your heart."

Yee is one of two playwrights to receive the $275,000 award for 2019.

Of the life of a poet, Brown says, "You become an occasion for which people can come together." Brown also talks about book tours, being an "ambassador of poetry," and the limits of the genre. 

The Review calls Vuong's novel "an elegant feat of language manipulation."

"If greatness is excellence sustained over time, then without question," TIME writes, "Whitehead is one of the greatest of his generation." Whitehead, profiled by fellow Whiting winner Mitchell S. Jackson, is featured on the cover of the magazine.