Michael R. Jackson explains that, when he creates a work of art, "My audience is always changing, depending on what the piece is." He also delves into the role of audience, experimentation within musical theater, why A Strange Loop isn't autobiographical, and more.

The two writers discuss being Vietnamese-American authors, the refugee experience, and Ocean's idea of the book as a "private town square" where readers, he says, "if I'm lucky to have them, meet there and do whatever they want."

"I age in reserve until I am as/ small as my child/ body, my chest swollen/ with bright longing," writes Villareal in a new poem for Poets.org.

Broadway World says Michael R. Jackson's musical A Strange Loop is a "clever, tuneful and gloriously neurotic mix of self-exploration and social commentary."

Jennifer duBois gives her unfiltered writing advice, telling writers to "try to amuse yourself first," and talks about what she hopes readers remember after they finish her new novel, The Spectators.

Vuong discusses his new novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, and why he defines survival as "a result of active self-knowledge, and even more so, a creative force."

Choi received the award for her translation of Kim Hyesoon's Autobiography of Death. "Through Don Mee Choi's extraordinary translations," the judges' citation reads, "we hear the clamorous registers of Kim's art."

Vuong reflects on the constraints of traditional masculinity for the Paris Review, writing, "I wonder if boys can ever bandage each other's feet, in friendship, without a password - with only passage, between each other, without shame."

On the podcast, Brown talks about how growing up in a black church prepared him to be a poet, and why he believes that "poems are better built out of what we don't understand, not what we do already know, but what we're trying to figure out and better understand."

The New York Times praises Vuong's "experimental, highly poetic" novel, writing that "the book is brilliant in the way it pays attention not to what our thoughts make us feel, but to what our feelings make us think."