On Literary Hub, Mary Karr remembers her Whiting Award notification call: "I grabbed my son and squeezed his body to mine and shouted, We won a prize! We went skipping through our small rental, hollering."

On Literary Hub, the three Special Honorees of the Lambda Literary Awards discuss their literary influences and writing styles. Of the latter, Chee explains, "There is always a place in the work where you need to let in some mystery and happenstance."

In new work on Poets.org, Levin mediates on what she dubs "a house/ with a brain inside. Another place/ where eating/ and thinking/ tango and spar."

Van der Vliet Oloomi received the award for her novel Call Me Zebra, which PEN/Faulkner Executive Director Gwydion Suilebhan called "a rare and remarkable work of art" that "makes absolutely clear what a towering moment this is for American fiction.”

A reviewer for the magazine reflects on the powerful use of silence in Kaminsky's latest collection, explaining, "As a disabled person myself, it made me think of my disabled body as an instrument of defiance against a world that regards bodies as mere tools or currency."

LaValle discusses the science fiction anthology he recently co-edited, A People's Future of the United States. Of the non-utopian impulse running through the collection's stories, he explains, "One of the more profound ideas for people is to grapple with the idea that our personal happiness does not necessarily equate to a universal happiness."

Antoinette Nwandu is profiled as one of your black playwrights challenging the conventions of theater. Of her attitude toward art, Nwandu says, "It’s going to get really
bleak, but we’re still alive, which means hope is not lost." 

Congratulations to Catherine Lacey and Shane McCrae, who received 2019 Fellowships in Fiction and Poetry, respectively.

Gander received the Pulizter for Be With, a collection containing elegiac odes, multilingual poems about the U.S.-Mexican border, and a section of hymn-like poems that address Gander's experience caring for a mother with Alzheimer's.

"'You're not ripping in half,' he said. 'That's not what people do.' 'Yes,' Peggy said. That's not what people do." Lacey's latest story, "Cut," is in the New Yorker.