"Gilbert freaks out our eye," writes Koestenbaum, in a piece for Artforum about on how the art of David Gilbert has "changed the way I see ordinary objects."

"These futures are not easy. But they show us how we too might find ways to live, and live well, no matter what is coming," writes NPR of the science fiction anthology A People's Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams.

"Li helps the reader to look directly at grief, to consider other ways of understanding such an enormous loss through the creation of something new," writes the blog of Li's new novel, written shortly after her son's death by suicide.

"There are no easily attainable utopias on offer in A People's Future of the United States, but we catch tantalizing glimpses of possible better tomorrows," writes Barnes & Noble of the "memorable" anthology edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams.

Wang talks about bedroom dancing, the importance of a writer's group, and gives her advice for achieving excellency at karaoke: "Enthusiasm makes up for everything else. Go out there and sing your heart out." 

In an excerpt from her latest book, published posthumously, Wright delves into deep research on beech trees and the lives that surround them. " "The woman who cuts my hair said a friend of hers was earning big enough money with her smudging feathers to quit her regular job," she writes. "This would be ill-advised back East."

"When they flang me down that hole I clawed for home—/ When they sealed the seam with clay : sucked roots and ore—" A new poem by Riley in Poetry magazine explores the effects of pain on the body and mind.

In an excerpt from The Collected Schizophrenias, Wang explores the world of psychiatric treatment, writing that, "For those of us living with severe mental illness, the world is full of cages where we can be locked in."

"How easily we wear ourselves/ as if it is nothing to have/ origin, whirl, outcome, end and still be," muses the narrator in a new poem by Graham for Poetry magazine.