“I am the keeper tells/ Me the most popular exhibit,” begins McCrae’s poem about the cruelty human beings are capable of inflicting on each other.

Fraizer tells the Tribune how he balances humor with reporting in his journalistic work and recounts the story of New York’s “Hip Hop Cop.”

In the New Republic, Chee reflects on queer identity in the aftermath of the Orlando massacre and reminds readers “we can honor the dead by making the world they dreamed of into a reality for the living.”

In The Paris Review, Phillips discusses the NBA finals season and how basketball “becomes a physical language for unspoken aspects of your inner life.”

“Frazier takes you places that make you grasp his book with white knuckles,” The Christian Science Monitor reports, in a review that praises Frazier’s “remarkable unquenchable curiosity.” 

For the T Magazine feature, Cunningham shares the stories behind his love of Denis Johnson, Louise Gluck, and one surprise 11^th pick. 

Financial Times deems the novel “impressive” and “richly imagined,” praising in particular Chee’s dynamic heroine, soprano and diva Lilliet Berne. 

On literary podcast Mass and Volume, Row discusses the influence growing up in Baltimore has had on his work and his profound realization at age 22 that he had a “fragile” sense of self.

The Village Voice writes in praise of "excitingly prolific" and "venturesome" playwrights Danai Gurira, Lucas Hnath, and Rajiv Joseph.

Van der Vliet Oloomi explains that “bewilderment & drift is what keeps me returning to my writing desk day after day" and describes her creative process.