Jess Row and Melanie Rae Thon are 2016 Guggenheim recipients for their work in fiction, and Jericho Brown and James Kimbrell are awardees for poetry. 

Pinckney discusses the impact of the Berlin Wall on his work and why he believes "you can get away with anything as long as it works.”

Phillips received the award, given to books that have made important contributions to understanding of racism, for his collection Heaven (FSG, 2015).

The one-year program will produce several of Parks’s works. Signature Theatre’s founding artistic director, James Houghton, said of Parks’s residency, “Suzan-Lori's body of work absolutely warrants the kind of immersive exploration Signature's mission allows for.”

In The New Yorker, fiction by Bynum explores the multi-layered implications of a home break-in.

On The Rumpus, a poem by Brown about using literature to understand the self demands, “I want to know what/ He knew, how he became the wizard I never/ Will be.”

The New York Times writes that “there’s a good deal of magic” in Berlinski’s novel about political unrest in Haiti, praising the author’s “knack for writing short, sharp, surreal scenes” and “unforgettable moments.”

Slate proclaims that LaValle’s ode to H.P. Lovecraft is both a “thrilling” tale and a vital commentary on race in America, showing readers how “the monster of racism dooms us all.”

Chee articulates why fiction writing can occasionally be “dangerous” and the responsibilities and struggles of being the first openly gay Korean male novelist.