On KCRW, Franzen discusses why, in order to write his novel Purity, he had to “wrestle it to the ground.”

The anthology, published by Elephant’s Footprint, features new work by emerging poets inspired by Stone’s legacy.

The New York Times interviews National Book Award winner in fiction Adam Johnson about the inspiration behind his writing on holograms and the "only epiphany" he’s ever had in his life.

In an interview with Guernica, Luc Sante discusses using his teenage bookshelf for research and Paris’s contradictions.

In Folio, Jericho Brown discusses the significance of giving himself a new name and how stories he heard on Louisiana porches became poetry.

In Granta, new fiction by Ben Marcus delves into how little we know about the people we love.

In The New Yorker, Daniel Alarcón on the fanatical following of soccer commentators Men In Blazers and what soccer means after the Paris terrorist attacks.

In Harper’s, new fiction by Michelle Huneven examines the affects of a teenage daughter’s drug abuse on her suburban family.

In the Los Angeles Times, critic Charles McNulty on why a new generation of playwrights, including Rajiv Joseph, represent a “fearless” era of "radical unconventionality" for American theater.

The Guardian talks to 2015 National Book Award winner in fiction Adam Johnson about the duty to tell stories and why fictional forms must shift to fit a changing world.