The lifetime achievement award, given annually by The Paris Review, recognizes a member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature. Davis will be presented with the award in April 2016.

NPR praises Alarcón’s new graphic novel about the mysterious underworld of Peruvian street clowns as "complex, assured, and rewarding.”

Hunter’s play The Whale is the winner of four Barrymore Awards from Theatre Philadelphia, including the award for Outstanding Overall Production.

The Whiting Foundation regrets the passing of gifted author and teacher Ehud Havazelet, Whiting 1999, "a writer who doesn’t merely describe but actually reproduces experiences that seem simultaneously universal and intimate." (Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review)

Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat has been shortlisted for The Evening Standard’s Theatre Award for Best Play.

In The New York Times Magazine, Mary Karr on why she doesn’t Google herself and what strangers’ stories have taught her.

Brown, along with Cornealius Eady & Kimiko Hanh, will judge Amazon’s Little A Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets.

In Electric Literature, John Freeman on publishing Lydia Davis after twenty years of reading her work through bad breakups, publishing jobs, and techno-fueled evenings.

King’s story of two house-sitting college students who teach a lonely boy about cannonballing into pools, raiding fridges, and having fun is the latest issue of One Story.

In The Nation, Pollitt argues that restrictions on abortion are "a pundit’s fantasy.”