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Literature

How We Became/Become: Latinidad, Identity, and Love

PEN America World Voices Festival authors discuss how writing helps us understand ourselves

September 6, 2023 • by Eloisa Amezcua, María Fernanda Ampuero, José Olivarez and Javier Zamora

Poet Eloisa Amezcua, Zamora, Olivarez, and Ampuero explore how writing helps us grasp our identity, our sociopolitical context, and provokes deeper conversations about love....

How We Became/Become: Latinidad, Identity, and Love

Literature

The Eleventh Mouse

A writer welcomes the unexpected at end of an old year and the start of a new one

January 3, 2022 • by Maureen Buchanan Jones

Here I was caring for another creature with more than a bit of martyrdom and annoyance in my heart. I had forgotten my self-administered advice as an antidote to despair that “something extraordinary is going to happen today.”...

Interviews

Permission To Be Yourself: An Interview With Mira Jacob

The National Book Critics Circle finalist for her Autobiography, Good Talk

March 6, 2020 • by Mira Jacob and Ramya Ramana

--- Ramya Ramana [RR]: So first I want to say thank you for writing this, from the bottom of my heart because it was just so refreshing to read a story that I could see myself in, and so much of your journey. I felt like I see myself and I ...

Permission To Be Yourself: An Interview With Mira Jacob

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The Blessing of Invisible Pain

An Interview with Ada Limón

May 3, 2019 • by Victoria Richards

In March, The New School hosted this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards, which honor literature published in the United States in the previous year. The awards are presented in six categories -- autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry -- and are the only U.S. literary awards chosen by critics themselves. Victoria ...

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Writing Life Under Pressure

An Interview with Anna Burns

May 1, 2019 • by Aubrey Moraif

In March, The New School hosted this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards, which honor literature published in the United States in the previous year. The awards are presented in six categories -- autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry -- and are the only U.S. literary awards chosen by critics themselves. Milkman is ...

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A Reverence for Stories: Interview with Tommy Orange

The NBCC John Leonard Prize winner on There There

April 27, 2019 • by Alex Vara

In March, The New School hosted this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards, which honor literature published in the United States in the previous year. The awards are presented in six categories -- autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry -- and are the only U.S. literary awards chosen by critics themselves. Alex ...