Bruce Smith’s new collection of poems is extraordinary and it’s out this month from University of Chicago Press. Devotions is Bruce’s sixth collection, his most recent being Songs For Two Voices and The Other Lover, which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. But let’s not forget about The Common Wages, his early work, which [...]
Author Archives: Thomas Yagoda
Eganism
April 18, 2011 – 7:11 pm
We’re very excited to learn that Jennifer Egan has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her terrifically kick-ass, beautifully woven and beautifully peopled book, A Visit From the Goon Squad. It has without a doubt been one of the more talked about books of fiction in recent years and for very good reason. [...]
Alana Joblin Ain
October 6, 2010 – 4:11 pm
Alana Joblin Ain’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Crab Orchard Review, Quarterly West, RealPoetik, Women’s Collaborative Circles, and The Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Alana resides in Brooklyn, NY, and teaches creative writing and literature at Hunter College, where she earned her MFA in poetry. Image, Cut Map On Paper: Pollinate, by [...]
Adam Levin’s Instructions
September 28, 2010 – 11:13 am
Adam Levin’s debut novel is now available from McSweeney’s. We had the great fortune of publishing Levin’s story, Prayer, in our third issue. To say we’re enthusiastic about this publication is putting it very mildly. He’s an incredible storyteller and we wholeheartedly suggest you take the high dive into Levin’s tale of four glorious uproarious [...]
Anne Sanow
May 6, 2010 – 12:45 pm
Anne Sanow’s first book of stories, Triple Time, winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, has recently been awarded this year’s L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Fiction. The magnificent collection deserves all the acclaim it’s been getting. Story after story, you’ll likely be astounded by the graceful precision of the author’s descriptions, the [...]
Rebecca Keith
April 18, 2010 – 9:35 pm
Rebecca Keith’s poems, essays, and interviews have appeared most recently in Best New Poets, 2009, The Laurel Review, The Rumpus, and The Millions. She was a semi-finalist for the 2010 “Discovery”/Boston Review poetry contest and has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and Bomb magazine. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College [...]
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
April 2, 2010 – 10:07 am
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review Online, Drunken Boat, Verse Daily, Salt Hill, Hayden’s Ferry, Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an editor for DIAGRAM and poemmemoirstory.
