News, Reviews, and InterviewsNational Book Award winner and Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie will publish his first picture book in May 2016. WLT featured Alexie on the cover of the July 2010…
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July 3, 2015- January 9, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn an announcement before the holidays, the Anton Chekhov Foundation revealed that it is working to translate over 500 of Chekhov’s earliest works into En…
November 7, 2014Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun WilliamsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsMaaza Mengiste spoke with Mantle contributor Emmanuel Iduma this week about her photogr…
December 12, 2013A Q&A with Deji Olukotun See the full interactive infographics at PEN.org.Deji Olukotun is PEN’s inaugural Freedom to Write Fellow, and he’s helping to lay a universal foundation at all P…
October 30, 2013Sana Sood is an Indian American woman living in Washington, D.C. Growing up in India, Sood has always been very close to her culture and to its religious holidays. In order to expose her baby boy…
October 28, 2013Joshua SafranWriter, lawyer, and occasional rabbi Joshua Safran’s new book, Free Spirit: Growing up on the Road and off the Grid, chronicles a childhood spent on the roa…
October 16, 2013Jane Hirshfield and Donald Hall at the Hall-Kenyon Prize ceremony (Concord, New Hampshire, October 24, 2012)This interview was first conducted on October 24, 2012, at the Concord Public Library in Con…
September 11, 2013Photo: Evoking Magritte by sleepyneko/FlickrIn June I went for my interview with Latvian writer Jānis Einfelds accompanied by Sigma Ankrava, professor in the Department of Literature and Cult…
August 6, 2013Today marks the release of Peter Orner’s second short-story collection, Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge. (This collection includes a story from WLT’s Januar…
June 25, 2013A Conversation with Boris Dralyuk I recently interviewed Boris Dralyuk, translator of A Slap in the Face: Four Russian Futurist Manifestos (now on pre-sale from Insert Blanc Press), abou…
New Windows into the Iranian American Experience: An Interview with Anita Amirrezvani & Persis Karim
May 15, 2013Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis KarimPerhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since…
April 29, 2013Ben Myers and his newest book Lapse AmericanaApril means tax stresses and spring, whether for you spring involves heavy snowfall or seasonal allergies. But in the U.S. April is also national…
March 5, 2013Illustration by Jen RickardOn March 13 fiction star Amelia Gray will perform in Boston at the seven-year anniversary of the raucous phenomenon known as the Literary Death Match, a monthly competition…- November 7, 2012Left: WLT intern Alyssa Boutelle's illustration of a quote from the September issue of WLT. Right, a screenshot of the new WLT Pinterest.We’ve been pinning away in our…
- September 12, 2012From the Clinton Library, a view of a bridge crossing the Arkansas River.Every two years a group of outstanding international writers gathers for the International Conference on the Short Story in Eng…
August 29, 2012In this new series of blog posts we open a window into the creative spaces of our writers all around the world, getting a brief glimpse into how and where they each uniqely work through the creative p…
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