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National 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 201…
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July 3, 2015- January 9, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews In an announcement before the holidays, the Anton Chekhov Foundation revealed that it is working to translate over 500 of Chekhov’s earliest works into E…
November 7, 2014Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams News, Reviews, and Interviews Maaza Mengiste spoke with Mantle contributor Emmanuel Iduma this week about her phot…
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 PEN…
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 Safran Writer, 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 r…
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 C…
September 11, 2013Photo: Evoking Magritte by sleepyneko/Flickr In June I went for my interview with Latvian writer Jānis Einfelds accompanied by Sigma Ankrava, professor in the Department of Literature and Culture…
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 January…
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), about fu…
New Windows into the Iranian American Experience: An Interview with Anita Amirrezvani & Persis Karim
May 15, 2013Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis Karim Perhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since the lat…
April 29, 2013Ben Myers and his newest book Lapse Americana April means tax stresses and spring, whether for you spring involves heavy snowfall or seasonal allergies. But in the U.S. April is also nationa…
March 5, 2013Illustration by Jen Rickard On 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 competitio…- 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 new…
- 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 E…
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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The Christie Archive Trust, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsWho is the world’s most translated author? Agatha Christie? Antoine de Saint-…
