Setting: the Mississippi Gulf Coast, post-Katrina
More about Frederick Barthelme’s Waveland soon, but for now, see Bookforum.
More about Frederick Barthelme’s Waveland soon, but for now, see Bookforum.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her new collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, much of which, unlike her prior work, is set in the States.
The April issue of Words Without Borders samples work from PEN World Voices authors. (Laila Lalami & Marlon James will be in town for the 2009 festival.)
Dwight Garner praises Sayrafiezadeh’s When Skateboards Will Be Free for its “wistful comedy” and curiosity about the intersection of “desire, self-sacrifice & societal obligation.”
Christian Lorenzten says Frederick Seidel emerges in his collected poems as a “reluctant but willful ambassador of American excess.”