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“While art is most powerful when it is prominent to a populace, so too our community movements.” Read Ocean Vuong’s keynote speech from the 2025 Whiting Awards Ceremony. | Lit Hub Craft
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A physics student’s talents are tested when he’s transported to a world of magic and mysteries in the first book of a new fantasy series.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins goes deep on the craft of overhauling his Pulitzer-winning play. | New York Magazine
“It’s about falling for someone and then wistfully and willfully losing that someone, while also trying to invent a spatial distribution of the soul that would allow one to feel connected to that person but also alone.” Claudia Durastanti on Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Separate Rooms. | The Paris Review
“Isn’t it possible that dispatching a 21st-century writer to Paris to tramp along in Twain’s wake might enhance the modern reader’s appreciation of Twain’s work by proxy? It’s certainly not impossible.” Caity Weaver attempts to follow in Mark Twain’s (Parisian) footsteps. | The Atlantic
“Whether we call Lorelei too fast and loose or a little slow on the uptake, we do so with the fantasy of finding truth in speed.” Jeewon Yoo revisits Anita Loo’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. | Public Books
