Sandra Cisneros will receive the PEN/Nabokov Award.

Longreads published an excerpt from Hanif Abdurraqib’s Go Ahead in the Rain.

An adaptation of Mira Jacob’s Good Talk is in the works.

There’s new writing from Lisa Wells at the Poetry Foundation.

Hyperallergic revisited the paintings of Jack Kerouac.

The Baffler delved into Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die.

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