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Laura Yeager is blogging for Cure Today. Among her recent posts is "Fluoroscopes, Tooth X-Rays, and Modern Cancer Radiation Treatments."
Jacobin magazine published Anni Irish's article "Museum Workers Are Tired of Being Paid in Cultural Cachet — So They're Unionizing."
Mara Reinstein asks exactly what you would in "Jane Lynch Answers Every Question We Have About The Fugitive," for Vulture.
Lara Ewen wrote "Hanes Reports Second Quarter Sales Dip, Avoids Discussion of Barington Letter" for Fashion Dive.
Jon Gingerich wrote "How to Ruin a Brand, the Elon Musk Way" for O'Dwyer's PR News.
Compass Rose published Adela Brito's poem "This Gives Me Pause."
The Paterson Literary Review published Fran McNulty's poem "The New House."
New York Quarterly published Michael Montlack's poem "At Her Gay Uncle's 40th."
Melissa Petro's article "Private Kindergarten Costs $84,000; We're Making Our School District Pay" is up now at Insider.
The Stonecoast Review published Amy Scheiner's essay "Driving with Janis Joplin."
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published Fran McNulty's essay "Just the Way You Are" in its Hair issue.
Lisa Namdar Kaufman's poem "March" is published in Tikkun.
"To my surprise, as the '90s discs took their first spins in decades, more came from the speakers than just music," writes Mike Dunphy in his essay "Lessons from a '90s CD Collection," for InsideHook.
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced it will release Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade novel The First State of Being in March 2024.
HarperCollins Publishers will release George Jreije's middle-grade novel Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria in paperpback on September 19th, and the next novel in the series, Shad Hadid and the Forbidden Alchemies, on October 17th.
The Ghost City Review published Michael Montlack's poem "House Keys."
Melissa Petro's article "How a Book Deal—And a Van—Bought Me Permission to Focus on Myself" is up now on Yahoo.
For Parade magazine, Mara Reinstein interviewed actor Laura Linney about cooking, theater, and two small moments that made big changes in her life: Seeing Kathy Bates in a church-basement play, and the first time she performed outdoors.
Brilliant Flash Fiction published Amy Scheiner's story "tv kids."
John Kachuba's middle-grade novel Haycorn Smith and the Castle Ghost is out now from Paper Angel Press.
Electric Literature published Rita Chang-Eppig's essay "Folk Religion Isn't Backward, but I Walked Backward Into It."
"I'm still looking for the answer. The formula." Cindy House talks about writers's relationships with their families, their students, their mentors, and more, at The Creative Independent.
Huizache published Casandra López's poem "An Unknown."
The New York Times Magazine published Casandra López's poem "Sister Song."
Kuros Charney's pilot The Benjamins made the Top 50 in the 2023 Launch Pad TV Pilot Competition.
The Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival, which honors the work of Vaclav Havel, has appointed Edward Einhorn as its new director.
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's article "On Revision: Writers Share Useful Tips and Strategies on How They Go About Improving Their Work" is in the latest issue of the Authors Guild Bulletin.
"Kitchen Confidential was The Bear before The Bear. So what went wrong?" asks Mara Reinstein in an essay for The Ringer.
Eerie River Publishing released Holley Cornetto's horror novel They Are Cursed Like You, the first in the new Trailer Park Witches series, in June.
Two of María Alejandra Barrios's short stories made it to the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2023: "Periquito," which was first published in Pidgeonholes, and "Alligator Girls," first published in Flash Frog.
Mara Reinstein's interview with actress and director Eva Longoria is billed as a conversation about optimism and agency, but the two talk about being broke, stealing toilet paper, working 18 hour days, and the rare, delicious joy of working eight hours and being home in time for family dinner, for Parade magazine.
The Atticus Review named Z Kennedy-Lopez its new fiction editor.
Rita Chang-Eppig's novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is the Barnes & Noble Discover Selection of the Month. Bloomsbury USA released her debut book, an adventure story starring a Chinese pirate queen, on May 30th.
Rachel Simon gave up dessert for a month, and wrote about it for Shondaland.
The Bryant Literary Review published Fran McNulty's poem "The Past Is Everything."
Mara Reinstein interviewed Arnold Schwarzenegger about politics, TV, and why he doesn't reflect much on his past, for Parade magazine.
Simon & Schuster released Cindy House's memoir Mother Noise in paperback.
Mudfish published Michael Montlack's poem "Happiness."
Greenwillow Books released Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade novel Only, Only Marisol Rainey.
En Route, a short film directed by Pamela Harris, is an official selection of the Vermont Film and Music Festival.
McSweeney's published Janine Annett's essay "All My Real Estate Fantasies."
One Story magazine published Rita Chang-Eppig's "Walking the Dead."
Melissa Petro wrote "My Postpartum Anxiety Went Undiagnosed, and Honestly, I Blame My Doctor" for Romper.
The New York Times published Rachel Simon's article "Don't Toss These Grad Caps!"
Erin Entrada Kelly's novel Those Kids From Fawn Creek is one of the Bank Street College of Education's Best Books of the Year.
D.X. Varos released Jessica Sticklor's novel After the Barricades (published under her author's name Jessica Stilling).
Amy Scheiner's essay "Tethered" is an honorable mention in Invisible City's Blurred Genre Flash Contest.
The Citron Review published Michael Montlack's poem "Here, Where."
Lev A.C. Rosen's novel Lavender House is a finalist for an Anthony Award at Bouchercon in the Historical Fiction category.
Rachel Simon interviewed novelist Mary Beth Keane, about how having a New York Times bestseller triggered her imposter syndrome, and writing her new novel The Half Moon in the aftermath, for Shondaland.
Nelsie Spencer's one-woman show Day of the Dead Daddy is a Denver Fringe Festival selection, playing June 8th through 10th at the Redline Contemporary Art Center.
Craft Literary published Justine Teu's essay "Omnipresence."
Music nerds rejoice: Mara Reinstein did a deep-dive on how the synth-heavy score and all-mid-1980s soundtrack for the film Air came together—including why Van Halen's "Jump" and any songs by Prince are noticeably absent—for Esquire.
Rachel Simon interviewed legendary children's book author Judy Blume and screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig about their collaboration to adapt Blume's novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. for the screen, in The Cut.
Anni Irish is covering labor and organizing for The Art Newspaper. Recent articles include "Strike at New York's Hispanic Society Enters Second Week as Museum Pushes Back Long-Planned Re-Opening" and "Unionised Whitney Museum Workers Ratify Their First Contract After 16 Months of Negotiations."
Publishers Weekly gave a starred review to Rita Chang-Eppig's forthcoming novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, calling it a "rollicking adventure ... not to be missed."
GCN (Gay Community News) included Scott Alexander Hess's novel The Butcher's Sons on its list of "Fourteen Great New Queer Books You Should Read in 2023.)
The Adelaide published Fran McNulty's short story "The Bull Session."
Anni Irish's article about contract negotiations at the Guggenheim Museum, "You Can't Pay Rent With Prestige," is in the Art Newspaper.
Scott LaCounte's forthcoming nonfiction book Consider the Ostrich: Unlocking the Book of Job and the Blessing of Suffering is available for pre-order.
Audible released the audiobook of Jon Gingerich's debut novel The Appetite Factory, narrated by Adam Barr.
Rachel Simon interviewed author Ann Napolitano about her new novel Hello Beautiful, writing it to escape into another world, and why all of her books explore the human need to live meaningfully, for Shondaland.
Chicago Review Press will release the paperback edition of Amanda Oliver's nonfiction book Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library—named an Esquire Best Book of the Year— on June 4th.
Mara Reinstein interviewed actor Rob Lowe about what he thinks is the best work he's ever done, working with his son, and turning 60, for Parade magazine.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published N. West Moss's essay "A Warm Hand" in its Libido issue.
Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade short story "Mother Mary, Do You Bleed?" is included in the anthology Calling The Moon: Sixteen Period Stories from BIPOC Authors, out now from Candlewick Press.
Arsenal Pulp Press announced it will publish Teresa Wong's graphic novel All Our Ordinary Stories in fall 2024.
Lev A.C. Rosen's novel Lavender House is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Mystery.
Slate published Amy Scheiner's essay "I Had Weight-Loss Surgery at 17, and It Worked—but It Didn't Address My Real Problem."
One Story magazine named Rita Chang-Eppig as one of its 2023 Literary Debutantes.
Angela Lam's debut suspense novella, No Amends, will be published on October 10, 2023.
M.M. Lafleur's The—M—Dash published Rachel Simon's article "How Do You Know When It's Time to Leave a Toxic Job?"
The Art Newspaper published Anni Irish's article "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes on Anniversary of Infamous Heist Due to Planned Climate Change Protest."
Lara Ewen wrote "Fashion Makeover: Five Ways to Rethink the Industry in 2023" for Fashion Dive.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published Fran McNulty's essay "We All Scream for Ice Cream" in its Food Issue.
You can watch Blaise Allysen Kearsley read and discuss her essay "A Jet All The Way" as part of the Raging Gracefully: The Women Who Came Before Us reading series.
Rebel Satori Press announced it will publish Scott Alexander Hess's novella A Season in Delhi in November 2023.
Carmen Bugan's poem "Wedding Ring" is the Poem of the Week in the Irish Times.
Michael Montack's poem "Any Wonder I'm a Mess" is in The Sierra Nevada Review.
Fran McNulty's poem "Street Life" is up now at Every Day Poems.
Adela Brito's poem "Wounded Birds" appears in the spring issue of Cathexis Northwest Press
For Shondaland, Rachel Simon interviewed bestselling author Emma Lord about impostor syndrome, the rom-com novel, and how the romance genre "gives readers a chance to see themselves in writing that they might otherwise never get."
Carole Buggé's novel Cleopatra's Dagger (written under her author name Carole Lawrence) is nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel published as a paperback original. The Edgars, given by the Mystery Writers of America for the best in mystery and suspense writing, will be awarded in April.
The Guardian published Jon Gingerich's essay "How I Wrote My First Novel While Going Blind — And Kept It a Secret."
Outpost19 Books will release David Berner's novella The Islander on March 9th.
Rachel Simon ranked the myriad tragedies of Meredith Grey over the 19 seasons of Grey's Anatomy, for Vulture.
Industry Dive has named Lara Ewen senior editor of its new publication Fashion Dive.
Tor.com published Rita Chang-Eppig's essay "You Can't Be Pro-Establishment and Punk Rock: The Upending of the Model Minority Myth in Mike Chen's Vampire Weekend."
"My mother said don't marry / a man who's good looking,"... Fran McNulty's poem "Self-Portrait" is up now at Poetry Potion.
The New York Times published Rachel Simon's article "Why Some Husbands Choose to Take Their Wives' Last Names."
The Keepthings published Arlaina Tibensky's essay "The Heart-Shaped Cake Pans."
Amy Scheiner's essay "Special Victims Unit" won second place in the Blue Mesa Review's Summer Nonfiction Contest.
Anita Gill's flash essay "Steel" is up now at the Coachella Review.
Apex magazine published Jennifer Marie Brissett's short story "The Healer."
The Gay and Lesbian Review published Michael Montlack's poem "Fixer Upper."
"Bugan...takes the reader on an engaging and informative scholar's tour of poets and artists...to look at language, resistance, grief, theory, struggle, perspective, and freedom," writes Rick Larios in his review of Carmen Bugan's essay collection Poetry and the Language of Oppression, for the Manhattan Review.
Melissa Petro's nonfiction book Shame On You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification will be published this fall by Putnam.
LatineLit magazine published María Alejandra Barrios's short story "Julieta."
Lisa Namdar Kaufman's poem "Spring" will appear in the anthology SMEOP: Hot, forthcoming from Black Sunflowers Poetry Press.
Mara Reinstein interviewed the actor John Larroquette for Parade magazine, asking him about the weirdness of reprising a role 35 years later, working with ghosts, and whether there's any truth to the rumor he was paid for his work on the classic film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a joint.
Rita Chang-Eppig's forthcoming novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea made several most-anticipated in 2023 lists, including from the Washington Post, the Rumpus, LitHub, and Electric Literature.
Wild Rose Press released Angela Lam's novel Never-Ending Promises.
James Preller's graphic novel The Whispering Pines, the first book in a new middle-grade suspense series, comes out from Scholastic on February 7th.
Tor published Robert Repino's essay "Six More Bizarro Made-for-TV Movies That Actually Exist."
"The problem with those who do deny the reality [of nepotism in Hollywood] is that it’s not only self-deception, but a harmful distortion for everyone else out there," writes Rachel Simon in her op-ed "Why Allison Williams Has the Best 'Nepo Baby' Comeback" for NBCThink.
Union Square Books unveiled the cover of Lev AC Rosen's forthcoming YA adventure novel Lion's Legacy and announced it will release on May 2nd.
Stanchion magazine published Arlaina Tibensky's short story "50 Free."
American Theatre magazine published Edward Einhorn's essay "Hath Not a Jew Roles? A Case for Authentic Jewish Casting."
Michael Montlack's poem "Biding" is up now at Ran Off With The Star Bassoon.
Woodhall Press released its anthology Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, featuring "The First Time It Happened" by Blaise Allysen Kearsley.
Fran McNulty's poem "Tiasquam" was featured in the Poet's Corner section of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Scary Mommy published Janine Annett's essay "Chrismukkah is Double the Work but Also Double the Fun."
"All those small chunks of writing time add up fast to a completed draft," writes Christine Meade in "A Day in the Life of an Author (and Mother)," for Hasty Book List.
Rachel Simon rounded up "18 Things You Never Knew about Titanic," for the 25th anniversary of the film's release, for Shondaland.
Catapult published Blaise Allysen Kearsley's essay "The Story of My Father's Hands."
Strings Attached, the play written by Carole Buggé, is nominated for two Broadway World Off-Broadway Awards: Best New Play—Off-Broadway, and Best Production of a Play—Off-Broadway.
Fran McNulty's poem "Bloody Red Peppers" is up now at The Inquisitive Eater.
The Sandy River Review published Adela Brito's flash story "Waiting for Sunday."
LitReactor included Jon Gingerich's new novel The Appetite Factory in its roundup "2022: The Year of Intrusive Thought as High Literature."
Susan Breen wrote "Five Newsletter Tips" for the Miss Demeanors blog.
The Offing published María Alejandra Barrios's flash story "Día de las Velitas."
Alanna Schubach is the guest editor at A Personal Anthology, recommending 12 short stories that "contain an element of mystery that keeps them in the reader’s mind, always offering up more for excavation, never exhausted."
The Latin American Cultural Center published Laura Yeager's essay "Tierra: How Does a Boy Connect with his Guatemalan Heritage?"
Love, Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie, edited by Chip Livingston, is out now from High Road Books/University of New Mexico Press.
Fractured Lit published María Alejandra Barrios's short story "Pimiento Season."
The School Library Journal named Erin Entrada Kelly's novel Those Kids From Fawn Creek to its list of Best Middle Grade Books of 2022.
Pamela Harris talked about writing animals as characters, and how including them in her stories has made her "attuned to higher ways of knowing and being," on the podcast Conversations With Animals.
Bending Genres published Michael Montlack's poem "My Sister Doesn't Remember."
Rita Chang-Eppig's forthcoming novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is one of Bookish's most anticipated novels for 2023.
Lake Union Publishing announced it will publish María Alejandra Barrios's debut novel The Women of Caminito in spring 2024.
Every Day Fiction published Holley Cornetto's short story "Mother."
Chip Livingston's essay "Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin Through Their Postcards to Each Other" is up now at LitHub.
Proof, a podcast by America's Test Kitchen, featured Varud Gupta's story "Should I Cook for My Dog?"
Erin Entrada Kelly will have a short story in the middle-grade anthology Calling The Moon: Sixteen Period Stories from BIPOC Authors, forthcoming in March from Candlewick Press.
Mara Reinstein interviewed Steve Martin about his new book, the runaway success of Only Murders in the Building, and finding a good place to stash his Oscar when he's on a Zoom call, for the cover of Parade magazine's final print edition.
Rachel Simon ranked all of Daniel Radcliffe's post-Harry Potter film roles, for Vulture.
The Washington Post called Lev AC Rosen's new novel Lavender House "richly cinematic" and included it in the round-up "Five New Thrillers and Mysteries Deliver the Best Kind of Tension."
D.X. Varos released Jessica Sticklor's latest novel Between Before and After (under her writer's name Jessica Stilling) on November 8th.
"My Neurodivergent Child Is Just as Loveable as My Neurotypical One," writes Melissa Petro for Time magazine.
New York Quarterly published Michael Montlack's poem "Past Life."
Carole Buggé talked with host Carly Newfeld about her latest novel Cleopatra's Dagger and why people still love murder mysteries on the podcast The Last Word.
"These little enclaves, where there was no dancing and no kissing and sirens blared outside, but where nonetheless there was hope," writes Lev AC Rosen about gay bars, film noir, and the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, in his essay "The Big Sleep and the Black Cat" for Crime Reads.
America's Next Great Author, a forthcoming reality show hosted by Kwame Alexander, selected Scott Alexander Hess as a semi-finalist contestant.
Summou published Stephanie Nieves's essay "Therapy Diaries."
Shondaland published Rachel Simon's article "With Abbott Elementary, Writer Brittani Nichols Has Finally Found a Place for Her Voice."
Book Riot included Alanna Schubach and her recently novel The Nobodies on its list of "Exciting Contemporary Books Looking at Jewish Life."
Anni Irish covered the contract negotiations, worker strike, and union ratification by employees of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the Art Newspaper.
"There is no quick answer to how to be an artist. There is only being an artist," writes Angie Chatman in her essay "The Apprenticeship Model" for the Brevity Blog.
December magazine published Michael Montlack's poems "Post Break-Up Saudade" and "Who Taught Casanova How to Flirt?"
Brendan Halpin's YA horror novel Black Diamond is available now on Gumdrop.
John Kachuba's middle-grade paranormal novel, "Haycorn Smith and the Castle Ghost," will be published in 2023 by Paper Angel Press.
Bloomsbury announced it will publish Rita Chang-Eppig's novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea in June 2023.
The Horn Book reviewed Erin Entrada Kelly's recently-released middle-grade novel Surely, Surely Marisol Rainey, calling it a "lively, realistic, and emotionally honest story."
Jon Reiner reviewed Tom Stoppard's latest Broadway play Leopoldstadt in "Vienna Waits for You."
Josh Sippie's short story "Wingspan" will be included in the forthcoming anthology Negative Space Comics 2022.
Scott Alexander Hess curated a list of "risk-taking, gorgeous LGBTQ novels" for Shepherd.
Rachel Simon has advice for wedding guests who have no idea what to wear in her article "Decoding the Dress Code" for the New York Times.
Cheap Pop published María Alejandra Barrios's flash fiction story "Adenium."
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announced it will publish Lev AC Rosen's young adult novel Emmett, inspired by Jane Austen's Emma, in fall 2023.
Carole Buggé and her latest novel Cleopatra's Dagger were the subject of a feature article in The Big Thrill.
The Citron Review published María Alejandra Barrios's short story "Cotton."
Literary Matters reviewed Carmen Bugan's essay collection Poetry and the Language of Oppression, calling it a "beautiful and intensely scrupulous book."
"We never realized how successful the show was." Alan Alda talks to Mara Reinstein about M*A*S*H, its legacy, and where he was when the record-breaking final episode aired, for Parade magazine.
Lev AC Rosen's forthcoming novel Lavender House (Forge Books, October 18th) has been named to several must-read lists for the fall, including BuzzFeed's "35 New Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down," Library Reads's "Top Ten New Books That Library Staff Love," Cosmopolitan's "Best Fall Books," and "October Top Ten Picks" at Loan Stars, which means it's a favorite of Canadian Librarians.
N. West Moss's essay "Goodbye, Columbus" is up now at Dorothy Parker's Ashes.
Inside Edition interviewed Rachel Simon about her new nonfiction book Pickleball for All, (released August 30th by Harper Collins), how the sport got its name, and why, 50 years after its invention, it's surging in popularity now.
Full Stop magazine interviewed Alanna Schubach about her new novel The Nobodies, and "magic, Long Island, and the hazy boundaries of the self."
The House of Mystery Radio on NBC podcast featured Scott Alexander Hess talking about the creative process that informed the mystery at the center of his novel Skyscraper.
Irene Zabytko reviewed Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories, calling it an "outstanding and significant collection of fiction...not about the current war but that nevertheless exhibits Ukrainians confronting life and death, love and betrayal, war and peace" for World Literature Today.
Andrew Collins recommended "Five Scenic Road Trips to Take in North America This Fall" for Forbes magazine.
Dollar Store magazine published Josh Sippie's "Keanu Reeves, Living the Dream," an erasure poem from the song "Keanu Reeves" by Logic.
"In any story, there is a center of moral good," writes Carole Buggé (under her author's name Carole Lawrence) in her article "The Moral Universe" for Writer's Digest.
