Multimedia - Audio

Karen Russell reads an excerpt from her new story collection, Orange World, published by Knopf in May. 

Jericho Brown reads a poem from his new collection, The Tradition, published this month by Copper Canyon Press.

The Bookshop Band’s “Once Upon a Time,” a song composed of first lines from books. Used by permission of the Bookshop Band.

Paisley Rekdal reads two poems from her sixth poetry collection, Nightingale, out in May from Copper Canyon Press. Rekdal is the subject of a profile, “Shadow Narratives” by Renée H. Shea, in the May/June 2019 issue.

Helen Oyeyemi reads from her new novel, Gingerbread, published in March by Riverhead Books. Audio excerpted courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio.

Ilya Kaminsky reads three poems from Deaf Republic, published in March 2019 by Graywolf Press. pro_greenwell.jpg Read “Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky” by Garth Greenwell in the March/April...

Valeria Luiselli reads a section from her new novel, Lost Children Archive, published in February by Knopf. Audio excerpted courtesy Penguin Random House Audio from Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, read by the author,...

Marlon James reads from the first novel in his Dark Star Trilogy, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, published in February by Riverhead Books. pro_jones.jpg Read “Shape-Shifter: A Profile of Marlon James” by Kima...

Maurice Carlos Ruffin reads from his debut novel, We Cast a Shadow, published in January by One World.

Natasha Trethewey reads two poems, originally published in Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) and included in her new book, Monument: Poems New and Selected, published in November by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Rebecca Solnit reads an essay from her new collection, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays), published in September by Haymarket Books.