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Maya Phillips reads from her debut poetry collection, Erou, published in September by Four Way Books.

Leslie Jamison reads from her new essay collection, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, published in September by Little, Brown.

t’ai freedom ford reads from her new poetry collection, & more black, published in July by Augury Books.

Nicole Dennis-Benn reads from her novel Patsy, published in June by Liveright.

Courtney Maum reads from her novel Costalegre, published in July by Tin House Books.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

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.