TNS Lit Scene
Lit news aggregated by the School of Writing at the New School
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST LYDIA DAVIS
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 9, 2020by Pune Dracker At the back of the bus,inside the bathroom,this very small illegal passenger,on its way to Boston.-- “The Fly,” Lydia Davis A classic short story—yes, short story—from the w...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST EDWIDGE DANTICAT
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Fiction Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 6, 2020by Heran Abate Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside is a finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction. This short story collection takes us into the intimate depths of characters grappling to commu...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 WINNER OF THE BALAKIAN PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING KATY WALDMAN
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 6, 2020By Ladane Nasseri Katy Waldman is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was a staff writer at Slate, where she wrote about language, culture, and politics, and hosted the Slat...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC POETRY FINALIST ILYA KAMINSKY
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 6, 2020By Jessalyn Johnson In his book Deaf Republic, award-winning poet Ilya Kaminsky explores political disorder in a community where the people are united in a time of tragedy, uncertai...
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Five Questions With Ahmad Al-Ashqar
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / March 5, 2020Ahmad Al-Ashqar is a nomadic, romantic, illmatic Palestinian-American poet-translator. Soon after his birth in Kuwait, at the start of the Gulf War his family was displaced to Jordan before movin...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST MIRA JACOB
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 4, 2020By Ramya Ramana Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and fac...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST RACHEL LOUISE SNYDER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 4, 2020by LaVonne Elaine Roberts Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our student...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Poetry Finalist Morgan Parker
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 3, 2020By Masha Shollar Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the poetry collections Magical Negro (Tin House 2019), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin ...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Patrick Radden Keefe
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 3, 2020by Plamena Malinova Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST PETER HESSLER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020by Michael Schmale Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and f...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC POETRY FINALIST MARY RUEFLE
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020by Gina Chung Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and facult...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST VALERIA LUISELLI
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020By Vanessa Chan Thoughtful, quiet, and yet at times troubling and terrifying, Valeria Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive refuses to conform. It is a story of a road trip, a journey of an e...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST JOSH LEVIN
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020by L.B. Browne In his critically acclaimed book The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, Josh Levin, national editor of Slate, introduces us to Linda Taylor, a welfare cheat who ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST MYLA GOLDBERG
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, MFA Creative Writing Events, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are abl...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST KATE BROWN
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, MFA Creative Writing Events, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST SONIA PURNELL
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / February 28, 2020By Taylor Sue Leonhardt Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our student...
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INTERVIEW WITH NAOMI SHIHAB NYE RECIPIENT OF THE 2019 NBCC IVAN SANDROF AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / February 28, 2020By Aekta Khubchandani Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students a...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST BEN LERNER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / February 26, 2020By Zac Ginsburg Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and...
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Five Questions With Natalie Fletcher
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / February 26, 2020Natalie Fletcher is a writer from Kingston, Jamaica. She has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the New School, and most recently worked as an associate lecturer at the University of the W...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST LUCASTA MILLER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / February 24, 2020By Kate Tooley Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and facul...
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