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Dantiel W. Moniz on Feminist Awakenings and Experimenting with the First-Person Plural ELLE 17/02/2021 Sarah Moroz © Courtesy The writer breaks down the patterns and themes in her debut story collection'Milk Blood Heat'. Dantiel W. Moniz is a Florida native. That may not always be a celebrated American locus, but Moniz’s writing is joining a burgeoning regional literary canon including Lauren Groff, who blurbed the book, and Kristen Arnett. Moniz’s fiction has appeared in various literary journals, and now her first complete collection, Milk Blood Heat, covers a wide...

Feb. 15—What the Weather Channel was calling a "Historic Winter Invasion" bore down on Mississippi on Monday morning, leading the National Weather Service to warn of below-freezing temperatures and the possibility of freezing rain and hazardous travel conditions across South Mississippi. Hundreds of people in Pearl River County lost power as precipitation bands passed over the area just as ...

LeVar Burton Named Inaugural PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion By John Maher | LeVar Burton, the actor and longtime host of Reading Rainbow, has been named the inaugural PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion, a new annual commendation that will "recognize devoted literary advocacy and a commitment to inspiring new generations of readers and writers," the PEN/Faulkner Foundation said in a release. Burton will be honored in a virtual celebration on May 10, when this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award winner—its 40th—will be announced. “I come from a family for whom service to others is...

The other books to make the list: “Bestiary” by K-Ming Chang “Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear” by Matthew Salesses “The Knockout Queen” by Rufi Thorpe “Mother Daughter Widow Wife” by Robin Wasserman “Nine Shiny Objects” by Brian Castleberry “The Office of Historical Corrections” by Danielle Evans “Scattered Lights” by Steve Wiegenstein “Transcendent Kingdom” by Yaa Gyasi “These extraordinary times have called forth extraordinary art,” said Louis Bayard, PEN/Faulkner’s Awards committee chair, “and the 10 titles chosen for our longlist are a powerful re...

Design By Morgan McMullen If you have any doubts about picking up a short story collection, allow Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections to convince you otherwise. Readers devoured Evans's latest book, which is composed of six mesmerizing short stories and a novella of the same title, focused on themes of race, grief, identity, and family. $24.84 As one #ReadWithMC reviewer put it, "I never thought to compare books to eating, but reading this collection of short stories with a novella to end [with] felt like that one time I experienced what it was like to dine at a Mic...