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Michelle Lin April 20, 2021 Bestiary, published by One World / Random House, is K-Ming Chang’s debut novel. Chang’s writing style is a siren song—it pulls readers into her stories of loss, survival, and multi-faceted love. A Kundiman fellow and Lambda Literary Award finalist, Chang’s work blends and breaks down genre. I first discovered Chang’s work as a poet, and reading Bestiary feels simultaneously like coming home and a breath of fresh air. Here, we discuss intergenerational relationships, the idea of a homeland, and her writing inspirations. Michelle Lin: Firstly, the conc...

The Martha's Vineyard Times Literary Arts at Featherstone offers spring workshops The Featherstone campus in Oak Bluffs. — Courtesy Featherstone As spring arrives, Literary Arts at Featherstone announces its workshops for the season. From April 5 to April 9, poet Angel Nafis will be teaching her “Elegies are Odes, Odes are Elegies, Too” workshop. “This workshop will focus on the components and potential of both the ode and the elegy. How they each bend to encompass the mundane and extraordinary elements of our earth. Participants will explore both structures in each of the...

The Martha's Vineyard Times Noepe Center for the Literary Arts announces writing workshops Shira Erlichman — Hieu Minh Nguyen K-Ming Chang — Courtesy Noepe Center for Literary Arts Noepe Center for the Literary Arts at Featherstone recently announced its winter and spring 2021 writing workshops. The year gets started with Shira Erlichman, with her poetry workshop “Nothing for Granted.” The virtual five-day course will run from Feb. 15 to 19, 4:30 to 6 pm. “In his brief poem ‘Watermelons,’ Charles Simic writes, ‘Green Buddhas/ On the fruit stand. / We eat the smile/...

Print If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Even under quarantine, it isn’t always possible to get through all the books you want to read — not with so much Zoom schooling and doom-scrolling to do. As the holidays start creeping up and leisure time starts to stretch, it’s the perfect time to give the right person just the right book, or five or 10. Herewith, a carefully curated list of the most engaging, funniest and most urgent work of the year.