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The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, and now comes another kind of offering a searching look at the meaning of the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and voice and life. Tracy K. Smith co-edited the stunning book,
There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, a collection of 40 pieces that span an array of BIPOC voices from Edwidge Danticat to Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Layli Long Soldier to Ross Gay to Julia Alvarez. Tracy and Michael Kleber-Diggs, who also contributed an essay, join Krista for a conversation that is quiet and fierce and wise. They reflect inward and outward, backwards and forwards, from inside the Black experience of this pivotal time to be alive.
May 19, 2021 By Carolyn Coons
Portrait of Sarith Peou. Image courtesy of the Weisman Art Museum and We Are All Criminals.
Sarith Peou, an incarcerated artist at Stillwater Prison in Bayport, Minnesota, was in the midst of a collaboration with artist Carl Flink when he contracted COVID-19 last year.
“At one point, I gave up hope that our work would ever see the daylight,” Peou told the National Endowment for the Arts via email.
Peou and Flink’s already limited communications were disrupted by prison lockdowns caused by outbreaks. According to Marshall Project data, Peou’s case is one of 397,422 COVID-19 cases reported among incarcerated people since mass testing in prisons began.
10 best things our critics are watching this week From a new Star Wars animated series to a Soul prequel, here s what we re tuning into. Text size Copy shortlink: Star Wars: The Bad Batch
The saga continues with this action-packed animated series in which a group of misfit clones rebels against the newly formed Empire. Some familiarity with the franchise helps, but you won t need to know the difference between a Stormtrooper and an Ewok to enjoy watching our heroes blast their way out of one harrowing predicament after another. The show debuts with a 70-minute premiere, followed by new half-hour episodes that will drop every Friday. Disney Plus starting Tuesday (Neal Justin)
In this special live episode of
Fiction/Non/Fiction, presented by Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, acclaimed novelist and teacher Charles Baxter and his former student, short story writer Mike Alberti, join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss their new books. Upon the release of his seventeenth book, the much-anticipated
The Sun Collective, Baxter reflects on how time and place factor into his work and talks about writing about politics in his hometown. Then Alberti discusses his searing debut short story collection,
Some People Let You Down, and how he finds inspiration and hope in teaching incarcerated writers through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. The two also provide a rare window into their ongoing conversations about teaching and the craft of fiction, and answer questions from audience members and readers, including incarcerated writers.