‘I still have questions’: Use of force expert weighs in on videos of state trooper shooting, killing man in Converse
Claire Jiménez’s 'What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez' wins the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionClaire Jiménez’s “What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,” a hard-hitting and comic novel set in New York City about a Puerto Rican family’s search for a missing girl, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Author Deesha Philyaw has a 7-figure deal for her next two booksDeesha Philyaw struggled to find a publisher for what became her acclaimed debut “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.”.
Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challengeIt began in 2018 as a conversation between authors Jami Attenberg and Anne Gisleson: a writing “boot camp” in which each would write 1,000 words a day for 14 days.