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DISQUIET ’16 Faculty M. T. Anderson wins Booklist Editors’ Choice Books for Youth 2015 “Top of the List—Youth Nonfiction”! Check out Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad on Booklist!
Leslie Jamison, Disquiet Faculty ’15, chose Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques, Disquiet Guest ’15, as her Best Book of the Year in the New York Times!
Mary Gaitskill, Disquiet Guest ’15, writes about an important friendship with a used bookstore owner in Cosmonauts Avenue, excerpted from A Manner of Being, edited by Jeff Parker and Annie Liontas!
Guernica, long time partner of Disquiet, has a killer special issue out, The Boundaries of Nations (including short fiction by Disquiet’s Jeff Parker!)
Dinaw Mengustu on his father’s Ethiopia and the ways in which imagination, memory, and politics converge in exile; Anna Ciezadlo visits Lesbos at the peak of the refugee crisis; Atossa Abrahamian on the buying and selling of passports and what it means to be from somewhere; author and activist Jasminko Halilović on growing up under siege in Sarajevo; director Jonas Carpignano on his film “Mediterranea”; Laura Kurgan in conversation with Bill Rankin on the politics of map-making; Rachel Price on contemporary Cuban art; fiction by Valeria Luiselli and Jeff Parker; poetry by Yosefa Raz and Aliah Lavonne Tigh.
Maaza Mengiste, Disquiet Faculty ’16, writes on being mentored by Breyten Breytenbach in Guernica, an excerpt from A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors, just out by UMass Press!
Padgett Powell, DQ Faculty ’14 and ’16, writes A Tribute to Barthelme in Tin House–an excerpt from A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors, available now from UMass Press!
A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors is out! Edited by Disquiet’s Jeff Parker and Annie Liontas, featuring essays by Disquiet Faculty and Guests Arthur Rickydoc Flowers, Stefan Kiesbye, Noy Holland, Mary Gaitskill, Tayari Jones, Scott Laughlin, Adam Levin, Sam Lipsyte, George Saunders, Deb Olin Unferth, Rui Zinc… the list goes on!
Disquiet 2016 Fiction Faculty, Maaza Mengiste, judges this year’s prize! Find out more at Restless Books!
Go to Disquiet 2016 and experience these things while you write!
Congratulations to Polina Barskova (DISQUIET Guest ’15), who just won the Andre Bely Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Russia, a very prestigious literary place!