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Gabriel Bump reads from the opening of Part Three of his novel The New Naturals, published by Algonquin Books, November 2023.

Dorothea Lasky reads “A Lion” and “Self-Portrait in the Hotel” from her poetry collection The Shining, published by Wave Books in October 2023.

Elle Nash reads from the opening of her novel Deliver Me, published by Unnamed Press in October 2023.

Susan Kiyo Ito reads from the opening of her memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by Mad Creek Books in November 2023.

Jaswinder Bolina reads “English as a Second Language” from his poetry collection English as a Second Language and Other Poems, published by Copper Canyon Press in October 2023.

Leslie Sainz reads “Nature and Nurture, Miami, FL” from Have You Been Long Enough at Table, published in September 2023 by Tin House.

Shane McCrae reads from the opening of his memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping published in August 2023 by Scribner.

Mary Ruefle reads “The Effusive” from her prose collection The Book, published in September 2023 by Wave Books.

Daniel Mason reads “The CATAMOUNT, or a True Relation of a Bloody Encounter that Lately Happen’d; a song for VOICE and FIFE, to the tune of CHEERILY and MERRILY,” a poem within the narrative of his novel North Woods, published in September...

Sally Wen Mao reads “Chimera” and “a dream or a fox” from her poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces, published in August 2023 by Graywolf Press. 

Jamel Brinkley reads from “Blessed Deliverance” from his story collection Witness, published in August 2023 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Terrance Hayes reads “Blood Pressure Medicine” and “Folk Stone” from his poetry collection So to Speak, published in July 2023 by Penguin Books.

Translator Johnny Lorenz reads from the first section of Itamar Vieira Júnior’s novel Crooked Plow, published in June 2023 by Verso. Vieira Júnior follows with a reading of the same selection in Portuguese.

Madison Davis reads from her essay collection, The Loved Ones: Essays to Bury the Dead, published in June 2023 by Dzanc Books.

Henry Hoke reads from the opening of his novel Open Throat, published in June 2023 by MCD.

Paisley Rekdal reads the poem “Heroic” from her hybrid collection West: A Translation, published in May 2023 by Copper Canyon Press.

Hazel Jane Plante reads from the opening of her novel Any Other City, published in April 2023 by Arsenal Pulp Press.

Brandon Taylor reads from “The Kings of Norway,” the fourth chapter of his novel The Late Americans, published in May 2023 by Riverhead Books. 

Matthew Zapruder reads from his memoir, Story of a Poem, published in April 2023 by Unnamed Press, with music by the author and The Claudius Birdman Quartet, from the vinyl audiobook released by Rarebird x Unnamed Press.

Samantha Irby reads from “My Firstborn Dog” from her essay collection Quietly Hostile, published in May 2023 by Vintage.

Tommy Archuleta reads “The blue jays and blackbirds,” “Another velvet painting please,” “A stone a leaf a stash of cranes,” “I never told you this but in one,” and “All those faces” from the second section of his poetry collection, Susto,...

Alice Notley reads from the opening of her poetry collection The Speak Angel Series, published in February 2023 by Fonograf Editions.

Joseph Earl Thomas reads the chapter “The Stars, The Ocean, The Boys” from his memoir, Sink, published in February 2023 by Grand Central.

Mai Nardone reads from “Handsome Red” from his story collection, Welcome Me to the Kingdom, published in February 2023 by Random House.

Tanya Frank reads the opening chapter of her memoir, Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood, published in February 2023 by Norton.