The Kilroys, a group of leaders in American theater, has put together a list of 46 plays by emerging women playwrights that they think deserve to produced (only 10.5% of Broadway plays are written by women). That list is a brilliant resource to promote diversity in dramatic literature–but now we want to read all the unpublished plays on it.
46 Women’s Plays
Summer Belongs To Someone Else
Recommended Reading: This story by John Patrick McHugh at Granta Magazine. Do yourself a favor and check out this one while you're at it.
The Door to Another World
Recommended Reading: A new short story by Whiting Award-winner Alice Sola Kim.
What We Can Learn from Goodnight Moon
Aimee Bender, Year in Reading alum and author of, most recently, The Color Master, writes for The New York Times about the structural genius of Goodnight Moon: "[The story] does two things right away: It sets up a world and then it subverts its own rules even as it follows them."
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On Craft and Color
"[A]ny discussion of craft does not take place in a vacuum – that race is part of one's lived experience and how we see ourselves and are seen does impact how and what we write." Poet Neil Aiken puts together an absolutely indispensable list of texts – books, essays, lectures and beyond – on the craft of writing by writers of color. See also: our own Edan Lepucki's impromptu syllabus of craft readings.
2012 Poetry Preview
NPR's got a nice preview of some upcoming 2012 poetry releases.
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Reader’s Tan
Have you ever gotten stuck in a book? Here's a delightful little comic by Grant Snider that explores the process of losing oneself in reading.
New Year, New You
Dieting tips from Muriel Spark.