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The Best of Just Press Play
To finish out our playlist series, we leave you with “The Best of Just Press Play”: a compilation of our authors’ favorite tracks to comfort you this summer. More
Just Press Play with Abdellah Taïa
Abdellah Taïa, the first openly gay Arab writer in the world, dedicates his playlist to the planet we call home. More
Just Press Play with Chigozie Obioma
Booker Prize Finalist Chigozie Obioma shares a playlist of songs that he writes to, is inspired by his travels, and offers moments of reflection. More
Just Press Play with Bela Shayevich
Visual artist and writer Bela Shayevich, best known for translating Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, provides a darkwave playlist with happy vibes. More
Writers in Residence: Basically Delicious with Jennifer Egan
PEN America President and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan shares her crowd-pleasing salad dressing recipe for this holiday weekend. More
These Truths: Realizing a New Theatre with Lynn Nottage and Jeremy O. Harris
With Broadway shuttering until 2021, what will theatre look like amidst a pandemic and cultural uprising? Award-winning Black playwrights Lynn Nottage and Jeremy O. Harris help us imagine a… More
PEN to Paper: Authentic Voices with James Hannaham
Our final PEN to Paper episode features multidisciplinary artist and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist James Hannaham on how to write authentic characters. More
Just Press Play with Roya Marsh
Poet, performer, educator, and activist Roya Marsh, author of a new poetry collection, dayliGht, curates a playlist that allows her—and hopefully, you, too—to feel all kinds of things. More
Writers in Residence: Digging in the Country with Jan Stocklassa
Swedish author and self-proclaimed arm-chair detective Jan Stocklassa speaks to us from the country, where he’s digging into research for his next project and taking editorial notes from an… More
These Truths: Round and Round Together with Fatima Shaik, Amy Nathan, and Sharon Langley
Fatima Shaik speaks with Amy Nathan and Sharon Langley about their picture book, A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story, about how a community came together to integrate… More
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