In The New York Times Magazine’s recent culture issue, Angela Flournoy profiled Barry Jenkins as he works to bring James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk to the screen. Kundiman is celebrating fifteen years nurturing Asian American writers, and for the occasion, Tamiko Beyer at LitHub has pulled together a list of 15 Kundiman writers you should know. Stewart for his biography The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, novelist Sigrid Nunez for The Friend, and Elizabeth Acevedo for her young adult novel-in-verse The Poet X. Poet Justin Philip Reed made the cut for his collection Indecency, as did Jeffrey C. In other awards news, the National Book Foundation released the list of finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards. Recipients from the LGBTQ literary community include writer John Keene, author of Counternarratives, and poet Natalie Diaz, whose work was included in Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, published earlier this year. The MacArthur Foundation announced the 2018 ‘Genius’ Grants. Boggs, along with fellow scholar Jennifer Devere Brody, have republished the book, and now, after forty years, it’s back in print from Duke University Press. Boggs about his discovery of James Baldwin’s long-lost children’s book, Little Man, Little Man. The Nomadic Archivists Project has a new column “dedicated to telling the stories of unique and interesting discoveries found in the archives.” Kicking it off is an interview with professor Nicholas T.
Meanwhile, Ryan McPhee at Playbill got Harvey Fierstein’s take about passing the reins to Urie. Jackson McHenry at Vulture spoke with him about the revival, now in previews, and why he’s no longer worried about being typecasted into gay roles. Torch Song Trilogy is back on Broadway, with Michael Urie in the starring role.
Michael Urie in ‘Torch Song Trilogy,’ Discovering James Baldwin’s Lost Children’s Book, and Other LGBTQ News
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