Leah Falk is from the great city of Pittsburgh. Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Journal, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals. She’s a regular contributor to the book review at Pleiades, and has also written for Haaretz and Boston Review. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, where her essay about fictional re-writings of the life of Anne Frank won a Hopwood Award. In other lives she’s been a bookseller and an elementary school science teacher. Most recently kept up all night reading David Grossman’s To the End of the Land, Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? and Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River.
From the Archives: Leah Falk talks with A. Van Jordan about his fourth poetry collection, The Cineaste, his intentions for this new work, and what’s changed about the way we go to the movies.
The optimism and nostalgia we sometimes associate with a certain narrative of American immigration—the golden door—are banished by these writers’ sharp, sober observations.
“Anthony Doerr is given to what we might call the extended-play short story: instead of hours or days, years go by”: Leah Falk considers the expansiveness of Anthony Doerr’s short story “The Caretaker.”
On the launch of the Digital Public Library of America.
Laura Kasischke on the virtues and difficulties of the poetry-like short story collection.
Is this real or is this a late-night re-run? Hester Kaplan’s characters navigate past traumas, has-been TV-stars, and small town casinos.
This week, the National Book Foundation revised the procedures for choosing National Book Award winners. Previously, lists of five finalists were announced in the weeks leading up to the awards. The new template involves “long-listing” ten finalists in each category, to create more buzz about the possible winners, NBF representatives say. The pool of judges will also expand to include critics and booksellers. Does this sound familiar? It should. The NBF has borrowed ideas from the Booker Prize as well as the Oscars. Initially, Morgan Entrekin, the vice president of the NBF board and Grove/ Atlantic Press CEO, caused a […]
Thoughts on the newly released design plans for renovating the historic Bryant Park branch of the New York Public library.
