AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoLiterary Prizes: New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young won the $130,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for “Night Watch,” with jurors praising its experimental, melancholic focus on loneliness, grief and American racial legacies. Book-to-Screen: Apple TV’s “Silo” Season 3 trailer confirms a split timeline, with Juliette facing memory loss and a pre-apocalypse conspiracy. International Booker: Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi says she wanted to win for Taiwan, calling literature a long conversation that outlasts any one life. Publishing & Culture: Flor Y Canto returns to San Francisco’s Mission, spotlighting Latino/Latinx/Latiné writers through readings and films. Local Literacy: Michigan students’ trailer contest for “Phases of the Moon” put young filmmakers’ work on the big screen, aiming to boost literacy. Poetry & Community: A new chapbook, “Tangleblooms,” launches a local teacher/church warden’s first poetry Q&A and signing. AI & Writing: A City AM editor complains about AI-written pitches flooding inboxes and being flagged as AI-generated. Health & Science (book-adjacent): CAR T-cell therapy enabled two highly sensitized patients to get kidney transplants, with results published in NEJM.
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