Natasha Trethewey

Dec 4, 2024 | audible.com | Gypsy-Rose Blanchard |Melissa Moore |Michele Matrisciani |Natasha Trethewey

Personal accounts of unthinkable crimes, labyrinthine investigations, and the aftermath of justice and trauma, these listens will stay with you long after the story’s over. Though a more ethical slant on true crime has become the norm in recent years, the genre is still ripe for criticism regarding the exploitation of victims and survivors and the elevation of perpetrators to celebrity status.

Jun 12, 2024 | issues.org | Natasha Trethewey |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XL

—After Katrina, 2005 At first, there was nothing to do but watch. For days, before the trucks arrived, before the work of cleanup, my brother sat on the stoop and watched. He watched the ambulances speed by, the police cars; watched for the looters who’d come each day to siphon gas from the car, take away the generator,the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a storm, for rain so he could wash.

Nov 30, 2023 | poets.org | Diana Nguyen |Natasha Trethewey

In dim light now, his eyes   straining to surveythe territory: here is the country   of Loss, its colony Grief;the great continent Desire   and its borderland Regret;vast, unfathomable water   an archipelago—the tiny islandsof Joy, untethered, set adrift.    At the bottom of the maphis legend and cartouche,   the measures of distance, key

Jun 30, 2023 | pbs.org | Jericho Brown |David Joy |Angie Thomas |Natasha Trethewey

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner —first woman and first Black American — of two National Book Awards for Fiction for "Sing, Unburied, Sing" (2017) and "Salvage the Bones" (2011).