Celebrating three Drift contributors on the National Book Awards longlists
Congratulations to Jordan Thomas, Natalie Shapero, and Solvej Balle!
Longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards were announced last week, and we were overjoyed to see Drift contributors recognized in three of the five categories.
Jordan Thomas’s When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World, an entry in the Nonfiction list, originated as an essay in The Drift in 2020. Revisit his piece, on what he learned about the climate crisis from his stint as a hotshot firefighter, and read our interview with him about the book.
Natalie Shapero’s collection Stay Dead, longlisted in Poetry, contains three poems originally published in The Drift in 2022. Read her gorgeous triptych on expression and its ambiguities.
Earlier this year, we published the first excerpt of the latest installment of Solvej Balle’s septology On the Calculation of Volume, honored in the Translated Literature category. Read the selection from this time- and mind-bending masterwork, and be sure to read the full book when it is published in November.
Many congratulations to Jordan, Natalie, and Solvej! And don’t forget to peruse other books by Drift authors at our Bookshop store.
This Sunday, September 21, join us from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We’ll be at at table 607, right outside Borough Hall, selling discounted issues and merch. This is one of our favorite events of the year, especially because we get to meet so many readers — please stop by!