The Art of Losing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by French novelist Alice Zeniter has won the prestigious Dublin Literary Award, a prize which comes with a handsome glass trophy and the world’s largest purse for a single novel published in English—a whopping €100,000. Nominations for the Dublin... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-24 16:21:57 UTC ]
The U.S. Book Show's opening keynote featured Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov, speaking from his home in Kyiv, who provided the history through a literary lens of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that culminated in war. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
She spent decades campaigning for social change, fighting to limit air pollution in New York City and to rethink conventional yardsticks for economic development. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-23 23:59:08 UTC ]
She was accused of ‘betraying motherhood’ when she was revealed as the author of the Guardian’s Living With Teenagers column. Will her novel about a child with addiction issues reopen old wounds?Few writers have published and been damned with quite the ferocity Julie Myerson was back in 2009 for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-21 08:00:14 UTC ]
Being fired as an advertising executive freed him to write a blistering memoir about his Southern family and an erotic novel that became a best seller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-21 00:03:50 UTC ]
As fiction editor, he helped mold the stories of generations of writers. As a sportswriter, he was enshrined in the writers’ wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-20 21:24:22 UTC ]
His books about the Great Chicago Fire and America’s first epidemic were Newbery Honor winners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-19 22:43:48 UTC ]
His 1975 novel, "Beyond the Bedroom Wall," was considered among the best of its time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-17 02:04:35 UTC ]
Like William Faulkner or Thomas Hardy, and not unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Edith Wharton loved some milieus too much for just one story. In its setting and characters, The Old Maid is quintessential Wharton, the New York-born author who wrote fifteen novels and novellas and became the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-12 08:51:03 UTC ]
Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel ‘The Lioness’ takes readers on a posh African safari that turns terrifying. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-11 12:00:26 UTC ]
Journalist Justin Tinsley revisits the life and times of a hip-hop star gone too soon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-11 10:00:00 UTC ]
Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most acclaimed living science fiction writers, is done with deep space narratives. His focus now is on solving real problems — like climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-11 09:00:20 UTC ]
The first time I read a book about a person who even minorly resembled me, I was 19 and teaching at a creative writing summer camp. My coworker Sophie Lee’s YA novel What Things Mean tells the story of a young Filipina girl named Olive who uses reading to cope with feelings of loneliness and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-05-06 11:00:00 UTC ]
In March 2021, my mother, Nancy Bourne, a lifelong nonsmoker, died of lung cancer. Two weeks before that, though, as she cycled in and out of hospital wards, she was on her laptop sending off a flurry of query letters to literary agents asking for their help in selling her first novel. Six... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-06 08:52:38 UTC ]
As book-bannings sweep the United States, two campaigns from the industry demonstrate different styles and tones of response. The post Penguin Random House, Authors Guild on Book Bannings appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-05-06 00:17:19 UTC ]
Lizz Huerta didn't get an MFA, but she did get an education while working on construction sites. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-05 10:00:00 UTC ]
A book by Australian academic Dr. Holly Lawford-Smith, 'Gender-Critical Feminism,' has led a group of authors to mount a campaign criticizing Oxford University Press's decision to publish a title they say encourages anti-trans rhetoric. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
Monique Roffey, the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, on the lit-boom that’s happening on the Caribbean islandLast week, Trinidadian writer Lisa Allen-Agostini’s novel The Bread the Devil Knead landed a coveted spot on the Women’s prize shortlist. As a fellow Trinidadian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-03 13:03:34 UTC ]
Author Christopher M. Cevasco says there's a surprising lack of crossover between the two. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2022-04-29 16:00:00 UTC ]
The mood was celebratory as mystery publishers and authors honored the best in the genre, live and in-person, for the first time since 2019 at a ceremony last night at New York Marriott Marquis Times Square. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-29 04:00:00 UTC ]