Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to River Sing Me Home author Eleanor Shearer about her hotly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-01 09:53:21 UTC ]
Jesmyn Ward's next novel, LET US DESCEND, will be published on October 3, 2023. It's her first novel since SING, UNBURIED, SING. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-01-28 01:23:42 UTC ]
Lovers of gorgeous prose and ghost-soaked literary fiction rejoice: two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s next novel officially has a release date. Let Us Descend, Ward’s first novel in five years (since 2017’s Sing, Unburied Sing) will be published by Scribner on October 3. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-27 15:09:45 UTC ]
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since The Road in 2006, shows him at the peak of his powers even as he nears his ninetieth year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-11-24 13:19:55 UTC ]
Author of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the worldPeter Robinson was the creator of the immensely popular Inspector Alan Banks crime series, set in Yorkshire – the books sold almost 9m copies in 19 languages and spawned a successful... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-10-14 16:44:04 UTC ]
A passage from Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 book “The Road.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-10-14 12:10:42 UTC ]
"Please don't ban my books in my hometown," John Green concluded in the TikTok. "It's really upsetting for my mom." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-09-13 13:44:10 UTC ]
Author of The Horse Whisperer, the 1995 book that was turned into a popular film, starring and directed by Robert RedfordNicholas Evans, who has died aged 72 after a heart attack, was the unlikely author of the bestselling novel The Horse Whisperer (1995), which became a Robert Redford film.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-08-16 17:09:25 UTC ]
Many fiction writers wind up wishing they could redraft their early works. Akhil Sharma actually did. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-07-12 13:49:06 UTC ]
Herzog's novel follows Hiroo Onoda, a real Japanese lieutenant who terrorized the Philippine villagers of Lubang Island with guerrilla tactics for 29 years after World War II’s conclusion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-16 12:36:39 UTC ]
'Tomb of Sand' is the first novel translated from an Indian language to win the award. Shree and Rockwell split the International Booker's £50,000 purse. The post In London, Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell Win the 2022 International Booker Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-05-26 21:30:55 UTC ]
Nina LaCour's first novel for adults, "Yerba Buena," follows a promising and complicated lesbian love story in the mold of Sarah Waters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-05-26 13:00:31 UTC ]
The adaptation of Sally Rooney’s first novel can’t quite bring tricky source material – repressed characters, digital communication – to lifeIt was always unlikely that Conversations with Friends, the new Hulu and BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s first novel, would be able to repeat the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-24 06:05:00 UTC ]
Ali Smith's first novel since her seasonal quartet takes place in our pandemic-inflected world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
“Liarmouth” is about three generations of women in one family who plan to confront or kill one another. It also has a trampoline fun park. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-03 09:00:08 UTC ]
Last year not only marked the twentieth publication anniversary of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, it also saw the release of his first novel in seven years, Crossroads. So it was only fitting that Picador would embark on a redesign of the author’s backlist. We spoke with Alex Merto, the art... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-17 08:54:52 UTC ]
Lee Cole’s first novel is not only the story of a young man finding his vocation as a writer but also a wrenching examination of class differences Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-03-14 11:00:51 UTC ]
Dolly Parton has written her first novel with the help of best-selling author James Patterson. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2022-03-10 00:01:14 UTC ]
After previous seminars showcased work from Scotland and Wales, this year the focus is on writing from Northern Ireland. Chaired by novelist and non-fiction writer Glenn Patterson, director at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast – a familiar and popular name for British... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2022-02-16 12:14:57 UTC ]
'Moon Witch, Spider King,' the second in Marlon James' incantatory Dark Star trilogy, flips the script on his first novel to tell a woman's side. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-15 14:00:10 UTC ]