In her first novel in five years, the author of “My Brilliant Friend” revisits old themes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-09-01 09:00:11 UTC ]
Interviews Get to know the participants of the upcoming 2020 Neustadt Festival in this series of short interviews. First up: David Bellos! David Bellos is a professor of French and comparative literature as well as director of the Program in Translation... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-08-25 20:30:39 UTC ]
Picador has picked up the first novel in eight years from award-winning Irish author Keith Ridgway. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 11:52:26 UTC ]
Makenna Goodman on leaving New York publishing behind for the farms of Vermont, and why publishing her first novel was traumatic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Paris Review | 2020-08-20 17:18:24 UTC ]
The 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival will be presented online from Saturday 15 to Monday 31 August. The programme, made up of over 140 events for adults, families and children, will offer both live and pre-recorded conversations featuring leading writers, poets and participants from... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-08-07 14:45:31 UTC ]
Gayl Jones published her first novel in 1975. It was hailed by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. Then Gayl disappeared from the literary scene. Now she's releasing her first novel in 20 years. The post The Long-Awaited Return of Gayl Jones appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-08-05 20:30:18 UTC ]
Michael Joseph is publishing the first novel from Dawn French in five years, called Because of You, this October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-29 17:04:51 UTC ]
Full disclosure: I may not be the right person to answer the question posed in this headline. After all, I wrote my first novel almost entirely from bed. In fact, I am writing this essay from bed now. Like Edith Wharton, Colette, and Proust, I am more creative when reclined, and when... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-28 10:44:03 UTC ]
Tsukiyama’s first novel in nearly a decade takes readers to the 1930s Hawai’i of her Japanese father, where sugar was king and labor was hard. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-07-20 12:07:23 UTC ]
Headline Review has won Radhika Sanghani's first novel for adults, 30 Things I Love About Myself, in a "heated" auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-17 00:46:50 UTC ]
As the lockdown restrictions to contain the spread of Covid-19 begin to be relaxed across the UK, we’re bringing you the final instalment of our Literature on Lockdown series.Following the worldwide demonstrations, protests and public events in support of the Black Lives Matter movement,... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-06-16 16:00:51 UTC ]
Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, will be published by Faber & Faber on 2nd March 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-16 08:35:46 UTC ]
Nineteen books from 15 countries and 13 languages have won English PEN’s flagship translation awards, including the first novel from South Sudan ever to be published in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-10 01:27:30 UTC ]
A former director of the Harlem Writers Guild, she published her first novel when she was 55, and her first mystery, featuring a stylish female ex-cop turned sleuth, when she was 64. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-06-05 21:17:02 UTC ]
The Desmond Elliott Prize is awarded annually to a writer whose first novel is written in English and published in the UK. Since 2007, it has supported and heralded new writers; the honor comes with a £10,000 prize. It’s heartening to see, especially right now, that this year the Desmond Elliott... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-02 17:58:53 UTC ]
Stephanie Danler’s memoir Stray invites us to look closely at our own life: our family dynamics, our loss, our trauma, and the moments of happiness that still exist within that fragile frame. With deep introspection and stunning prose, Danler tells us about the years she spent after writing her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-05-19 11:00:55 UTC ]
Claire Adam has scooped the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award for her “outstanding” novel Golden Child (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-17 13:26:01 UTC ]
Whether delving into chunky historical narratives or listening to short story podcasts, we’ve all been approaching reading differently during lockdown. Our reading habits can take us back in time, allow us to examine our present, or give us hope for the future. In time for the May bank holiday... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-05-07 13:58:54 UTC ]
My first novel bombed spectacularly. This was about 20 years ago. Everything went wrong. First my editor quit after which my publishing house kinda-sorta forgot I existed. Orphaned was the word they used. Since nobody gave a damn, I at least got to choose my own book cover. The photograph I... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-27 08:49:54 UTC ]
Many lives are radically different right now. But birthdays, anniversaries, and public holidays come and go as before. The pink supermoon would have appeared whether we’d watched it from our windows or outdoors among a crowd of strangers. This week, Earth Day, Shakespeare’s birthday, and World... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-04-24 14:34:13 UTC ]