Interviews Ari Larissa Heinrich / Photo by Tara Pixley Ari Larissa Heinrich is the translator of Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (forthcoming from Columbia University Press). They... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-10-27 22:09:23 UTC ]
This one goes out to all the writers in the Year of our Lord 2020, as we all worry that our total inability to put a sentence together could turn into a lifetime of non-production: It’s never too late. Wole Soyinka, who in 1986 became the first person from sub-Saharan Africa to win a Nobel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-27 19:39:22 UTC ]
ON JULY 2 of this year, I interviewed the author Nadia Terranova at her mother’s house in Santa Marinella, Italy, on a Zoom call from my apartment in Santa Monica, California. Back in 2015, I’d written a review of her first novel Gli anni al contrario (The Years in Reverse) and we’d met for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-27 17:00:01 UTC ]
In her 20s, she set up her own company, publishing everyone from James Ellroy to the Worst Witch series, and changing Britain for the better, book by book There is a revealing story Margaret Busby tells, about the first novel she published. A family friend had bumped into a former US serviceman... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-10-22 05:00:17 UTC ]
No Exit Press will publish Russell Banks’ new novel Foregone as a lead fiction title in June 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-13 01:47:40 UTC ]
William Heinemann is publishing the first novel in almost 20 years from actor, writer and director Ethan Hawke: A Bright Ray of Darkness. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 04:15:41 UTC ]
Today the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for its 2020 First Novel Prize. The prize, first awarded in 2006, recognizes the best debut fiction of the year, and it comes with $15,000; each finalist receives $1,000. Previous winners include De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Tommy Orange, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-01 15:05:06 UTC ]
Nunez’s first novel since winning the National Book Award follows a woman and her terminally ill friend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-09-16 16:32:08 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is to publish Patricia Lockwood's first novel No One Is Talking About This, after winning a 10-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 02:57:52 UTC ]
The new book from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell takes place in one house, but in it, she finds infinite space. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-09-10 18:15:39 UTC ]
What was the first novel? Why was it written? What need did it fill? Who wrote it? And most importantly, can you still read it today? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-02 10:32:00 UTC ]
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 ]