Writer and editor Zeke Caligiuri joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion, a new collection of essays on class he co-edited along with eleven other incarcerated writers. The volume’s contributors include Eula Biss, Kao Kalia... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-16 09:08:02 UTC ]
Day four of the National Book Foundations’ longlist announcements; today we’re looking at the ten titles judges Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Carolyn Kellogg, Mark Laframboise, Kiese Laymon, and Jeff Sharlet think illuminate “new perspectives on political, natural, cultural, historical, and personal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-19 14:45:35 UTC ]
The festival, taking place April 13-14 at USC, will feature hundreds of authors, experts and storytellers, including Karamo Brown, Chelsea Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, Erica Jong, Kiese Laymon and Don Winslow The Los Angeles Times today announced the lineup for the Festival of Books, the nation’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Great Believers' by Rebecca Makkai has won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and 'Heavy: An American Memoir' by Kiese Laymon has won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nick White, author of 'Sweet and Low,' picks books by Kiese Laymon, Jill McCorkle, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]