Susan Choi’s eerie, multi-generational transcontinental mystery saga Flashlight, her fifth novel (after the National Book Award winning Trust Exercise) evolves from a short story published in The New Yorker in August 2020. My first questions in our email exchange: How did the pandemic influence... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-06-03 08:59:26 UTC ]
The National Book Award winner returns with a timely novel about gun violence and a rediscovered sense of creative freedom. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
An inside look at the publication process for the National Book Award winner’s latest novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Earlier today, the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced and Percival Everett’s James was declared the winner for fiction. This came as no surprise to anybody even vaguely tapped into the literary scene: in addition to winning the National Book Award for Fiction, James won the Kirkus Prize and was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-05-05 22:49:07 UTC ]
An inside look at the publication process for the International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist’s latest novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Award winner remembers drinking with John Berger and the PEN/Hemingway Award winner recounts the joys of reading Halldor Laxness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
He won a National Book Award for “Spartina,” beating out novels by Amy Tan and E.L. Doctorow. A longtime professor, he lived for a time without electricity on an island. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-03-03 21:55:36 UTC ]
The Booker Prize winner and National Book Award nominee of the poetry and politics of two writers whose work inspired their own. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
Percival Everett nabbed the National Book Award and Samantha Harvey bagged the Booker, but they weren’t the only writers who struck gold this year. Yes, from the Pulitzer to the Nebula, the PEN/Faulkner to the Edgar, here are the winners of the biggest book prizes of 2024. Congratulations to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-12-18 09:57:03 UTC ]
The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-12-16 10:02:11 UTC ]
'Tis the season for Best Books of the Year lists! Here are some of the picks for the best children's books of 2024, plus more kidlit news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominees discuss the wry maturity and singular strangeness of two writers whose work inspired their own. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
USC professor Percival Everett wins the National Book Award for Fiction for 'James,' a retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn' from the character Jim's point of view. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-11-21 21:14:19 UTC ]
Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-11-21 03:36:15 UTC ]
Yang Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue,” a National Book Award finalist, is a nesting-doll narrative about colonial power in its many forms. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-11-15 13:18:52 UTC ]
“My personality is more indebted to The Simpsons than any other book or movie or album or show or art thing.” Meet the 2024 National Book Award finalists while they answer some of our quick questions. | Lit Hub In Conversation Mirza Waheed explains why he’s boycotting a screening of a film... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-13 11:30:55 UTC ]
The winners of the 75th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Kate McKinnon at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Ahead of the festivities, Literary Hub caught up... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-13 09:57:44 UTC ]
National Book Award finalists. Geniuses. The Franzenaissance. Big week in books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-10-05 15:49:26 UTC ]
This year’s contenders for the main prizes also include Percival Everett, Hisham Matar and Kaveh AkbarSalman Rushdie, Miranda July and Percival Everett are among this year’s finalists for the National Book awards.Rushdie, who is receiving his first nomination, is competing in the non-fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-01 14:15:10 UTC ]
Percival Everett’s “James,” Salman Rushdie’s “Knife” and Diane Seuss’ “Modern Poetry” are among the honorees. Winners will be announced next month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-10-01 14:00:07 UTC ]