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U.S. Book Show 2023: Jacqueline Woodson Works from Memory and Empathy

At a lunch-hour keynote on May 24, National Book Award winner and former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jacqueline Woodson sat down with bookseller Miwa Messer. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Review: ‘The Labors of Hercules Beal,’ by Gary D. Schmidt, and ‘The Storyteller,’ by Brandon Hobson

In new novels by the National Book Award finalists Gary D. Schmidt and Brandon Hobson, adolescent boys navigating parental loss find strength in ancient mythology. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2023-05-12 09:00:15 UTC ]
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See the cover for Jesmyn Ward’s new novel, Let Us Descend.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, Let Us Descend, “a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War,” which will be published by Scribner this October. “In each book since my second... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-07 14:00:15 UTC ]
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Charles Frazier on How the Past Converses With the Present

Charles Frazier, who will forever be known for Cold Mountain, his National Book Award winning, mega-selling 1997 first novel, opens his fifth novel, The Trackers, with an image that tells us exactly what we’re in for, and also reveals the author’s inspiration. “In a muddy black-and-white... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-04 08:53:48 UTC ]
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Attention: a new Jesmyn Ward novel is coming this fall.

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 at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-27 15:09:45 UTC ]
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Victor Navasky, award-winning author and editor of the Nation, dies at 90

Liberal lion won National Book Award and edited leftwing Nation, with writers including Hitchens and Cockburn, from 1978 to 2005Victor Navasky, an award-winning author and journalist who presided over the liberal US weekly the Nation and wrote influential books on the anti-communist blacklist... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2023-01-25 15:01:09 UTC ]
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For Aleksandar Hemon, Writing is a Search for a Form That Doesn’t Yet Exist

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award;... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-24 09:53:24 UTC ]
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What I Was Yearning For: Close-Up on Deb Caletti

Deb Caletti, a National Book Award Finalist and Printz Honor recipient, chatted with PW about her novel The Epic Story of Every Living Thing, the worry and distress faced by so many young people today, and how writing helped her through the most challenging months of the pandemic. (Sponsored) Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Robin Coste Lewis on Giving the Reader a Poetic Experience

Lit Hub is excited to feature a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Robin Coste Lewis, the author of To the Perfect Realization of Helplessness (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) and Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-12-12 09:56:26 UTC ]
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Tiya Miles Wins Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize

Harvard's Tiya Miles wins the Cundill History Prize's top honor for 'All That She Carried,' a 2021 National Book Award winner. The post Tiya Miles Wins Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-12-02 03:01:11 UTC ]
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2022 National Book Award Winners: Full List

Tess Gunty received the fiction prize for her debut, “The Rabbit Hutch.” Art Spiegelman, the author of “Maus,” received a lifetime achievement award. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2022-11-17 12:12:22 UTC ]
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Sabaa Tahir Wins 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Sabaa Tahir received this year's Young People's Literature prize for her YA novel 'All My Rage'; during her tearful acceptance speech, Tahir noted, "I am the first Muslim and Pakistani American woman to win this award.” Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Meet the 2022 National Book Award Finalists

The winners of the 73rd 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 Padma Lakshmi at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City (and streamable online). Ahead of the festivities,... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-11-09 09:53:33 UTC ]
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Book Review: ‘Seven Empty Houses,’ by Samanta Schweblin

The stories in Samanta Schweblin’s “Seven Empty Houses,” a finalist for the National Book Award in translated literature, tear down the delicate scaffolding of home. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2022-10-14 09:00:09 UTC ]
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Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

Life Studies is Robert Lowell’s best-​known and most influential book. It won the National Book Award for poetry in 1960. I read it in 1962 and I hated it. In a shallow way, my dislike was a matter of social class. I said aloud to Lowell’s book, “Yeah, I had a grandfather, too.” Like my […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-10-13 08:57:28 UTC ]
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Here are the 2022 National Book Award finalists.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced their finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards in five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. Five winners will be selected from the twenty-five finalists and announced on Wednesday, November... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-10-04 14:15:32 UTC ]
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2022 National Book Award Finalists Are Announced

Twenty five books, spread across five categories, were named on Tuesday, including fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The winners will be announced next month. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2022-10-04 14:00:07 UTC ]
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Finalists for 2022 NBA in Young People's Literature Announced

The National Book Foundation has announced the five finalists for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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2022 National Book Award Finalists Announced

Gayl Jones, Sharon Olds, Imani Perry, and Yoko Tawada are among the finalists for the 72nd annual National Book Awards. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 16. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Lauren Groff’s next novel is set in the 17th-century American wilderness.

That’s the same perilous American wilderness that almost killed Leonardo DiCaprio, except 200 years younger, sprier and, one would assume, significantly more bear-ful. Now, I don’t know how many bears feature in three-time National Book Award finalist, Guggenheim fellow, and winner of the Story... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-30 16:33:32 UTC ]
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