He won the National Book Award for poetry in 2009, having first been nominated 40 years earlier. He taught at Brown University for four decades. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-08-12 19:10:36 UTC ]
National Book Award finalist Rumaan Alam sells two novels to Riverhead, and Ace buys a fantasy duology from K.X. Song. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
“So many come to mind,” says the author, whose novel “The Rabbit Hutch” won a National Book Award last year and will be out in paperback this month. “I guess I’m often furious?” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-06-08 09:00:31 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-05-12 09:00:15 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-07 14:00:15 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-04 08:53:48 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-27 15:09:45 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-01-25 15:01:09 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-24 09:53:24 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-12-12 09:56:26 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-12-02 03:01:11 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-11-17 12:12:22 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-09 09:53:33 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-10-14 09:00:09 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-13 08:57:28 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-04 14:15:32 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-10-04 14:00:07 UTC ]