“Clap When You Land,” the latest novel from the National Book Award winner, delves into the split lives that many immigrants experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-04 09:00:24 UTC ]
News and Events Top Row (left to right): Jonathan Auxier, Monica Brown, Tanita S. Davis. Middle row: Adib Khorram, Sonia Patel, Randy Ribay. Bottom row: Cynthia Weill, Tanaya Winder, Janet Wong. World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-04-14 19:33:34 UTC ]
Today feels like one of the bad days. But as your mother always told you, silver linings hang out in the strangest of places. The brilliant Tressie McMillan Cottom, Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, whose most recent book Thick was shortlisted for the National... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-05 18:42:14 UTC ]
In 2013, I corresponded with David Ferry by phone to conduct a wide-ranging interview on his poetry, translations, and literary life. He had just won the National Book Award for Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations and was still at work on Virgil’s Aeneid which he published in 2018. Today,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-05 09:48:44 UTC ]
The National Book Award winner thought she was done writing. Lucky for us, she was wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-02 18:09:45 UTC ]
Author Myron Levoy, whose acclaimed YA novel ‘Alan and Naomi’ was a National Book Award finalist, has died at age 89. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
Interviews Veronica Esposito Ottilie Mulzet is the principal English-language translator of Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, winner of numerous international honors. Together, they received the 2019 National Book Award in Translation for Mulzet’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-02-20 14:05:36 UTC ]
“Apeirogon,” the latest novel from the National Book Award winner, delves into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of two grieving fathers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-17 13:14:09 UTC ]
“Apeirogon,” the latest novel from the National Book Award winner, will be released next week by Random House. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-17 11:01:40 UTC ]
DANEZ SMITH’S LATEST poetry collection, Homie, is actually not titled Homie at all. As the National Book Award finalist confirms point-blank in a note on the title: “this book was titled homie because I don’t want non-black people to say my nig out loud. This book is really titled my nig.”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-13 18:00:06 UTC ]
Essay John Weir Adapted from a photo by Jake weirick on Unsplash Like a dead pop star, Susan Sontag left behind a lot of fans who claim they knew her. After the release last September of Benjamin Moser’s new biography, Susan Sontag: Her Life and Work,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-01-07 22:09:56 UTC ]
From the poet's 10th book of poems, “Sight Lines,” selected as the National Book Award winner for poetry in 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-01 10:00:08 UTC ]
His “Paco’s Story” was the surprise winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1987, beating books by Toni Morrison and Philip Roth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-17 23:53:36 UTC ]
Congrats to Susan Choi for ending the year on a high note: her novel Trust Exercise, which won this year’s National Book Award for Fiction, is in development to become a limited television series with FilmNation Entertainment. Choi will write the series for FilmNation Entertainment, which was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-12 21:43:30 UTC ]
Is your attention span ravaged by living in our hellscape of a modern era? Good news: 2019 brought us plenty of brilliant short fiction. We polled current and former Electric Lit staff and contributors about their favorite collections of the year, and their picks include debuts, National Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
News and Events Michelle Johnson In 2019 WLT continued publishing fiction, poems, interviews, and essays in translation—publishing more than 50 pieces from languages ranging from Albanian to Zoque—along with pieces by translators about their work. In... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-12-10 14:32:34 UTC ]
The 2019 National Book Award winners have been announced! Hosted by LeVar Burton, the 70th National Book Award ceremony was a night of storytelling! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-11-21 12:22:37 UTC ]
Last night’s 70th National Book Awards in New York saw Susan Choi, Sarah M Broom, Arthur Sze, Laszlo Krasnahorkai and Martin W Sandler annnounced as winners, respectively, in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 10:45:49 UTC ]
Sarah M. Broom won the nonfiction prize for “The Yellow House,” one of several memoirs in the category. Arthur Sze won in poetry for “Sight Lines.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-11-21 03:34:36 UTC ]
The 2019 National Book Award winners were announced in New York City tonight. The big prize for Fiction went to Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (Bonus: Read our 2019 interview with Choi). In his opening remarks for the 70th annual ceremony, host Levar Burton spoke about the power of books... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-11-21 03:04:39 UTC ]