Ned Beauman on his translation into Assamese, and where being named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists took him. The post On the Anxieties of Translation appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2023-04-06 11:24:19 UTC ]
The American novelist, whose latest work is a fake biography of an avant-garde artist, on growing up in Mississippi and why her fiction has ‘never actively involved cellphones or the internet’Catherine Lacey, 37, is the author of three previous novels, including The Answers, currently being... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-01 17:00:01 UTC ]
‘The issue was the first of its kind. Trust me, it said. I know what I am talking about. These young writers are the future of literature. Watch. History will prove me right.’ A history of the list, with reflections from Bill Buford and other editors. The post <em>Granta</em>’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2023-03-21 19:02:26 UTC ]
What is it about campus novels that makes us love them so? The campus has inspired many novelists over the years: Michael Chabon, Kazuo Ishiguro, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elif Batuman, Nabokov, to name just a few. Readers love these stories, too; “the campus novel” has become its own literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-14 09:53:34 UTC ]
I kind of love acknowledgement pages. When I was trying to find an agent for my first novel, I would go to the local Borders (it was a lifetime ago) open to them often to discover which agents and editors novelists worked with, which MFA programs they’d attended, who their early readers were. My... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-18 09:56:43 UTC ]
Russell Banks, who has died at age 82, carried on the legacy of great American novelists probing big themes through the small lives of heroic underdogs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-09 21:54:28 UTC ]
If you’re a literary genius, you’ve got it easy—right? Wrong. Even Jane Austen, indisputably one of the greatest novelists in the English language, spent years struggling to be published and became so dispirited that there were moments when she almost walked away. The story begins with an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-18 09:54:04 UTC ]
‘She saw and felt things us ordinary mortals missed,’ her agent says of Booker prize-winning author who died on Thursday• Hilary Mantel remembered: ‘She was the queen of literature’• ‘The pen is in our hands. A happy ending is ours to write’: Hilary Mantel in her own wordsThe Booker... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-09-23 11:29:23 UTC ]
Held in person for the first time since 2019, the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) 2022 conference brought over 300 authors, agents, publishers, and aspiring novelists together in St. Louis, Mo. from September 8-11. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by A.M. Homes, author of The Unfolding. Find more Keen On... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-06 08:56:16 UTC ]
While other future novelists were discussing iambic pentameter and leitmotifs, Gina Chen immersed herself in computer science. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-08-25 09:00:11 UTC ]
A Black Muslim leader is bringing his life story and work to Broadleaf; novelists Tosca Lee and Marcus Brotherton are joining forces on a WWII story coming from Revell, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Six of the 13 writers in contention for the prestigious British literary award are from the United States, with novelists from Britain, Ireland and Zimbabwe also on the list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-07-26 14:51:57 UTC ]
Author Christopher M. Cevasco says there's a surprising lack of crossover between the two. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2022-04-29 16:00:00 UTC ]
Filmmakers, novelists and photographers, among others, also shape our collective memory, Richard Cohen writes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-04-22 12:00:50 UTC ]
Interviews Eloghosa Osunde and Okwiri Oduor. Photo of Oduor by Chelsea Bieker. It’s hard to argue with Booker Prize–winning author Damon Galgut’s assertion that 2021 was “a great year for African writing.” And as WLT’s “New African Voices” issue... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-04-21 13:41:40 UTC ]
L.A.'s authors, from 19th century novelists to Wanda Coleman to Steph Cha, have always pushed genre boundaries and dissected California myths. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-04-14 13:00:55 UTC ]
The theatre is a perennially popular setting for novelists and no wonder. The tawdry glamour and sense of spectacle make it a rich gift for any author, but it’s what happens behind the scenes that I find the most interesting. This is particularly true for those novels set on the 19th-century... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-04-14 11:00:00 UTC ]
Guardian photographer who captured most of the main events and notable people from the early 1960s to the late 90sThe photographer Frank Martin, who has died aged 89, was on the staff of the Guardian from 1964 to 1997, creating an extensive body of work that covered news, arts, fashion, politics... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-04-13 16:01:26 UTC ]
Three authors joined author/moderator Emma Straub in a thought-provoking keynote panel, “Storytelling in the Cultural Moment,” to begin the third day of ABA's Snow Days online conference. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-11 05:00:00 UTC ]