With no room for Hilary Mantel’s conclusion to her Wolf Hall trilogy, the six finalists also include four debutsHilary Mantel will not win a third Booker prize with the final novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, after American writers made a near clean sweep of this year’s shortlist.With four... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-09-15 12:21:07 UTC ]
Ah, yes, the good old days: when novelists lent their faces and testimonials to advertisers hoping to sell tires, or a certain kind of beer, or fancy watches. It’s something you don’t see very much anymore, because we writers have become too principled to participate in advertising campaigns.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-19 17:14:06 UTC ]
Chris Bohjalian, Mary Kay Andrews and other novelists have turned to Zoom and Facebook Live to find their audience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
From 'islands of pain' to the 'peril of exposure,' writers have captured the fear, emptiness and despair that characterize life during the current pandemic, writes a poet and English scholar. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-08-17 12:24:39 UTC ]
Novelists including Candice Carty-Williams, Beth O'Leary and Jeanette Winterson are in the running for the Comedy Women in Print Prize (CWIP). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-16 13:06:20 UTC ]
The Women's Prize for Fiction has just published 25 literary works by female authors with their real names for the first time. Could we do the same for Miles Franklin and Henry Handel Richardson here? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-08-13 06:43:53 UTC ]
“Make Russia Great Again” and “Rodham” are two recent novels that benefit from blending fact and fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-06 12:00:00 UTC ]
Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Abir Mukherjee, Courttia Newland, Guy Gunaratne, Paul Mendez and Okechukwu Nzelu on why British writers of colour are left out of the conversationAfter this week’s Booker prize longlist was announced, the Times asked “Where are the new male hotshot novelists?” I was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-31 14:10:18 UTC ]
The author’s latest collection shows how few novelists seem to genuinely love human beings the way she does. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-07-21 19:06:23 UTC ]
Two sequels which show how the Victorian novelist's stories can be adapted to reflect post-colonial narratives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-06-08 16:19:12 UTC ]
The sadness, exhaustion, anger and frustration that have been expressed by Black people across social media this week have, of course, been felt for centuries.But, by living so much through our screens right now, observing video footage, scrolling through reposted statements and infographics,... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-06-05 16:46:27 UTC ]
Although it was the nineteenth century when the novel arguably came into its own, with novelists like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters writing novels that are still widely read and studied today, the eighteenth century was the age in which the novel emerged as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2020-05-23 14:00:38 UTC ]
It always takes a little time for novelists to shape a real-life nightmare into a story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-21 06:58:16 UTC ]
Debut and veteran novelists dive into the world of digital events amid the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Novelists Hilary Mantel, Maggie O'Farrell and Margaret Atwood are among the list of big-name writers and thinkers taking part in the first fully digital Hay Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-06 10:09:46 UTC ]
Doctors, novelists and other writers are exploring, as quickly as they can, the pandemic’s impact on a country that was among its earliest victims. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-09 14:40:54 UTC ]
Cultural Cross Sections Baret Magarian Photos by Pierpaolo Florio A novelist living in quarantine in Florence looks back at Italy’s cultural history and then forward, considering whether something positive might rise from the ruins that the virus will... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-03-23 21:14:07 UTC ]
Two novelists have partnered to build A Mighty Blaze, a initiative to promote other authors and their new books on social media. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
First-time novelists with books out or coming soon talk about their changes of plans and how they’re spending these unusual days. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-18 20:00:14 UTC ]
For centuries, novelists and fiction writers have imagined what plagues and virus outbreaks could look like, and many readers are seeking these books out amid concerns about the coronavirus. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-12 09:00:29 UTC ]