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 ]
We can’t stop telling stories about pandemics, even as we wait for one to hit us. As coronavirus spreads across the world, so have headlines about the ways that storytellers, from those in Babylonia to contemporary novelists and Hollywood, have used infectious disease for narrative effect. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-02 16:51:35 UTC ]
My Dark Vanessa author Kate Elizabeth Russell was driven to reveal details of her past when accused of inauthenticity – but should we be seeking the truth elsewhere?Our world, more than at any time in history, is all about stories. Snapchat feeds capture your entire day, Instagram users... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-02 06:00:36 UTC ]
Novelists rub shoulders with presidents, chefs, comedians and thriller megastars on longlist to define the title with the biggest impact on the book worldIt could be almost the setup for a joke, but a former president, a Booker winner and an erotic fiction superstar have walked on to the British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-14 06:01:23 UTC ]
The 1890s saw pioneering works of science fiction, detective fiction, and Gothic horror all published, by some of the greatest English, Scottish, and Irish writers of the age. In the United States, too, novelists addressed social issues, sometimes in comic ways, while social realism continued to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2019-12-31 15:00:10 UTC ]