The poet, whose acceptance speech will also be released on Monday, will publish Winter Recipes from the Collective in 2021Nobel laureate Louise Glück is set to publish her first poetry collection in seven years in 2021 – her first since becoming the 16th female winner of the literature... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-07 11:00:36 UTC ]
Alison Lurie, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for her novel Foreign Affairs (Vintage), has died at the age of 94. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 22:01:54 UTC ]
ANTHONY DAVIS, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his opera The Central Park Five, is a composer with a great future behind him. Five is his eighth opera, and during those labors, spanning four decades, he’s found the time and talent to write orchestral pieces and music for plays, to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-17 12:30:47 UTC ]
Welcome to the Book Marks Questionnaire, where we ask authors questions about the books that have shaped them. This week, we spoke to Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Sleep Donation, Karen Russell. * Book Marks: First book you remember loving? Karen Russell: The Last Unicorn by Peter S.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-07 15:16:17 UTC ]
Erika A. Niedowski, a former Sun foreign correspondent and Moscow bureau chief who was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist and later worked for The Associated Press, died Friday of undetermined causes at Rhode Island Hospital two days before her 47th birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2020-10-06 21:08:37 UTC ]
Edward P. Jones’s The Known World occupies a somewhat odd space in the literary canon: it is highly decorated, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and it was even a bestseller, but 17 years after its publication, it feels curiously underread. I acknowledge, of course, that all notions of “underread,” like... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-05 08:49:24 UTC ]
With her new novel about a talking horse, Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley continues to defy expectation—and classification. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
A big congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen, who is joining the Pulitzer Prize Board as its first Asian-American and Vietnamese-American member. After an extensive nominating process, the board chooses the winners from a list of finalists in each category and may additionally give a Special Award... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-08 18:40:01 UTC ]
Akhtar has crafted a phenomenal coalescence of memoir, fiction, history and cultural analysis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-31 10:55:09 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster's dominance over the Trump exposé category is likely to be reaffirmed this September 15, when the publisher will release 'Rage,' the latest title by the Pulitzer Prize–winning 'Washington Post' reporter. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Steven Millhauser: Pulitzer Prize winner. Certified Writer’s Writer. Big in France. Reported Ping-Pong champ. A master short story writer who never quite seems to get his due. George Saunders before George Saunders, though sans the gooey center. Lit Hub’s own Jonny Diamond recently called him... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-03 08:49:28 UTC ]
It’s been quite a year for Colson Whitehead! First, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (again) and then he received the Orwell Prize for political fiction. And now the Library of Congress is honoring him with their lifetime achievement prize. (Previous recipients include Toni Morrison, Denis... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-14 15:56:24 UTC ]
On May 4, Pulitzer Prize administrator Dana Canedy announced this year’s winners from her living room with some technological help Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-07-02 07:00:00 UTC ]
Renowned poets Jericho Brown (2020 Pulitzer Prize winner) and Nikky Finney (2011 National Book Award winner), formerly student and teacher, reunite to address the current moment of uprising and solidarity in the face of anti-Black violence, in a visceral conversation about art, identity, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-09 17:00:01 UTC ]
Jeffrey Gerritt, recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, has been appointed editor of the Sharon Herald and Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-06-02 19:35:11 UTC ]
The New York Times Magazine was the top winner at this year's National Magazine Awards (commonly referred to as the "Ellies"), which were held as a virtual ceremony Thursday evening after the annual gala, originally set for Brooklyn in mid-March, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-05-29 01:15:13 UTC ]
'It's so easy now to turn the past into myth,' says Pulitzer Prize -winning Cundill juror Anne Applebaum. She and her colleagues flag historical analysis amid a pathogen's assault and leadership failures. The post Canada’s Cundill Prize Jurors: History, Urgency, Trump appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-05-26 10:06:37 UTC ]
Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-cheif of ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués González, president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald, have been Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-05-20 22:01:39 UTC ]
On Monday, President Trump casually told reporters that he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug he has repeatedly touted as effective against COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The reporters seemed stunned. “I was just waiting to see your eyes light up when I... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-20 12:10:26 UTC ]
He won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing unsafe conditions in meatpacking plants. He also wrote about hunger in America and the politics of the B-1 bomber. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-15 17:19:24 UTC ]