Damian Barr’s Literary Salon tempts the world’s best writers to read exclusively from their latest greatest works and share their own personal stories. Star guests include Jojo Moyes, John Waters, Yaa Gyasi, Mary Beard, Diana Athill and Louis de Bernières—all in front of a live audience at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-08-09 08:58:06 UTC ]
News and Events In this second episode of WLT Book Buzz, Laura Hernandez & Bunmi Ishola cover 42 books that connect with history. Find out what they read this summer and why these books should be on your shelf. Partition, World War II, the Tulsa Race... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-08-04 15:40:39 UTC ]
Ms. Pavlin, a longtime editor at the publishing house who has worked with Ayana Mathis, Tommy Orange and Yaa Gyasi, succeeds Sonny Mehta, who died in 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-14 19:01:22 UTC ]
Books by Yaa Gyasi, Lisa Taddeo, Amanda Craig, Will Dean, Vaseem Khan, Stanley Tucci, Leone Ross, Kate Mosse, Bryony Gordon, Elle McNicoll, Dapo Adeola, and Rashmi Sirdeshpande will feature during the Springboard Conference, a joint initiative between The Bookseller and the Booksellers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-25 16:41:12 UTC ]
Loyalty spurred the best-selling author to visit a neuroscientist’s lab. What she saw there inspired her next narrator. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-09-17 09:00:05 UTC ]
Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing told the story of two branches of a Ghanaian family, one descended from a woman who marries a white slave trader and whose line stays in Ghana, another descended from her half-sister who is captured and sent to America in bondage. Gyasi’s second novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-09-11 11:00:00 UTC ]
Elena Ferrante returns with the #8 book in the country, ‘The Lying Life of Adults.’ Plus Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom,’ the latest Read with Jenna pick, lands at #4 in hardcover fiction, and Yusef Salaam, one of the Exonerated Five, coauthors the YA novel-in-verse ‘Punching the Air.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
In 'Transcendent Kingdom,' Yaa Gyasi's second novel, she focuses on America — its promise and peril — and on one Ghanaian American family in Alabama. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-08-27 16:49:47 UTC ]
Gyasi’s novel is nothing like ‘Homegoing,’ her hit debut, but it’s just as rewarding. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-25 11:00:00 UTC ]
Glittering reviews, swathes of high-profile media coverage and a reported seven-figure sum — Yaa Gyasi’s début Homegoing lives up to the hype, says Alice O’Keeffe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The honorees for the program's eleventh year include Brit Bennett, Yaa Gyasi, Greg Jackson, S. Li, and Thomas Pierce. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]