Cormac McCarthy, bleak and brutal titan of American literature, dead at 89

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who wrote nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds that enthralled and appalled readers, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, his representative confirmed to CBC News. Continue reading at 'CBC'

[ CBC | 2023-06-13 20:01:40 UTC ]

Other news stories related to: "Cormac McCarthy, bleak and brutal titan of American literature, dead at 89"


The Biggest Book World News of the Week

Cormac McCarthy's secret relationship with an underage girl, the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2024-11-24 16:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this


From Classroom to Conference: Insights from the American Literary Translators Association Meeting in Milwaukee, by Daria Shchukina

From Classroom to Conference: Insights from the American Literary Translators Association Meeting in Milwaukee, by Daria Shchukina From the Road [email protected] Wed, 11/13/2024 - 13:36 Photo by Daria ShchukinaUniversity of Oklahoma student Daria... Continue reading at World Literature Today

[ World Literature Today | 2024-11-13 19:36:48 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Lit Hub Weekly: October 7 – October 11, 2024

A guide to Cormac McCarthy’s literary influences, from Beowulf to Foucault. | Lit Hub Criticism From barroom chats with Raymond Carver to the aperçus of Thomas Piketty, Douglas Unger explores class consciousness in American letters. | Lit Hub Memoir Steve Wasserman deconstructs the environmental... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-12 10:30:17 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

In the 1990s, when I was a student at the newly formed Asian Pacific American Studies Department at NYU, the artist in residence at the time, David Henry Hwang, visited my class and spoke about Bruce Lee and the film The Joy Luck Club. He said something that I will never forget: “One... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-11 08:20:51 UTC ]
More news stories like this


How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda

“Wars are won by teachers.” –Vladimir Putin * In a prescient 1995 address at Howard University titled “Racism and Fascism,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison warned of forces within the United States “interested in fascist solutions to national problems.” These fascist solutions,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-16 08:56:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this


“Examine Every Atom”: The Capacious Career of Poet, Editor, and Critic T. R. Hummer, by Chard deNiord

“Examine Every Atom”: The Capacious Career of Poet, Editor, and Critic T. R. Hummer, by Chard deNiord Interviews [email protected] Wed, 07/31/2024 - 08:31   Right photo by formulanone / FlickrT. R. Hummer, as he is known professionally but Terry to... Continue reading at World Literature Today

[ World Literature Today | 2024-07-31 13:31:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Writers Talking Writers: China Miéville on Jane Gaskell and Keanu Reeves on Cormac McCarthy

Miéville and Reeves reflect on two writers whose influence can be felt in the duo's new collaboration, 'The Book of Elsewhere.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Launching Books into the World: A Conversation with Carolina Orloff, by Aitana Bellido

Launching Books into the World: A Conversation with Carolina Orloff, by Aitana Bellido Interviews [email protected] Mon, 07/01/2024 - 15:54 Carolina Orloff is a translator, author, and researcher of Latin American literature. In 2016, after... Continue reading at World Literature Today

[ World Literature Today | 2024-07-01 20:54:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this


In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane

My first personal encounter with the rarest book in American literature was memorable, even moving, for many reasons, but its physical appearance wasn’t one of them. If ever a book ought not to be judged by its cover, Edgar Allan Poe’s debut collection, Tamerlane and Other Poems, is that book.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-06-25 08:56:56 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Announcing Publication of the RESISTIR Latin America Online Poetry Anthology, by The Editors of WLT

Announcing Publication of the RESISTIR Latin America Online Poetry Anthology, by The Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Tue, 06/18/2024 - 14:20 On November 18, 2023, World Literature Today and Latin American Literature Today... Continue reading at World Literature Today

[ World Literature Today | 2024-06-18 19:20:43 UTC ]
More news stories like this


6 of the Best Free Audiobook Apps

Welcome to the shiny new version of Best of Book Riot! Who doesn’t love a glow-up? 💔 Nobel Prize-winning author ... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2024-05-15 15:31:13 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Nobel Prize-Winning Author Alice Munro has Died at 92

She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, with the Academy saying she could "accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages." Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2024-05-14 16:57:50 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives

The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2024-05-14 16:13:08 UTC ]
More news stories like this


What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

Daniel Noboa, the president of Ecuador, might have saved himself a lot of trouble, if he had only read more Latin American literature. Perhaps he would not have ordered the police to storm the Mexican embassy to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been granted asylum there. That... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-06 08:58:43 UTC ]
More news stories like this


The Liturgy and Anxiety of Ordinary Lives: In Conversation with Rigoberto González, by Darlington Chibueze Anuonye

The Liturgy and Anxiety of Ordinary Lives: In Conversation with Rigoberto González, by Darlington Chibueze Anuonye Interviews [email protected] Tue, 03/26/2024 - 08:23 Rigoberto González / Photo by Mahsa HojjatiRecently, I scheduled a zoom call... Continue reading at World Literature Today

[ World Literature Today | 2024-03-26 13:23:19 UTC ]
More news stories like this


For Expats, Lulu Wang mined tragedy for connection

Lulu Wang speaks to CBC News about crafting her new series Expats, to showcase Hong Kong — and bring people together. Continue reading at CBC

[ CBC | 2024-01-27 09:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

Earlier this month, Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres was banned from the Iowa City Schools. Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 17 novels, two collections of short fiction, five nonfiction books, and eight books for young adults. She spoke to The Little Hawk, the student newspaper of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-12-19 09:59:29 UTC ]
More news stories like this


José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature

American readers have largely forgotten the single greatest writer to come from the Latin American Boom: Chilean novelist José Donoso. The post José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions

[ The Millions | 2023-11-21 12:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this


Arundhati Roy calls the siege of Gaza “a crime against humanity.”

In a video address to the Munich Literature Festival yesterday, the human rights activist and Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy made a powerful speech in solidarity with the Gazan people, and with the millions around the world marching for a ceasefire. Roy—who... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-11-17 17:42:49 UTC ]
More news stories like this


World Literature Today to Co-host Online “RESISTIR Latin America” Poetry Event and Call for Peace

World Literature Today to Co-host Online “RESISTIR Latin America” Poetry Event and Call for Peace News and Events [email protected] Mon, 10/30/2023 - 15:47 On Saturday, November 18 at 12pm cst, the “RESISTIR Groupe” of Latin American PEN Centers,... Continue reading at World Literature Today

[ World Literature Today | 2023-10-30 20:47:30 UTC ]
More news stories like this