The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest book, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human race. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2021-09-21 09:00:08 UTC ]
Percival Everett nabbed the National Book Award and Samantha Harvey bagged the Booker, but they weren’t the only writers who struck gold this year. Yes, from the Pulitzer to the Nebula, the PEN/Faulkner to the Edgar, here are the winners of the biggest book prizes of 2024. Congratulations to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-12-18 09:57:03 UTC ]
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The National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominees discuss the wry maturity and singular strangeness of two writers whose work inspired their own. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
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McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, focuses on an egocentric, self-destructive white male novelist, played by Robert Downey, Jr. The fictional Jacob McNeal—think Mailer or Roth at their worst—wins the Nobel Prize early in the play, but he’s guarding a... Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2024-11-14 13:00:00 UTC ]
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A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he was a reporter, editor and columnist for The Washington Post, renowned for his deeply sourced dispatches. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-11-07 19:26:23 UTC ]
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The media will be under siege, but former Washington Post editor Marty Baron has some ideas for what journalists can doEverything we know about the next US president suggests that the press in America will be under siege in the next four years as never before.After all, Donald Trump has... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-11-07 17:33:15 UTC ]
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Forty years after the publication of Leaving the Land, Pulitzer Prize finalist Douglas Unger returns with his fifth novel, Dream City, an excoriating tale of hope, greed, and betrayal in Las Vegas. C.D. Reinhart is Unger’s fatally flawed protagonist, a failed actor bent on self-improvement who... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-10-08 11:05:00 UTC ]
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Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo, Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, and Richard Powers’ Playground all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 14 Rave • 7... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-27 08:59:28 UTC ]
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A hip-hop musical about the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury didn’t exactly scream global phenomenon when it launched on Broadway in 2015. But Lin-Manuel Miranda had such a clear vision for Hamilton that it became exactly that, winning a Pulitzer Prize along the way. Miranda’s boundless... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-09-24 12:31:42 UTC ]
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The Pulitzer prize winner on uniting Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton in her new novel, her unfathomable dreams, and how she went from ‘blabbermouth’ to writerPulitzer prize winner Elizabeth Strout, 68, has wooed readers and critics alike with a string of bestselling novels set in Maine, where... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-09-07 17:00:22 UTC ]
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New novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Powers, a memoir by the first Black woman on the Supreme Court — and more. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-08-27 09:01:50 UTC ]
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Spotify Audiobooks has partnered with W. W. Norton to produce and release the audiobook of Richard Powers' new novel 'Playground,' to be published in September 24. Spotify Audiobooks has been producing 10-15 titles monthly. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The 13-strong longlist for this year's 2024 Booker Prize has been announced. Among those listed are three debut novelists and several marquee names, including Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner, and Richard Powers. Six Americans made this year's list. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Donald Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board over its 2022 statement reaffirming its decision to award a prize for coverage of the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-07-21 22:14:57 UTC ]
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Before he began to write, John Cheever put on a three-piece suit and took the elevator from his Manhattan apartment down to the basement, where he took off his jacket and tie, and then began. Hemingway famously needed a drink to loosen him up. Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver has said,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-06-24 08:55:40 UTC ]
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Robert Winnett’s departure is the latest of the news outlet’s woes. The Washington Post said Friday that newly named editor Robert Winnett has decided not to take the job and remain in Britain instead, another upheaval at a news outlet where a reorganization plan has gone disastrously wrong.The... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-06-21 14:48:23 UTC ]
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Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-06-05 00:19:24 UTC ]
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Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his Washington Post columns about Russian politics and society — all of which he wrote in prison. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2024-05-08 19:11:21 UTC ]
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Jonathan Corcoran on the teacher who showed him that writing begins far from the page: Pulitzer Prize winner Jayne Anne Phillips. | Lit Hub Criticism Elizabeth Graver remembers her friend and agent, Richard Parks: “Richard’s voice on the phone was always much as I remembered it: polite, even... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-08 10:30:25 UTC ]
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The winners and nominated finalists of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by administrator Marjorie Miller via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention a ticket into a very illustrious club. The full list of winners... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-06 19:40:29 UTC ]
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Novelist Jayne Anne Phillips, journalist Nathan Thrall, and biographer Jonathan Eig were among the winners of the 108th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism and in Arts and Letters, announced May 6. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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