These are some important things to know about my dad: every Halloween he dresses up in a different inflatable costume to hand out candy, he’s seen Bigfoot, he watches John Wick about once a month, he wanted to name me Elvis, and when I was younger he read all my favorite books along with me. […] The post Who Will Win the National Book Award for Fiction, According to My Dad appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
[ Electric Literature | 2019-11-19 12:00:00 UTC ]
Established in 2018, the US National Book Awards’ newest category, Translated Literature, this year drew 141 submissions. The post US National Book Award 2024 Longlists: Translation appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-09-11 14:03:05 UTC ]
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Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 141 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Translated Literature are Aron Aji, Jennifer Croft,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-10 19:00:15 UTC ]
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The 10 books on the Young People's Literature longlist for the 2024 National Book Awards were chosen from 333 entries. The post US National Book Award Longlists: Young People’s Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-09-10 14:05:45 UTC ]
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Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 333 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Young People’s Literature are Rose Brock, Huda... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-10 14:00:09 UTC ]
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At the beginning of Khuê Phạm’s debut novel Brothers and Ghosts, translated by Charles Hawley and Daryl Lindsey, the narrator makes a confession: “I don’t know how to pronounce my own name.” It’s not something you hear often and something unimaginable for many. But for Kiều, the young Vietnamese... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-09-10 11:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Book Foundation has revealed the 2024 National Book Award longlist for Young People's Literature. The five finalists will be named on October 1, and the winner will be announced during the 75th awards ceremony on November 20 in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Book Foundation is announcing the 2024 National Book Award longlists this week. Five finalists in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be named October 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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We’re celebrating our 15th birthday, which makes us about as old as Poe would have been in literary magazine years. In honor of this glorious milestone, we’re throwing a party! Join our esteemed hosts, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Vanessa Chan, Deesha Philyaw, and Clare Sestanovich, as well as EL... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-09-06 11:15:00 UTC ]
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FSG takes National Book Award winner Susan Choi’s new novel, Simon & Schuster lands a #1 French bestseller, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Sky Daddy by Kate Folk, which will be published by Random House on April 08, 2025. You can pre-order your copy here. Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with a dangerous obsession, in this hilarious and provocative debut novel... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-09-05 11:03:00 UTC ]
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Ledia Xhoga’s debut novel Misinterpretation opens with the unnamed narrator, a translator from Albania, accepting an assignment to interpret for a Kosovar torture survivor named Alfred. Elements of Alfred’s story map onto her own family’s experience, and the narrator becomes all-consumed by his... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-09-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Except for a brief period, a few years ago. My wheels had finally found the ruts of a writer’s path: I had a viral essay and New York Times bylines. I had kneeled before Poets & Writers with a writing book and been tapped by their sword on my shoulder, included on their Best Books […] The... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-09-03 11:10:00 UTC ]
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Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die, the debut memoir by Arianna Rebolini, which will be published by Harper on April 29, 2025. You can pre-order your copy here. After a decade of therapy and a stint in a psychiatric ward to treat suicidal... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-08-29 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Esmeralda Santiago’s book When I Was Puerto Rican debuted 30 years ago. This memoir introduced us to Negi (Santiago), a pre-teen with a captivating voice who chronicles her life in rural Puerto Rico in the 1950s. In Santiago’s own words, the memoir captures a world that no longer exists in... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-08-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
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In all of Martha Baillie’s books you can feel her sister. Her words offer a portal to the multiplistic experiences of existence—to understand better how cut off we can be from each other and where true connection flickers too. This year, Baillie’s memoir There is No Blue was published by Granta... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-08-23 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Though they’ve been icons of cinema for a while—see: Sadako, Shutter—it’s taken English literature a little longer to catch up to Asian women front and centre in stories of ghosts and horror. The prevalence of female ghosts across Asia has always interested me: how often their origin is rooted... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-08-16 11:05:00 UTC ]
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Contemporary literature is one of those four-dimensional things that seem to expand whenever you take a closer look. No one really knows more than a corner of it, perhaps a very large one, but a corner nevertheless. This quality, this mercuriality, of literature makes it more endless than any... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-08-16 11:05:00 UTC ]
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In the first drafts of my debut novel Medusa, I was consumed by the idea of what it meant to be a monster in a story you didn’t control. Medusa is one of the most recognizable monsters of Greek mythology, with the writhing mass of snakes for hair and the turning people to stone with […] The post... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-08-12 11:05:00 UTC ]
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If I had to pick the literary crew Karla Cornejo Villavicencio would sit with in the dining hall, it would be Myriam Gurba, Virginie Despentes, and Jenny Zhang. Those three cut to the heart of things with whip-smarts and wryness. In her eponymous novel Catalina (as in her National Book Award... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-07-25 08:54:24 UTC ]
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Suzanne Scanlon’s book, Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness, is a memoir unlike any I’ve read. Scanlon returns to the landscape of the past, reflecting on her experience of being committed in the New York State Psychiatric Hospital while a student at Barnard in the late 1990s.... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-07-23 11:00:00 UTC ]
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