Karl Ove Knausgaard had published two novels before, in a genuine attempt to exhaust everything, he embarked on an ambitious literary projects at the age of thirty-nine: a six-volume series of autobiographical novels that totals around 3600 pages. Not only that, he intentionally wrote the books quickly, in around three years, forsaking style in an effort to stay
The announcement of this award slips past me every year. I was just looking to see when it would be announced and see that it already was (see their page). Winner: The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers Finalists: A Partial History of Lost Causes, by Jennifer duBois In the Shadow of the Banyan, by Vaddey Ratner
The 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award finalists have been announced (see the official site). The winner will be announced on March 19. Threats, by Amelia Gray Kind One, by Laird Hunt Hold It ‘Til It Hurts, by T. Geronimo Johnson Watergate, by Thomas Mallon Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz I
I’m a bit of a sucker when it comes to old-fashioned shipwreck stories. The Island of Last Truth (L’illa de l’última veritat, 2011; tr. from the Catalan by Laura McGloughlin, 2012) hits the spot: it’s the story of a man who is the sole survivor of a pirate attack and who ends up being marooned on a small island for
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