This is the first year the National Book Award is giving us a longlist of titles for each category. This past week, they’ve been announcing one category per day, culminating in today’s fiction longlist. Fiction: Pacific, by Tom Drury The End of the Point, by Elizabeth Graver The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner The Lowland, by … Read more
Today they announced the 2013 Giller Prize longlist (which contains two collections of short stories): Going Home Again, by Dennis Bock The Orenda, by Joseph Boyden Hellgoing, by Lynn Coady Cataract City, by Craid Davidson How to Get Along with Women, by Elisabeth De Mariaffi Extraordinary, by David Gilmour Emancipation Day, by Wayne Grady October … Read more
Today the Man Booker Prize shortlist was announced: The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton Harvest, by Jim Crace A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo The Testament of Mary, by Colm Tóibín I’m thrilled to say that I had five books on … Read more
I have not gone off the deep end — I don’t think — and have started a new project that will run independently of The Mookse and the Gripes, a new solo podcast called The Worlds and Works of Shakespeare. The plan (and I’ve done a lot of prep work so I’m hoping it goes … Read more
Today they announced the longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize. Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Harvest by Jim Crace The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris The Kills by Richard House The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri Unexploded by Alison MacLeod … Read more
I missed this when it was announced a few weeks ago. This years winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award is: Tea at the Midland, by David Constantine I know little about this collection, but please feel free to let us know if you liked it.
From early Twitter reports, they’ve just announced the winner of this year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: City of Bohane, by Kevin Barry The paperback edition of this came out just Tuesday here in th United States. I looked for it at a local bookstore yesterday but didn’t see it yet. I’ve enjoyed Barry’s short … Read more
They’ve just announced the winner of this year’s Women’s Prize for Literature: May We Be Forgiven, by A.M. Homes I don’t know Homes’ work well, but from what I hear I need to, so I’m excited that she’s being recognized today. Please comment below or tweet me your thoughts on A.M. Homes, May We Be … Read more
Today they announced the shortlist for the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award: Tea at the Midland and Other Stories, by David Constantine Siege 13, by Tamas Dobozy Black Vodka, by Deborah Levy Black Dahlia & White Rose, by Joyce Carol Oates We’re Flying, by Peter Stamm Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins The winner … Read more
They’ve just announced this year’s winner of the Man Booker International Prize: Lydia Davis I’m thrilled at this news. Not only is Lydia Davis one of my favorite writers, she is also a short story writer and a supreme translator (in fact, the only thing I have reviewed here from her is her translation of … Read more