Today they announced the five finalists for each category of the National Book Awards. Fiction: The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon Tenth of December, by George Saunders Nonfiction: Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, by
This year’s winner is: The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton And for those of you in the United States, Little, Brown just published the book today. I have had a copy for a while, but so far I haven’t been able to bring myself to read the large (848 pages) book, but I am looking forward
This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “Respectability” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. We feel pity and care about many of the subjects in Winesburg, Ohio, but
Trevor and Betsy review Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” republished in this weeks issue of The New Yorker on the occasion of Munro’s winning the Nobel Prize! Read the full post.
NYRB Classics published their edition of Stoner in June of 2006, and it is the book we’ll be talking about in Episode 9 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast. In 1965, John Williams published Stoner, a novel about a professor of English named William Stoner, a relatively nondescript person whom no one will remember
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