I have read only one book by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clézio — Desert (my thoughts here) — and I still remember well its atmosphere and depth. I’ve been anxious to read more as I have a suspicion he could become one of my Pantheon authors, but as the years have passed other books have come up
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
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Tessa Hadley’s “Bad Dreams” was originally published in the September 23, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor I’m a big fan of Tessa Hadley, so I consider the steady flow of her work into The New Yorker to be a good
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
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