Marlon James, Laili Lalami are National Book Award nominees
NEW YORK — Marlon James fantasy novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” Laila Lalami’s immigrant tale “The Other Americans” and Jason Reynolds’ neighborhood story “Look Both Ways” are among this year’s...
View ArticleHarold Bloom, author of ‘Anxiety of Influence,’ dies at 89
NEW YORK — Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer...
View ArticleSusan Choi, Sarah M. Broom win National Book Awards
NEW YORK — Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise,” in which a high school romance is spun out into a web of memories and perspectives, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Sarah M. Broom’s family...
View ArticleSusan Choi, Sarah M. Broom win National Book Awards
NEW YORK — Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise,” in which a high school romance is spun out into a web of memories and perspectives, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Sarah M. Broom’s family...
View ArticleJason Reynolds named ‘Young People’s Literature’ ambassador
NEW YORK — A ward-winning children’s author Jason Reynolds has taken on a new project: He has been named the country’s next National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a two-year position. The...
View ArticleMasha Gessen book, ”Surviving Autocracy,’ coming in June.
NEW YORK — Masha Gessen, the Russian-born author and journalist, has a new book out in June. It’s called “Surviving Autocracy,” and is her first book since “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Glass Hotel’ a tragic tale for the times
“The Glass Hotel,” Alfred A. Knopf, by Emily St. John Mandel How does one follow up a National Book Award nominee? With something completely different, of course. Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel is...
View ArticleReview: Music matters in Paulette Jiles’ ’Simon the Fiddler’
“Simon the Fiddler” by Paulette Jiles (William Morrow) “Simon the Fiddler” is the origin story of Simon Boudlin, a traveling musician who appears in Paulette Jiles’ 2016 novel, the National Book Award...
View ArticleRobb Forman Dew, prize-winning novelist, dead at 73
NEW YORK — Robb Forman Dew, a prize-winning fiction writer who drew upon her small-town Ohio background for such novels as “Dale Loves Sophie to Death” and “The Evidence Against Her,” has died. Little,...
View ArticleBooks on race and criminal justice top bestseller lists
NEW YORK — As nationwide protests against racism and police violence continue, readers are seeking out books old and new on race and criminal justice. Robin Diangelo’s “White Fragility,” Michelle...
View ArticleOprah picks James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ for book club
NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride’s novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an...
View ArticleDon DeLillo novel ‘The Silence’ coming in October
NEW YORK — Don DeLillo will have something to say this fall about fear and isolation. The 83-year-old author known for imagining disaster in “White Noise,” “End Zone” and other works has a novel coming...
View ArticleLisa Lucas, head of National Book Foundation, to join Knopf
NEW YORK — The head of the organization which presents the National Book Awards is joining the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation since...
View ArticleWalter Mosley to receive honorary National Book Award
NEW YORK — Walter Mosley is receiving an honorary National Book Award, cited for dozens of books which range from science fiction and erotica to the acclaimed mystery series that has followed the life...
View ArticleGeorge Takei, Ocean Vuong win American Book Awards
NEW YORK — Fiction by Ocean Vuong and Yoko Ogawa, a prison memoir by Alfred Woodfox and a graphic memoir based on actor George Takei’s childhood in a U.S. Read full story at TheRepublic.com
View ArticleFirst two longlists announced for National Book Awards
NEW YORK — Stories of voting rights, space exploration and displacement at home are among the young people’s literature works that appear on the longlist for the National Book Awards. Read full story...
View ArticleIsabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ on National Book Awards longlist
NEW YORK — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” her acclaimed study of racism in the United States, is among 10 nominees on the National Book Award longlist for nonfiction. Read full story at TheRepublic.com
View Article‘The Vanishing Half’ nominated for National Book Award
NEW YORK — Two of the summer’s most talked about novels, Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” and Megha Majumdar’s “A Burning,” are on the National Book Awards fiction longlist. Read full story at...
View ArticleReview: ‘Missionaries’ sees our forever wars as vocation
Phil Klay’s “Missionaries” (Penguin) Phil Klay’s “Redeployment” was a masterwork in mostly spare prose, its tonal range from laugh-out-loud, Joseph Heller-esque absurdity to soul-crushing bleakness....
View ArticleNovelist Lydia Millet among National Book Award finalists
NEW YORK — Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards. The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards,...
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