Tag Archives: Margaret Atwood

What they’re reading: Jojo Moyes

Readers can’t seem to get enough of Jojo Moyes these days! Her most recent novel, Me Before You, came in at #2 on Your top 20 books of 2013 (so far!). Our reviewer deemed the book—about the development of an … Continue reading

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Friday links

• The 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalists were announced earlier this week: Threats by Amelia Gray, Kind One by Laird Hunt, Hold It ’Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson, Watergate by Thomas Mallon, and Everything Begins and Ends … Continue reading

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2013 Audie Award finalists announced!

Everyone’s got Oscar fever this week, but we’re also really excited about another awards ceremony coming up—the 2013 Audies, which recognize distinction in audiobooks. Finalists were announced by the Audio Publishers Association today, and the winners will be awarded at … Continue reading

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Margaret Atwood’s trilogy continues this fall with ‘MaddAddam’

The news about great fall releases just keeps coming. Canadian author Margaret Atwood will publish MaddAddam with Nan A. Talese on September 3, 2013. The book is the third and final volume of her MaddAddam trilogy, which began with Oryx … Continue reading

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And the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to . . .

At 1 p.m. Central European Time (aka 6 a.m. in Nashville), we learned that the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize in Literature “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.” Tranströmer, 80, is … Continue reading

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Top 10 books for end-of-the-world reading

So according to, oh, everyone we know on the Internet, a self-taught biblical scholar says the world is ending on Saturday, and a whole lot of people (though not necessarily their families!) believe him. I suppose we’ll find out the … Continue reading

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A new book from Margaret Atwood

I would like to take this moment to give a shout out to the awesome futuristic book jacket for Margaret Atwood’s forthcoming In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. How cool is this? The book comes out on October … Continue reading

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Writing tips—and a serenade!—from Margaret Atwood

Booker Prize-winner author Margaret Atwood was the keynote speaker at Belmont University’s Ninth Annual Humanities Symposium on October 27. Karen Trotter Elley, BookPage Production Designer, attended Atwood’s talk. Below, she describes the memorable evening (Atwood sang!)—and provides some writing tips … Continue reading

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Top Pick: ‘The Year of the Flood’

This month, Julie Hale selected Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood as her top pick for book clubs. “A strange and beautiful work, this masterful narrative proves that Atwood can do anything as a novelist,” says Hale, who knows … Continue reading

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