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Tag Archives: national book award
Southern Festival of Books: Authors in the Round
One of our favorite parts of the Southern Festival of Books is the Authors in the Round dinner on Friday night. Each table is paired with an author, and each guest at the table receives a copy of the author’s … Continue reading
National Book Award winners featured in BookPage
The National Book Awards were announced last night, and the winners include several BookPage favorites: Jesmyn Ward won for her second novel, Salvage the Bones, which takes place during Hurricane Katrina. Carla Jean Whitley reviewed the novel in the September … Continue reading
National Book Award winners surprise readers
The National Book Award winners were announced last night at the Cipriani Wall Street ballroom in New York City. The results: Fiction: Jaimy Gordon for Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.) Nonfiction: Patti Smith for Just Kids (Ecco) Young People’s … Continue reading
Awards season is here
Literary awards season is upon us, and I thought you’d find a roundup of the announcement dates useful. Anyone getting up early tomorrow to watch a webcast of the Nobel Prize announcement? The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced … Continue reading
What we’re reading Wednesday: The Widower’s Tale
The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass Pantheon • $25.95 • September 7, 2010 In 2002, Julia Glass won the National Book Award for Three Junes, a wonderful novel about Scottish family the McLeods. BookPage contributor Alden Mudge praised an aspect of … Continue reading
More from Colum McCann
National poetry month seems like the perfect time to announce the sale of Colum McCann’s next book: it took its title, Thirteen Ways of Looking, from a Wallace Stevens poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” The novel is … Continue reading
McCann in paperback
We’ve already blogged quite a bit about Colum McCann and Let the Great World Spin, but I couldn’t resist another mention after hearing some good news: On Dec. 4, Random House will release the paperback version of the book, which … Continue reading
Colum McCann: suggested reading
This morning we posted in the News section of our website that Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award for fiction. We predicted that this title would be the winner, not least of all … Continue reading
National Book Award nominees announced
This morning brought news of this year’s National Book Award nominees. It’s an eclectic list that contains a couple of surprises (such as American Salvage). We’re rooting for Colum McCann or Jayne Anne Phillips for fiction (fun fact: the same … Continue reading
