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Colson Whitehead's 'Crook Manifesto' wins $50,000 Gotham Prize for outstanding book about NYC
Read full article: Colson Whitehead's 'Crook Manifesto' wins $50,000 Gotham Prize for outstanding book about NYCColson Whiteheadโs โCrook Manifestoโ is this yearโs winner of the Gotham Book Prize for an outstanding work about New York City.
James McBride, Alice McDermott among authors on PEN/Faulkner award longlist
Read full article: James McBride, Alice McDermott among authors on PEN/Faulkner award longlistNovels by James McBride and Alice McDermott and a short story collection by Jamel Brinkley are among the 10 books on the longlist for one of the literary worldโs top prizes, the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.
Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Harding are among National Book Award fiction nominees
Read full article: Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Harding are among National Book Award fiction nomineesHistorical novels by Jayne Anne Phillips and Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyahโs dystopian prison novel โChain-Gang All-Starsโ are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction.
Authors Jesmyn Ward and James McBride are among the nominees for the 10th annual Kirkus Prizes
Read full article: Authors Jesmyn Ward and James McBride are among the nominees for the 10th annual Kirkus PrizesNovels by Jesmyn Ward and James McBride and story collections by Jamal Brinkley and Kelly Link are among the finalists for the Kirkus Prizes, for which winners in fiction, nonfiction and young readerโs literature each receive $50,000.
Julie Otsuka, Ed Yong win Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Read full article: Julie Otsuka, Ed Yong win Carnegie Medals for ExcellenceJulie Otsukaโs novel โThe Swimmers,โ in which a group of swimmers collectively narrate their daily routines and what happens when theyโre disrupted, has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Winfrey picks Leila Mottley's 'Nightcrawling' for book club
Read full article: Winfrey picks Leila Mottley's 'Nightcrawling' for book clubOprah Winfrey has chosen 19-year-old Leila Mottleyโs โNightcrawling,โ a debut novel about a young Black woman from East Oakland and her battles with poverty, racism and the police, for next book club pick.
Library association awards Carnegie medals to McBride, Giggs
Read full article: Library association awards Carnegie medals to McBride, GiggsThis combination image shows "Deacon King Kong" by James McBride, left, and "Fathoms: The World in the Whale" by Rebecca Giggs. The American Library Association has announced its winners of the Carnegie medals for literary excellence, awarding McBride in the fiction category and Giggs in nonfiction. (Riverhead Books, left, and Simon & Schuster via AP)NEW YORK โ This year's winners of the Carnegie medals for fiction and nonfiction, presented by the American Library Association, have each checked out a few books in their time. But in Philly, you can,โ explained McBride, whose novel last year was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club. With a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the library association established the award in 2012, with winners in each category receiving $5,000.
James McBride among those honored by Center for Fiction
Read full article: James McBride among those honored by Center for FictionNEW YORK โ Author James McBride and editor Chris Jackson were among those honored Thursday night by the Center for Fiction. Jackson, whose authors range from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Bryan Stevenson, was given the Medal for Editorial Excellence Award. Jackson runs the One World imprint of Penguin Random House. The Center for Fiction awarded its First Novel Prize to Raven Leilani for โLuster,โ the story of a young Black woman's affair with a married, middle-aged white man. Finalists included this year's Booker Prize winner, Douglas Stuart's โShuggie Bain.โ
McBride, Rankine among nominees for Carnegie literary medals
Read full article: McBride, Rankine among nominees for Carnegie literary medalsNEW YORK โ James McBride's latest novel and nonfiction by poets Claudia Rankine and Natasha Trethewey are among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for fiction and nonfiction. The American Library Association announced Tuesday that McBride's โDeacon King Kong" was a fiction nominee, along with Ayad Akhtar's novel โHomeland Elegiesโ and an acclaimed debut novel, Megha Majumdar's โA Burning.โ The nonfiction finalists are Trethewey's โMemorial Drive: A Daughterโs Memoir," Rankine's โJust Us,โ which combines poetry, prose and photography, and Rebecca Giggs' โFathoms: The World in the Whale." Winners in each category will be receive $5,000, and will be announced Feb. 4, 2021. The awards are supported, in part, by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Ethan Hawke tapes audio edition of acclaimed novel 'Gilead'
Read full article: Ethan Hawke tapes audio edition of acclaimed novel 'Gilead'NEW YORK โ When she learned that Ethan Hawke was working on a special audio edition of her acclaimed novel โGilead,โ Marilynne Robinson's response was to get a better idea of who he was. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, โGileadโ is the first of four Robinson novels set in a rural Iowa community in the 1950s. Hawke has recorded an abridged narrative of โGileadโ that was commissioned by Manhattan's 92nd Street Y and can he heard Oct. 19-29 via www.92y.org/gilead. โIn โGilead,โ the Reverend John Ames contemplates โgrace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials,'" he said. โGilead' is a great American novel, and Ethan Hawke is a great American actor."
McBride, Wilkerson among nominees for Kirkus Prize
Read full article: McBride, Wilkerson among nominees for Kirkus PrizeNEW YORK Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor for the best fiction, nonfiction and children's books. The nominees, six each in the three categories, were chosen by panels of writers, critics, booksellers and librarians. Other nominees were Tola Rotimi's Black Sunday," Juliana Delgado Lopera's Fiebre Tropical," Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain" and Raven Leilani's Luster." Wilkerson is a nonfiction finalist for another Winfrey pick, her study of racism in the U.S., Caste." In young people's literature, nominees include a children's version of Ibram X, Kendi's award-winning study of race, Stamped from the Beginning," co-authored with Jason Reynolds.
Oprah picks James McBride's 'Deacon King Kong' for book club
Read full article: Oprah picks James McBride's 'Deacon King Kong' for book clubThis cover image released by Riverhead Books shows "Deacon King Kong," a novel by James McBride. Oprah Winfrey has chosen McBrides Deacon King Kong for her book club. (Riverhead Books via AP)NEW YORK Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's Deacon King Kong for her book club. But it also pays tribute to community and to McBride's own childhood in a Brooklyn project. Then she said she liked Deacon King Kong' and had been a fan of my previous work.