Kao Kalia Yang's THE SONG POET: A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER has been named a Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Read the full story at the New York Times here.
Peter Gizzi Short-Listed For National Book Award
Peter Gizzi's collection ARCHEOPHONICS has been named to the short-list for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. The winner will be announced November 16, in New York.
Check out the full story from NPR here.
iO Tillett Wright's DARLING DAYS Out Today From Ecco
iO Tillett Wright's memoir DARLING DAYS is out today from Ecco Press.
“Gender-defying iO Tillett Wright mixes such a high-octane cocktail of radiant ink, wild anecdotes, bad behavior, and gritty truths-topped off with an unexpected tonic of transcendence-it could stagger Charles Dickens, electrify Maxim Gorky, and cause Jane Austen to walk around in army boots.” (Tom Robbins)
“iO Tillett Wright is nothing short of a force of nature-an artist, an activist, and a survivor. iO has packed a lot into few years and in this extraordinary memoir has created something brave and true, as devastating as it is inspiring.” (Jill Soloway, Emmy-award winning creator of Transparent)
Read the excerpt in Out Magazine here.
Emma Cline's THE GIRLS Long Listed for the 2016 Prix Femina
Emma Cline's THE GIRLS has been long-listed for the 2016 Prix Femina, The winner will be announced November 2nd.
Peter Gizzi's Archeophonics Longisted for NBA
Peter Gizzi's collection ARCHEOPHONICS has been long listed for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry.
Read the full announcement from the National Book Foundation here.
Ottessa Moshfegh's EILEEN Shortlisted For The Man Booker Prize
Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel, EILEEN, has been shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. The winner will be announced in London on October 25th.
Read the full story in the New York Times here.
Emma Cline Shortlisted For The Center For Fiction First Novel Prize
Emma Cline's THE GIRLS has been shortlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2016 First Novel Prize.
Read the full press release here.
Odie Lindsey's WE COME TO OUR SENSES Out Today
Odie Lindsey's debut story collection, WE COME TO OUR SENSES is out today from W. W. Norton & Co.
A raw, intense exploration of the lives of Southern veterans trying to adapt to life at home. - Juli Thanki, The Tennessean
Lindsey, a Nashville-based writer and veteran, has created a unique and contemporary voice for a generation baffled by the wars it is continuously engaged in without much understanding of their causes or consequences. - Beth Waltemath, The Knoxville News Sentin
PEN America Launches Jean Stein Book Award and Grant for Oral History
PEN and Jean Stein have created two new annual prizes. One for “a book that has broken new ground” in literature and the other to “support the completion of a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place or movement."
Read the full story in the LA Times here
The First Installment Ezekiel Boone’s THE HATCHING Trilogy
Ezekiel Boone’s new thriller, THE HATCHING is in stores today from Emily Bestler Books.
"What Peter Benchley did for sharks, James Herbert did for rats and Michael Crichton did for dinosaurs, Ezekiel Boone does for those eight-legged freaks that lurk in dark corners of our houses. The Hatching is a full-throttle pulse-pounder that will keep you up all night feverishly flipping its pages--and make you check for webs spun under your bed before you reluctantly turn off the lights." - Nick Cutter, author ofThe Troop and The Deep
“An apocalyptic extravaganza of doom and heroism…addictive.” (Publishers Weekly)
