Akhil Sharma and Salvator Scibona Named Cullman Fellows

We’re excited to announce that Akhil Sharma and Salvatore Scibona have each been named as 2016-2017 Cullman Center Fellows. They’ll be in residence at the Cullman Center, in The New York Public Library’s Stephan A. Schwarzman Building from September 2016 to May 2017, where they’ll have full access to the Library’s research collections and the support of the Library’s curatorial and reference staff as they work on their next projects. 

Check out the full announcement here.

 

 

Eric Fair's CONSEQUENCE Out Today

Eric Fair's new memoir, CONSEQUENCE is out today from Henry Holt, to great reviews:

"An important personal perspective is now provided by Eric Fair’s candid and chilling new book, “Consequence,” which is at once an agonized confession of his own complicity as an interrogator at Abu Ghraib and an indictment of the system that enabled and tried to justify torture.”  - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Fair viscerally conveys what can go wrong, quickly and violently, in an interrogator’s locked room in a war zone, making this memoir essential reading in this presidential election year as candidates vying to be the next commander in chief debate, deplore or defend torture.”  J. Kael Weston, The Washington Post

Katy Simpson Smith's FREE MEN is Released to Glowing Reviews

Katy Simpson Smith's stunning second novel, FREE MEN, is out today from HarperCollins. From the author of the highly acclaimed The Story of Land and Sea comes a captivating novel, set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions—an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian—who are being tracked down for murder.

"a brilliant, wild ride....not only does Smith step boldly into the terrain of the classics of the American canon, her novel feels like one of those classics. Smith has succeeded in writing a novel of American masculinity that deserves comparison with Cormac McCarthy, Jim Harrison and Herman Melville. The bar is set that high and the canvas stretched that broad. Beyond the enjoyment of the characters and story, half the pleasure in reading "Free Men" is the sensation that, as the pages turn, one is witnessing the development of a powerful — even major — career.” - The Jackson Clarion-Ledger

"…glimpses into a vanished but fully realized world, one which has completely engaged us by [the] novel's satisfying end" - The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Check out this full review from Lemuria Books in Jackson, MI here.