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Akhil Sharma has won the prestigious 2016 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest award for a single novel, presented by the Dublin City Council, for his novel FAMILY LIFE. The novel was chosen from a list nominated by public libraries from around the world.
Read the full story in the Guardian here.
David Levithan's newest novel, YOU KNOW ME WELL, a collaboration with Nina LaCour is out today from St. Martin's Griffin. It's been named Publishers Weekly's Staff Pick for Best Summer Book of 2016!
"Two powerful forces in YA lit team up to tell one unique story in You Know Me Well." -Bustle
"...incisively explore(s) the excitement and costs of change, and the importance of friends in figuring out what to keep and what to jettison." -Publishers Weekly
We're thrilled to see Katy Simpson Smith beautiful essay "The Occasional Ardent Hug" up on Lenny Letter this morning.
Check it out here.
Image: Leslie Wood
Rivka Galchen’s new book, LITTLE LABORS is hitting shelves today. It’s already been receiving some incredible reviews!
"I am confident that many mothers will pick up this book and feel they have found an unexpectedly intimate friend... A highly original book of essays and observations.” - Sarah Ruhl, New York Times Book Review
“Little Labors’’ is a short, beguiling book about babies. About babies in art (with wrongly shaped heads), about babies in literature (rare, often monstrous), and about the arrival of a baby in author Rivka Galchen’s apartment. - Nina MacLaughlin, The Boston Globe
Lauren Groff’s new story, “The Midnight Zone” appears in this week’s New Yorker. Read it online here.
Image courtesy of Jason Holley / The New Yorker
Kao Kalia Yang's memoir of her father, THE SONG POET, is out today from Henry Holt. It's been receiving some glowing reviews.
"The Song Poet, Kao Kalia Yang’s remarkable new book, is about art, resilience and the opportunities and indignities that come with life in a new country. Yang, a Minnesota resident, dealt with some of these same subjects in her prizewinning debut, “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir.” Her follow-up reaffirms her status as an exceptional storyteller, one whose work reminds us that big, timeless truths reveal themselves when we pay attention to small, specific details." - Kevin Canfield, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Eli Sanders appeared on PBS NewsHour last night to discuss his recent book, WHILE THE CITY SLEPT.
Watch the full video here:
Check out Justin Tussing’s new novel, VEXATION LULLABY, out April 12th from Catapult, one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month.
Tussing uses startling and memorable details to punctuate scenes with a cinematic flourish, and he is particularly adept at using dialogue to reveal how much we actually aren’t saying to each other. And the ending is dazzling. - Starred review in Publisher’s Weekly
We’re thrilled to see Akhil Sharma’s FAMILY LIFE shortlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.
See the full short list here.
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.
