NPR's Book Tour program has landed an exclusive sneak peek at Toni Morrison's latest book A Mercy. According to Publishers Weekly, "The four-day serialization [October 27, 28, 29 and 30] will also present NPR arts correspondent Lynn Neary discussing the book with Morrison, and the audio will be available as streaming audio, podcast or download … Continue reading The New Book from the Last American to Win a Nobel Prize for Literature
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From New York with Love
The latest issue of The New Yorker has a review of To Siberia by Per Petterson. Petterson's first two books In the Wake and Out Stealing Horses were surprise hits.The review is quite a love letter: "Petterson could be labelled a “prose stylist,” except you never feel that he is styling anything; you feel that … Continue reading From New York with Love
National Book Award Nominees
They're celebrating again in St Paul now that the final five for the 2008 National Book Award have been announced. Graywolf Press has a novel on the shortlist--The End by Salvatore Scibona.The nominees for fiction are Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus ProjectRachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country Marilynne Robinson, Home Salvatore Scibona, The … Continue reading National Book Award Nominees
Musings from Magers and Quinn 