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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-Brenyah’s dystopian prison novel “Chain-Gang All-Stars” are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction.
Fall books: Britney and Barbra's memoirs are among major releases, but political books are fewer
Read full article: Fall books: Britney and Barbra's memoirs are among major releases, but political books are fewerJoe Biden and Donald Trump are the most likely nominees for the 2024 presidential election, but you won't see many new books about either this fall.
Doerr, Powers on fiction longlist for National Book Awards
Read full article: Doerr, Powers on fiction longlist for National Book AwardsAnthony Doerr, Richard Powers and Lauren Groff are among this years nominees on the National Book Awards’ fiction longlist, which also includes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ debut novel “The Love Songs of W.
Oates, Groff among contributors to book on Thoreau legacy
Read full article: Oates, Groff among contributors to book on Thoreau legacyNEW YORK Joyce Carol Oates, Douglas Brinkley and Lauren Groff are among more than 20 writers contributing essays for a book on the legacy of Henry David Thoreau. Princeton University Press announced Monday that Now Comes Good Sailing: On Henry David Thoreau and the Meaning of Life will be published in 2021. The book's title comes from words the celebrated nature writer and social commentator reportedly spoke as he neared his death, in 1862. Others writing about Thoreau for the new book include the best-selling novelist Amor Towles, Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction writer John McPhee, travel writer Pico Iyer, and the author and columnist Rafia Zakaria.