A Winner of two National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature, Katherine Paterson spoke to NPR Books about her recently published memoir, Stories of My Life.
Listen to the full interview here.
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#NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, #Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the following in his personal memoir, Between the World and Me, an open letter to his teenage son:
“And so I had no sense that any just God was on my side. ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’ meant nothing to me. The meek were battered in West Baltimore, stomped out at Walbrook Junction, bashed up on Park Heights, and raped in the showers of the city jail.”
Watch the #NBAwards ceremony live stream at nationalbook.org, xxpm, November 18. For more from #BetweenTheWorldAndMe, visit: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_nf_tcoates.html#.Vjos8269GSo
Martin Luther King, Jr., speech in Montgomery, AL, 1965
While Martin Luther King Jr., says in his well-known speech, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Ta-Nehisi Coates, #NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, writes in his powerful memoir #BetweenTheWorldAndMe:
“My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box.”
Watch the #NBAwards ceremony live stream at nationalbook.org, xxpm, November 18. For more on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir and new framework for understanding Anerica’s history and crisis, visit: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_nf_tcoates.html#.Vjos8269GSo
National Book Award Winner Patti Smith reveals the cover of her soon to be published new memoir (Source: Entertainment Weekly)
Novelist Edwidge Danticat became a National Book Award Finalist in 2007 for her moving family memoir Brother, I’m Dying. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti until the age of twelve, Danticat recalls the lives of her father and uncle; two men who follow different paths to escape Haiti’s political turmoil. While one immigrates to the United States, the other remains until the country’s violent unrest destroys his livelihood. In sharing the lives and tragic deaths of these two men, Danticat tells a larger story of family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, and the harsh realities of US immigration policy in a post- 9/11 world.
For more great National Book Award Honored women authors, check out our downloadable infographic #Women Write the World.
“And then every once in a while a book comes along that doesn’t exactly retell one or more fairy tales, but instead creates a new kind of fairy tale that is firmly rooted in the fairy tales of old. That book is the amazing novel Far Far Away by Tom McNeal, and it features the ghost of Jacob Grimm as a major character and driving force in the story.”
Our #NBAwards Young People’s Literature Finalist Far Far Away is featured in NYPL’s new blog post Tales with a Twist.
One of the stories in the book (‘The Semplica Girl Diaries’) took 14 years to finish—but honestly, even that was sort of pleasurable. I love the feeling of being on the hunt—the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.
NBF staffers are all verklempt over #NBAwards Finalist George Saunders’ winning his THIRD literary prize this month for Tenth of December.
Saunders’ most excellent interview with The Millions’ Edan Lepucki is up on our website here.
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From our youngest #NBAwards Poet to our oldest. Stanley Kunitz was 90 years old when he won the #NBAward for #Poetry for Passing Through: The Later Poems. The eponymous poem of the collection was written on the poet’s seventy-ninth birthday. In accepting his #NBAward a little over a decade later, Kunitz said: “The craft that I admire most manifests itself not as an aggregate of linguistic or prosodic skills, but as a form of spiritual testimony, the sign of the inviolable self, consolidated against the enemies within and without that would corrupt or destroy human pride and dignity.”
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There are times when I’m writing that it’s frustrating or appalling or difficult but when it goes well it goes really well and there is a feeling of rightness, like I’m doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I’m at an appropriate angle to the world.
Rachel Kushner, author of the 2013 #NBAwards Finalist book The Flamethrowers speaks to England’s newspaper The Telegraph.
Read the full interview here.
From his office at Syracuse University, George Saunders discusses the writing process and bringing his characters to life: http://nyr.kr/IEEYCd
2013 #NBAwards Fiction Finalist for Tenth of December.
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
that’s a fantastic plan, honestly? i would 100% go sit at a bookshop, buy a glass of wine, and pick up the newest biography. 50/50 i’d decide to buy it after a couple chapters, and even if i don’t, that’s still money i spent at B&N!
They could host book clubs with food and drinks where one of the employees shares their experiences with a book of their choice and tries to convince the guests to buy it.
Barnes and noble realizing the only reason people go to brick and mortar stores is for the experience and access to an enjoyable physical space they can socialize in (sure isnt for the price) and capitalizing on that is a stroke of genius and a really refreshing approach to the dilemma of competing with online stores
