Neal Shusterman won the #NBAward in Young People’s Literature for Challenger Deep. In his acceptance speech Shusterman stated, “Wow I have finally achieved my father’s dream for me - to be an NBA star”.
Challenger Deep tells the story about a teen boy suffering with mental illness, which was inspired by Shusterman’s son, Brendan. Shusterman shared the stage with Brendan.
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#mental disorder #teen mental health #national book award #neal shusterman #brendan shusterman #young adult bookWill Alexander, whose Goblin Secrets won a 2012 National Book Award, joined Google’s Connected Classroom to speak with Time for Kids and our summer BookUp students.
Join the next Hangout featuring 2013 National Book Award winner Gene Luen Yang.
Announcing the Longlist for the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature! Congrats to all, and welcome to the #NBAwards family!
It’s our job to shine light into the abyss, and translate what we see – always hoping that the abyss doesn’t stare too deeply into us.
In the process of writing your book, what did you discover, what, if anything, surprised you?
Steve Sheinkin (Young People’s Literature): In researching the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers I learned about an incident I think is truly shocking, even in the context of a story full of secrets and lies. With the 1968 election approaching, Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, successfully undermined peace talks aimed at ending the war. Just days before the election, the talks were finally making progress, and Nixon feared a peace deal would rob him of his best issue – the Democrats’ failure in Vietnam. So Nixon secretly urged the president of South Vietnam to refuse to go to Paris for talks, promising that, if elected, he’d be a better friend to the South than Democrats had been. It worked – and the talks stalled again. And the most incredible part was that Lyndon Johnson knew all about it, thanks to wiretaps and intercepted cables! He privately (and, I’d argue, accurately) called it “treason,” but wasn’t sure he wanted to shock the world days before an election. So it was just one more secret from the American people.
In the process of writing your book, what did you discover, what, if anything, surprised you?
Hanya Yanagihara (Fiction): One of the less-discussed perks (if one could call it that) of writing fiction is that affords you a perfectly good excuse to ask people all sorts of nosy questions about their jobs. Work – how it gives us an identity, how it gives our lives shape, how it can offer us a different way of seeing ourselves, and others to see us – is an important part of A LITTLE LIFE, and interviewing people (friends and friends of friends) about their careers in architecture, film, and the law was one of the book’s great pleasures. I was surprised, again and again, by my interviewees’ passion and eloquence and generosity, and fascinated by their descriptions of the various micro-societies in which they spent their working lives.
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With a look back at some of the National Book Award Honored books that celebrate the heroes and heroines of the Civil Rights movement.
(From top, left to right)
1. Ralph Ellison, Arnold Rampersad (2007 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
2. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Phillip Hoose (2009, National Book Award Winner, Young People’s Literature)
3. Head Off & Split, Nikki Finney (2011 National Book Award Winner, Poetry)
4. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, John D'Emilio (2003 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
5. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race: 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis (1993 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
6. One with Others, C.D. Wright (2010 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry)
7. Malcom X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marable (2011 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
8. Carver: A Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson (2001 National Book Award Finalist, Young People’s Literature)
9. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, Steve Sheinkin (2014 National Book Award Finalist, Young People’s Literature)
10. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968, Taylor Branch (2006 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
Among the 2015 #NBAward Finalists are authors who wrote about creatures that live in the sea: Ali Benjamin (author of The Thing About Jellyfish, in the Young People’s Literature category) and Sy Montgomery (author of The Soul of an Octopus, in the Nonfiction category).
Judges’ Citation for The Thing About Jellyfish
The Thing About Jellyfish manages that rarest trick of great literature: It is both simple and huge. Ali Benjamin captures the delicate intimacies of envy and grief, while simultaneously exploring the grandest implications of what it means to be alive. Told in prose that is both elegant and gutfelt, Suzy’s desperate search for a structuring principle to her world leads to poignant self-discovery and a big-eyed look at the meaning of existence itself.
Judges’ Citation for The Soul of an Octopus
In this luminous nature saga, Montgomery immerses herself in the mysterious world of octopuses, unveiling their alien senses, varied personalities, rambunctious emotions, and startling feats of intelligence and self-awareness. As animal adventure, it’s wonderfully vivid, with a surprise on every page, but it’s also an inquiry into the fabric of consciousness, weaving together a tapestry that’s both human and animal, whose threads unite us in little-known yet spellbinding ways.
Here are the 10 books longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Visit our National Book Award page to learn more about these titles and explore our other Longlists!
Discover the ten poetry collections longlisted for the National Book Award!
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
