To celebrate the Russian Federation’s first Olympic games, we offer our Literary “Olympian” Vladimir Nabokov, a SEVEN-time Finalist for a National Book Award. Pictured here in 1958 in Life magazine scribbling notes for Lolita. (Yes, it was a staged moment.)
1958: Pnin
1959: Lolita
1965: The Defense
1973: Transparent Things
1975: Look at the Harlequins!
1976: Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
We have some great short essays about Nabokov here, here, and here.
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YEEHAW! National Book Awards on Campus is in Huntsville, Texas at Sam Houston State University.
TONIGHT’S EVENT: National Book Awards on Campus Reading at Gaertner Performing Arts Center at 6:30pm is free and open to the public. Click here for details!
After the reading, Graywolf Press editor Jeff Shotts will interview National Book Award Fiction Winner Phil Klay, National Book Award YPL Finalist John Corey Whaley, and National Book Award Poetry Finalist Fred Moten.
But first! Some authentic Texas BBQ! (Pictured from left: Jeff Shotts, Phil Klay, John Corey Whaley, Fred Moten, and SHSU professor of creative writing Amanda Nowlin-O’Banion join the clean plate club.)
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.
1st book of poetry from The Yellow Birds author Kevin Powers out on 4/1
A 2012 National Book Awards Fiction Finalist
In 5 days Buzzfeed will announce this year’s 5 Under 35 honorees!
Honorees are promising young writers selected by past Winners and Finalists of the National Book Awards. The writers who chose this year’s honorees are: Andrea Barrett, Amy Bloom, Andre Dubus III, Aleksandar Hemon, and Karen Tei Yamashita.
The Honorees will be celebrated at an event on 11/17 that marks the beginning of National Book Awards week. The ceremony will be hosted by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Mo’ Meta Blues) with Ben Greenman (The Slippage) as MC and DJ at Brooklyn’s powerHouse Arena, thanks to generous support from Amazon.com.
Four Finalists for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and one Longlisted title were chosen for Publishers Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of 2013.
For complete coverage of the National Book Awards, click here.
Little Free Library, one of our 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize Winners, is building a Little Library honoring past National Book Award Authors. It’s almost ready for our National Book Awards Ceremony 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
