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Marisha Pessl’s ‘Darkly,’ her first novel in six years, to come out Nov. 12
10Apr By adminNo Comments
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Marisha Pessl’s ‘Darkly,’ her first novel in six years, to come out Nov. 12

Marisha Pessl’s first novel in six years is a psychological thriller with the kinds of intricate clues and connections she has been known for since her acclaimed debut, “Special Topics in Calamity Physics.”NEW YORK -- Marisha Pessl's first novel in six years is a psychological thriller with the kinds of intricate clues and connections she has been known for since her acclaimed debut, “Special Topics in Calamity Physics.”On Wednesday, Delacorte Press announced that Pessl's young adult novel, "Darkly," will be published on Nov. 12. The story is centered around a mysterious game designer, Louisiana Veda, and the terrifying creations that gave her foundation special appeal to young people. The foundation is offering an internship with the tagline: “What would you kill for?”“'Darkly' was inspi...
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Greg Jackson Reads “Wagner in the Desert”
1Jan By adminNo Comments
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Greg Jackson Reads “Wagner in the Desert”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter.On a special, archival New Year’s episode, Greg Jackson reads his story “Wagner in the Desert,” from the July 21, 2014, issue of the magazine, in which a group of old friends convene in Palm Springs, California, for the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Jackson, a winner of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, is the author of the story collection “Prodigals” and the novel “The Dimensions of a Cave,” which was published in October, 2023.
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Justin Torres’s Art of Exposure and Concealment
1Jan By adminNo Comments
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Justin Torres’s Art of Exposure and Concealment

According to the author Justin Torres, “Backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind.” That explains why his first novel, “We the Animals,” which is told from the shared perspective of three young brothers in upstate New York, unfolds not as a narrative but as a string of vignettes. The semi-autobiographical novel describes a family with not enough money or status to satisfy its hungers for food, dignity, safety, or belonging. The boys, born to a white mother and a Puerto Rican father, are halfway feral: their father, who has an explosive temper, disappears for days at a time; their mother works the overnight shift at a brewery. Parental love is abundant but expressed complexly, through touch, hard and soft, through delirious predawn meat loaves.“We the Animals” came out in 2011,...
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Winner of the Booker Prize for fiction set to be announced in London
26Nov By adminNo Comments
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Winner of the Booker Prize for fiction set to be announced in London

The winner of the Booker Prize for fiction will be announced on SundayByThe Associated PressNovember 26, 2023, 7:40 AMFrom left, Irish author Paul Lynch, British author Chetna Maroo, American author Jonathan Escoffery, Canadian author Sarah Bernstein, Irish author Paul Murray and American author Paul Harding pose with their books during a photocall for the Booker Prize 2023, in London, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023 ahead of the award ceremony on Nov. 26 in London. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)The Associated PressLONDON -- The winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction will be announced on Sunday. If bookmakers are right, the victorious writer will be named Paul.Three of the six books competing for the 50,000 pound ($63,000) award are by authors of that name: American novelist Paul Harding’s his...
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For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us ‘see through lies’ in a world divided by walls
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us ‘see through lies’ in a world divided by walls

OVIEDO, Spain -- For Japanese author Haruki Murakami, the bloody conflict in the Gaza Strip is a horrendous example of how our world is divided by walls, both physical and metaphorical.But while admitting he can only pray for peace now, he also feels confident that fiction, rather than offering an escape, can help us understand, and survive, increasingly perilous times.“I have Jewish friends in Israel. And I’m also aware that the Palestinian situation that I saw when I visited Israel is miserable,” Murakami told The Associated Press in an interview. “So all I can say is to pray so that peace will prevail as soon as possible. I cannot say which (side) is right or wrong.”The clash between Israel and the Hamas militant group has resonated with the title of Murakami's newest novel “The City a...
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James McBride wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction for “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”
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James McBride wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction for “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”

Three books that explore and celebrate the diversity of American culture were awarded Kirkus Prizes on Wednesday night, with each winner receiving $50,000ByThe Associated PressOctober 11, 2023, 8:42 PMNEW YORK -- Three books that explore and celebrate the diversity of American culture were awarded Kirkus Prizes on Wednesday night, with each winner receiving $50,000. James McBride's “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” a novel set in an eclectic Pennsylvania town in the 1930s, won in the fiction category. Héctor Tobar's “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’” received the nonfiction award, and Ariel Aberg-Riger's ”America Redux: Visual Stories From Our Dynamic History" won for young reader's literature.The awards were presented by the trade publi...
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A rare Truman Capote story from the early 1950s is being published for the first time
23Sep By adminNo Comments
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A rare Truman Capote story from the early 1950s is being published for the first time

NEW YORK -- Along with such classics as “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany's,” Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished.Capote, who died in 1984 shortly before his 60th birthday, spent much of his latter years struggling to write his planned Proustian masterpiece “Answered Prayers,” of which only excerpts were released. As a young man, he wrote a novel about a love affair between a socialite and a parking lot attendant that was published posthumously under the title “Summer Crossing.”Shorter work, too, was sometimes set aside, including a piece released this week for the first time.Capote was in his mid-20s and a rising star when he moved from New York City to Taormina, Sicily, in 1950 and settled in a scenic villa named Fontana Vecchia, once occupied by...
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