The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize is announced today. Source: Man Booker Prize announces 2016 longlist | The Man Booker Prizes
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10 Best Whodunits I love a good mystery! Here mystery novelist John Verdon (his latest book is Wolf Lake, featuring NYPD homicide detective Dave Gurney) offers a list of “ten remarkable works, each of which has a special appeal to my whodunit mentality”: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Hound of the
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Longlist of finalists for the 2016 First Novel Prize Source: 2016 First Novel Prize Longlist
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Liane Moriarty’s Favorite Books with Sudden Life-Changing Moments In Liane Moriarty’s seventh novel, Truly Madly Guilty, something terrible occurs at “an ordinary neighborhood barbecue in an ordinary neighborhood backyard.” It’s something so profound and unsettling, it seems to rewire the six adults and three children present; will any of them be able to recover the
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LITERARY OR GENRE, IT’S THE PLOT THAT COUNTS When you read a novel, which aspect of the fiction is more important to you, characterization or plot? This is a common question, yet for a long time now I’ve thought it’s not exactly the right question, or at least not the best way to look at
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The editors have selected more than 700 adult titles for this feature (fall children’s announcements will appear in the July 18, 2016 issue) in anticipation of their attracting attention and, of course, generating sales. Our mission is to offer booksellers and librarians a helping hand in finding books to order and promote in the upcoming
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On Novels and Novelists My 10 Favorite Books: Michael Cunningham Author MIchael Cunningham lists the 10 (really 11) books he’d want with him if he were stranded on a deserted island. The Author of ‘The Nest’ on How She Got Up the Courage to Write Here’s an interview with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of the
Watch out: That message might not be from who you think. Source: Hackers are using this nasty text-message trick to break into people’s accounts Earlier this week, Alex MacCaw, cofounder of data API company Clearbit, shared a screenshot of a text attempting to trick its way past two-factor authentication (2FA) on a Google account. Please
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Recent Articles on Books, Authors, and All Things Literary Seattle’s new Youth Poet Laureate has no home — but she does have a book deal What a great local story about the power of the human spirit—and of the written word. The judges were unaware of Angel Gardner’s background and current living situation when they
On Wednesday 8th June 2016 at the Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, London, Irish author Lisa McInerney was announced the winner of the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Glorious Heresies. Source: BAILEYS Women’s Prize for Fiction » Announcing the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Books on the short list.
