Pulitzer Prize Board: Respect our authority!
Last week, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of the 2015 prizes. The fiction award went to Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See—which was hailed in these… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: Are there too many books?
Topics discussed: warmth, beach vacations, gently crashing waves, rust, Rust, Norwegian domestic terrorism, American domestic terrorism, the long tail, The Long Tail, Stewart O’Nan, Alex’s party skills, cynicism, poker, Authors… Read more »
A call to action: on the 2014 National Book Awards
Built in 1841, the large, Greek Revival building at 55 Wall Street has housed the New York Merchants Exchange, the United States Custom House, and the National City Bank—the earlier,… Read more »
The fiction longlist for the National Book Award is here
Hours after releasing a controversial nonfiction longlist that included only one woman (and nine men), the National Book Awards released its longlist for fiction. The list first appeared on The… Read more »
What we talk about when we talk about book covers
If the saying is true and everyone is a critic these days, then it should come as no surprise that tucked between the endless volumes of criticism about books appearing… Read more »