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 »

Earlier this week, the National Book Foundation opened the grand, hulking doors behind which lie the legendary Club 5 Under 35, and admitted five more writers past the bouncers, velvet… Read more »

This year was a year of extremes: 2013 yielded unprecedented sales numbers for George Saunders’s story collection and an unfathomable advance for a 900 page debut by Garth Risk Hallberg.… Read more »