Pulitzer Prize Board: Respect our authority!
Mark Krotov
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 »
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 »
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 »
In 1980, Julia Child won a National Book Award for Current Interest for a cookbook called Julia Child and More Company. Seven years earlier, George B. Schaller had won a… Read more »
The National Book Foundation—administrators of the National Book Awards (AKA the Franzies)—declared in a press release on Monday that as with last year they will be announcing the finalists of… Read more »
In the immortal words of Annie Lennox, the sisters are doin’ it for themselves. For the first time in its eight year history, women have swept the 2013 National Book… Read more »
The NBA responds to criticisms that the prize has become less culturally relevant… Read more »
Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has… Read more »
Outrage is growing over the National Book Foundation’s super-incredible totally unbelivable mega-fuckup in announcing that Lauren Myracle had made the National Book Award shortlist for the best children’s book of… Read more »