A visit from the kitchen squad
Melville House
Jennifer Egan’s year keeps getting better and better. First, there was the news back in March that she had won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Wednesday the… Read more »
Jennifer Egan’s year keeps getting better and better. First, there was the news back in March that she had won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Wednesday the… Read more »
“Celebrated author Jonathan Franzen narrowly loses book award to a lady writer! Again!” quipped Tournament of Books “booth commentator” Kevin Guilfoile after Jennifer Egan’s A Visit… Read more »
One of the joys of sports fandom is the stats. The endless number-crunching, theorizing, quantifying attempts to grasp the underlying secret truths of the game. The less-than-scientific, Malcolm Gladwellian art… Read more »
In 1923, a young organization called the American Institute of Graphic Arts mounted its first annual “Fifty Books of the Year” exhibition. In its early years, the show featured examples… Read more »
As I have argued previously, The Tournament of Books, which begins tomorrow, is the best literary award in existence. For the next month, followers of the event will be treated… 6 / Read more »
A report by Arifa Akbar over at The Independent has outlined plans for this year’s Booker Prize judges to be given the Amazon Kindle alongside the paper copies of the… 4 / Read more »
According to a report that ran last week in Le Figaro, Regis Debray (author of the Melville House title A Modest Proposal: A Plan For the Golden Age) has been… Read more »
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Tournament of Books–the March-Madness, bracket-style literary competition held by The Morning News– is the best literary prize in existence. Forget… 8 / Read more »
Today Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese poet and dissident, formally receives the Nobel Peace Prize. While he will be enjoying the honor from his jail cell, hopefully word has gotten to him… 2 / Read more »
In 1945, a U.S. Major named Ernest Hemingway drove his tank into Paris and personally liberated Sylvia Beach, the founder of Shakespeare and Company–the bookstore that had been a home and hangout… 2 / Read more »