Arts Sep 09 Cartoonist Art Spiegelman set to receive honorary National Book Award By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Arts Nov 19 National Book Awards honor Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown,’ Malcolm X biography Charles Yu's "Interior Chinatown," a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award for fiction. By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Arts Dec 26 Watch 7:28 Author Sarah Broom on ‘The Yellow House’ and putting New Orleans East on the map Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author herself, why Broom… By Jeffrey Brown
Arts Oct 08 Marlon James, Laili Lalami are National Book Award nominees None of the finalists has ever won a competitive National Book Award and only four have received any kind of recognition. By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Arts Sep 24 Watch 9:10 Bestselling book ‘The Hate U Give’ tackles police violence against black teenagers The young adult novel "The Hate U Give" tells the story of a teenager whose childhood friend is shot and killed by a police officer. In the book, now a finalist for a National Book Award and Kirkus Prize, author… By PBS NewsHour
Dec 20 Can a poem make the world a better place by documenting the darknesses around us? By Mary Jo Brooks Daniel Borzutzky's newest poetry collection, “The Performance of Becoming Human” feature themes of economic and political dysfunction. The collection was recently awarded the National Book Award for poetry. Continue reading
Jun 01 Why do books about women rarely win top literary prizes? By Joshua Barajas Acclaimed author Nicola Griffith sifted through 15 years of prize-winning books for fiction and found that several of the top literary prizes have rarely awarded anything written from a women's point of view. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch Writer Phil Klay returns to war and the strangeness of coming home for ‘Redeployment’ By PBS NewsHour “Redeployment,” a collection of stories about the Iraq War and the struggles veterans face when they return, was this year’s winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Jeffrey Brown interviews writer and Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay about writing… Continue watching
Dec 26 Watch Tracking the breakdown of American social institutions in ‘The Unwinding’ Tracking the breakdown of American social institutions in 'The Unwinding'… Continue watching
Dec 02 Watch 5:51 James McBride’s ‘The Good Lord Bird’ offers ‘room to laugh’ at difficult history Author James McBride talks about slavery and humor in "The Good Lord Bird."… Continue watching