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.
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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…
Can a poem make the world a better place by documenting the darknesses around us?
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.
Why do books about women rarely win top literary prizes?
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.
“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…
Tracking the breakdown of American social institutions in 'The Unwinding'…
Author James McBride talks about slavery and humor in "The Good Lord Bird."…
James McBride talks about the National Book Award winner in fiction, "The Good Lord Bird."…
Alice McDermott invokes a voice little heard in life or literature for 'Someone'…
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