Ismet Prcic wins 2011 LA Times Book Award

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Ismet Prcic has won the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for his novel Shards. He discusses it in this recent interview with Bookworm's Michael Silverblatt.

Greenblatt Wins 2012 Pulitzer

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Author Stephen Greenblatt has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Hear his recent conversation with Michael Silverblatt.

 

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wicketts_remedy.jpgWickett's Remedy (Doubleday)

The author of Bee Season tiptoes toward an acknowledgement of her dark vision. Myla Goldberg has written a novel in which almost every character dies in the 1918 influenza epidemic--and their ordinary lives, in general, are no picnic. Since Goldberg is a hopeful person, how did her work turn so grim?

Read an excerpt from Wickett's Remedy.

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