Ismet Prcic wins 2011 LA Times Book Award
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
Author Stephen Greenblatt has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Hear his recent conversation with Michael Silverblatt.
The Lay of the Land (Knopf) is Richard Ford's third novel about Frank Bascomb, his
sportswriter-turned-realtor. Does Ford inhabit the character? Does the
character inhabit him? Neither, it turns out. Ford explains how Bascomb
is just a tool--one for exploring the present and revealing the
problems of aging in the "now."
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