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 Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press)
The design and composition of this five hundred page picture book took Brian Selznick many years' work. Here, we talk about the influence of movies, especially French movies, especially the work of pioneer Georges Méliès. The talk about Méliès leads us to the spiritual mentors that haunt Selznick's vivid imagination.
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