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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Richard Flanagan

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The Unknown Terrorist (Grove)
Richard Flanagan felt that his last novel, Gould's Book of Fish, widely acclaimed a masterpiece, had burnt him out. Here, he discusses the things he did to reenergize. He explores the dark, violent energy of his new book about an innocent pole-dancer accused of terrorism.

Read an excerpt from The Unknown Terrorist.

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