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.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Wells Tower is the most talked-about new story writer to emerge on the literary scene. This conversation focuses on the weird details he uses to illuminate a mostly conventional narrative arc. He talks about how he reins himself back from instinctive extremes in order to write a smoother, more readable story.
Banner image: Wells Tower reading at The Happy Ending Series at Joe's Pub in New York City on May 6.
Photo: © Gillian Crosson
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