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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Nick Laird

glovers_mistake.jpgGlover's Mistake (Viking)
In this novel of love, manipulation and deception, Nick Laird attempts one of the trickiest strategies in the novelist's tool kit. He structures a book so that readers come to understand things the characters remain blind to. The result is that the vices that are consequences of immaturity, heartlessness or sophistication are painfully exposed.

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