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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Tom McCarthy: C
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Tom McCarthy: C

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Tom McCarthy's bw101021book.jpgC  (Knopf) is one of those post-modern novels designed to drill a hole in your head and help you inventory the contents of your mind. This conversation takes us into the twists and turns of a brainiac's ingenuity. We stop to take a shrewd assessment of the use of this kind of novel in a post-literate culture.

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