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.
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (Graywolf)
Geoff Dyer, novelist and essayist, celebrates his first published essay in the New Yorker. He tells us how his amateur interest in jazz led him to write a book—and how his interest in writing a book depends upon amateurism so much so that, he says, when he finishes writing he's at the point where most writers would start.
Read an excerpt from Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
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