The 2010 National Book Awards were announced this evening. In fiction, Jaimy Gordon won for The Lord of Misrule; in nonfiction, Patti Smith won for Just Kids; in poetry, Terrance Hayes won for Lighthead; and for young people’s literature, Kathryn Erskine won for Mockingbird.
2010 National Book Award Winners Announced
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Pulitzer-prize winning book critic Michael Dirda joined Reddit and invited the internet to ask him anything; among the highlights—the worst book he's ever read, an allusion to scoring crack for Hunter S. Thompson, and a picture of Dirda's cat.
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“It really is a different life”
Donna Tartt has a new novel out, and with it come new interviews. At Salon, Laura Miller sits down with the author behind The Secret History.
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Fancy yourself a trivia buff? This quiz might be your undoing. In The Guardian, you can test your knowledge of prominent bands in fiction, from real-life bands that reference books to bands in famous novels.
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To Essay
"For a while, shortly after I finished an undergraduate creative writing course, everything I wrote started with an observation or a realization...I was going to be an essayist, and it was going to be awesome." At The Morning News, Martin Connelly writes about how he lost his drive to become an essayist and the surprising thing that makes him want to start again — his daughter. For more on the power of the essay, read our interview with Leslie Jamison.
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Discussing Book Design with Jamie Keenan
James Cartwright caught up with London-based book designer Jamie Keenan to discuss his work and his process. (Related: How do American book covers stack up against their counterparts from across the pond?)
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Well, The Millions has discussed this before, so now that “Lord of Misrule” has won the National Book Award for fiction, NOW what does the publishing house do in terms of a second printing?
On October 13th, bestselling author Pat Conroy announced the finalists for this year’s National Book Award at the Historic Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia.
2010 National Book Award Winners books :
CULTURES OF WAR: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq by John W. Dower
DARK WATER by Laura McNeal
EVERY MAN IN THIS VILLAGE IS A LIAR: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack
GREAT HOUSE by Nicole Krauss
I HOTEL by Karen Tei Yamashita
JUST KIDS by Patti Smith
LOCK DOWN by Walter Dean Myers
LORD OF MISRULE by Jamie Gordon
MOCKINGBIRD by Kathryn Erskine
NOTHING TO ENVY: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
ONE CRAZY SUMMER by Rita Williams-Garcia
PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA by Peter Carey
SECRET HISTORIAN: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward by Justin Spring
SHIP BREAKER by Paolo Bacigalupi
SO MUCH FOR THAT by Lionel Shriver