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
Yellow Is the New Black
Yellow book covers are on the rise as publishers push for bold designs that pop for online shoppers. Also check out this comparison of U.S. and U.K. book covers.
Tuesday New Release Day: Smith, Jones, Jemc, Dancyger, Marantz
Zadie Smith headlines a new week of new books, including essays by angry women and an excellent exploration of the rise of the online alt-right.
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Illustrating the Cave
TED-Ed illustrates Plato’s allegory of the cave in this fun video.
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Smith and Hickock Struck Again
The bodies of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock – the subjects of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood – may be exhumed in order to solve a 1959 murder in Osprey, Florida.
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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