The good souls at Longform.org have organized all of this year’s National Magazine Award winners.
And the NMA Winners Are…
Michael Lewis on Germany
In our Second Half of 2011 Book Preview, we picked Michael Lewis‘ Boomerang: Travels in the New Thirld World. To tide you over until it’s released, check out his take on Germany’s economy.
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Insult to Insult
“Who was Bret Easton Ellis describing when he tweeted: ‘The best example of a contemporary male writer lusting for a kind of awful greatness that he simply wasn’t able to achieve’?” The Guardian has a delicious quiz of literary putdowns. And speaking of fighting, let’s talk about books about violence.
Natalie Diaz Seeks the Physical Power of Poetry
Natalie Diaz discusses how her involvement with the Fort Mojave Language Recovery Program has influenced her work as a poet.
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Pik-Shuen Fung Explores the Multiplicity of Experience
Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, Ghost Forest, and explains how seemingly disparate emotions play a big role in her fiction.
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Writerly Pets, cont.
And now, Writers and Kitties, untrammeled delight. Via The New Yorker Book Bench.
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