3 Quarks Arts and Literature Prizes
I’m somewhat embarrassed even writing this, but if there’s one prize I would love to considered for it’s the 3 Quarks Arts and Literature Prize. (Which is sort of a lie—someday I want to do something worthy enough of the NBF’s Innovations in Reading prize.) 3 Quarks Daily is easily one of the ...
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Best of the National Book Award Fiction Winners and Best Books of the Millennium
“Best Of” lists tend to pop up all over the internet come December, but both the National Book Foundation and The Millions got the jump on everyone with two very intriguing projects that kicked off this week. Over the course of the summer, the NBF has been highlighting all 77 fiction winners from the past 60 ...
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All Over the National Book Foundation Site Today
Following up on the post about Gravity’s Rainbow, the National Book Foundation just posted a short appreciation I wrote of William Gaddis’s J R. J R is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world. Similar to Gravity’s Rainbow (which I wrote about earlier), this is another encyclopedic novel with ...
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"A screaming comes across the sky."
This summer the National Book Foundation has been posting reader reactions to each of the 77 fiction winners from its 60-year history. Along with Casey Hicks (whose overview is great—Byron the Bulb!), I wrote a short bit about Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, which went online today. (Perfect timing with ...
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Cool New Blog
The National Book Foundation just launched a blog—“Reading Ahead”:http://readingahead.blogspot.com/— written by Harold Augenbraum. As can be expected, the posts are very thoughtful, literary, and well-written, and the mission is quite admirable: The blog’s purpose is to gather information and ...
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5 Under 35
The National Book Foundation recently announced their list of 5 authors under the age of 35 that will be recognized at a celebration on November 12th. According to the site, These five writers have each been selected by a previous National Book Award Finalist or Winner as someone whose work is particularly promising ...
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