Video: Harry Belafonte Talks About My Song
Read an Excerpt | Read Praise An eloquently told personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, My Song by Harry Belafonte tells the inspiring story of a startlingly original and...
View ArticleThe Millions Praises Julian Barnes’s Through The Window
Read an Excerpt | View the Table of Contents From Julian Barnes, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, comes a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have...
View ArticleVideo: Simon Sebag Montefiore and Karen Armstrong Discuss The Historic Roots...
Christiane Amanpour recently interviewed Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem, and Karen Armstrong, author of Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, for an ABC series called “Back to the...
View ArticleThe Central Park Five Nominated For Writers Guild Award
The Central Park Five, a documentary based on the book by Sarah Burns, has been nominated for best documentary screenplay by the Writers Guild. Burns wrote and directed the film alongside David McMahon...
View ArticleVideo: Jim Lynch Discusses Truth Like the Sun and the State of Journalism
Idealism, ambition, and backroom deals—Jim Lynch’s Truth Like the Sun is a hugely entertaining political novel set in Seattle both in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World’s Fair, and in 2001, after its...
View ArticleVideo: Watch the Trailer for Lore
Rachel Seiffert powerfully examines the legacy of World War II on ordinary Germans—both survivors of the war and the generations that succeeded them—in Lore. Now a major motion picture from Music Box...
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RSVP For the Toni Morrison Google+ Hangout
On Wednesday, February 27, at 3:00 PM Eastern, Google Play will host Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison in a live, interactive Hangout on Air and digital book signing. Toni will talk with a...
View ArticleThomas Mallon’s Watergate Named a Finalist For the PEN/Faulkner Award
Congratulations to Thomas Mallon, whose novel Watergate has been named one of the five finalists for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced on March 19th, and the prize...
View ArticleFlavorwire: Netherland and A Visit From the Goon Squad “Contenders” For Great...
When the folks at Flavorwire took a look at a recent PWxyz poll to find the Great American Novel, they noticed something strange. Only two of the books on the list were published in the last decade!...
View ArticleChinua Achebe Dies at 82
We’re saddened to report that China Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, has died at the age of 82. Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. Things Fall Apart, unquestionably the world’s most widely read...
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