Four bedroom riverside cottage plus three bedroom annex. Private mooring. £1,000,000. Read more
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Month: May 2022
The Bangalore Detectives Club
Nagendra makes her fiction debut with an exceptional series launch … By placing her intelligent and clear-eyed protagonists in the multilayered and multicultural milieu of colonial India, Nagendra, a university professor in Bangalore, imbues this mystery with a rich, edifying, and authentic feel. Read more
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Vincent Kling Wins the 2022 Wolff Translator’s Prize for ‘The Strudlhof Steps’
Vincent Kling has been announced as this year’s winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his NYRB Classics translation of Heimito von Doderer’s novel The Strudlhof Steps. Administered each spring by the Goethe-Institut, the award comes with a prize of $10,000. Read more
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A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York
Authors from 30 countries held an “emergency” meeting at the United Nations to address the multiple crises of the moment — and whether stories can help. Read more
There’s a new lit fest in town: American Writers Festival
As downtown Chicago creaks slowly, slooooooowly, back to where it was before the pandemic, the American Writers Museum on Michigan Avenue has grown antsy. Its fifth-year anniversary was approaching, though like other cultural attractions, attendance had thinned. So in true big city rent-party fashion, they decided to invite everyone over. Read more
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The Birth of the Egghead Paperback
How one very young man changed the course of publishing and intellectual life in America. Read more
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Debut novelist wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for No One Is Talking About This
American novelist, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood has won the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for her “searingly witty and innovative take on modern day internet culture”. Read more
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Winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
They’re the most prestigious awards in America, not just for journalists, but historians, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, composers and novelists. Read more
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Her Novel Was Pulled for Plagiarism. Her Explanation Was, Too.
An online essay in which the writer Jumi Bello explained copying others’ work for her novel was itself removed after further plagiarism was found. Read more
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Venerable Cartoonist, Author Jules Feiffer Lists Hamptons House
Set on just over half an acre of land, the house borders 45 acres of preserve, which makes for peaceful, pastoral views of flora and fauna all year round. Asking $1.2 million… Read more
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