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Category Archives: Books
17 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read in a Sitting | Electric Literature
This week author Ian McEwan expressed his love of short novels, saying “very few [long] novels earn their length.” Certainly it seems like a novel has to be a minimum of 500 pages to win a major literary award these days, and many genre novels have ballooned to absurd sizes.
I’ve tried to avoid the most obvious titles that are regularly assigned in school (The Stranger, Heart of Darkness, Mrs Dalloway, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein, The Crying of Lot 49, etc.). Hopefully you’ll find some titles here you haven’t read before.
A Reader Lives a Thousand Lives…
Bath Children’s Novel Award Winner’s Announcement | The Bath Novel Award
And the Bath Children’s Novel Award winners are… *drum roll please*
Via Bath Children’s Novel Award Winner’s Announcement | The Bath Novel Award
Early Morning Paperback Writer: 12 Questions With Author Nicholas Mainieri
Mainieri talked to Daniel Ford recently about his early love of storytelling, how his writing process has evolved, his decision to get an MFA, and what inspired The Infinite…
“I’m an early morning writer. The voices of doubt are quietest then.”
The 23 Most Anticipated Books of 2017
There are a number of books being published in 2017 that we can’t wait to read, and here are 23 of the most anticipated ones. How many of these are you waiting for?
Via http://ew.com/books/the-23-most-anticipated-books-of-2017/emma-flint-little-deaths-january-17
Experts warn that top books prizes are harming fiction | The Guardian
Cutting-edge British literary fiction risks being undermined by its growing reliance on a handful of powerful book prizes, a leading literary agent has warned. But the associated costs of entering the biggest awards mean independent publishers willing to take risks on “difficult” works without obvious marketing potential are being shut out of contention.
The Costa Book Awards 2017 | Category Winners
Not so long before Christmas, we brought news of the Costa Book Awards shortlist for 2016, some twenty titles for each of the five categories that will ultimately vie for the overall Costa Book of the Year 2016. Now that moment edges ever closer as we reveal those five vital category winners, unveiled only moments ago by the Costa Book Awards judging panel, chaired this year by historian and author Kate Williams.
https://www.waterstones.com/category/in-the-media/book-awards/the-costa-book-awards
The 30 Best Books of 2016 | Writer’s Bone
To date, I’ve read 96 books in 2016, which is up from the 87 I read last year. Since you’ve already called me a nerd in your head, please allow me to further strengthen the case. Those 96 books add up to 37,872 pages, myriad reading devices, and two dried out eyeballs. I also managed to get engaged, help build a website at my day gig, edit and shop a novel, and feed and bath myself.
Without further adieu, enjoy the 30 best books of 2016…
Via http://www.writersbone.com/book-recommendations/2016/12/12/the-30-best-books-of-2016
The 60 Best Book Covers of 2016 | Literary Hub
This year, we had a healthy quantity of beautiful, inventive, arresting, unforgettable book cover designs, many of which deserve recognition. Now, of course, since it’s the end of the year, we are socially obligated to ask, but which were the very best? So I wondered: which were the very best? I know what looks good to my laywoman’s eye, but which were really marvelous and which simply pretty? To make sense of it all, I asked seventeen designers whose own work I have deeply admired to talk about their personal favorite book covers of 2016.
Via http://lithub.com/the-60-best-book-covers-of-2016-as-chosen-by-designers/?platform=hootsuite
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