Aug 6, 2014 · The winner also receives a $5,000 cash prize. The judge of the 2015 contest will be Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith. Writers yet to publish a full-length book of poetry may submit a manuscript, for a thirty-five dollar entry fee, between September 1 and November 1.

Aug 27, 2018 · Carlos Lozada. Liying Lin, the director of the Beijing Book Fair, shares her outlook for publishing in China. “From our standpoint, we see no evidence of a slowdown—far from it,” she s

A new biography of Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong. Phoebe Chen. Already, I Was Disappointed by a Lot

The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. A new biography of Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong

Aug 6, 2020 · At The Atlantic, Mychal Denzel Smith—author of the forthcoming Stakes Is High—makes the case for why police reform is not enough and “Incremental Change Is a Moral Failure.” Smith writes, “I am incensed by the delusion, so prevalent among the country’s supposedly serious thinkers, that tinkering around the edges of an inherently ...

Dec 12, 2016 · Finalists include Philip Boehm for Herta Muller’s The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, Carlos Rojas for Yan Lianke’s The Explosion Chronicles, and Deborah Smith for Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. The winner will be announced in February. At The Guardian, Ian Patterson remembers his late wife, writer Jenny Diski. Reflecting on the seventeen years the ...

Oct 8, 2013 · Doctor Who star Matt Smith is going to star as Patrick Bateman in a theatrical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho. The play will open at the Almeida theater in London this December. Until then, lest you've forgotten the infamous business card monologue from the American Psycho movie, here it is:

Mar 3, 2011 · When T.C. Boyle swaggered onto the literary scene in the 1980s, brandishing flamboyantly bizarre short stories in one hand and wildly satirical novels like Water Music and Budding Prospects in the other, the exuberance of his sentences was often more impressive than the depth of his characterizations.

The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. Robert Glück on Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker, edited by Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper, and Rip-off Red, Girl Detective, and The Burning Bombing of America, by Kathy Acker

On the victory stand, African-American sprinters Smith, winner of the gold medal in the 200 meters, and John Carlos, winner of the bronze, raised black-gloved fists during the playing of the national anthem, something that International Olympic Committee officials like its archconservative president, Avery Brundage (who was intensely disliked ...