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Posts Tagged ‘Fiction’
Brodeck Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010
Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck, translated from the French by John Cullen, is among the 15 contenders longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010. Arts Council England awards the prize annually to the best work of contemporary fiction in translation. The novel, which Nan A. Talese published in June, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was glowingly reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. While only a handful of Claudel’s nine novels have been translated in English, American readers might be familiar with the 2008 film he wrote and directed I’ve Loved You So Long, a New York Times Critics’ Pick, which starred Kristin Scott Thomas.
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Bone Fire by Mark Spragg
Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays. The sheriff, Crane Carlson, needs no reminder of this but gets one anyway when he finds a kid not yet twenty murdered in a meth lab. His other troubles include a wife who’s going off the rails with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the disease that killed his grandfather.
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The Storm by Margriet de Moor
On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down onto the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecting the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in three hundred years.
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The Pint Man Author Steve Rushin Is Putting the “Pub” Back in Publicity Tour
Steve Rushin, author and former Sports Illustrated columnist is hitting the bar circuit in promotion of his latest fiction release THE PINT MAN.
This week, catch Steve in NYC at The Emerald Inn—the bar that inspired the main watering hole in THE PINT MAN. Bar address and more about Steve and THE PINT MAN after the jump!
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Precious Wins Twice at the Oscars!
Precious, based on the bestselling novel Push won two Oscars last night. One for best writing, and the second for Mo’Nique, the best actress in a supporting role.
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Ian McEwan’s Solar an Indie Next Pick
Ian McEwan’s forthcoming novel Solar was named an April 2010 Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association. Darwin Ellis of Books on the Common in Ridgefield, CT wrote, “McEwan, as usual, writes a taut plot line, with suspense and dread of retribution building with each turned page.” Click here for his full summary. In bookstores March 30th!
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The Gods, They Must Be Happy with Mr. Banville
Reviewers all over the world are falling in love with John Banville’s storytelling in his new novel, The Infinities, a contemporary comedy in the classical mode, complete with a pantheon of Greek gods meddling in the human lives below.
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An Interview with Marti Leimbach
“When American writer Marti Leimbach’s fascination with female reporters taken captive during the Vietnam War became obsessive, she knew she had her next book in the making,” Reuters reports. Click here to read the full interview, which includes Leimbach’s advice to aspiring authors.
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The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu
FIRSTLY: don’t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.
Lorraine Adams’ The Room and the Chair
Lorraine Adams has brought her considerable strengths as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to her latest book, The Room and the Chair, a thrilling and deftly written novel about the actors in America’s dangerous global war.
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