National Book Award Winners Announced

Wednesday night, the National Book Foundation presented the prestigious National Book Awards in New York City. The ceremony took place at the luxurious Cipriani Wall Street, mere blocks away from Occupy Wall Street protests.  read more

National Book Awards finalists announced

The National Book Awards nominees are out, and this year's fiction section spans every level of experience. Marilynne Robinson is nominated for Home, a sequel to her 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead. The other veteran of the group is 81-year-old Peter Matthiessen, who received the NBA in 1979 for nonfiction. Aleksandar Hemon is the mid-career writer of the bunch, and the two first-novel authors are Rachel Kushner and Salvatore Scibona. ...  read more