"Paris, passion, heartbreak, secrets—and Baldwin; isn't that a recipe for the heat of high summer?" - Julia Glass on why she's reading Giovanni's Room (a National Book Award Finalist) this summer. Find out which books are on our authors' TBR pile here: http://www.nationalbook.org/summerreadlist_2017.html
"I wrote this book for readers who‘ve been told that the only story they‘re allowed is one the world decides for them...For trans*boys like my husband who‘ve gotten turned away from jobs for how they look and who they are. For his trans* siblings who‘ve been denied housing, who are afraid to walk down the street, who‘ve had to fight for every moment of being seen as who they are."
Essential advice from Colson Whitehead, as part of his acceptance speech for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction.
"As a child, I had not known the word anthropology or that there as a thing called Ivy League. I had not known you could spend your days on planes, moving through the world, studying death, your whole life before this life an unanswered question ... finally answered."
From Jacqueline Woodson's "Another Brooklyn," longlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards for Fiction
Congratulations to Thomas Pierce, selected by Amity Gaige as one of our 2016 5 Under 35 honorees!
http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2016_thomas-pierce.html#...
Congratulations to S. Li, selected by Karen Bender as one of our 2016 5 Under 35 honorees!
Congratulations to Greg Jackson, selected by Lauren Geoff as one our 2016 5 Under 35 honorees!
http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2016_greg-jackson.html
Congratulations to Yaa Gyasi, selected by Ta-Nehisi Coates as one of our 2016 5 Under 35 honorees!
http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2016_yaa-gyasi.html#.V-0...
Congratulations to Brit Bennett, selected by Jacqueline Woodson as one of our 2016 5 Under 35 honorees!
http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2016_brit-bennett.html#....
"She threw it high in the air. The baton looked like a needle. It looked like a secret, narrow and bright and alone, glittering in the blue sky."
-- From Kate DiCamillo's "Raymie Nightingale," longlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards for Young Adult Literature.
"From my window, I can see the house
where Galileo invented the telescope
I wonder what he was thinking
that night, that night he first searched
Heaven. I wonder what it was
he was trying to see."
--From Jay Hopler's, The Abridged History of Rainfall, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards for Poetry.
Congratulations to Robert A. Caro, who'll be presented with our medal for lifetime achievement at the 2016 National Book Awards!
http://www.nationalbook.org/amerletters_2016_rcaro.html
"I had been good. So good. Altercation free. For seventeen hours and two freakin' minutes."
- From Jason Reynold's Ghost, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature
"I had been good. So good. Altercation free. For seventeen hours and two freakin' minutes."
- From Jason Reynold's Ghost, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature
"One is always seeking to understand," says National Book Award finalist Lydia Davis, who recently discussed her translation work with Words Without Borders. http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/translating-the-classics-a...
“Geek Love showed us that perhaps we would never fit into the normal world, but that that world was pallid and lacking.” – Molly Crabapple pays tribute to National Book Award Finalist Katherine Dunn, who passed away last week. http://www.vice.com/read/molly-crabapple-geek-love-katherine-dunn
National Book Award finalist Lauren Groff has a new story in The New Yorker. Read it and then pick up her amazing novel FATES AND FURIES.
"Writing is so exhausting. I'd be drenched with sweat at the end of a paragraph." - Sally Mann, whose HOLD STILL was a Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, in conversation with Lorin Stein at our Eat, Drink & Be Literary series at BAM.
Visited Books & Books in Miami today, and found a great recommendation!
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (a 5 Under 35 Honoree and Finalist for the National Book Award) is the next pick for the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club! Listen to WNYC on 3/22 for more.
Congratulations to our 2015 5 Under 35 honoree Megan Kruse, who just won a PNBA Book Award!
Eat, Drink & Be Literary with Darryl Pinckney on March 15! Get tickets at bam.org
Happy birthday to LeVar Burton, a true reading hero. He graciously hosted our 2015 5 Under 35 ceremony. You can watch his speech here: http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35.html
"Robin Coste Lewis's National Book Award-winning debut collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus, is a poignant, lyrical contemplation of racial constructs and the representation of black women in Western art and history." - BuzzFeed Books
"It‘s our hope that Challenger Deep will help remove the stigma that surrounds mental illness, and open a dialogue on a subject that, for too long, has been misunderstood." - National Book Award Winner Neal Shusterman http://bit.ly/1Y2Ts4j
