By: Darcy,
on 2/22/2013
I love books where the protagonists' stories are told in alternating chapters. That's one reason I'm enjoying Jennifer duBois's intelligent first novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes; it's also richly layered and poignant. Books mentioned in this post A Partial History of Lost Causes Jennifer Dubois Used Trade Paper $10.95 A Partial History of [...]
By: Dianna Dilworth,
on 9/27/2012
Jennifer duBois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes; Stuart Nadley, author of The Book of Life; Haley Tanner, author of Vaclav & Lena; Justin Torres, author of We the Animals; and Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn, will be honored as this year’s 5 under 35 authors at the National Book Awards.
The National Book Foundation will celebrate these authors at a party at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn on Monday November 12th, the night before the National Book Awards ceremony. Musician and author Alina Simone will interview these honorees at the event. The interviews will be posted as videos on the Foundation’s website.
Crime novelist Elmore Leonard will receive the 2012 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards. GalleyCat will be in the house to cover the event.
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By: Jennifer duBois,
on 3/28/2012
Over the past few years of writing and workshopping fiction, I've heard and discussed the word "realism" at some length, and lately I've come to a pretty radical suspicion about it: it does not really existI've heard and discussed the word "realism" at some length, and lately I've come to a pretty radical suspicion about [...]
By: Jennifer duBois,
on 3/27/2012
Of the many monopolies once and future Russian president Vladimir Putin has held over the years — on violence, on the media, on the gas industry — one of the most powerful has been a monopoly on the expression of derision. Over the past decade, the state's stranglehold grip over television has kept public dissent [...]
By: Jennifer duBois,
on 3/26/2012
When my father was ill with Alzheimer's, he once brought home an enormous stuffed wolf from our town's local dump.When my father was ill with Alzheimer's, he once brought home an enormous stuffed wolf from our town's local dump. I was probably a sophomore in high school at the time. In those days my father [...]
