James McBride has won the prestigious National Book Foundation National Book Award for fiction with his novel The Good Lord Bird which is set during John Brown’s abolitionist campaign, a pivotal period of American history. The citation says : McBride retells the story in a voice as comic and original as…
Jhumpa Lahiri and Thomas Pynchon on the National Book Awards fiction longlist
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri which is on the Booker Prize shortlist, Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon’s new book which has garnered some ecstatic reviews and George Saunders piercing collection of short stories, Tenth of December, are among the ten books on the longlist for the National Book Awards Fiction Prize.…