Five of the eight shortlisted works for the £40,000 Folio prize are by Americans, Amity Gaige for Schroder and Sergio De La Pava for A Naked Singularity – both debut novels – Rachel Kushner for The Flame Throwers, George Saunders for his story collection Tenth of December and Kent Haruf for Benediction. Could…
James McBride wins The National Book Award with his wise, funny The Good Lord Bird
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…