A popular poetry website, poetry.org, released an online collection of poems they feel are necessary following the presidential election.
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Kirkus Winners, LGBT Books for Prisoners & More! Your Weekly Lit News Roundup by Laurel Dowswell
The fiction prize went to C.E. Morgan for The Sport of Kings, the nonfiction winner was Susan Faludi for her memoir In the Darkroom, and young readers’ literature author Jason Reynolds for his book, As Brave as You.
The Man Booker, The Folio Prize, & More! Your Weekly Lit News Roundup by Emily Ramser
Paul Beatty won the British literary award for his novel The Sellout. This is the first time the British prize has been awarded to an American author since it was opened up to non-UK writers three years ago.
7 Reads We Recommend — October: The Daring, the Scary, and the Wicked
Cooper’s nod to Poe here is thick with tension, mystery, and visceral descriptions of the protagonist’s creepy predicament. She gives you a frightening blend of details and questions, leaving you to wonder exactly what is going on, just like the young woman in the story.
Monsters, Honoring Pat Conroy, Tolkien and More! Your Weekly Lit News Roundup by Laurel Dowswell
The collection of short stories, with starred reviews in Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly, is rich with complex characters, deep in the mountains of West Virginia, and rural North Carolina.
Bob Dylan, President Obama, Billy Collins & More! Your Weekly Lit News Roundup by Emily Ramser
The biggest piece of literary news this week is, of course, Bob Dylan’s winning of the Nobel prize in literature. His winning of the award
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