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Man Booker

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Myths and Mothers: A Conversation with Daisy Johnson

  • Katharine Coldiron
  • November 19, 2018
Daisy Johnson discusses EVERYTHING UNDER.
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The Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to… Kenny G

  • The Rumpus
  • October 4, 2017
Rumpus editors share our Nobel Prize in Literature predictions with you!
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Transit Books

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • September 27, 2017
The founders of Transit Books discuss Wioletta Greg's debut novel, Swallowing Mercury, and the challenges and rewards that come with starting a small independent press.
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J. M. Coetzee’s “Bread and Beans” Writing

  • Christian Kriticos
  • March 16, 2017
I am fixated by this detail of the bread and beans because it strikes me that Coetzee’s prose might itself be described as “bread and beans” writing: short, declarative sentences, with a fairly simple vocabulary.
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“A Changed World”

  • Kirstin Allio
  • November 3, 2016
Don’t write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that’s not changing. Let that do the work. Paul Beatty’s formally experimental, informally…
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On Fame and Getting Rich

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • September 21, 2016
When Ottessa Moshfegh wrote the thriller Eileen, a novel recently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, she did it to get rich, reports Paul Laity for the Guardian: She didn’t want to…
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Judging a Book by More than Its Cover

  • Ian MacAllen
  • October 14, 2015
Choosing the winner of the largest prize in English Literature is no easy task. Man Booker judge Sam Leith discusses the challenges of taking on this responsibility over at the Guardian.
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Literary Cooties

  • Jake Slovis
  • June 2, 2015
A recent study by author Nicola Griffith reveals that books written about men were more likely to win major literary prizes over the last fifteen years than books written about women. During…
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Speed Reading the Man-Booker Shortlist

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 24, 2014
To test reading software Spritz, an app that helps readers achieve high words-per-minute rates, Rob Boffard decided to start with the Man-Booker shortlist. He used the program to read Joshua…
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British Insecurity

  • P.E. Garcia
  • September 12, 2014
Among those who bemoaned the change of rules were a number of British novelists. Why did they assume their American counterparts were better? Or if they thought Americans were just…
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