How to Channel Your Anxieties: A Conversation with Becky Hagenston
Becky Hagenston and Erin Flanagan sit down to talk about Hagenston’s latest collection, The Age of Discovery, process and routine, and more.
Becky Hagenston and Erin Flanagan sit down to talk about Hagenston’s latest collection, The Age of Discovery, process and routine, and more.
Marriage as ethnography: Philip Graham talks with Angela Woodward about her novel End of the Fire Cult, in which a man and woman invent competing civilizations that mirror their “real” lives.
This week, the National Book Foundation revised the procedures for choosing National Book Award winners. Previously, lists of five finalists were announced in the weeks leading up to the awards. The new template involves “long-listing” ten finalists in each category, to create more buzz about the possible winners, NBF representatives say. The pool of judges will also expand to include critics and booksellers. Does this sound familiar? It should. The NBF has borrowed ideas from the Booker Prize as well as the Oscars. Initially, Morgan Entrekin, the vice president of the NBF board and Grove/ Atlantic Press CEO, caused a […]
