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And the Nominees Are…
Award season rolls on with the just lately revealed longlist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The ten nominees vary from industrial hits (Emma Cline’s The Guest) to vital darlings (Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X) to the unicorn that manages to be each exceedingly in style and exceedingly good (James McBride’s Heaven & Earth Grocery Store). I’d like to see McBride take dwelling the trophy—and the $15,000 prize cash—and proceed his run of overdue recognition. I’d additionally prefer to know what the National Book Foundation thinks of PEN’s declare that this is “the most prestigious annual peer-juried literary prize in America.”
It’s an Adaptation Nation, and We’re All Living in It
A new trailer touting Apple TV+’s 2024 lineup consists of quite a lot of page-to-screen initiatives.
Among the variations featured are:
- Masters of the Air, airing now, based mostly on the e-book by Donald L. Miller
- Manhunt, a 7-episode restricted sequence in regards to the seek for Lincoln’s killer, based mostly on the Edgar Award-winning e-book by James L. Swanson, out March 15.
- Franklin, starring Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin, based mostly on Stacy Schiff’s A Great Improvisation. Coming April 12.
- The Big Door Prize, season 2, coming April 24. Based on the novel by M.O. Walsh.
- Dark Matter, based mostly on the novel by Blake Crouch. Coming May 8 with what appears like some fairly vital modifications.
- Land of Women, helmed by Eva Longoria, based mostly on the Spanish-language novel by Sandra Barneda. Coming this summer time, date TBA.
- Lady of the Lake, a Natalie Portman car based mostly on Laura Lippman’s novel Lady within the Lake, date TBA.
The Kids Are All Right
TikTok could also be melting their brains, but it surely’s additionally driving Gen-Z to learn A LOT, and after they do, they’re reaching for bodily books. They’re reaching for “hot girl books.” They’re reaching for “sad girl books.” They’re persevering with the time-honored custom of making an attempt to model studying as horny. And what? When a 22-year-old supermodel launches her e-book membership by choosing a fancy work of literary fiction written by a poet, I can’t be mad about any of it.
Why Do We Even Read?
In the ultimate installment of a sequence of six items about how the general public perceives libraries, Kelly Jensen explores the connections between algorithms and e-book banning.
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