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His work, unlike that of Bellow or Roth, focused on the lives of often impoverished Jews in Brooklyn and the Bronx and bestowed on them a literary magic.

Vivian Gornick is an essayist and critic. Her biography of Emma Goldman is forthcoming from Yale.

Rachel Comey’s collaboration with The New York Review of Books is the latest flirtation between the fashion and literary worlds.

“Gornick’s exceptional contributions to literature over the past several decades span autobiography, essays, and journalism.”

From these finalists for the PEN America Literary Awards, winners will be announced on April 8 and receive a total of more than US$380,000. Dining tents in New York City’s Bryant Park, February 4. Image – iStockphoto: Massimo Giachetti From 1,850 Submissions, 55 Finalists A total of 55 titles in 11 categories have been named today (February 10) as finalists in the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards. They now are in contention for an aggregate purse of more than US$380,000. PEN America, of cou...

This morning, PEN America released the 2021 Literary Awards Finalists. More than forty-five imprints and presses are featured on the list, with half of the titles coming from university and indie presses. Twenty books are from writers making their literary debuts, and half the titles among the open-genre awards are poetry collections. Chosen by a cohort of judges representing a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, identities, and aesthetic lineages, these fifty-five Finalist books represent...

NBCC Awards Finalists Announced Jan 24, 2021 On January 24, the National Book Critics Circle announced 30 finalists in six categories for its annual awards honoring the best books of the previous publishing year. The finalists were named at a virtual "make-up" ceremony celebrating the winners of last years awards; although the winners were previously announced, last years ceremony was canceled due to the pandemic. In addition, finalists for the 2020 John Leonard Prize for Best First ...