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Clockwise from top right: Emily Bernard, Louise Erdrich and Adrienne Brodeur at the virtual awards ceremony for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Louise Erdrich giving her acceptance speech Thursday night. Her novel, “The Night Watchman,” won the fourth annual Aspen Words Literary Prize. Louise Erdrich’s “The Night Watchman” won the fourth annual Aspen Words Literary Prize in a virtual awards ceremony on Wednesday night. Louise Erdrich’s “The Night Watchman” won the fourth annual ...

Matt Kuhn has been named the city of Aspen’s director of parks and open space. Kuhn has been serving as the interim director since June. Kuhn previously served as the business services director, operations manager and trails manager for the city’s parks and open space department and began his career doing summer seasonal trail maintenance in 2005. “I feel honored to have this opportunity to serve the public by helping guide the preservation, stewardship and management of our valuable city...

Three novels and two short story collections are in the final running for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize, the nonprofit announced Wednesday. The $35,000 annual award, now in its fourth year, goes to a work of fiction that “illuminates vital contemporary issues.” The finalists are “Against the Loveless World” by Susan Abulhawa, “Leave the World Behind” by Rumaan Alam, “The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich, “The Office of Historical Corrections” by Danielle Evans and “...

The shortlist for this year’s $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize for fiction on ‘vital contemporary issues’ features three novels and two short story collections. Finalists in the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize program are, from left, Susan Abulhawa (image: T. Sau); Rumaan Alam (image: David A. Land); Louise Erdrich; Danielle Evans (image: Beowulf Sheehan); and the late Kenan Randall (image: Miria Berkley Brodeur: ‘The Way We See the World’ As our international Publishing Perspectiv...

Riverhead Books "This utterly compelling novel of love, passion and politics is also a story of personal and revolutionary awakening. Susan Abulhawa weaves a thrilling account of Nahr and her life — from young girl to independent woman — into the larger tapestry of Palestinian dispossession and resistance. Formed through the calamitous experiences of invasion, war, occupation and sexual exploitation, Nahr becomes a political prisoner who is yet free in her own mind. An agent of history and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkersons “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this years finalists for National

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 ...

Among the big local stories in the book world: • The publication of "Wilmingtons Lie" by New York Times writer David Zucchino, the first history of Wilmingtons 1898 violence from a national publishing house. (Atlantic Monthly Press). Zucchino didnt discover 1898; lots of others have written about whats been described as the only successful coup in American history., notably LeRae Umfleet in "A Day of Blood." (Not to mention Philip Gerards novel "Cape Fear Rising.") Yet Zucchino put the incid...