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Florida State University News 2020 Florida Book Awards winners announced April 19, 2021 | 4:02 pm | SHARE: With its 14th annual competition now complete, the Florida Book Awards has announced winners for books published in 2020. More than 100 eligible publications were submitted across the 11 categories of competition. Coordinated by Florida State University Libraries, the Florida Book Awards is the nation’s most comprehensive state book awards program. It was established in 2006 to celebrate the best Florida literature. Authors must be full-time Florida residents, except in the Florida ...

. “Hi guys, welcome back to Book Club,” the model Kaia Gerber said with a California lilt. Seated in her bedroom in Malibu late in February, Ms. Gerber watched as thousands of viewers trickled into her discussion with the playwright Jeremy O. Harris, recovering from an all-nighter. “It’s great to wake up and get energized hearing someone speak so kindly about you and their experience with your work,” he said. Over the next hour, Ms. Gerber and Mr. Harris discussed the racial and sexual politics of his Tony-nominated “Slave Play,” the Reconstruction Era and the impact of Presiden...

Graphic: Natalie Peeples In the compulsively readable Infinite Country, author Patricia Engel travels between all manner of borders, figurative and otherwise. The 2011 PEN/Hemingway finalist moves from the intimate—taking inspiration from the lives of family members—to the universal, in the shared history of migration. Many storytellers get tripped up on such a journey, as they end up crafting either what’s deemed too specific a story (and “not relatable enough”) or, in an attempt to represent what is actually a disparate group of people and cultures, they reduce individuals to tot...

Skip to main content Book World: Patricia Engel's 'Infinite Country' focuses on the psychological pain of a family split apart Jake Cline, The Washington Post March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Patricia Engel - - - Patricia Engel's novels don't begin so much as they crack open. Consider the first line of the Miami writer's 2010 debut, "Vida": "It was the year my uncle got arrested for killing his wife, and our family was the subject of all the town gossip." The start of 2016's "The Veins of the Ocean" presents a man, maddened by his wife's infidelity, who takes their toddler son to a brid...

Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf, fiction, on sale Tuesday) What it’s about: From the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Never Let Me Go” and “The Remains of the Day” comes a new story told from the perspective of Klara, an Artificial Friend who watches the world from her place in the store, hopeful that someone will choose her. The buzz: “A haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too plausible,” says a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. 2. “The Committe...