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| American Poet Louise Glück Wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Glück, one of America's most celebrated poets, "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Glück was named U.S. poet laureate in 2003. She has received the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, the National Humanities Medal, and dozens of other honors. Born in New York City in 1943 and raised on Long Island, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, and now lives in Cambridge, Mass., and teaches at Yale University. Glück's award comes only four years after Bob Dylan, another American, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and many pundits were skeptical that an American would be named a laureate again so soon; after all, the drought between wins for Americans prior to Dylan was nearly a quarter-century long, as Toni Morrison had previously been the most recent American to be named Nobel laureate, in 1993. Check out her books here |
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| Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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| Jess Walter Jess Walter is a former National Book Award finalist and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. His work has been translated into 32 languages, and his fiction has been selected three times for Best American Short Stories as well as the Pushcart Prize and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Walter began his writing career in 1987 as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, The Spokesman-Review. He was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize as part of a team covering the shootout and standoff at Ruby Ridge, in Northern Idaho. This became the subject of Walter's first book, Every Knee Shall Bow, in 1995. He has also worked as a screenwriter and has taught graduate creative writing at the University of Iowa, Pacific University, Eastern Washington and Pacific Lutheran. His novel Beautiful Ruins was a #1 New York Times bestseller and spent more than a year on the bestseller list. Walter lives with his wife Anne and children, Brooklyn, Ava and Alec, in Spokane, Washington. Check out his books here. |
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| 2020 National Book Award Finalists The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2020 National Book Awards. The winner in each category will be announced at a ceremony in New York City on November 18 at the 71st National Book Awards ceremony, which will be held exclusively online. Check them out here |
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| Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?-Che Guevara
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