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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 28/12/2008
This guest post comes to us from Anne Yoder . Anne is the former books editor of KGB Bar Lit. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, BlackBook, PopMatters, and elsewhere. She moonlights as a pharmacist in the West Village. In Bomb magazine's interview with Aleksandar Hemon following the publication of his book of short stories The Question of Bruno (2000), Hemon speaks at length about the similarities...
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
GQ Magazine has named Chicago its 2008 City of the Year , concentrating on four different categories: Film ( Batman , check); Literature ( Aleksandar Hemon , check); Architecture ( Spire , um...); and Politics ( Mayor Daley? Seriously). Okay, so maybe we have a few issues with some of the things they picked. Hizzonah is not exactly high on our happy-with list right now . Still, what with Obama's election...
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92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Previously, we mentioned Aleksandar Hemon as a National Book Award finalist for The Lazarus Project and now it has made the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2008 . Several other 92nd Street Y Reading Series authors made the list as well, including Mary Jo Bang for Elegy who won the Y’s Discovery/ The Nation Prize several years ago (now the “Discovery"/ Boston Review Poetry Contest ), and will be...
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92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Clockwise from top left: E.O. Wilson , Annie Leibovitz , Daniel Barenboim , Amy Sedaris Mon, Dec 1 Reading Series: Amitav Ghosh and Aleksandar Hemon Radical Islam and the Nuclear Bomb: Understanding Contemporary Genocidal Anti-Semitism with Dr. Charles Small and Bret Stephens Tue, Dec 2 Reel Pieces with Adrien Brody Wed, Dec 3 C.G. Jung and the Mythology of King Arthur with Beth Darlington, PhD Mah-Jongg...
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Lucy Blogs (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
In 2008, over 200 publishers submitted 1,258 books for the 2008 National Book Awards, which were finally announced last night. Be sure to check the website, too, for interviews with the winning authors! FICTION WINNER: Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library) Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead) Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner) Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus...
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Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Peter Matthiessen took the National Book Award in fiction last night for Shadow Country , beating out favorites Aleksandar Hemon ( The Lazarus Project ) and Marilynne Robinson ( Home ). Winners in other categories: Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello. Young People's Literature: Judith Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied. Poetry: Mark Doty, Fire to Fire . Honorary awards: Maxine...
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Maw Books Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
The National Book Award Winners were announced today. Fiction Winner: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen Finalists: The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner Home by Marilynne Robinson The End by Savatore Scibona Non-Fiction WINNER: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed Finalists: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil...
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Isak (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
2008 National Book Award for Fiction:Winner:Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library) - InterviewNominees:Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead)Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner) Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Salvatore Scibona, The End (Graywolf Press) 2008 National Book Award...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
In The Observer they now have: 'seven leading US authors reflect on his eight years in the White House, and the type of America that the 43rd president is leaving behind', in The state of America after Bush. Most of it is along the lines of Aleksandar Hemon's "everything he and his flunkeys touched instantly turned into long-lasting shit", but really, what else can you say about this eight-year-disaster...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
By any measure, Aleksandar Hemon is a phenomenally successful writer. But his literary reputation is all the more impressive when you consider that it is entirely founded on the writing he has done in English – a language the native Bosnian scarcely knew before landing in Chicago in 1992.
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Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
Some how between being there and getting back here, I managed to miss announcing the shortlist for the National Book award. Winners will be announced on November 19th. Here are the finalists in fiction : Aleksandar Hemon - The Lazarus Project Rachel Kushner - Telex from Cuba Peter Matthiessen - Shadow Country Marilynne Robinson - Home Salvatore Scibona - The End You can watch the video of the 2008...
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BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
National Book Award Finalists for 2008 Announced! For the complete list including children’s literature and poetry, visit the NBA site! Fiction The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner Shadow Country by Peter Mattheissen Home by Marilynne Robinson The End by Salvatore Scibona Nonfiction: The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust...
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
A huge mea culpa on our part: in all of our excitement over Aleksandar Hemon's National Book Award finalist nomination, we neglected to mention two other Chicago-connected writers who also garnered nominations. Reginald Gibbons, a professor at Northwestern University , was nominated for his collection of poems, Creatures of a Day (Louisiana State University Press). Patricia Smith (yes, that Patricia...
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
Of all the things that popped into our inbox last night while we waited for the debate to start, perhaps this was the one that made us most excited: Chicago's Aleksandar Hemon has been nominated for a National Book Award (fiction) for his recent novel The Lazarus Project . Now's a good a time as any to check our interview with him from this spring. Hemon's work has been published in The New Yorker,...
