By: Sarah Bannan, Author I occupied a funny place in my high school. A place in between. In the middle. I wasn’t wildly popular, but I had friends—plenty of them. We weren’t too nerdy, we weren’t too cool. In essence we didn’t present a threat, nor did we present an easy opportunity to tease. Not usually, anyway. I’ve read that this is the healthiest, safest place to be in the social hieirarchies of our teenage years. I avoided the anxiety that comes with being on the top of the social food ladder. I avoided the pain and grief that comes …
The 2015 winner of the PEN/Faulkner award is newcomer Atticus Lish, who will be taking home the award for his debut novel Preparation for the Next Life. Lish’s award-winning book is a moving but unsentimental novel about a romance between an Iraq war veteran and an illegal Muslim Chinese immigrant. The novel is set in Queens, New York. Though initially published on a very small scale, it became a major hit after rave reviews in the New York Times and other publications. The PEN/Faulkner award is one of America’s most prestigious literary awards, with a prize of $15,000 and an …
The list of nominees for the Hugo Award was released over the weekend. The Hugo is one of the preeminent prizes in science fiction, effectively sharing co-honors with the Nebula Awards. The Hugo Awards are presented at Worldcon, a science fiction convention to be held this August in Spokane, Washington. (Courtesy of the Hugo Awards) The list of nominees for best novel: Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher The prize is also awarded …
When we reported that George R.R. Martin was skipping two fan conventions in order to focus on the next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series, The Winds of Winter, we didn’t really know how he would deliver on this. After all, there have been many delays in the years since the most recent book in the series, A Dance of Dragons, came out in 2011. Now we finally have some good news for all of you George R.R. Martin fans: the author has released the first chapter of The Winds of Winter, and you can …
Spring hasn’t quite sprung in some places (we’re looking at you New York), but in preparation for those April showers we’ve compiled a robust reading list of book releases this month. Posted in order of their release date, young adult, nutrition, biographies, and new fiction books all made the list—which leads us to the question: which one will you read first? I Refuse by Per Petterson Courtesy of Graywolf Press Release Date: April 7 The hugely popular Norwegian novel has been translated into English and will see its U.S. release this month. The book follows two men who unexpectedly meet and …
