Ismet Prcic Wins the 2012 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
In the latest entry on Miwa Messer's Discover Great New Writers blog, the Director of the Discover program relates some fantastic news about Discover alumnus Ismet Prcic, whose Shards joins the ranks of other debut novels that have been first recognize...
Ismet Prcic Wins the 2012 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
In the latest entry on Miwa Messer's Discover Great New Writers blog, the Director of the Discover program relates some fantastic news about Discover alumnus Ismet Prcic, whose Shards joins the ranks of other debut novels that have been first recognize...
Squeeze This!
Polka, Zydeco, and Italian treacle: if this is your idea of the only genres wherein the accordion flourishes, prepare to be enlightened by this entertaining history of that robust instrument's odyssey across the American musical landscape. Herself an a...
Ismet Prcic Wins the 2012 Sue Kauffman Prize for First Fiction
In the latest entry on Miwa Messer's Discover Great New Writers blog, the Director of the Discover program relates some fantastic news about Discover alumnus Ismet Prcic, whose Shards joins the ranks of other debut novels that have been first recognize...
Hot Pink
Adam Levin follows up his sprawling debut novel, The Instructions, with a collection of compact gems. Hot Pink contains ten short stories that concern themselves with the uncanny and absurd mysteries of life. As Levin himself wittily confides: "There's...
Anne Lamott
The author of Some Assembly Required on the books she's loved -- and lied about.
The Gilded Apple
From Five Points to Fifth Avenue.
Winter King
Henry VIII and his wives hog the spotlight when modern readers look back at England in the 1500s. But his father boasted an exemplary reign of some twenty-four years, during which time many foundation stones of the monarchy were laid. Penn turns the li...
House of Stone
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid describes his quest to uncover his family's history and his own identity while renovating his ancestral home in Lebanon. A graceful journey through past and present made all the more poignant and arresti...
The Snow Child
A Discover Great New Writers Selection. This debut novel radiates with the enchanted atmosphere of the Russian folktale that inspired it, transplanting a magical story to the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness of the 1920s. A middle-aged, childless couple ...
Mark Bittman
The food writer on works of fiction that nourish the mind and soul.
The Dreyfus Affair
Try to imagine any of the trivial political controversies of 2012 still earning a book-length study a century from now. Impossible, no? But France's Dreyfus Affair of 1894 was much grander stuff. Piers Paul Read's fresh and comprehensive take on the sc...
