Alice McDermott and Claire Jiménez are among 5 finalists for PEN/Faulkner Award for fictionAlice McDermott’s novel about military wives in Vietnam, “Absolution,” and the Jamel Brinkley story collection “Witness” are among the finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Arts and letters academy votes in Everett, Coppola, othersThe honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett.
Novelist Gayl Jones is among National Book Award finalistsNovelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name on a list of 10 that features eight debut works of fiction.
Fall books a broad mix of literary and commercial favoritesAnticipation has been growing all year for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers, Colleen Hoover’s “It Starts With Us.”.