Wild
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The film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild (Knopf, 2012), with a screenplay by Nick Hornby, was released today. Reese Witherspoon served as a producer and plays Strayed in the story of her three-month hike and journey.
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Station Eleven
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This novel by Emily St. John Mandel, published by Knopf this month, tells the story of a theatre troupe and their survival through a deadly plague. The book is longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award in Fiction.
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
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"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language." Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, was released today by Knopf.
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Markus Zusak
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"Every success I've ever had has come wrapped in a gift box of failure." In this Tedx Talk, best-selling author Markus Zusak shares personal stories of disappointment, including his insecurities in writing The Book Thief, and how failing has given him the courage to follow his own vision.
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B. J. Novak
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The actor best known for his work on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series The Office is also a writer. B. J. Novak’s first story collection, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, is forthcoming from Knopf next month. The trailer features one of Novak’s costars from The Office, Mindy Kaling. Novak signed a two-book deal with Penguin Young Readers Group last week.
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Tracy K. Smith
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“Even people who don’t read poems have poetry in their heads.” Filmed as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, this video features poets Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Tracy K. Smith, who discuss the nature of poetry and their creative processes. Smith's memoir, Ordinary Light (Knopf, 2015), is a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.
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James Salter
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The eighty-five-year-old prize-winning fiction writer whose new novel, All That Is, was published this month by Knopf, speaks at the New York State Writers Institute about The Lover by Marguerite Duras.
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Brad Leithauser
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The poet and novelist, whose most recent book, The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems, was published in February by Knopf, recently read his work at Politics & Prose in Washington D.C., and spoke about his feelings for his hometown of Detroit.
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Sonali Deraniyagala
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The author talks about her memoir, Wave (Knopf), in which she writes about losing her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the devastating tsunami that struck Southeast Asia in 2004.
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Toni Morrison
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Torrene Boone talks with the Nobel Prize winner whose latest novel, Home, was published last year by Knopf (the paperback was published by Vintage International in January), at the New York City offices of Google.
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