Ann Patchett Wins PEN/Faulkner
Ann Patchett won the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award, the country's largest peer-juried fiction prize, for her novel Bel Canto (HarperCollins).
Genre: Fiction
An Interview With Fiction Writer Katherine Towler
Katherine Towler spent eight years writing her first novel Snow Island, published in February by MacAdam/Cage, an independent press in San Francisco. The novel tells the story of 16-year-old Alice Daggett and a reclusive World War I veteran, George Tibbits, who live on a New England island during the first years of World War II.
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Familiar Finalist: Franzen Among PEN/Faulkner Award Hopefuls
The other finalists for the PEN/Faulkner
Award, the country's largest peer-juried prize for fiction, are Karen
Jay Fowler for Sister Noon (Marion Wood/G.P. Putnam's Sons), Claire Messud for The Hunters (Harcourt), Ann Patchett for Bel Canto (HarperCollins), and Manil Suri for The Death of Vishnu (Norton).
Margaret Atwood’s Attention to Detail: Postcard From Paris
“I am annoyed when I’m reading through the 16th century and come across underwear that did not exist,” said Margaret Atwood, who explained to a standing-room-only crowd at the Village Voice bookstore in Paris why she’s a stickler for historical accuracy in her work.
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An Interview With Publisher Roland F. Pease, Jr.
After 15 years of publishing, Zoland Books has ceased operations. The independent Cambridge, Massachusetts-based publishing company produced approximately 125 books by authors such as Bill Berkson, Rudy Burckhardt, Lisa Jarnot, Ha Jin, Sheila Kohler, Ange Mlinko, John Yau, and Kevin Young.
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Diamonds Are a Novelist's Best Friend
Careful readers of The Bulgari Connection, the forthcoming novel by best-selling British writer Fay Weldon, may notice a curiously high number of passages about jewelry, albeit really nice Italian jewelry.
The Very Persistent Mapper of Happenstance: A Q&A With George Saunders
The author of the story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia talks about working in a slaughterhouse, Monty Python as validation, earnestness as the enemy, and his uncanny ability to find humor in unlikely places.
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