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“This tonight is culture, it’s international culture, it’s compassionate culture, it’s activist culture—it’s a room full of believers…” In this video, George Saunders accepts the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury, 2017). Saunders is the second American in a row to win the award.
“Often my subjects are the simplest things in the world: joy, family, the weather, houses, streets—nothing fancy. And when I sit down with these subjects, my aim is clarity...” In her acceptance speech for the 2014 Moth Award, Zadie Smith shares her perspective on storytelling and how it has changed over the years. Smith’s fifth novel, Swing Time (Penguin Press, 2016), is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“We rise and fall and light from dying embers, remembrances that hope and love last longer.” While accepting the Tony for best score for Hamilton on Sunday night, playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda opted to read a sonnet for his wife, addressing the tragic shooting in Orlando and showing the power of poetry and words in times of tragedy.
"I give my thanks to Franz Kafka whose novel Das Schloss [The Castle] I read when I was twelve years old… I believe my fate was sealed." Hungarian fiction writer László Krasznahorkai gives his acceptance speech for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize last month.
The visionary cofounder of Apple died of complications from pancreatic cancer yesterday at the age of fifty-six. Here are some choice cuts from his commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, presented in the form of a poem.
