Jul 30, 2012
The New York Times called Adam Johnson's latest novel, The Orphan Master’s Son, “a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.” Johnson is also author of Emporium, a...
Jul 30, 2012
Carolyn Burke celebrates release of her recent book No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf, which captures the iconic French singer’s immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her international career. Burke is also author of two other critically acclaimed biographies, Lee Miller: A Life, and
Jul 16, 2012
Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and six other nonfiction
books, including But
Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and
Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award
finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International
Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity...
Jul 16, 2012
Peter Carey is a literary chameleon, whose nine works of long-form fiction have spanned the stylistic gamut from speculative to historical to epistolary. He's written the fictionalized story of his native Australia's most famous antihero (Ned Kelly) and turned the British classic Great Expectations on its head. In...