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Rita Bullwinkel
Rita Bullwinkel is an American author who is known for her 2024 debut novel ''Headshot'', which was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of the 2018 collection of short stories ''Belly Up'', which was awarded a Whiting Award in 2022. Bullwinkel is a professor at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches creative writing. Her other works have appeared in literary journals including ''The White Review'', ''Bomb (magazine), BOMB'', ''Noon (magazine), NOON'' and ''Guernica (magazine), Guernica''. In 2024, Bullwinkel became the editor of the literary magazine ''McSweeney's Quarterly'' after having served an editor at large since 2016. Career Bullwinkel's 2024 novel ''Headshot'' follows the lives of eight young female boxers as they converge on Reno, Nevada for a two-day boxing tournament in July. The boxing tournament, held at Bob's Boxing Palace (a dilapidated warehouse), hosts the Daughters of Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Bullwinkel At The 2024 Edinburgh International Book Festival (cropped)
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Dwight Garner
Dwight Garner (born January 8, 1965) is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. He is the author of ''Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany'' and ''Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements.'' In 2023 he published his memoir, ''The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading''. Journalism and writing Garner's previous post at ''The New York Times'' was as senior editor of ''The New York Times Book Review'', where he worked from 1999 to 2008. He was a founding editor of '' Salon.com'',Author bio at where he worked from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Writers
The Lists of American writers include: United States By ethnicity *List of African-American writers *List of Asian American writers, List of Asian-American writers *List of Cuban American writers, List of Cuban-American writers *List of Egyptian-American writers *List of Italian-American women writers *List of Jewish American writers, List of Jewish-American writers *List of American writers of Korean descent, List of Korean-American writers *List of Mexican American writers, List of Mexican-American writers *List of Puerto Rican writers *List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas (not limited to the U.S.) By field *List of American literary critics *List of American novelists *List of playwrights from the United States, List of American playwrights *List of poets from the United States, List of American poets *List of American print journalists *List of American sportswriters By region *List of Michigan writers *List of San Francisco Bay Area writers *List of Uta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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International Dublin Literary Award
The International Dublin Literary Award (), established as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English. It promotes excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council, Ireland. At €100,000, the award is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. If the winning book is a translation (as it has been twelve times), the prize is divided between the writer and the translator, with the writer receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000. The first award was made in 1996 to David Malouf for his English-language novel '' Remembering Babylon''. Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide – over 400 library systems in 177 countries worldwide are invited to nominate books each year – from which the shortlist and the eventual winner are selected by an international panel of judges (which changes each year). Eligibility and procedure The prize is open t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Burn Prize
The Gordon Burn Prize was launched in 2013 as a vehicle by which "to reward fiction or non-fiction written in the English language, which in the opinion of the judges most successfully represents the spirit and sensibility of nowiki/>Gordon Burn">Gordon_Burn.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Gordon Burn">nowiki/>Gordon Burns literary methods: novels which dare to enter history and interrogate the past ... literature which challenges perceived notions of genre and makes us think again about just what it is that we are reading." The prize is jointly organised by the Gordon Burn Trust, New Writing North and Faber & Faber. The winner receives a prize sum (originally ), and is offered the use of Burn's cottage in Berwickshire as a writers' retreat. Up until 2024, the prize ceremony was generally the first event of the Durham Book Festival. In 2024, the prize fund was doubled to due to new sponsors and the award ceremony relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne. Winners and shortlists {, class="wiki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Myers
Benjamin Myers FRSL (born January 1976) is an English writer and journalist. Early life Myers grew up in Belmont, County Durham, and was a pupil at the estate's local comprehensive school where he became interested in reading and skateboarding. Myers attended his first concert in Durham in March 1990, when he was fourteen. It led to him forming the punk rock band Sour Face the next year. The band quickly became involved in the Durham hardcore punk scene. Despite being one of the few bands in the scene that was not straight edge, Sour Face became the mascots, with their third performance seeing them open for NOFX. Voorhees' first performance was opening for Sour Face in September 1991. As a teenager Myers began writing for British weekly ''Melody Maker''. In 1997 he became their staff writer while residing in the Oval Mansions squat for several years. In 2011 he published an article, about his brief time as an intern at ''News of the World''. He has spoken about failing Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Observer
''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. In 1993 it was acquired by Guardian Media Group Limited, and operated as a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and '' The Guardian Weekly''. In December 2024, Tortoise Media acquired the paper from the Scott Trust Limited, with the transition taking place on 22 April 2025. History Origins The first issue was published on 4 December 1791 by W.S. Bourne, making ''The Observer'' the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Believing that the paper would be a means of wealth, Bourne instead soon found himself facing debts of nearly £1,600. Though early editions purported editorial independence, Bourne attempted to cut his losses and sell the title to the government. When this failed, Bourne's brother (a wealthy businessman) made an offer to the government, which also refused to buy the paper but agreed to subsidise it in return for influence over its editori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mille-feuille
A (; ),The name is also written as and . also known by the names Napoleon in North America, vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice, is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream. Its modern form was influenced by improvements made by Marie-Antoine Carême. Traditionally, a is made up of three layers of puff pastry (), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (). The top pastry layer is finished in various ways: sometimes it is topped with whipped cream, or it may be dusted with icing sugar, cocoa, pastry crumbs, or sliced almonds. It may also be glazed with icing or fondant alone, or in alternating white (icing) and brown (chocolate) or other colored icing stripes, and combed to create a marbled effect. History According to the ''Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets'', recipes from 17th century French and 18th century English cookbooks are a precursor to layer cakes. The earliest mention of the name itself appears in 1733 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Booker Prize
The 2024 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner, Samantha Harvey (author), Samantha Harvey for her sci-fi novel ''Orbital (novel), Orbital'', was announced on 12 November 2024 at Old Billingsgate in London. Of the thirteen authors on the 2024 longlist, announced on 30 July 2024, three (Colin Barrett (author), Colin Barrett, Rita Bullwinkel, Yael van der Wouden) were debut novelists and six (Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey (author), Samantha Harvey, Rachel Kushner, Hisham Matar, Claire Messud, Richard Powers) had been nominated previously. The longlist also featured the first Dutch (van der Wouden) and Native American (Orange) authors ever to be longlisted. Regarding the thirteen novels in the longlist, chair of the judging panel Edmund de Waal stated that the works varied widely in their style and mood, however he stated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
