Archive for May 2009
Alice Munro wins acclaimed prize
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: May 29, 2009
Canadian short-story author Alice Munro has emerged victorious from a clash of the world’s literary giants to win the £60,000 ($94,900 U.S.) Man Booker International prize. The 77-year-old writer was picked from a lineup of towering international talent that included V. S. Naipaul, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peter Carey, and Joyce Carol Oates. The prize is [...]
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- Raymond Carver’s Life and StoriesCarol Sklenicka’s biography and a long-overdue “Collected Stories” spotlight Carver’s growth as a writer and illuminate his poisonous relationship with the editor Gordon Lish.
- Andre Agassi’s Hate of the GameBracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Andre Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.
- My True StoryA history of memoir, from St. Augustine to James Frey.
- Haleh Esfandiari: Prisoner of TehranA love of Iran underlies a scholar’s memoir of surreal interrogation and solitary confinement in Tehran.
- Double Agency In this novel, British and American spies clash in the buildup to the Beijing Olympics.
