This week, three literary awards were given: the Orwell Book Prize, rewarding political writing of outstanding quality; the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, rewarding comic fiction; and the Ondaatje Prize, given to a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry which evokes the “spirit of a place”. You can see the winners of these prizes below. Mexican author Carlos [...]
For several years now, zombies have been the main subject of major movies and best-selling novels, such as the recent Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion. Why do we find them so fascinating? Did you always wonder how to defend yourself in case they decide to take over? Is their slow motion walking due to a [...]
How much of what we eat today hasn’t been transformed with additives and preservatives along the way, eventually looking like nothing that could have possibly grown from soil? Processed food has largely taken over, and the contemporary American diet is unfortunately mostly composed of industrial food. Journalist and former New York Times staff reporter, Melanie [...]
Junot Díaz appeared on The Colbert Report last Monday night where he talked about the immigration reform. If you didn’t know him already, Junot Diaz is a Dominican-American writer and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008 for The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Discover his unique prose with his three most [...]
Manchester-based writer Robert Williams published his first novel Luke and Jon in 2010 after winning the the 2010 National Book Token NYP Prize, which rewards first works by booksellers who are not yet published, and leads to a contract with publisher Faber and Faber. “You have to learn to spot the true breakthroughs from the [...]
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