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The 2013 Man Booker Longlist Announced

July 23, 2013 by utpress Leave a Comment

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The 2013 Man Booker Prize longlist, called the ‘most diverse’ in the prize’s history, was announced today.

Here is the list:

  • Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw (Fourth Estate)
  • We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)
  • The Luminaries Eleanor Catton (Granta)
  • Harvest Jim Crace (Picador)
  • The Marrying of Chani Kaufman Eve Harris (Sandstone Press)
  • The Kills Richard House (Picador)
  • The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)
  • Unexploded Alison MacLeod ( Hamish Hamilton)
  • TransAtlantic Colum McCann (Bloomsbury)
  • Almost English Charlotte Mendelson (Mantle)
  • A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)
  • The Spinning Heart Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland)
  • The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín (Viking)

There are some familiar names here, a few we might have expected, and a few surprises. Perhaps most surprising of all, however, is who wasn’t on list.

(photo credit: http://www.themanbookerprize.com)

Posted in: News Tagged: books, Man Booker Prize, Novels

Happy Birthday, Papa Hemingway

July 21, 2013 by utpress Leave a Comment

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Nobel prize winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day, July 21st, 1899.

Controversial, brilliant, and always quotable, his words on fiction and truth, taken from a 1954 letter to Bernard Berenson, beautifully captures the tenacity and passion of Hemingway as a writer.

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true.

Hemingway spoke often of the importance of truth in writing. He referred to it again during his Art of Fiction No. 21 interview with The Paris Review:

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

In this way, we encounter Hemingway’s own immortality, as it lives and breathes in the prose he worked so hard to create, and in the vast voices of writers he has influenced, and continues to influence to this day.

(photo source: loc.gov)

Posted in: News Tagged: Birthday, Hemingway, Nobel Prize, writing

Prose As Art

July 16, 2013 by utpress Leave a Comment

prosepostersCreative studio, Obvious State, has created orignal illustrations inspired by lines from famous literary works by T.S. Eliot, Philip K. Dick, Walt Whitman, Vonnegut, Cummings, Nabokov, Salinger and others. I want one several.

proseart1There is profound beauty in prose, so why not make it art?

 

Posted in: News Tagged: Art, Fiction, poetry, Prose

Why You Need Small Demons

July 15, 2013 by utpress Leave a Comment

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If you love books, and the stuff in books, from the music and places to the drinks your favorite fictional characters enjoy, then you’ll be mad for Small Demons.

Not only does Small Demons host an ever-expanding archive of literary references, but they also cross-link and connect those references to other books, creating what they call the “storyverse.”

http://youtu.be/DSlY74J6iH8

Small Demons is an amazing, and sublimely addictive, resource for the book-obsessed. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

 

 

Posted in: News Tagged: books, Fiction, Storyverse

Ira Glass On Creative Work

July 13, 2013 by utpress Leave a Comment

We stumbled upon this excerpt from a talk by Ira Glass, brought to life with beautifully rendered typography, on storytelling, good taste and the absolute necessity of perseverance in creative work.

https://vimeo.com/24715531

(via brainpickings.org)

Posted in: News Tagged: Storytelling, Taste, writing
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