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Home » National Book Award

Tag: National Book Award

A 1970 one-panel cartoon from Charles Johnson.
Posted inArts & Culture

Drawing beyond the margins

by Aaron Cohen June 25, 2021August 18, 2021

Black cartoonists from Chicago are featured in a new book and included in a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

With the arrival of US Artists, Chicago becomes home to still more ‘genius’ grants

by Deanna Isaacs March 31, 2015August 18, 2021

The arts nonprofit, which awards dozens of $50,000 fellowships yearly, joins the MacArthur Foundation in what’s becoming a hub of the ‘prestige economy.’

Posted inArts & Culture

Patti Smith discusses art, remembrance, and detective shows

by Aimee Levitt October 27, 2014August 18, 2021

Before Patti Smith comes to town, she talks with the Reader about art, remembrance, and detective shows.

John Darnielle
Posted inArts & Culture

John Darnielle masters unreality with Wolf in White Van

by Janet Potter September 30, 2014August 18, 2021

Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle’s first full-length novel, Wolf in White Van, deserves its place on the National Book Awards long list.

Posted inArts & Culture

Family secrets fill Julia Glass’s And the Dark Sacred Night

by Aimee Levitt April 15, 2014August 18, 2021

As a successor to the National Book Award-winning Three Junes, Julia Glass’s And the Dark Sacred Night is just good enough.

Posted inArts & Culture

Who’s to blame for violence against Native women?

by Steve Bogira April 3, 2013August 19, 2021

In The Round House, Louise Erdrich assigns easy blame for a tough problem.

Posted inBlogs

On Robert Caro, LBJ, Clinton, editors, and deadlines

by Steve Bogira May 7, 2012August 19, 2021

I have a personal reason for appreciating Robert Caro

Posted inBlogs

Patti Smith’s Memoir Nominated for a National Book Award

by Jerome Ludwig October 13, 2010August 19, 2021

Smith got the nod in the nonfiction category for her recent book, Just Kids (Ecco), a remarkable memoir of her life in New York with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late 60s and 70s. As Miles Raymer noted in a post last week, Smith will be in Chicago (her birthplace) on November 30 to speak […]

Posted inBlogs

Bonnie Jo Campbell at Story Week Festival of Writers

by Jerome Ludwig March 16, 2010August 19, 2021

Bonnie Jo Campbell at Columbia College’s Story Week Festival of Writers

Posted inBlogs

Josha Ferris, The Unnamed

by Jerome Ludwig January 29, 2010August 19, 2021

Joshua Ferris’s new book The Unnamed is a bit of a disappointment.

Posted inBlogs

Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award finalist in fiction

by Jerome Ludwig October 15, 2009August 19, 2021

Kalamazoo-based writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, subject of a Reader profile back in 2000, has been nominated for a National Book Award.

Posted inBlogs

Patricia Smith (remember her?) nominated for a National Book Award

by Michael Miner October 15, 2008August 19, 2021

Fallen journalist Patricia Smith is a National Book Award finalist for poetry.

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