During the recent Jaipur Literature Festival Xiaolu Guo, an award-winning writer and film-maker, voiced her concerns about the domination of English American literature in modern world and its negative influence (in her opinion) on the reading habits on a broader scale. Together with Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian/American writer who has… Read More →
As a part of his effort to raise the awareness of the problems of small businesses, President Obama bought more than twenty books at a local bookstore. His visit to Politics & Prose was carried out on Saturday after the Black Friday, also known as Small Business Saturday. And although… Read More →
Ned Vizzini, a popular teenage novels writer, sure knew what he was writing about, for the main topics of his books are depression and teenage anxiety (though put out in a humorous manner). On December the 19-th he committed a suicide in Brooklyn by jumping off the roof. For one… Read More →
On Tuesday, December 3, Maryland writer and professor of mathematics Manil Suri won the Bad Sex Award for his novel “The City of Devi”. Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? Bad Sex Award is an annual prize, given by Britain’s Literary Review to various writers in order to ”draw attention to the… Read More →
When it comes to the literature and to the arts in general, it is hard to judge, what is beautiful and creative and what is horrible and tasteless. What was popular and admired yesterday, might be called tawdry later. Besides, today’s concepts of art are quite blurred: one person writes… Read More →
You were born a white man and an American, so you have the right to get admitted to the best universities of your country in the first place, over women and colored people. You have the right to get the best job and the highest salary. Your wife looks up… Read More →
At the end of August, there appeared a video on YouTube, called “I forgot my phone”. Right now it is extremely popular, it got over 30 million views. It lasts a little more than two minutes. The plot is about a girl, who forgot her phone for a day, and,… Read More →
There are lots of books for babies in the bookstores. Fairy tales and funny, yet educational stories about almost everything in the world, are designed in the form of cardboard books with thick pages and rounded corners. Simple plots, lots of pictures – almost all of us read them back… Read More →
Antonio Emilio Leite Couto, the Mozambican poet, novelist and short story writer, has won the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, which is also sometimes called “The American Nobel”. He was chosen to get the award by the independent jury of nine international authors. Earlier one of them, Gabriella Ghermandi,… Read More →
Oscar Hijuelos, the Cuban-American writer best known as the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize, has died of heart attack at the age of 62. The sad news was announced by his literary agent, Jennifer Lyons; according to her, the accident happened when Mr. Hijuelos was playing tennis in… Read More →
