The Peace Corps Book Locker

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-167
Author(s):  
Peter H. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Peace Corps ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book

Each Peace Corps volunteer received a large, hinged box made of strong cardboard. This Book Locker was filled with paperback books for the volunteer to read and to pass along to students, villagers, and others. When the box was open, it had shelves and became a bookcase. The lockers contained novels, nonfiction books, reference books, maps, materials to learn English, and books about the region. Bill’s “diary,” which the prosecution argues demonstrated a motive for the alleged murder, is revealed to contain only quotations from Ceremony in Lone Tree, a book included in the Book Locker. The book was written by Wright Morris, a popular author of spare, midwestern stories, one of which brought him the National Book Award.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Germana
Keyword(s):  
Book Award ◽  
National Book ◽  
Acceptance Speech

In “Brave Words for a Startling Occasion,” the acceptance speech he wrote for the National Book Award presentation ceremony at which he was honored, Ellison likens himself and his fellow novelists to Menelaus and his companions trying to find their way back home in Homer’s ...

A Southern Drawl from beyond the Grave

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
Rene Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book

The bell has finally tolled for Flannery O'Connor. The National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize have both passed up the opportunity to honor her posthumous collection of short stories, Everything that Rises Must Converge. Still, you can't help wondering what best-sellerdom could have done to a book like this. Few will read it through and most of those who stop at the halfway mark will become rabid anti-O'Connorites. Of all the first-rate American writers of the century, she is the easiest to put down. Her characters are self-conciously larger than life, her prose laden with portent in every semi-colon, her plotting so relentlessly tragic that every sentence is like a step – inevitable and often predictable – toward a witches' brew of a Grand Guignol finale. Impatient readers will feel Flannery is getting nowhere pretty slow. After some stirring and simmering of emotions, they'll quit and stop reading short of the climax, with the worst possible results. An O'Connor story is not one of those “New Yorker” Flirtations that ramble charmingly and stop coquettishly: Flannery O'Connor is no playful, teasing minx.

Ursula K. Le Guin

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra J. Lindow
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Contemporary American Literature ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Radcliffe College ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book

One of the most influential voices in contemporary American literature, Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929–d. 2018) began publishing in the 1960s and soon became known for her courageous exploration of ethics, ecology, and diversity using fantastic and futuristic settings. Elevating fantasy and science fiction from pulp-era sword and sorcery and space opera, her fiction explores and condemns chauvinistic traditions of colonialism, nationalism, sexism, and racism. Through her literary approach to genre themes and settings, she inspired not only generations of genre writers but also many mainstream writers who incorporated fantastic elements in their work. Ursula Kroeber was born on in Berkeley, California. Her parents were the Alfred Kroeber, pioneering anthropologist, and Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi in Two Worlds. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951, earned a masters degree from Columbia University in 1952, and married historian Charles Le Guin in 1953. A prolific writer, she published more than sixty books including novels for adults and young adults, picture books, short story collections, critical nonfiction, poetry, screenplays, and works of translation. Genre and mainstream recognition occurred throughout her career. Her first fantasy novel, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), earned the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Her groundbreaking novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) won Hugo and Nebula Awards. She was only the second woman to receive both honors for one book. The Farthest Shore (1973) won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The Dispossessed (1974) won Locus, Nebula, and Hugo Awards. Overall, her novels alone received five Locus, four Nebulas, two Hugos, and one World Fantasy Award. In 1989 she accepted the Pilgrim Award for her critical work. In 1994, 1996, and 1997, she earned Tiptree Awards for her exploration of gender through her depiction of androgyny and alternative cultures that privilege nonheteronormative marriage. Le Guin’s lifetime achievement awards recognize her importance in American literature. In 2000, the US Library of Congress named her a Living Legend for her significant contributions to America’s cultural heritage. In 2002, she won the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers Association. In 2014, she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In his introduction to her National Book Award acceptance speech, author Neil Gaiman describes her as someone who made him not only a better writer but also a better person as a writer.

Retrieving the Past—The Historical Theme in Penelope Lively’s Fictions

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 2014
Author(s):  
Xiaotang Lv
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Present Life

Penelope Lively (1933- ), the contemporary British writer, was first known mainly as a children’s writer prior to her winning the 1987 Booker Prize with her widely praised novel Moon Tiger (1987). The Road to Lichfield, published in 1977, is her first adult novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Treasures of Time (1979), her second adult novel, was the winner of Great Britain’s first National Book Award for fiction in 1980 and the Arts Council National Book Award. In her literary fictions, Lively interweaves the present and the past -- history, the public, collective past, and memory, the private and personal past -- together with the application of various narrative techniques, such as flashback, stream of consciousness, psychological time, etc. A predominant theme running through her literary world is her consistent focus on history. This essay intend to study Penelope Lively’s understanding and interpretation of history, and draw this conclusion: Although a complete understanding of history is impossible, yet as we realize our subjectivity and misunderstanding of history we can try to understand it in a new way and integrate it into the present life.

Sigrid Nunez on the Writer’s Life

MELUS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-202
Author(s):  
Lu Sun
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
Writing Programs ◽  
Teaching Experiences ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The Status ◽  
National Book ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Looking Back

Abstract The Friend (2018), the seventh novel of Sigrid Nunez, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. It not only tells a touching story about the human-canine bond between the narrator and a huge Great Dane but also involves much meditation on writing as a profession and the universal concerns of humanity. Looking back at her writing career, Nunez talks about her beliefs as a writer, her observation of the contemporary literary scene, her evaluation of the status of fiction in the current era, her teaching experiences in writing programs, and her personal story as a child of immigrants and a former assistant to Susan Sontag. According to Nunez, a life of solitude is conducive to writing books, and experiences of frustration are normal for a writer. However, she maintains that writing should be seen as a vocation instead of a means of self-advancement. With respect to new trends in literary culture, Nunez believes the house of fiction does have many rooms, and the definition of a novel has become much broader.

scholarly journals READER-RESPONSE ANALYSIS IN GONE WITH THE WIND NOVEL BY MARGARET MITCHELL

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Putu Diah Kanserina
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Margaret Mitchell ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book

Penelitian ini adalah analisis mengenai kepribadian para tokoh utama yang diungkapkan di alam novel Gone With The Wind karya Margaret Mitchell, dengan rumusan masalah “Faktor apa sajakah yang mempengaruhi kepribadian para tokoh utama di dalam Gone With The Wind, berdasarkan pada analisis respon pembaca (reader-response)”. Objek studi ini merupakan pemenang dari Pulitzer Prize dan National Book Award di 1936.Data yang terkait dengan penelitian ini adalah berbentuk kata, kalimat, dan kutipan yang diambil dari novel tersebut. Data tersebut diambil dari pembacaan terhadap novel tersebut dengan menyeleksi data yang terkait dengan analisis. Untuk mendukung analisis, dua rekan penulis (Akhlis and Vivi) memberikan dukungan terhadap detail dari cerita. Penulis bertanya satu demi satu tentang para tokoh utama dan faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi kepribadian para tokoh utama. Analisis dilakukan menggunakan beberapa teknis yang meliputi pemilihan, mengutipan, penjelasan, dan pembuatan kesimpulan dan saran. Analisis menghasilkan beberapa temuan. Terdapat juga beberapa data yang merefleksikan kepribadian para tokoh utama. Pertama, ditemukan beberapa faktor seperti cinta, pernikahan, dan patriotisme. Kedua, penulis dan rekan tidak belajar tentang perang yang terjadi di abad kedelapan belas tetapi belajar tentang mengapresiasi orang lain. Kita juga seharusnya memiliki sikap “memberi dan menerima” terhadap pasangan kita. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, disimpulkan bahwa kita harus menghargai institusi pernikahan. Kita harus mengapresiasi pasangan kita. Jika kita tidak menyintai pasangan kita, sebuah cinta yang sejati tidak akan terjalin.

scholarly journals A Decade of The Underneath: A Conversation with Kathi Appelt

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Sharon Verbeten
Keyword(s):  
Animal Abuse ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book ◽  
Newbery Medal ◽  
Trigger Warnings

If you were like me, you likely hooted with excitement when you heard that Kathi Appelt’s The Underneath had received a Newbery Honor in 2009. My enthusiasm was tempered only by the fact that it didn’t win the Newbery Medal itself.It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since the notable book was published—garnering much praise (including being a 2008 National Book Award finalist) but also trigger warnings about its graphic depictions of animal abuse.

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