So much fun last night at The Kirkus Prize ceremony! 2024 Kirkus Prize winners! people.com/see-the-full...

See the Winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize (Exclusive)

Percival Everett, Adam Higginbotham and Kenneth M. Cadow were awarded the 2024 Kirkus Prizes for Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Reader's Literature at a ceremony on Oct.16.

🎉🎉🎉2024 Kirkus Prize winners! 🎉🎉🎉https://apnews.com/article/percival-everett-james-kirkus-prize-f9a4ea0fe438a4ce1f4f0a6f3d9e9897?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

Percival Everett's 'James' wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction

Percival Everett’s novel “James" has won a $50,000 prize that continues Everett’s recent wave of literary honors.

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A weekly podcast hosted by critic Bethanne Patrick, including themed book recommendations, interviews with great authors, and literary sizzle. Click to read The Book Maven Podcast: A Literary Revue, b...

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A Woman Is Under Surveillance for a Crime She’s Yet to Commit in Laila Lalami’s Novel 'The Dream Hotel' (Exclusive)

Author Laila Lalami has shared the cover of her forthcoming novel, The Dream Hotel, exclusively with PEOPLE. The novel will be published in spring 2025 by Pantheon Books.

🎧 Kirkus Editor in Chief, Tom Beer, talks to Megan Labrise about next week’s Kirkus Prize Ceremony: listen! www.kirkusreviews.com/podcast/2024...

Melissa Febos in today’s LAT: www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...

Cruising toward my mid-40s has been a wonderful surprise — including in how I dress

Every time I think of my old idea of midlife — that dreary pasture full of drab linens — laughter bubbles out of me.

Melissa Febos: “The air quality in my life changed, as if I’d opened a window. I could breathe easier. My pulse slowed. I noticed more, from the sensations of my own body to the changing light as days progressed.” THE DRY SEASON, Knopf, 06.03.25 www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/o...

Opinion | The Sexiest Year of My Life Involved Zero Sex

When I removed the option of romance, my sensual relationship to all the other aspects of my life deepened.

😲 The NY Times’ lack of immediacy about the planned overthrow of our democratic election is certainly a choice.

Who better to judge the American Short Fiction’s Insider Prize than Peter Orner? “Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” lithub.com/read-the-win...

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2024 Insider Prize

Stories live through their readers. This year’s winners of American Short Fiction’s Insider Prize were brought to life by dozens of readers—by my friends, colleagues, students, two former high scho…