Podcasts about medici book club prize

In this episode we welcomed back Medici Book Club Prize winner Yaa Gyasi to discuss her latest novel Transcendent Kingdom. In this book club style conversation, Yaa talks about the shifts she had to make to create a completely different novel from her debut. She also told us what she read before and during the writing process that impacted her craft and how she approached race, culture and geography in her work.

In Episode 45, Liz Moore (author of Long Bright River) talks about the inspiration and research for her novel, mystery / thriller twists, and that comparison to The Girl on the Train. This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights How Liz comes up with inspiration for her books. Her time working with a photographer in the Kensington neighborhood (which ended up being research for Long Bright River). Liz’s take on the twists in mysteries and thrillers. The origins of Long Bright River‘s title. Long Bright River as a movie…and Liz’s experience writing the screenplay for it (and for another of her books). Some real life author friendships. An upcoming release that isn’t even on the Internet yet. Writing as a mother. Liz’s take on Long Bright River being compared to The Girl on the Train. Liz’s Book Recommendations Two OLD Books She Loves  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro | Buy from Amazon [22:09] Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh | Buy from Amazon [24:56] Two NEW Books She Loves All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [26:42] The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg | Buy from Amazon [29:54] One Book She DIDN’T Love Romantic Poetry [33:02] One NEW RELEASE She’s Excited About “TBD Title New Novel” by Asali Solomon (Author of Disgruntled) [36:37] Other Books Mentioned Long Bright River by Liz Moore (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [2:09] The Unseen World by Liz Moore | Buy from Amazon [4:16] The Rust Belt Rising Almanac by Linda Gallant | Buy from Amazon [9:38] Heft by Liz Moore | Buy from Amazon [13:54] Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | Buy from Amazon [23:56] Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [24:29] Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney | Buy from Amazon [24:29] All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg (My Review)| Buy from Amazon [27:47] Get Down by Asali Solomon | Buy from Amazon [37:10] Disgruntled by Asali Solomon | Buy from Amazon [37:10] Loving Frank by Nancy Horan | Buy from Amazon[38:08] The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (My Spoiler Discussion) | Buy from Amazon[42:24] Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (My Review) | Buy from Amazon[46:56] Other Links Jeffrey Stockbridge Kensington Blues photo series The Lotus Eaters by Tennyson About Liz Website | Instagram | Twitter Her first novel, The Words of Every Song (Broadway Books, 2007), centers on a fictional record company in New York City just after the turn of the millennium. It draws partly on Liz’s own experiences as a musician. It was selected for Borders’ Original Voices program and was given a starred review by Kirkus. Roddy Doyle wrote of it, “This is a remarkable novel, elegant, wise, and beautifully constructed. I loved the book.” After the publication of her debut novel, Liz obtained her MFA in Fiction from Hunter College. In 2009, she was awarded the University of Pennsylvania’s ArtsEdge residency and moved to Philadelphia. Her second novel, Heft, was published by W.W. Norton in January 2012 to popular and critical acclaim. Of Heft, The New Yorker wrote, “Moore’s characters are lovingly drawn…a truly original voice”; The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “Few novelists of recent memory have put our bleak isolation into words as clearly as Liz Moore does in her new novel”; and editor Sara Nelson wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine, “Beautiful…Stunningly sad and heroically hopeful.” The novel was published in five countries, was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was included on several “Best of 2012” lists, including those of NPR and the Apple iBookstore. Moore’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in venues such as Tin House, The New York Times, and Narrative Magazine. She is the winner of the Medici Book Club Prize and Philadelphia’s Athenaeum Literary Award. After winning a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she spent 2014-15 at the American Academy in Rome, completing her third novel. That novel, The Unseen World, was published by W.W. Norton in July of 2016. Louisa Hall called it “fiercely intelligent” in her review in The New York Times; Susan Coll called it “enthralling . . . ethereal and elegant . . . a rich and convincing period piece” in her review in the Washington Post. The Unseen World was included in “Best of 2016” lists by The New Yorker, the BBC, Publishers Weekly, Vox, Google Play, and Audible.com, among others. Moore’s fourth novel, Long Bright River, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in January 2020. She lives with her family in Philadelphia and is a faculty member of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University. Next Episode Mini Episode featuring Aubree Cheadle (@mnreadingmama)…airing February 12. Support the Podcast Support on Patreon – When you support the podcast on Patreon for $5/month, get bonus podcast episodes and other goodies! ShareIf you like the podcast, I’d love for you to share it with your reader friends…in real life and on social media (there’s easy share buttons at the bottom of this post!). 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A Beyond the Book interview with Min Jin Lee recorded live at The Beverly Hills Literary Escape. Min Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko was awarded the 2018 Medici Book Club Prize and she joined Julie Robinson on stage for a freewheeling book club style conversation about her novel, libraries, books and more. This is the first in a series of podcasts from the yearly book festival to be released. It was recorded on November 3, 2018.

Min Jin Lee explains the racism she experienced as a Korean-American living in Japan, and how that pulled at both her Korean and American selves. Look out for Episode 5 on February 1st, 2018! Find Us Online: Hear the full interview with Younghill Kang. Website: http://wfmt.com/bughouse Twitter: @StudsArchive Eve L. Ewing: @eveewing, https://eveewing.com/ Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018) and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019). Her novel Pachinko (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017. A New York Times Bestseller, Pachinko was also a Top 10 Books of the Year for BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the New York Public Library. Pachinko was a selection for “Now Read This,” the joint book club of* PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. It was on over 75 best books of the year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN. Pachinko will be translated into 27 languages. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (2007) was a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air, USA Today, and a national bestseller. Her writings have appeared in *The New Yorker, NPR’s Selected Shorts, One Story, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, and Wall Street Journal. *She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the ChosunIlbo of South Korea. In 2018, Lee was named as an Adweek Creative 100 for being one of the “10 Writers and Editors Who are Changing the National Conversation” and a Frederick Douglass 200. She received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Monmouth College. She will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022. About Us: WFMT is Chicago’s classical and fine arts radio station, with a long tradition of award-winning broadcasting since 1951. Through the WFMT Radio Network, the station offers programming to over 650 outlets in the U.S. and around the world Studs Terkel Radio Archive, an audio archive managed by THE WFMT Radio Network, based at Studs’ long time radio home, in partnership with the Chicago History Museum, which houses the archive. Multitude is a podcast collective and consultancy based in New York City. Their mission is to make, elevate, and market great shows. Credits: Our producer is Katie Klocksin and our composer is Ayanna Woods. Thank you to Project Manager Heather McDougall, Archivist Allison Schein Holmes, Production and Distribution Manager Stacy Gerard, Multitude Productions, and Erin Glasco, Maria Cooper and Mark Baletto on our transcription team. Archival audio was digitized by the Library of Congress, Division of Recorded Sound. Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities - Exploring the Human Endeavor.

The Rundown: Eve lays out Younghill Kang’s autobiographical immigrant stories and the looming ideological presence of the Japanese occupation of Korea. Younghill Kang talks to Studs about the growth of himself as an artist and writer and how it intertwines with the passage of history in Korea and the United States Min Jin Lee breaks down the compulsion she had to write about the Japanese occupation of Korea and how integral it is to fully understand Korean culture. Find Us Online: Hear the full interview with Younghill Kang. Website: http://wfmt.com/bughouse Twitter: @StudsArchive Eve L. Ewing: @eveewing, https://eveewing.com/ Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018) and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019). Her novel Pachinko (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017. In 2018, Lee was named as an Adweek Creative 100 for being one of the “10 Writers and Editors Who are Changing the National Conversation” and a Frederick Douglass 200. She received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Monmouth College. She will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022. About Us: WFMT is Chicago’s classical and fine arts radio station, with a long tradition of award-winning broadcasting since 1951. Through the WFMT Radio Network, the station offers programming to over 650 outlets in the U.S. and around the world Studs Terkel Radio Archive, an audio archive managed by THE WFMT Radio Network, based at Studs’ long time radio home, in partnership with the Chicago History Museum, which houses the archive. Multitude is a podcast collective and consultancy based in New York City. Their mission is to make, elevate, and market great shows. Credits: Our producer is Katie Klocksin and our composer is Ayanna Woods. Thank you to Project Manager Heather McDougall, Archivist Allison Schein Holmes, Production and Distribution Manager Stacy Gerard, Multitude Productions, and Erin Glasco, Maria Cooper and Mark Baletto on our transcription team. Archival audio was digitized by the Library of Congress, Division of Recorded Sound. Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities - Exploring the Human Endeavor.

Lauren Groff is the author of the novel The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, Delicate Edible Birds, a collection of stories, and Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award. Her latest novel is Fates and Furies. Her work has appeared in journals including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House,One Story, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of theBest American Short Stories.  She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband and two sons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices