Articles tagged "Half-Light"
Macmillan Wins Three 2018 Pulitzer Prizes!
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners!
Biography
PRAIRIE FIRES: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books)
A deeply researched and elegantly written portrait of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie series, that describes how Wilder transformed her family’s story of poverty, failure and struggle into an uplifting tale of self-reliance, familial love and perseverance.
Poetry
HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A volume of unyielding ambition and remarkable scope that mixes long dramatic poems with short elliptical lyrics, building on classical mythology and reinventing forms of desires that defy societal norms.
Nonfiction
LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
An examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.
And a big round of applause for our 2018 Pulitzer finalists:
Nonfiction
NOTES ON A FOREIGN COUNTRY: An American Abroad in a Post-America World by Suzy Hansen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) readmoreremove
2017 Triangle Awards Finalists
We’re waving our rainbow flag in support of our 2017 Publishing Triangle Awards finalists, honoring the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the year’s best trans and gender-variant literature:
Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
ABANDON ME by Melissa Febos
Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
SOME SAY: Poems by Maureen N. McLane
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
DON’T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems, 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
Finalists for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
DON’T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado readmoreremove
2017 National Book Award Winners
Congratulations to Frank Bidart, who won the 2017 National Book Award in Poetry for HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems 1965-2016!
And congratulations to Jesmyn Ward on her second National Book Award in Fiction win! We proudly published her 2011 NBA Fiction Award winner, SALVAGE THE BONES, as well as her bestselling and acclaimed memoir, MEN WE REAPED.|
2017 National Book Award Finalists
We’ve got the write stuff: FOUR Macmillan titles are shortlisted for the 2017 National Book Awards!
Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
Poetry
HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
DON’T CALL US DEAD: Poems by Danez Smith
Winners will be announced on November 15. #FingersCrossed!
NBA Poetry Longlist
Next up from the National Book Awards is the poetry longlist:
Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas
Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Mai Der Vang, Afterland