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September 27, 2024

Lydia Davis delivers Yale’s Windham-Campbell Lecture

Man-Booker International Prize winner and National Book Award Finalist Lydia Davis was selected to give the prestigious keynote Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale University in September 2024. Yale University Press will publish a book expanding on this lecture. The books in this series have quickly become beloved works on craft from some of the most inventive and thoughtful writers of our time, including Patti Smith, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Eileen Myles, Samuel Delany, and Joy Harjo.

Jess Row Longlisted for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize

Jess Row has been longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize for his novel, THE NEW EARTH (Ecco, 2023). The annual $50,000 award honors a mid-career author of fiction in the midst of a burgeoning career, a distinguished writer who has emerged and is still emerging. The Prize celebrates past achievement and supports forthcoming work. Finalists are expected to be named in March 2024, with the Recipient expected to be named in April 2024.

June 7, 2023

Hugh Raffles’s THE BOOK OF UNCONFORMITIES Wins Two Prizes

THE BOOK OF UNCONFORMITIES: Speculations on Lost Time by Hugh Raffles has won the 2023 J.I. Staley Prize for Advanced Research and a 2023 Arts & Letters Award in Literature. The J.I Staley Prize is awarded annually to a living author for a book that exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology.

July 11, 2022

A Sequel Film of A SIMPLE FAVOR has been announced

Director Paul Feig, writer Jessica Sharzer, and stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick will reunite in a sequel to the popular 2018 film based on Darcey Bell’s book. Filming will likely take place next year in Capri, Italy.