Karen Russell’s dusbowl epic THE ANTIDOTE was announced today as a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for fiction.

Karen Russell’s novel THE ANTIDOTE has been shortlisted for the 2026 award for fiction.

Karen Russell’s Dust Bowl Epic THE ANTIDOTE was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.

Michael Clune’s novel PAN has been longlisted for the 2025 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Jess Row’s novel THE NEW EARTH wins the 2025 Prix Transfuge de la rentré litteraire in France for Best American Novel.

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.

Bard College awarded the 2024 Mary McCarthy award to Karen Russell on May 24th.

The New York times listed “The Night Falls”, written by Karen Russell, as one of the best dance performances of 2023. The production “benefited from the participation of a master storyteller: the novelist Karen Russell.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/arts/dance/best-dance-2023.html

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.

Jess Row’s novel THE NEW EARTH is on NPR’s list of Best Books of the Year 2023, under categories “Family Matters”, “Identity and Culture”, and “Seriously Great Writing”.