So when I got word of the American Book Award it felt, truly, like being recognized. Rather than being shunned or dismissed, I felt welcomed, rewarded. It’s no exaggeration to say the award helped propel me forward with the confidence I needed to become the writer I am today. I remain...
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (Virago) The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami (Bloomsbury) The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Picador) The Green Road by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihar...
Guests included David Lynch, Octavia Butler, John Waters, John Updike, Stephen Fry, Marilynne Robinson, Karen Russell, Weird Al Yankovic, Robert A. Caro, and more than 500 others. There was also a program called Follow Your Ears, which was a thematic investigative counterpart, in which I ...