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Let Me Be Frank With You
''Let Me Be Frank With You'' (2014) by Richard Ford, is the sequel to The Lay of the Land (2006) and the fourth in a series of five books of fiction that features protagonist and narrator Frank Bascombe. Background Before the publication of ''Let Me Be Frank With You'', Ford had written three novels with Frank Bascombe as the focal point. Ford referred to these three books as "The Bascombe Novels." ''The Lay of the Land'' (2006), the third novel about Frank Bascombe was –as Ford let it be known at the time of its publication– the last book in the series. But in April 2013, Ford read from a new Frank Bascombe story without revealing to the audience if it was —or was not— part of a longer work. By 2014, though, it was confirmed that the story was to appear in the book ''Let Me Be Frank With You'', to be published during November of that year. As Richard Ford himself has written: “The book in question, ''Let Me Be Frank With You'', is not a Frank Bascombe novel, but four, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel '' The Sportswriter'' and its sequels, '' Independence Day'', ''The Lay of the Land'' and ''Let Me Be Frank With You'', and the short story collection '' Rock Springs'', which contains several widely anthologized stories. Ford received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996 for ''Independence Day''. Ford's novel ''Wildlife'' was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. He won the 2018 Park Kyong-ni Prize. Early life Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the only son of Parker Carrol and Edna Ford. Parker was a traveling salesman for Faultless Starch, a Kansas City company. Of his mother, Ford said, "Her ambition was to be, first, in love with my father and, second, to be a full-time mother." When Ford was eight years old, his father had a severe heart failure, and thereafter Ford spent as much time with his grandfather, a former prizefighter and hotel ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was Inauguration, inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year (no Novel prize was awarded in 1917, the first one having been granted in 1918). The name was changed to the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948, and eligibility was expanded to also includes Short story, short stories, Novella, novellas, Novella, novelettes, and poetry, as well as novels. Finalists have been announced since 1980, usually a total of three. Definition As defined in the original Plan of Award, the prize was given "Annually, for the American novel published during the year which shall best pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Richard Ford
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 American Novels
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2010s Novellas
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BookBrowse
''BookBrowse'' is an online magazine and website that provides book reviews, author interviews, book previews, and reading guides. The magazine is independent of publishers and does not sell books that it reviews. The site offers both free and premium content that is available by subscription. History ''BookBrowse'' was founded by Davina and Paul Morgan-Witts in 1997. The idea for the website came from a trip to a bookstore the same year. The visit to the bookstore was cut short and they decided to look on the internet for book information, finding very little at that time. This brought on the idea to create something that allowed readers to flip through various pages of a book similar to at a bookstore. BookBrowse was launched allowing visitors to view excerpts of books, later evolving into publishing of book reviews. The website grew in popularity and in 1998 was featured by Yahoo! as its ''Incredibly Useful Site of the Day''. In the early 2000s, it started publishing its own r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booklist
''Booklist'' is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. ''Booklist''s primary audience consists of libraries, educators, and booksellers. The magazine is available to subscribers in print and online. ''Booklist'' is published 22 times per year, and reviews over 7,500 titles annually. The ''Booklist'' brand also offers a blog, various newsletters, and monthly webinars. The ''Booklist'' offices are located in the American Library Association headquarters in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. History ''Booklist'', as an introduction from the American Library Association publishing board notes, began publication in January 1905 to "meet an evident need by issuing a current buying list of recent books with brief notes designed to assist librarians in selection." With an annual subscription fee of 50 cents, ''Booklist'' was initially subsidized by a $100,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Miles (novelist)
Jonathan Miles (born January 28, 1971) is an American journalist and novelist. His debut novel, ''Dear American Airlines'', was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008. The novel, written in the form of a complaint letter to the titular airline, was reviewed by Richard Russo in '' The New York Times Book Review''. His second novel, ''Want Not'', was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013. Early life Jonathan Miles was born in Cleveland, Ohio; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, but Miles ran away when he was 17, moving to Oxford, Mississippi, eventually attending the University of Mississippi and taking a writing class with Barry Hannah. Finding work as a newspaper reporter and aspiring jazz musician, Miles met novelist Larry Brown. The two became friends, and while Miles didn't graduate "Ole Miss", Brown taught and encouraged Miles to write: "It was an astonishing education. Some people go to the Iowa Writer's Workshop. I had Larry." Literary career Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Treisman
Deborah Treisman (born 1970) is the Fiction Editor for ''The New Yorker''. Treisman also hosts craft conversations with ''The New Yorker'' short fiction contributors discussing their favorite stories from the magazine's archives in the ''Fiction'' podcast, and authors reading their own recently-published work in ''The Writer's Voice'' podcast''.'' Early life and education Treisman was born in Oxford, England and spent her first years in England. She grew up in a family of scholars. Her mother was the noted cognitive psychologist Anne Treisman. Her stepfather, Daniel Kahneman, won a Nobel prize in economic science. When Treisman was eight, her family relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. Treisman submitted her own writing to ''The New Yorker'' at the age of 11. Her submission was rejected. She began her studies at the University of California at Berkeley at the age of 16 and went on to earn her degree in Comparative Literature. Career In 2003, Treisman took the helm of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecco Press
Ecco is a New York-based publishing imprint of HarperCollins. It was founded in 1971 by Daniel Halpern as an independent publishing company; Publishers Weekly described it as "one of America's best-known literary houses." In 1999 Ecco was acquired by HarperCollins, with Halpern remaining at the head. Since 2000, Ecco has published the yearly anthology ''The Best American Science Writing'', edited by Jesse Cohen. In 2011, Ecco created two separate publishing lines, one "curated" by chef-author Anthony Bourdain and the other by novelist Dennis Lehane. History Halpern founded Ecco Press in 1971, originally to publish the literary magazine ''Antaeus (magazine), Antaeus''Deahl, Rachel"Milestones: Halpern Reflects on 40 Years of Ecco,"''Publishers Weekly'' (Nov. 25, 2011). (which folded in 1994). Ecco's name was suggested by Halpern's initial backer, ketchup heiress Drue Heinz. Initially, Ecco specialized in reissues and paperback editions of hardcovers previously published by other co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sportswriter
''The Sportswriter'' is a 1986 novel by Richard Ford, and the first of four books of fiction to feature the protagonist Frank Bascombe. In ''The Sportswriter'', Bascombe is portrayed as a failed novelist turned sportswriter who undergoes an existential crisis following the death of his son. The sequel to ''The Sportswriter'' is the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''Independence Day'', published in 1995. After the third installment in the series, titled ''The Lay of the Land'', was published in 2006, the three books together are sometimes identified as "The Bascombe Trilogy." Ford called them "The Bascombe Novels." In 2014, a fourth book in the series, titled '' Let Me Be Frank With You,'' was published. In 2007, HBO announced that it was adapting the books into a six-hour HBO miniseries, but HBO subsequently dropped their option, and any future plans to adapt the novels for the screen have been shelved. When it appeared in 1986, ''The Sportswriter'' was Ford's third published novel. ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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