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Elizabeth Crane, whose All This Heavenly Glory was a finalist for the Read This! program, gets the LBC treatment: Her collection is reviewed and discussed, she sits down for a podcast with Bat Segundo, she is interviewed by Dan Wickett, she posts about her book, and finally her editor, Reagan Arthur, also stops in. So hop on over there and take a look.
As has been widely reported, Patrick O’Keeffe took home the $20,000 Story Prize on Wednesday night, for The Hill Road. The other finalists were Jim Harrison for The Summer He Didn’t Die and Maureen F. McHugh for Mothers & Other Monsters. More at the Guardian.
“As far as I’m concerned, everybody in America should read Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by Luis Alberto Urrea. It strips the ugly political rhetoric around immigration and reveals the very human face of this issue. The book came out in 1993, but I think it’s more relevant today than when it was published. More than sociopolitical analysis, though, Urrea has created a heartbreaking, tough and compelling narrative in this collection of essays. (Try to read the section titled “Father’s Day” without crying. I dare you.) This work is a testament to survival, and to hope, but never becomes sentimental. Urrea is a storyteller to be envied and emulated.”
Samantha Dunn is the author of Failing Paris, a finalist for the PEN West Fiction Award in 2000, and the memoir, Not By Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life, a BookSense 76 pick. Her most recent memoir, Faith in Carlos Gomez: A Memoir of Salsa, Sex and Salvation, is published by Henry Holt & Co.
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Finalists for the 2005 Story Prize have been announced. They are Jim Harrison (The Summer He Didn’t Die), Maureen F. McHugh (Mothers and Other Monsters), and Patrick O’Keeffe (The Hill Road). The award will be judged by Andrea Barrett, Nancy Pearl, and James Wood; the ceremony will take place on January 25, in New York. Last year’s prize went to Edwidge Danticat for The Dew Breaker.