Jesmyn Ward's 'Let Us Descend' is among the finalists for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Jesmyn Wardโs slave narrative โLet Us Descendโ and Jake Bittleโs exploration of climate changeโs impact โThe Great Displacementโ are among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in fiction and nonfiction.
Authors Jesmyn Ward and James McBride are among the nominees for the 10th annual Kirkus Prizes
Novels by Jesmyn Ward and James McBride and story collections by Jamal Brinkley and Kelly Link are among the finalists for the Kirkus Prizes, for which winners in fiction, nonfiction and young readerโs literature each receive $50,000.
Everyone invited: `Great Gatsby' copyright to end in 2021
NEW YORK, N.Y. โ For decades, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan and other characters from โThe Great Gatsbyโ have been as real to millions of readers as people in their own lives, exemplars and victims of the American pursuit of wealth and status. No longer will you need to permission to write a sequel, a prequel, a Jay Gatsby detective novel or a Gatsby narrative populated with Zombies. It was published in 1925 by Scribner and remains a Scribner book, though now part of Simon & Schuster. She called Fitzgerald's novel โincredibly visual," and was struck by his sense of detail, whether describing cars, emotions or economic status. Fitzgerald's novel has been used in other art forms.