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Here are the finalists for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Here are the finalists for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

By Brittany Allen | March 4, 2025

Here’s the 2024 shortlist for the Dos Passos prize.

Here’s the 2024 shortlist for the Dos Passos prize.

By James Folta | November 26, 2024

Luis Alberto Urrea on How 'Team Urrea' Help Him Craft His Novels

Luis Alberto Urrea on How 'Team Urrea' Help Him Craft His Novels

First Draft Podcast">In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | August 7, 2023

Luis Alberto Urrea on Family Stories and the Work of Witnessing

Luis Alberto Urrea on Family Stories and the Work of Witnessing

“We carry inside us a theater, a library, a storehouse of quotidian detail that becomes heroic and eternal by the force of our art.”

By Luis Alberto Urrea | June 2, 2023

23 new books out today!

23 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 30, 2023

Luis Alberto Urrea on Creating Fiction From Family History

Luis Alberto Urrea on Creating Fiction From Family History

Good Night, Irene">Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Good Night, Irene

By Jane Ciabattari | May 30, 2023

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Good Night, Irene.">Cover reveal: See the cover for Luis Alberto Urrea's Good Night, Irene.

By Literary Hub | October 21, 2022

Growing Up Chicago.">COVER REVEAL: Northwestern University Press’s collection Growing Up Chicago.

By Literary Hub | November 29, 2021

Survival Dictionary: The Book that Helped Me Define the Terms of My Adoption Memoir

By Jan Beatty | November 3, 2021

A new literary prize in honor of Ursula K. Le Guin will recognize

A new literary prize in honor of Ursula K. Le Guin will recognize "realists of a larger reality."

By Emily Temple | October 21, 2021

At the Intersection of Journalism and Memoir: A Reading List

At the Intersection of Journalism and Memoir: A Reading List

Daisy Hernández on the Six Books That Helped Her Find the Way She Needed to Write

By Daisy Hernández | June 2, 2021

31 Books in 30 Days: Tom Beer on Luis Alberto Urrea

31 Books in 30 Days: Tom Beer on Luis Alberto Urrea

Counting Down the 2018 NBCC Prize Nominees

By Literary Hub | February 27, 2019

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Teddy Wayne Talks Inspiration, Craft, and Dream Jobs

By Teddy Wayne | March 13, 2018

10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

Object Lessons in Vicarious Reading

By Emily Temple | September 6, 2017

100 Books Across America: Fiction and Nonfiction for Every State in the Union

100 Books Across America: Fiction and Nonfiction for Every State in the Union

A Reading List for Your Last-Second Literary Road Trip

By Emily Temple | August 23, 2017

Celebrating Literature & Interrogating American Dreams in Sin City

Celebrating Literature & Interrogating American Dreams in Sin City

The Believer and Black Mountain Institute's Inaugural Festival">A Report from The Believer and Black Mountain Institute's Inaugural Festival

By Melissa Ximena Golebiowski | May 9, 2017