Ann Patchett News
-
At the beginning, Renee Fleming’s career shot up in a vertical line. At this stage, the soprano said during a lunch, it’s broadening out horizontally. She demonstrated with a graceful wave of her arms.
-
On a Lincoln Center stage more accustomed to operatic divas, last night J.K. Rowling sat wearing a slim black dress with a pointy white collar and talked about her new book, “The Casual Vacancy.”
-
In “State of Wonder,” Ann Patchett returns to the tropical setting of her best-known novel, “Bel Canto,” and delivers another entrancing, ambitious tale.
-
One-time winner Ann Patchett and debut novelist Madeline Miller are finalists in the Orange Prize for Fiction, whose winner takes home 30,000 pounds ($47,850) and a bronze statuette called “the Bessie.”
-
The Pulitzer Prize Board had three fiction finalists to choose from, and they couldn’t manage to pick a winner.
-
Madeline Miller has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for “The Song of Achilles,” a novel set during the Trojan War which casts the Homeric hero’s relationship with his friend Patroclus as a love story.
-
Our favorite nonfiction books of the year travel through history from ancient Rome to the U.S. Civil War, while in fiction Stephen King sends a Maine schoolteacher back to 1958 to try to save John F. Kennedy’s life. (A separate list of the year’s top business books appeared yesterday.)
-
Renee Fleming has steered clear of the Baden-Baden casino, popular with tourists in the elegant southern German spa resort.
|
|
Most Popular on Bloomberg
|
| |
Rate this Page