Featured Author : Chang-rae Lee

 

Chang-rae Lee

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Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, and Aloft. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

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The New York Times on Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered

“With The Surrendered, Lee has written the most ambitious and compelling novel of his already impressive career — a symphonic work that reprises the themes of identity, familial legacies and the imperatives of fate he has addressed in earlier works, but which he grapples with here on a broader, more intricate historical canvas. . . . It is a gripping and fiercely imagined work that burrows deep into the dark heart of war, leaving us with a choral portrait of the human capacity for both barbarism and transcendence.” more...

The Louisville Courier-Journal Talks to Erik Reece

The Louisville Courier-Journal spends time with Erik Reece, author of An American Gospel (now available in paperback), and sees how how he runs his creative writing class at the University of Kentucky. Today's class topic: creative nonfiction. Reece asks his students to look for the ideas behind a place, as Reece does so successfully in An American Gospel.

Entertainment Weekly on Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered

“[Lee] writes dense and gorgeous prose...[he] shows great tenderness for his [characters], even as he refuses them easy redemption. The final paragraph of his beautiful and tragic novel is as sublime and transcendent as any I can remember. A” more...

Daniel H. Pink on CNN.com

Pink lays out some of the principles in Drive and offers practical examples of how you can get a start on better motivating yourself and those around you. Learn more about Drive, fed-ex days, and finding your sentence here. Plus, check out his conversation with Diane Sawyer in this video.

O Magazine on Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered

Chang-rae Lee’s The Surrendered continues to rake in the praise. In addition to a starred Kirkus and fantastic Publishers Weekly reviews, O, The Oprah Magazine raves that The Surrendered is “a landmark novel about love and war...The plot is complex, as Lee (the author, most recently, of Aloft) raises profound questions about the role of fate, accident, and choice in every life....impossible to put down.” more...

Malcolm Gladwell Chooses Daniel H. Pink’s Drive for The New Yorker Book Club

As a part of The New Yorker’s Book Club, Malcolm Gladwell has selected the March pick: Drive by Daniel H. Pink. Gladwell claims, "[Pink] tackles the question of what motivates people to do innovative work, and his jumping-off point is the academic work done over the past few decades that consistently shows that financial rewards hinder creativity. These studies have been around for a while. But Pink follows though on their implications in a way that is provocative and fascinating.” Be on the look out for live discussions and reactions from other New Yorker staff writers and contributors. Read an interview with Daniel H. Pink here.

Walter Mosley Wins NAACP Image Award

Walter Mosley’s The Long Fall won the NAACP Award for a work of literary fiction! And Tyler Perry was honored with the Chairman’s Award for his philanthropy and career achievements. The NAACP Image Awards is the nation's premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts, as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. See the other winners here.

The Boston Globe Talks to Paula Butturini

In Keeping the Feast, Paula Butturini celebrates the role food and its pleasures played in her family’s recovery. She talks to The Boston Globe about the importance of sitting down at the table for meals, her love for Julia Child, and what she would serve at a VIP dinner.

Time Magazine on Judith Warner’s We’ve Got Issues

“In this impassioned book, the author argues that childhood mental illness is real, widespread and painful to families caught in its grip.” more...