Announcing The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2021 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced via a YouTube livestream on Friday. Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman won the prize for fiction, and The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne took the prize for nonfiction. The committee also honored Darnella Frazier, the teen who filmed the murder of George Floyd last summer.
Phillipa Soo Talks Recording Her First Audiobook, Romance Novel The Stand-In
The Hamilton star who brought Eliza Schuyler Hamilton to life is now lending her vocal talents to audiobooks! Phillipa Soo voices The Stand-In, a new romance novel about a Chinese Canadian woman who is mistaken for a famous actress, then hired by that actress to be her stand-in at events…but things get complicated when sparks fly between her and the co-star of her new boss’s latest production. It’ll release as an Audible Original on July 15.
First Look: Noah Hawley’s Next Novel Anthem Is An Epic About Today’s America
Noah Hawley has quite the range as a writer–he’s the creator of the TV series Fargo, and he’s the author of the thriller Before the Fall. Now, he’s got a new book coming out in January called Anthem, which is about a man who breaks out of a facility in order to join a group of misfits that wants to save one of their own, set in an opioid ravaged U.S. Check out the cover and an excerpt.