Whiting Foundation Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"I'm not the only one to rave about this book. @rgay calls it a 'really tight collection of poems.'" For @NPR's @wbaaradio, Nick Schenkel reviews the poetry collection GUILLOTINE by Whiting Award winner @EduardoCCorral. https://t.co/KFjJzGDzzn https://t.co/ZlS1B4dOkh

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"It's about a woman from one world who takes a younger lover from another and the transformation that happens to her and all the people around her as a result." For @TODAYshow, Whiting Award winner @lilykingbooks recommends FREE LOVE by Tessa Hadley. https://t.co/xL0KVJ65BV https://t.co/xXX28MBGTz

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"She can be both metaphysical and full of human emotion – often, the two at once." For the @guardian, @FionaRSampson reviews the poetry collection IT MUST BE A MISUNDERSTANDING by Carol Bracho, translated by Whiting Award winner Forrest Gander @Carcanet. https://t.co/cColtvkBmQ https://t.co/uLog0M3Sll

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"It’s a magnificent new book from a gifted writer at the height of his powers." https://buff.ly/33CG29i @PressIndigoThe will publish The Consequences: Stories by Whiting Award winner Manuel Muñoz this October. Pre-order the book here https://buff.ly/3InvklW https://t.co/cUukXTFfjH

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It may be 2023, but @bookshop_org_UK's 2022 Year in Review (including EITHER/OR by Whiting winner Elif Batuman!) still makes for an excellent reading list: https://t.co/hLo1swTT9J

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In the @nytimes, Alice Elliott Dark shares her Whiting Award-filled reading list: THE NINTH HOUR by Alice McDermott @PicadorUSA, CROSSROADS by Jonathan Franzen @fsgbooks, TRUST by Hernan Diaz @riverheadbooks, "Lawns" by @_MonaSimpson @IowaReview, and more. https://buff.ly/3akoC4G https://t.co/7uuskbexqU

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For @lithub, Whiting Award winner @TeddyWayne1999 interviews Michael Bourne (BLITHEDALE CANYON), @keithgessen (RAISING RAFFI: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS), Ashley Hutson (ONE'S COMPANY), @leilamottley (NIGHTCRAWLING), and Jules Ohman (BODY GRAMMAR). https://t.co/nR3n2eW5Q0 https://t.co/3GYsQTSpfu

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"There’s no doubting and no escaping the joyful, hopeful spirit that inhabits THE POET'S HOUSE." For the @washingtonpost, Whiting Award winner Ellen Akins reviews Jean Thompson’s new novel @AlgonquinBooks. https://t.co/DbENkF1UWj https://t.co/GQt2H5cCu1

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"I finished the book and then just played video games and barbecued for six weeks... that's how I came back into myself." For @nprfreshair, Terry Gross interviews Whiting Award winner @colsonwhitehead about his novel HARLEM SHUFFLE, now out in paperback. https://t.co/SPBmGJf9bf https://t.co/TcfaByRY7R

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"Greenidge’s novel quietly and insistently critiques any notion of striving that comes at the stake of authentic personal inquiry, and which disempowers or marginalizes Black women." @nielaorr on LIBERTIE by Whiting winner @surlybassey, via @believermag https://buff.ly/3iYt21B

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