The Swedish Academy sends out thousands of invitations each year for professors and others in the literary world to nominate writers for the prize in a secretive and precise process.
“I love it when I don’t have any plans the next day and end up reading until daybreak because I can’t sleep,” says the author, whose new novel is “The Premonition.” “It’s the best feeling.”
For 12 years, Yiyun Li taught her writing students a story by Amy Bloom about the power, and limitations, of love. Confronting unbearable grief, she returned to it.
Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time immemorial, says Debra Magpie Earling, one of its writers. Here, she recommends her favorites.
Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn” and Robert D. Kaplan’s “The Loom of Time” consider protest movements of the past and the drive for democracy in countries like Egypt, Syria and Iraq.
