August 15, 2013 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Tony D'Souza (Ivory Coast 2000-02, Madagascar 2002-03) ) on Short List for $50,000 Literary Prize

Aug 15 2013

Jurors for the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize have narrowed the more than 170 submissions down to a short list of five novels competing for the biannual award, one of the richest in the United States. The books and authors are: Carry the One (Simon & Schuster), by Carol Anshaw The Middlesteins (Grand Central Publishing), by Jami Attenberg Mule (Mariner Books), by Tony D’Souza (Ivory Coast 2000-02, Madagascar 2002-03) The Right-Hand Shore (Picador), by Christopher Tilghman Dirt (Harper Perennial), by David Vann The winner will be announced at the opening gala for the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21. “It’s a prize that has no parallel really among existing literary prizes and comes at a perfect time in a writer’s career,” said Jonathan Dee, a member of the jury and winner of the second Literary Prize for his novel, The Privileges. “There’s a lot of attention when you make your debut. . . .

Self-Published Books Wins PEN Award

Aug 15 2013

The novel A Naked Singularity written, and self-published, by a Manhattan public defender in 2008 has just won the $25,000 W. Bingham Prize given by PEN. The book had been rejected by mainstream publishers before being self-published, and then four years later republished by the academic press of the University of Chicago. So, perhaps, there is hope for all of us who self-publish. The plot of A Naked Singularity is this: It tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender–one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack–and how his world then slowly devolves. It’s a huge, ambitious novel clearly in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, and it’s told in . . .

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