Alexandra Alter
Publishing Reporter at The New York Times
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4 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Alexandra Alter
20 hours agoJudge dismisses suit of ex-janitor who says he invented Flamin’ Hot CheetosRichard Montañez’s rags-to-riches story remains in dispute after a judge ruled in favor of Frito-Lay and PepsiCo, but he has a chance to amend his case.
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4 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Alexandra Alter
Molly Jong-Fast's unsparing account of her famous mother's decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables. Ever since she was a child, Molly Jong-Fast has struggled with the disorienting feeling that there are two versions of her. There's her real self, then there's her literary doppelgänger, the Molly-like character who crops up frequently in her mother Erica Jong's memoirs and novels.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Alexandra Alter
Only by writing could the acclaimed novelist Yiyun Li grapple with the suicides of her two sons. But her new book is no ordinary grief memoir. When four police officers arrived at Yiyun Li's home in Princeton, N.J., late on a Friday afternoon last February, she didn't wait for instructions to sit down. As soon as the detective spoke - "There is no good way to say this" - she sank into a chair in her living room, gesturing for her husband to join her.
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1 month ago |
estadao.com.br | Alexandra Alter
Quando o romance James,de Percival Everett, ganhou o Prêmio Pulitzer de ficção na segunda-feira, 5, pareceu uma escolha óbvia. A reimaginação subversiva de Everett do clássico americano Huckleberry Finn já havia recebido aclamação crítica e uma sequência de honrarias literárias, incluindo o National Book Award e o Prêmio Kirkus. (A obra acaba de chegar às livrarias brasileiras pela editora Todavia).
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1 month ago |
straitstimes.com | Alexandra Alter
NEW YORK - When American author Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on May 5, it seemed like an obvious choice. Everett’s subversive reimagining of the 1884 Mark Twain classic, Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, had already landed critical acclaim and a string of literary honours, including the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize in the United States. But it turns out that James was not the top pick among the Pulitzer’s five fiction jury members.
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