Jonathan Escoffery

Nov 25, 2024 | bibliosurf.com | Jonathan Escoffery

« T’es quoi, au juste ?Cette question, on te la posera tout au long du collège et du lycée, puis, une fois jeté dans le monde, dans les clubs de striptease, les restaurants, au téléphone et dans les divers métiers ingrats que tu exerceras. »Trop noir pour être Latino, pas assez pour être Jamaïcain : Trelawny, qui a grandi aux États-Unis après que ses parents ont quitté Kingston, n’entre dans aucune case. Au sein de cette Amérique où l’on prête serment à la bannière étoilée, il reste un étranger.

Dec 23, 2023 | theguardian.com | Jonathan Escoffery

It’s only on occasion nowadays, and mostly because Christmas obligations are boring holes in his savings, that Nathan still drives for the rideshare companies. As the unpartnered, child-free sibling – of four – and as the one who hasn’t moved back to South Florida since college, it’s on him to buy the airline ticket home each year, and on him to rent the car, if he doesn’t want to be stranded at his parents’ house in the suburbs through the new year. Then there are the gifts.

Nov 28, 2023 | dublinliteraryaward.ie | Emma Donoghue |Jonathan Escoffery |Sebastian Barry |Alexis Wright

Discover the 2024 Longlist, featuring 6 books nominated by 6 libraries from 6 countries around the world. Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and No One Told Me Not To. He won a PEN Translates grant for his translation of The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae and a PEN/Heim grant for Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny (shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize).

Nov 25, 2023 | fivebooks.com | Paul Lynch |Paul Murray |Jonathan Escoffery |Chetna Maroo

This year’s Booker Prize judging panel was headed by Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan, a past Five Books interviewee who has herself been twice-shortlisted for the prize. She was assisted by the actress Adjoa Andoh, poet and critic Mary Jean Chan, the Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, and the actor Robert Webb. Here’s a brief round-up of the six books they have selected as the best novels of 2023.

Nov 18, 2023 | theguardian.com | Paul Murray |Chetna Maroo |Paul Lynch |Jonathan Escoffery |Sarah Bernstein |Paul Harding

Paul MurrayThe Bee Sting(Hamish Hamilton) Photograph: Patrick Bolger/The ObserverI started writing The Bee Sting at the end of 2017. I’d spent the previous 18 months working on a screenplay and I was aching to get back to the freedom and possibility of a novel. But for a long time I couldn’t decide what to write. I had three very different ideas and I started making notes for each one: blocking out scenes, tracing character arcs, all that.