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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Rita Bullwinkel |Percival L. Everett |Maura Cheeks |Lily Williams
Alta Journal’s California Book ClubThe book: Headshot by Rita BullwinkelOur reviewer says: “The smashing debut novel from Bullwinkel takes the measure of eight teenage girls as they compete at a boxing tournament in Reno, Nev.” Read more.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | Percival L. Everett |Niall Williams |Rita Bullwinkel |Amor Towles
By Percival Everett It was a big year for the writer whose publisher used to be Minnesota-based Graywolf Press. "Erasure," which Graywolf released before Everett's move to Doubleday, was adapted for the movie "American Fiction," winning an Oscar for screenwriter Cord Jefferson. And then came "James," a spin on "Huckleberry Finn" that does just about everything a novel can do.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
time.com | Shannon Carlin |Rita Bullwinkel
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Shannon CarlinNovember 13, 2024 8:21 AM ESTRita Bullwinkel’s bold debut novel, Headshot, takes readers inside a run-down boxing ring in Reno, Nev., where eight young women compete for the Daughters of America Cup.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
centerforfiction.org | Rita Bullwinkel |Ruthvika Rao |Mai Sennaar |Clare Sestanovich
Vijaya and Sree are the daughters of the Deshmukhs of Irumi. Hailing from a lineage of ancestral aristocrats, their family’s social status and power over villagers on their land is absolute. Krishna and Ranga, brothers, are the sons of a widowed servant in the Deshmukh household. When Vijaya and Krishna meet, they forge an intense bond that is beautiful and dangerous.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | McSweeney's Publishing |Sam Sax |Rita Bullwinkel
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
indiatodayne.in | Colin Barrett |Rita Bullwinkel |Percival L. Everett |Samantha Harvey
Credit: TheBookerPrizes/Instagram Wild Houses by Colin Barrett Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel James by Percival Everett Orbital by Samantha Harvey Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner My Friends by Hisham Matar This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange Enlightenment by Sarah Perry Playground by Richard Powers The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Related Stories...
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Colin Barrett |Rita Bullwinkel |Hisham Matar
The 2024 longlist for the Booker Prize – the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction – is announced. The longlist of 13 books – the ‘Booker Dozen’ – has been chosen by the 2024 judging panel and features blackly comic page-turners, multigenerational epics, meditations on the pain of exile – plus a crime caper, a spy thriller, an unflinching account of girls’ boxing and a reimagining of a 19th-century classic.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Colin Barrett |Rita Bullwinkel |Percival L. Everett |Samantha Harvey
The announcement of the 2024 longlist of the Booker prize is all but guaranteed to reignite the perennial row about opening up Britain’s premier literary prize to Americans. Six out of 13 longlisted authors are American, leaving room for only three from Britain and one from Ireland. There are no writers from the Indian subcontinent, Caribbean or Africa, excepting the British-Libyan writer Hisham Matar.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Colin Barrett |Charlotte Wood |Rita Bullwinkel |Percival L. Everett
From funny books to thrilling books, fresh voices to Booker Prize veterans, here’s the lowdown on this year’s longlist Written by Paul Davies Publication date and time: Published July 30, 20241 Fresh voices and first-timers Three books on the longlist are debut novels – Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel, The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden and Wild Houses by Colin Barrett.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Colin Barrett |Rita Bullwinkel |Percival L. Everett |Samantha Harvey
The 2024 longlist for the Booker Prize – the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction – is announced today, Tuesday, July 30, 2024The longlist of 13 books – the ‘Booker Dozen’ – has been chosen by the 2024 judging panel. The panel is chaired by artist and author Edmund de Waal,who is joined by award-winning novelist Sara Collins; Fiction Editor of the Guardian, Justine Jordan; world-renowned writer and professor Yiyun Li; and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney.
