Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 3
1997 Underworld by Don DeLillo The novel is centered on the efforts of Nick Shay, a waste management executive who grew up in the Bronx, to trace the history of the baseball that won the New York Giants the pennant in 1951, and encompasses numerous subplots drawn from American history in the second half of the twentieth century. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2013 The Forward Book of Poetry 2014 by Jeanette Winterson (UK) The Forward Book of Poetry showcases the best of contemporary poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of 2013's hotly contested Forward Poetry Prizes. 2019 Grand Union by Zadie Smith (UK) In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in ...