LOT de Bryan Washington remporte le Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literacy Excellence 2019 !

Bryan Washington s’est vu décerner le prix Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literacy Excellence pour son recueil de nouvelles LOT.

« The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is a prize given […] to recognize outstanding work from promising African-American fiction writers, while honoring the late Louisiana native Ernest Gaines’ extraordinary contribution to the literary world » (Publishers Weekly).

Bryan Washington est déjà lauréat du O. Henry Prize 2019, ainsi que du prix 5 Under 35 2019 de la National Book Foundation, qui distingue chaque année cinq auteurs de moins de 35 ans.

LOT est paru en mars 2019 chez Riverhead, qui publiera également le premier roman de Bryan Washington, MEMORIAL, en octobre 2020. Les droits de langue française des deux titres sont toujours disponibles.

THE SUSPECT de Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen adapté au cinéma par Clint Eastwood

THE SUSPECT: An Olympic Bombing, The FBI, The Media and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle paraîtra le 12 novembre 2019 chez Abrams. L’adaptation cinéma, Richard Jewell, sortira en salle le 13 décembre 2019 aux États-Unis et le 22 janvier 2020 en France (sous le titre Le cas Richard Jewell, date à confirmer).

Clint Eastwood raconte la saga tragique de Richard Jewell, l’agent de sécurité salué comme un héros avant de devenir le principal suspect dans l’attentat terroriste perpétré lors des Jeux olympiques d’Atlanta en 1996. Paul Walter Hauser joue le rôle de Jewell dans une distribution exceptionnelle aux côtés de Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm et Olivia Wilde.

Les droits de langue française pour THE SUSPECT sont toujours disponibles.

Une deuxième saison pour la série MODERN LOVE

La première saison de MODERN LOVE, huit des histoires les plus mémorables publiées dans la chronique « Modern Love » du New York Times, a été diffusée sur Amazon Prime Video il y a quelques semaines, et a reçu un si bon accueil que la série a été renouvelée pour une deuxième saison !

Une nouvelle édition de l’ouvrage dirigé par Daniel Jones, MODERN LOVE: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption, a été publiée en septembre 2019 chez Broadway Books. Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.

WIE WIR MENSCHEN WURDEN de Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun et Florian Breier

Spectacular finds throw a new light on the history of human evolution

WIE WIR MENSCHEN WURDEN
(How We Became Human)
by Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, & Florian Breier
Heyne/Random House Germany, November 2019

A criminalistic search for clues of the origins of humanity

The cradle of humanity is in Africa – for a long time this was the incontrovertible truth. In recent years, however, ever more bones have been found that chronologically and geographically do not fit into the picture: archaeologists have found numerous fossils in Europe of early ancestors of present-day apes from which later the human line of evolution emerged. The latest of those findings: the Danuvius guggenmosi, an ape with arms suited to hanging in trees but human-like legs.
In the renowned Nature magazine, Madelaine Böhme and her team just published their research article on this new fossil ape and how it changes the previously applied models of the evolution of bipedalism. These approximately 11.6-million-year-old fossils suggest a form of locomotion that might push back the timeline for when walking on two feet evolved and extend the theory for a common ancestor of great apes and humans. In her book, Böhme and her team describe their paradigm-changing findings and bring to life the fascinating world of our earliest ancestors. A truly absorbing scientific crime story!

Madelaine Böhme, geo-scientist and palaeontologist, is professor of terrestrial palaeoclimatology at the University of Tübingen and founding director of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment. She is one of the most esteemed palaeoclimatologists and palaeoenvironmental scientists examining human evolution with regard to changes in climate and environment.
Rüdiger Braun is a science journalist and contributes to Stern and Geo.
Florian Breier is a science journalist and works as a filmmaker and author for ZDF television, arte, SWR broadcasting and others.

SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ALI GREENLEAF de Hayley Krischer

For fans of Rory Power and Laurie Halse Anderson, this sharp, emotional debut follows Ali, a high school junior reeling from a recent sexual assault, and Blythe, a popular senior—and the rapist’s longtime friend—who tries to gain Ali’s trust in hopes of dissuading her from turning him in.

SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ALI GREENLEAF
by Hayley Krischer
Razorbill, October 2020

Ali Greenleaf and Blythe Jensen couldn’t be more different. Ali is sweet, bitingly funny, and just a little naive. Blythe is beautiful, terrifying, and the most popular girl in school. At a party one night, the girls’ lives collide when Ali decides she’ll finally make her move on Sean Nessel, the hottest guy in school, her longtime crush, and Blythe’s best friend. But when Sean pushes Ali farther than she wants to go, she is forced to confront a horrible truth—Sean raped her.
Afraid for his reputation and his future, Sean begs Blythe to convince Ali that he didn’t do anything wrong. Blythe complies because, as much as she tries to deny it, she’s been in love with Sean for years. She tries to befriend Ali, inviting her to the exclusive senior bathroom, letting her hang out with her gang of ruthless popular girls, and sharing her own dark secrets. But getting closer to Ali also digs up memories of the sexual assault Blythe experienced during an elite « initiation » she was part of as a freshman—one she’s expected to carry on as a senior.
In the aftermath of what happened at the party that night, Ali and Blythe must navigate tumultuous relationships, the effects of trauma, and what empowerment means to them.

Hayley Krischer is a writer and journalist. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, where she covers women, teenage girls, celebrities, and cultural trends. Her work has also appeared in Marie Claire, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and more. She lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with her husband, two kids, one dog, and three cats.