Joshua Ferris

The 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize, open to authors under 39 who have had a work published in English and dubbed “The World’s Largest Literary Prize for Young Writers,” has been awarded in the centenary year of the Welsh poet’s birth to an American author. Perhaps fittingly given the significance that New York had to Dylan […]

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Karen Joy Fowler and Joshua Ferris are among five Americans who have made it onto the longlist of the Man Booker Prize, which for the first time is open to writers from beyond Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth.

The longlist, which also has six books written by Britons, was announced on Wednesday by the administrators of the prize. The other Americans nominated are Siri Hustvedt, Richard Powers and Joseph O'Neill, an Irish-born writer now living in New York.

You can get some free writing advice from the great David Foster Wallace while working on your computer.

Every Mac computer contains a copy of the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, a powerful tool for writers that features extra “word notes” from Wallace and a number of other authors, including Rae Armantrout, Joshua Ferris, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith and Simon Winchester.

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