Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Sunday, October 9, 2022
2022 Nobel Prize for Literature
Do you find it fishy that Salman Rushdie did not win the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature? In fact, the Swedish Academy chose the knitting needle over the knife as their writing utensil, so to speak, if I heard correctly as a radio program discussed Nobel prizewinner Annie Ernaux's memoir of seeking an abortion in France in the early 1960s. It's worth noting, of course, that the decision could have been made well before Rushdie was nearly murdered on stage in a savage attack.