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PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2018

04 April 2018

Improvement - Joan Silber

PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2018

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Winner

Improvement

Joan Silber

Finalists

In the Distance

Hernan Diaz
The Dark Dark
Stories

Samantha Hunt
The Tower of the Antilles

Achy Obejas
Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

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Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
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Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP

Trending Works

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Rule of Two Walls David Gutnik
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Dunya Mustafa
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh Colwill Brown
The Pass John Donnelly
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K Bernardo Kucinski
Sins of the Leopard James Brookes
Pigeon Alys Conran
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