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    • ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/howwhy-fungames/fun-games/feed 0     Luminarium – Winner http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-winner http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-winner#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:25:59 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=918 Luminarium has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction:

    “Bold, ambitious, and dazzling with ideas and narrative energy, Luminarium is a novel that refuses to settle for contrivance as it goes after the hard truths of family life, technology, culture, and urban experience.  It is a work that demands and rewards a reader’s full engagement.  Alex Shakar’s many-chambered novel leaves us changed for good.”  –2011 Fiction Judges

    ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-winner/feed 0     Chicago http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/chicago-2 http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/chicago-2#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:49:41 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=915 Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 7:30PM

    Reading at Tuesday Funk series upstairs at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark, with Samantha Irby, Kristin Lueke, Jennifer Schaefer, and Dion Walton

    ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/chicago-2/feed 0     Los Angeles http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/los-angeles-2 http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/los-angeles-2#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:44:15 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=912 Saturday, April 21, 2012, 11:00 AM

    Panel Discussion at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, with Matt Ruff and James Wallenstein, moderated by Mary Otis.

    ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/los-angeles-2/feed 0     Luminarium – Flavorwire Recommended Reading http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-flavorwire-recommended-reading http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-flavorwire-recommended-reading#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:00:09 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=908 “Luminarium is a sprawling, brilliant look at the globally interconnected world we live in, and the protagonist, Fred Brounian, is a wonderful guide to it — a lovable Eeyore of a guy just trying to find a few answers (or at least figure out the right questions). I loved this one—maybe last year’s most ambitious novel, and certainly one of the strangest.” — Sarah Reidy, Other Press

    ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-flavorwire-recommended-reading/feed 0     Luminarium – Finalist http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-finalist http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-finalist#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:59:41 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=900 Luminarium has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

    ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-finalist/feed 0     Cleveland, OH http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/cleveland-oh http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/cleveland-oh#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:44:30 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=897 Thursday, March 29, 6:30PM

    Reading at Visible Voice Books, 1023 Kenilworth

    ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/cleveland-oh/feed 0     Chicago, IL – AWP http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/chicago-il-awp http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/chicago-il-awp#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:38:35 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=895 Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30-5:45 PM

    Reading at the AWP Conference, with Philip Graham and John Warner, Hilton Chicago Private Dining Rm 2, 3rd floor.

    ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/whenwhere/chicago-il-awp/feed 0     Luminarium – Best Books of 2011 http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-best-books-of-2011-4 http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-best-books-of-2011-4#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:08:56 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=873 Luminarium has been included in the Austin Chronicle’s roundup, “The Year in Books: Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year.”

    ]]>     http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-best-books-of-2011-4/feed 0     Luminarium – Favorite Novels of 2011: “Most Metaphysical” http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-favorite-novels-of-2011-most-metaphysical http://alexshakar.com/home/luminarium-favorite-novels-of-2011-most-metaphysical#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:59:23 +0000 alex http://alexshakar.com/?p=871 Luminarium has made Washington Post reviewer Ron Charles’ Top Ten Novels list for 2011.

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