Jhumpa Lahiri's career should have been doomed as soon as she won the Pulitzer Prize for her first published book, the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. But her subsequent releases have found her unmoored by the attention and expectations that met her debut effort, and
Lloyd Newson is a dancer/choreographer, who has been the Director of DV8 Physical Theatre since 1986. His work for both stage and film has received major acclaim. His work mixes dance, text, theatre and film. His most recent work, "To Be Straight With You" (2008/2009) is more text-based than
Two published novels and several short stories into his career, Joshua Ferris has staked a unique place in American literature as a writer whose works re-explore and dismantle otherwise familiar terrain – workplace politics, disease, family dynamics – through experimentation of form. &