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Douglas Stuart, author of JOHN OF JOHN

Podcast: Writers on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers · Marrie Stone

Opublikowano: 2026-06-29

Douglas Stuart is one of those unicorn authors who seemed to have appeared out of thin air and took the literary world by storm. His 2019 debut novel, Shuggie Bain, would be rejected 44 times before winning the Booker Prize, becoming a finalist for the National Book Award and being named the Sunday Time’s 25 Best Novels of the 21st Century. Then would come Young Mungo in 2022, which sealed Douglas’s standing as a literary genius. He has since been published in the New Yorker at least three times. John of John came out in May. It was an insta...