The bust-filled second floor at the Center for Fiction was at capacity last Thursday to hear a reading by Atticus Lish—an ex-Marine, a translator of technical Chinese texts, and now one of the most ...

In 2014, Atticus Lish’s debut novel, “Preparation for the Next Life,” was published by a small press. Moving and often haunting, it told the story of a traumatized veteran and an undocumented ...

Atticus Lish has won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his first novel, Preparations for the Next Life. He will take home $15,000, and each of the four finalists—Jeffery Renard Allen, ...

When Atticus Lish published his 2014 novel “Preparation for the Next Life,” it was both a surprise…and somehow not. In his early 40s at the time, Lish had already confounded expectations by dropping ...

Atticus Lish's second novel, The War For Gloria, is an ambitious book with a lot to say about family loyalty and love. The War For Gloria follows the author's impressive debut, Preparation for the ...

Atticus Lish's debut novel, Preparation for the Next Life (Tyrant Books), won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for First Fiction, demonstrating that he waited 40 years to become a natural. He reveals his ...

Atticus Lish’s “Preparation for the Next Life” got the kind of reception that first-time novelists only dream about. The gritty debut novel, set in the violent, dangerous margins of New York City, was ...

Atticus Lish’s second novel, “The War for Gloria,” is a book about men. To say that about a book in 2021 implies certain things. That perhaps it’s a lyrical critique of machismo or a meditation on the ...

The American award winner brings his laser-like focus to the story of a teen and his terminally ill mother Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or motor neurone disease, is a condition of unknown cause that ...

Atticus Lish's debut novel "Preparation for the Next Life" has already been drawing raves from critics. It centers around an unlikely romance between Skinner, a veteran of the war in Iraq, and Zou Lei ...