"Against Butterflies" by Ann Lauinger (literature)
Poetry / Little Red Tree, 2013
Lauinger’s new book of poems also contains 25 full-color images taken from the “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” by the Renaissance artist Joris Hoefnagel.
"Chapel of Inadvertent Joy" by Jeffrey McDaniel (writing)
Poetry / University of Pittsburgh, 2013
Major Jackson calls McDaniel “probably the most important poet in America” and describes his work as “a fine antidote to realism.”
Cartas Extraordinarias (“Extraordinary Letters”) by Maria Negroni (Spanish)
Fiction / Alfaguara (Spain), 2013
In this series of apocryphal letters by the authors Negroni loved when, she creates a tribute to the magic of the books that constituted her first library.
La Sangre de la Aurora (“The Blood of Dawn”) by Claudia Salazar (Spanish)
Fiction / Animal de Invierno (Peru), 2013
This novel tells the stories of three women during the internal armed conflict in Peru.
"Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade" by Rachel Cohen
Biography/ Yale, 2013
When Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson.
His way of seeing helped lay foundations for the new field of art history and to build many of our most important art institutions. Cohen’s biography explores his self-transformation and the secret business dealings that led to his success.