The National Book Foundation named their list of 5 Under 35 honorees Thursday morning: Brit Bennett, The Mothers (Riverhead) Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (Knopf) Greg Jackson, Prodigals (FSG) S. Li, Transoceanic Flights (Harvard Square Editions) Thomas Pierce, Hall of Small Mammals (Riverhead) The Aspen Institute is launching a $35,000 annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, recognizing “an influential work […]