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“Filthy Animals,” by Brandon Taylor (Riverhead)Brandon Taylor’s “Filthy Animals,” a book of interconnected short stories, is a chronicle of pain, identity, recovery and the desperation we all feel for human connection.A depressed and lonely man recovering from a suicide attempt finds himself caught in a love triangle with two dancers in an open relationship; a group of teenagers unable to control their emotions resort to brutal violence against one another; a young woman battles a terrifying

Klaris Law, a boutique media, entertainment, technology, and intellectual property firm based in New York, announced today that Nevin Law Group, a Broadway production law practice, will join its team. Nevin Law Group Founder Doug Nevin has been named partner and head of the newly-formed Theater and Live Events department at Klaris.

NEW YORK -- Brandon Taylor's “Filthy Animals” has won the Story Prize, a $20,000 honor for collections of short fiction.“Taylor is incredibly attuned to the slightest shift in the emotional weather in his characters and writes with absolute precision and compassion about their desires, vulnerabilities, failings, joys, and longings," prize judges wrote in a statement Wednesday. “His careful attention makes these very ordinary people extraordinary.

NEW YORK -- Short story collections by Lily King, J. Robert Lennon and Brandon Taylor are finalists for a $20,000 award.Officials for the Story Prize announced Tuesday, given for outstanding short fiction, were King's “Five Tuesdays in Winter,” Lennon's “Let Me Think” and Brandon Taylor's “Filthy Animals.”“By virtue of their skillful, bold, and distinctive storytelling, these three books stood out from the deepest pool of quality story collections we’ve ever read,” Larry Dark, director of The Story Prize, said in a statement.The winner will be announced April 13.

NEW YORK -- Fiction by Garth Greenwell and Douglas Stuart and nonfiction by author-comedian Samantha Irby are among this year's nominees for the Lambda Literary Awards, given for the best of LGBTQ writing.Greenwell's “Cleanness” and Stuart's “Shuggie Bain,” winner of the Booker Prize last fall, are contenders for best gay fiction, along with Joon Oluchi Lee's “Neotenica,” Brandon Taylor's “Real Life” and Dennis E.

LONDON -- Booker Prize judges are meeting Thursday to pick a winner of the prestigious literary award, choosing from a six-book list that's both U.S.-dominated and strikingly diverse.Five of the books competing for the 50,000 pound ($66,000) prize are by American or U.S.-based authors, including “The Shadow King,” the story of an orphan in Ethiopia by Maaza Mengiste; Diane Cook’s dystopian tale “The New Wilderness,” Avni Doshi’s India-set mother-daughter saga “Burnt Sugar" and Brandon Taylor’s