'After the Tall Timber' on shortlist for PEN/Diamonstein-Spielgvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Renata Adler's collection After the Tall Timber has been shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. The award is given "for a book of essays...that exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature." The winner will be announced at the 2016 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on April 11.