Good News

October 2009 – Nami Mun receives a Whiting Award

(Select articles about the 2009 Whiting Awards in the NY Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Reader)

September 2009 – Miles from Nowhere selected as one of Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels

September 2009 – Nami Mun featured in Amazon’s Omnivoracious

July 2009 – Nami Mun named “Best New Novelist” by Chicago Magazine

July 2009 – Miles from Nowhere makes it onto Amazon’s Best Fiction of 2009 (So Far) list

April 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (UK) shortlisted for Orange Award for New Writers (Read article in the Independent)

April 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for “Spring Reading For Your Bedside Table” by KPBS.org

April 2009 - Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for “Top Shelf: Recommended Reading” by Book Passage/San Francisco Chronicle

February 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for “Adult Book Picks” by The Spartanburg Herald-Journal

February 2009 – Nami Mun featured with Kyle Beachy and Frances de Pontes Peebles in Chicago Magazine

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) reviewed by Eight Forty-Eight on Chicago Public Radio (Listen)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected by Chicago Magazine as a Noteworthy New Release (Read)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) is #4 on Denver Post’s Best-Sellers List (Read)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) is #5 on SF Chronicle’s Best-Sellers List (Read)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) reviewed in The Believer (Read)

January 2009 – Nami Mun selected as a “New Talent” in Daily Mail (UK) (Read)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) featured in Time Out Chicago (Read)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) noted in Vanity Fair (Hot Type)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) featured in Korea Daily (New York) (Read)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for Amazon’s The Significant SevenBest of the Month (Read)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) receives four stars (and a People Pick) from People Magazine

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for New Voices in USA Today (Read)

January 2009 – Miles from Nowhere (US) featured in Chicago Tribune (Read)

December 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for January 2009 Indie Next List (formerly Book Sense) (Read)

December 2008 – Nami Mun featured in Writers Recommend section of Poets & Writers (Read)

December 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for Page One in Poets & Writers (Read)

December 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (US) featured in Glamour magazine as a “Must Do” for January

December 2008 – Nami Mun featured in Amazon’s Grownup School (Read)

December 2008 – Nami Mun featured in French magazine Transfuge (Read)

October 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (FR) receives four stars in French Rolling Stone

October 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (US) receives starred review from Booklist (Read)

October 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (FR) reviewed by Le Nouvel Obsavateur (Read)

October 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (UK) featured in The Bookseller (Read)

October 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (FR) reviewed in Le Magazine de L’Optimum

September 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (US) receives starred review from Library Journal

September 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (FR) reviewed in Le Monde (Read)

September 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for Festival America in Vincennes, France

September 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (FR) reviewed on La Matinale Show

September 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (US) selected for “Moveable Feast” by NAIBA

August 2008 – Nami Mun featured in Telerama Magazine (FR) (Read)

June 2008 – Miles from Nowhere (US) in Publisher’s Weekly (see last page)

May 2008 – Interview with Amazon for Omnivoracious (Read)

May 2008 – Nami Mun selected by Book Expo America as an “Emerging Voice”

May 2008 – Miles from Nowhere selected by Book Expo America for “Editor’s Buzz” panel