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• Dances With Kindle

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 131
  Or…Sherman Alexie, the Colbert Report, books and their demise, coupled with a cool Sherman quote.White folks should be ashamed that it’s taking an Indian to save part of their culture-Sherman Alexie more about “Slog | The Stranger, Seattle’s Only N…“, posted with vodpod
  7 hours ago

• Petina Gappah Wins the Guardian First Book Award for An Elegy for Easterly

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  Alert! Petina Gappah has won the £10 000 Guardian First Book Award for her acclaimed debut book of short stories, An Elegy for Easterly , it was announced by the newspaper yesterday. Petina Gappah became only the second short story writer to win the award in its 10-year history, the first being Yiyun Li in ...
  9 hours ago

• Petina Gappahs An Elegy for Easterly wins Guardian First Book Award 2009

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Trade lawyer impresses critics and readers alike with disarmingly funny short stories of Zimbabwe A Geneva-based international trade lawyer whose poignant, humane and funny collection of stories about her home country, Zimbabwe, has impressed critics was tonight named winner of the Guardian First Book Award. Petina ...
  10 hours ago

• The Blessings of the Unexpected Joy

  
  Wordlings by Justina — Authority: 105
  Its with utter astonishment that on the heels of readergirlz picking up the National Book Award for Innovations in Reading, my editor emailed me twice... Once, to let me know that NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL was named to the 2010 Texas Lone Star Reading List. And then again, to tell me that Kirkus named it one of the Best ...
  3 days ago

• Paul Durcan, Eleanor Catton and a look at Christmas book lists

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  In todays podcast, Claire Armitstead, John Crace and Sarah Crown tackle the celebrity "books of the year" lists, asking why theyve become such a fixture of the newspaper calendar. John Crace provides a digested codebook that will help you to read between the lines of the celebrities recommendations, and in case youre ...
  5 days ago

• Suheir Hammad Receives American Book Award

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 575
  Palestinian-American poet and friend of PULSE Suheir Hammad was recently presented with a 2009 American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation (BCF) for breaking poems, a project of the independent New York based publisher Cypher Books.  Hammad has published several other poetry books over the years and ...
  1 week ago

• National Book Award Dinner Photo Montage

  
  On Point — Authority: 414
  Decided to cross post this from rgz as it was a bit of work! Enjoy! I just wanted to share the beauty and joy of the National Book Awards Dinner. So here are a few photos of the magical night! Dia and I were all gussied up. Thats a bird in my hair! The venue was gorgeous! Flower petals all over the table. ...
  1 week ago

• Colum McCann Wins the National Book Award

  
  Book Case — Authority: 415
  Colum McCann’s Let The Great World Spin (Reviewed in yesterday’s Sunday Times) has won the 2009 National Book Award for fiction. The book focuses on the Phillipe Petit’s infamous tightrope walk between the Twin Towers in 1974 (the subjet of the Oscar winning documentary Man on Wire). In accepting the award the ...
  1 week ago

• Clementine in the Big Apple

  
  Grow Wings -- the Journal of Laini Taylor — Authority: 410
  Clementine was an amazing little trooper in New York. When we first found out about the award and knew wed be traveling, I was anxious, because going to New York with a three-month-old is a bit different than going to New York without one. Especially when there are bookstore and library readings and ceremonies and a ...
  1 week ago

• Unfinished business

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  In the week that Penguin opened the vaults on one of the most tantalising of all literary legacies, Vladimir Nabokovs unfinished novel The Original of Laura, we discuss the decision to disobey the authors wish that it be destroyed. Is it an unfinished masterpiece or the random jottings of a dying man? Actor Dominic ...
  1 week ago

• National Book Award Winners Announced!

  
  The LibrariYAn — Authority: 411
  And the winner for the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature is...Philip Hooses Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice ! Now, I bet most of you are wondering, "Who the heck is Claudette Colvin ?" Before I read the book, I wondered that as well. But now, having read the book I can confidently ...
  1 week ago

• Waldrop Wins!

  
  shigekuni. — Authority: 130
  While all over the interwebs the NBA wins are discussed, most of the discussions I saw strongly focused on Colum McCann, who won the award for best novel. Here is a sensible take on that book of his on the FFC2:McCann présente à travers les portraits croisés d’une série de personnes culturellement diversifiées ...
  1 week ago

• National Book Award Winners 2009 Announced

  
  The Unquiet Library — Authority: 411
  The 2009 National Book Award Winners were announced last evening!  The winner of in the Young People’s Literature category was Phillip Hoose for Claudette Colvin:  Twice Toward Justice , the story of a young Alabama teen who refused to give her up bus seat to a white woman on a segregated a few months before ...
  1 week ago

• A “golden age,” says Eggers at National Book Awards

  
  The Inkblotter — Authority: 105
  Winner of the National Book Award for fiction, 2009 Dave Eggers, accepting the Literarian Award at the National Book Awards, declares “publishing is in a golden age.” Colum McCann, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for fiction, would have to agree. The scene was the awards ceremony for the 60th annual ...
  1 week ago

• National Book Award winners

  
  Book Blog — Authority: 126
  Washington University’s Carl Phillips didn’t win a National Book Award this year for his poetry collection “Speak Low.” But it must have been an interesting night in New York for the finalist, anyway, with special awards going to Gore Vidal…
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• Yes!! Claudette Colvin Wins Young People’s National Book Award

  
  educating alice — Authority: 493
  Congratulations to all involved in the creation of this year’s young people’s winner of the National Book Award , especially author Phillip Hoose , editor Melanie Kroupa, and Claudette Colvin herself.  As I think I made clear in this post , Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice is one of my favorite ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton: found for real in London

  
  Sarah Laurence Blog — Authority: 108
  Walking up Drayton Gardens, a residential road in London, we saw a little house, wedged between townhouses.Above the ancient door was a mural of the house’s pastoral grandeur. Like the shepherd at the gate, I stopped in my tracks. Tears welled up in my eyes. Growing up in Manhattan, one of my favorite books was ...
  2 weeks ago

• James Ellroy on Bloods a Rover, the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Petina Gappah on short stories

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  In todays podcast we talk to "the demon dog of American crime fiction", James Ellroy, about his latest book, Bloods a Rover - the final part of his magisterial Underworld USA trilogy which covers a 14-year stretch of American history from 1958 to 1972. He tells Xan Brooks about why he has no interest in writing about ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Incredible Jean Davies Okimoto

  
  The Institute for Quantum Living and Conscious Design — Authority: 114
  Please join the Unstoppable Frankie Picasso on Tuesday,November 10th, at 8:00 pm Eastern for Mission Unstoppable Radio. www.blogtalkradio.com/missionunstoppable   to meet the Incredible and Outstanding Author, Jean Davies Okomoto. Not only is Jean an absolutely FEARLESS author, no topic or subject is taboo with her, ...
  3 weeks ago

• David Small on STITCHES

  
  Zack Smith: Writer — Authority: 116
  By Zack Smith  Memoirs about unhappy childhoods are common, but David Small ’s Stitches  is anything but.  Growing up with emotionally-distant parents, Small developed a cancerous mass as a result of his father constantly exposing him to high-powered X-rays.  The result left him barely able to speak above a ...
  3 weeks ago

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