The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday. In the field of Journalism, The Los Angeles Times was honored with a Public Service award for its series of articles on civic corruption in Bell, CA. In the field of Letters, Drama, and Music, honorees include: Fiction— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad History— Eric Foner, [...]
Monday, April 18, 2011
. . . you may find inspiration and encouragement in the following recommended titles: “I like Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, because it makes writing seem very ‘do-able.’” “My favorite book about writing is Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk about when I Talk about Running. Super inspirational.” “A good writing book is William Zinsser’s On Writing [...]
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Deborah Eisenberg has been selected as the 2011 PEN/Faulkner award recipient for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg. An L.A. Times review noted that her characters “speak with the kind of crackling dialogue that tunes our ear to the way language exposes and obscures our hearts.” The four other nominees were Jennifer Egan for A Visit [...]
Friday, March 11, 2011
Jennifer Egan was awarded the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction yesterday for A Visit from the Goon Squad, “a time-jumping, voice-shifting novel about youth, aging, power and pop music.” Journalist Isabel Wilkerson received the general nonfiction award for The Warmth of Other Suns, the story of the migration of six million blacks from [...]
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Los Angeles Times today announced the finalists for its 31st annual Book Prizes, to be awarded April 29th. The awards will be presented just before the Times’ 16th annual Festival of Books, to be held April 30th and May 1st at USC. The Book Prize nominations include 50 works in 10 categories. Beverly Cleary will receive [...]
Friday, February 11, 2011
Kirkus Reviews has been a source of book reviews since 1933. The publication is used by bookstores, librarians, editors, and lovers of reading, and often features unusual or obscure titles not reviewed in other sources. And there is little doubt about how reviewers feel when books are either trumpeted or excoriated. It came as a [...]
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Last month, the National Book Critics Circle announced 31 finalists in six categories for its awards given to books published in 2010. Among the finalists for Fiction are: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad Jonathan Franzen, Freedom David Grossman, To the End of the Land Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key Paul Murray, Skippy [...]
Friday, November 19, 2010
On Tuesday, singer/songwriter Patti Smith won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Just Kids, a memoir about her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The fiction award went to Jaimy Gordon, for Lord of Misrule, a novel set in the world of horse racing. The poetry prize went to Terrance Hayes for Lighthead, his fourth [...]
Monday, October 18, 2010
Popular author Belva Plain died last week at the age of 95. Plain first gained fame with her family epic Evergreen, published in 1978 when she was 59. The book drew on events in the lives of her Jewish immigrant ancestors. It was adapted as a TV miniseries in 1985. Plain wrote 20 novels that made the bestseller lists. [...]
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The 2010 National Book Award nominees were announced today in Savannah, Georgia, at the childhood home of 1972 winner Flannery O’Connor. A notable surprise in the eyes of many was the exclusion among the finalists of Jonathan Franzen, for his critically praised novel Freedom. Nominees include: FICTION Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America Jaimy [...]
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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