On Wednesday, novelist Philip Roth was announced as the recipient of the International Man Booker Prize for achievement in fiction. The prize is presented once every two years to a living author for a body of work published either originally in English or widely available in translation. One member of the three person jury withdrew [...]
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Winners at yesterday’s 31st annual L.A. Times Book Prizes included Jennifer Egan for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad and Michael Lewis for The Big Short, his nonfiction account of the global financial meltdown. Friday’s ceremony kicked off this weekend’s Festival of Books, held on the USC campus. Other honorees include: • Biography: [...]
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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, [...]
Saturday, April 16, 2011
The MacDowell Colony announced earlier this week that playwright Edward Albee will receive its Edward MacDowell medal at a ceremony this summer. The New Hampshire art colony, founded in 1907, has presented the medal since 1960, to the individual artist “who has made an outstanding contribution in his/her field.” Albee’s plays, the most famous of [...]
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 [...]
Saturday, December 11, 2010
In the face of cutbacks at colleges and universities, a Stanford University professor has criticized the dropping of humanities requirements and has defended the presence of literature programs. Universities can provide students with a rare opportunity to focus on the Big Questions, said Joshua Landy, “to find out who you are and what you stand for.” [...]
Friday, May 20, 2011
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