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$50,000 Award Goes to Rita Dove

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Online Only, posted 3.15.06

Poet Rita Dove was recently named the winner of the $50,000 Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service for Literature.

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Publisher Drops James Frey

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Online Only, posted 2.24.06

Lisa Kussell, a representative of writer James Frey, recently announced that Riverhead Books has canceled the author’s two-book contract. Riverhead, the imprint of Penguin Books that released Frey’s second memoir, My Friend Leonard, in June 2005, has declined to comment.

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E. L. Doctorow Wins PEN/Faulkner

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Online Only, posted 2.21.06

Doctorow won the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel The March (Random House).

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French Conglomerate Buys Time Warner Book Group

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Online Only, posted 2.07.06

Time Warner Inc., the company that owns America Online, HBO, and Warner Bros. Entertainment, among other media and entertainment businesses, recently announced the sale of its book publishing division, Time Warner Book Group, to the French company Lagardère SCA for $537.5 million.

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Academy of American Poets Elects Three New Chancellors

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Online Only, posted 2.01.06

The Academy of American Poets recently announced the election of Rita Dove, Gerald Stern, and Kay Ryan to its board of chancellors. They will join current chancellors Frank Bidart, Robert Hass, Susan Howe, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Pinsky, Susan Stewart, Gary Snyder, James Tate, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C.K. Williams.

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Chicago Tribune Shrinks Sunday Book Section

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Online Only, posted 1.25.06

The Chicago Tribune recently announced that its Sunday book section will switch to a tabloid format. The move provides less space for book review coverage, and is intended to lower costs by reducing the amount of newsprint used. 

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