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Two Web Sites Offer Free Public Domain Audiobooks
The Web sites LibriVox and LiteralSystems have recently compiled online audio libraries of poems, short stories, and novels available in the public domain.
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NEA Discovers Five Hours of Eudora Welty Video Footage
Five hours of color video footage featuring fiction writer Eudora Welty was recently discovered in the media archives of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Academy Announces Five Finalists for Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Academy of American Poets recently announced the finalists for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. The $25,000 award is given annually for a book of poems published during the previous year.
Albert Camus's The Stranger Among Books on President Bush's Reading List
The White House press office recently released a list of books that President George W. Bush is reading this summer. Kenneth T. Walsh, in an article in U.S. News and World Reports, writes that White House staffers have said the president is engaged in an informal contest with senior adviser Karl Rove to see who can read more books this year.
Google Book Search May Have Competition
LibreDigital, the company currently digitizing books and audiobooks published by HarperCollins, recently announced that it will offer its service to other book publishers as well.
Knopf VP Fisketjon Wins Maxwell E. Perkins Award
Noreen Tomassi, the executive director of the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, announced on August 23 that Gary Fisketjon, the vice president and editor-at-large of Knopf, is the winner of the second annual Maxwell Perkins Award for his work as an editor at Random House, Vintage, Atlantic Monthly Press, and Knopf.
Billy Collins, David Mitchell, Joan Didion Among Nominees for Second Annual Quills
On August 22, at a Borders Books and Music store in New York City, NBC
weatherman Al Roker announced the nominees for the second annual Quill
Book Awards. The prizes, given in nineteen categories for adult and
children's literature, are sponsored by NBC Universal Television
Stations and Reed Business Information. The public will determine the
winners by voting at the Quill
Web site. The awards, which carry no cash value, will be handed out at
a televised ceremony on October 10 at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York City.
Carey, Grenville, and Mitchell Among Booker Prize Semifinalists
On August 14 the judges of the 2006 Booker Prize announced a list of nineteen semifinalists. The annual prize, worth £50,000 (approximately $94,900), is sponsored by the Man Group investment company and is given for the best novel of the year by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Ireland.
German Novelist Günter Grass Admits Service in the Nazi SS
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Günter Grass recently revealed that he served in the Waffen Schutzstaffel (SS), the elite military combat wing of the Nazi party.
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