Three Literary Journals Take Home Coveted National Magazine Awards
McSweeney's, the Georgia Review, and the Paris Review won National Magazine Awards on Tuesday night.
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The PEN World Voices Festival: Postcard From New York City
Those lucky enough to have tickets to “A Believer Nighttime Event” on Saturday, part of last week's PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, received program notes that contained a list of the night’s proceedings, complete with short descriptions and estimated times (“Introduction, Eric Bogosian commences the evening in his fashion, seven minutes, thirty-four seconds”), as well as bios of the seven participants.
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Feeling Out a Fledgling Festival: Postcard From Far Rockaway
Fort Tilden is near the end of the Rockaway Peninsula in the borough of Queens, New York, a collection of modest, wind-whipped buildings between playing fields and driveways, not far from the beach. On April 22 it hosted the first Rockaway Literary Festival, organized by Stuart Mirsky. “The Rockaway Literary Festival was something I’d always thought about when I was working,” said Mirsky, who ran for State Assembly of Queens County, New York, in last November’s election. His loss—to Democrat Audrey I. Pheffer—was disppointing, but it freed him up to work on more literary projects.
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Jason Cowley to Succeed Ian Jack as Granta Editor
The British literary magazine Granta, which last month published its second issue devoted to the "Best Young American Novelists," recently named Jason Cowley as its new editor. Cowley, who was the literary editor of the New Statesman for five years, will succeed Ian Jack in September.
PEN World Voices Festival Brings the World of Literature to NYC
Today marks the official start of the third annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in New York City. The six-day schedule of events includes readings, lectures, and panel discussions featuring 162 writers from forty-five different countries representing twenty-one different languages.
Kureishi's Story, Deemed Offensive by the BBC, Finds New Life Online
Earlier this week, Hanif Kureishi, the Whitbread Award-winning author of the novels The Buddha of Suburbia (Viking, 1990) and Intimacy (Scribner,
1999), among others, accused the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
of censorship after it dropped a radio broadcast of one of his short
stories.
British Theme Park Devoted to Dickens Delays Opening Day
The opening of Dickens World, a $115 million theme park in Chatham, England, was recently delayed six weeks due to a problem with some of the materials used in its interactive shows.
Trethewey and McCarthy Win 2007 Pulitzer Prizes
Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin). Also nominated were Martín Espada for The Republic of Poetry (Norton) and David Wojahn for Interrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004 (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Delillo and Roth Among Fifteen International Booker Finalists
Painting of Jane Austen (or Someone Else) to Fetch a Hefty Sum at Auction
A controversial painting of a young woman in a white dress holding a green parasol will be sold at auction next Thursday at Christie's in New York City. Some say it's the only oil painting of the 19th-century British author Jane Austen in existence.
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