An Interview With Fiction Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Genre: Fiction
Judge Orders Albert to Pay $350,000 to Film Company
On Tuesday, a Manhattan district court judge ordered fiction writer
Laura Albert to pay a total of $350,000 in legal fees and other costs
to Antidote International Films. Albert, who gained notoriety for
publishing and posing as her alter-ego, JT Leroy, had used the
fictitious name to sign a film contract and tax forms with Antidote
prior to the disclosure of her true identity in 2005. Last month, she
was convicted of fraud and ordered to pay $116,000 in damages.
Summer Summaries
A selection of recently published titles—blockbuster novels, international literature, and contemporary poetry collections—for the discerning beach bum.
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For the Relief of Unbearable Pressure: A Profile of Nathan Englander
For eight years readers have anticipated Nathan Englander’s follow-up to his wildly successful debut story collection. With the publication of The Ministry of Special Cases, the wait is over.
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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.
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).
McEwan Agrees to Return Pebbles to Protected Beach
Ian McEwan, whose eleventh novel, On Chesil Beach, is forthcoming in June, recently agreed to return a handful of pebbles that he had unwittingly stolen from a protected beach in southwest England. McEwan admitted to taking the pebbles from Chesil Beach during a promotional interview for his new book. The beach, which is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, is protected; removing pebbles is illegal and can result in a fine.
The Story Prize Award Ceremony: Postcard From New York City
This year’s annual Story Prize ceremony, held on Wednesday, February 28, at the New School’s Tishman auditorium in New York City, marked the award’s third year and an evening that is fast becoming an established literary event.
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Roth Wins Third PEN/Faulkner
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced yesterday that Philip Roth is the winner of the 2007 Award for Fiction for his novel Everyman (Houghton Mifflin).
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