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United States Artists (USA) announced last week the recipients of the second annual USA Fellowships in literature. They are poets Marilyn Chin, Henri Cole, and Chérrie Moraga, fiction writers Charles D’Ambrosio, William Gay, John Haines, Mat Johnson, and Helena María Viramontes, and playwright Luis Valdez.
The National Book Foundation announced the winners of the 2007 National Book Awards at a ceremony in New York City last night.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced yesterday that it plans to expand the Big Read to military bases abroad. Beginning next year, military installations in Germany, Guam, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom will receive readers guides, teachers guides, radio broadcasts, and other materials that can be used to organize community-wide reading programs focusing on a single book.
The London-based financial services company Man Group recently announced that Chinese novelist Jiang Rong is the winner of the first Man Asian Literary Prize. His novel Wolf Totem, first published in Chinese, is scheduled for a March 2008 release by Penguin Press. The book, set in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revo
In an effort to expand its entertainment offerings, Borders recently installed televisions in sixty of its bookstores, the New York Times reported today. Two thirty-seven-inch television screens in each store broadcast advertisements, news, weather, and original programming under the moniker Borders TV.
Houghton Mifflin announced today that it has signed a deal with the technology company Mobifusion to offer the electronic delivery of books to cell phones, Publishers Weekly reported.
Nearly three decades after introducing Zuckerman in The Ghost Writer and with the release of Exit Ghost, Philip Roth joins the ranks of authors who have bid farewell to their beloved protagonists.
A new Web site and publishing program offers an alternative to the old slush pile standard by putting a manuscript’s fate in the hands of its readers.
Program director Nicole Cooley discusses the Queens College take on the creative writing degree.
