Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
This installment of Page One features excerpts from Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Adrienne Martini and The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee.
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Hot Town, Summer in The City: Madison Square's Free Readings
On Thursday, June 22, the Madison Square Park Conservancy launched a free series of summer readings in Madison Square Park, located between 23rd and 26th streets and Fifth and Madison avenues in New York City.
Three Indie Bookstores Call it Quits in California
Three independent bookstores in the San Francisco Bay area have recently closed due to declining sales.
Four Emerging Poets Make Annual "Discovery"
Four poets were recently named winners of the 32nd annual "Discovery"/the Nation Poetry Prizes.
Annual IPPY Awards Honor the Best From Small Presses
The winners of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards (the IPPYs) were recently announced. Given in sixty-five categories, the annual awards are intended to bring increased recognition to books published in the past year by independent and university presses as well as self-published titles.
Guggenheim Foundation Awards Annual Fellowships
The 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships were recently awarded to twenty-seven poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers.
Reading Series Raises Money for Brooklyn Elementary School
Paul Auster, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Gary Shteyngart, and Colson Whitehead are among the authors who have participated in a reading series to raise money for a new library at Public School 107, an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York.
The Loft Literary Center Announces Mcknight Fellows
The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis recently announced the winners of the 2006 McKnight Artist Fellowships. The $25,000 fellowships are given in alternating years to Minnesota poets and writers of fiction and literary nonfiction.
Paul Auster Wins Spain's Prince of Asturias Award
Novelist Paul Auster recently won Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. He received 50,000 euros (approximately $62,850).
Hall Succeeds Kooser as U.S. Poet Laureate
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced today that Donald Hall will be the next U.S. poet laureate. He will succeed Ted Kooser, who has held the position since 2004.
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