Six Writers Under Thirty Named Dylan Thomas Prize Finalists
The finalists for the first Dylan Thomas Prize were announced today.
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Rich, Silvers, and Epstein to Receive Special Nba Honors
The National Book Foundation announced yesterday that poet Adrienne Rich and editors Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein (posthumously) will receive special honors at the National Book Awards ceremony on November 15.
Saunders and Leblanc Win $500,000 "Genius" Fellowships
The MacArthur Foundation announced today that fiction writer George Saunders and creative nonfiction writer Adrian Nicole LeBlanc are among the twenty-five recipients of this year’s “genius” fellowships.
Some Big Names Noticeably Absent From Booker Shortlist
On September 14 the judges of the 2006 Booker Prize announced a list of six finalists.
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.
Host Publications
Slowly but surely, the independent press Host has established a reputation as a publisher of literary translations from countries such as Brazil, Chile, Poland, Belgium, and Uruguay.
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More to the Story: Janet Fitch
Although Janet Fitch's Paint It Black, published this month by Little, Brown, is a work of fiction, the author drew inspiration from many genres, most notably poetry, while she was working on her follow-up to White Oleander.
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Shakespearean Drama Gets Graphic
Workman Publishing imprint Black Dog and Leventhal reissues King Lear and Macbeth, the illustrated Shakespeare plays originally published in the 1980s—before graphic novels acquired a mainstream audience—as part of its Graphic Shakespeare series.
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