Bidart, Auster, and Moore Inducted Into American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters recently inducted poet Frank Bidart and fiction writers Paul Auster and Lorrie Moore into the 250-member organization.
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Annual Tournament of Books Offers Different Kind of Literary Competition
The NCAA college basketball tournament recently ended, but the second annual Tournament of Books—a literary showdown between sixteen novels sponsored by the Morning News and Powells.com—is still going strong.
Tower Records Opens Online Bookstore
Readers who prefer to buy books from the big online stores—Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble—now have another option.
French Conglomerate Announces New Name for Time Warner Book Group
Lagardère SCA, the French conglomerate that in February purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner, Inc. for $537.5 million, recently announced that the U.S. book division’s new name is Hachette Book Group USA.
Winners of the Kiriyama Prize Announced
Luis Alberto Urrea and Piers Vitebsky were recently named winners of the 2006 Kiriyama Prize. Urrea won in fiction for his novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter (Little, Brown) and Vitebsky won in creative nonfiction for his book The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia (Houghton Mifflin). The winners split the $30,000 award.
An Interview With Poet Bill Manhire
Bill Manhire is one of New Zealand’s most visible writers and certainly its most visible poet. The country’s inaugural poet laureate, Manhire is the author of more than ten books of poems, including Lifted, recently published by his long-time New Zealand publisher, Victoria University Press.
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New York City Designates April 7 as John Ashbery Day
Led by council speaker Christine Quinn, members of the New York City Council recently honored poet John Ashbery for his “literary and cultural contributions” by designating April 7 as “John Ashbery Day” in the city.
VQR and McSweeney's Among Finalists for Coveted National Magazine Awards
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) recently announced the
finalists for the 2006 National Magazine Awards, which honor both print
and online magazines for "superior execution of stated editorial
objectives, innovative editorial techniques, noteworthy journalistic
enterprise, and imagination and vigor in layout and design."
Los Angeles Named Best City For Artists
Last month Businessweek, the Web site of the weekly business magazine, published a list of the ten best cities in the United States for artists, including creative writers. Los Angeles topped the list, followed by Santa Fe, New Mexico; Carson City, Nevada; New York City; Kingston, New York; Oxnard, Thousand Oaks, and Ventura, California; Nashville; Boulder, Colorado; San Francisco; and Nassau and Suffolk Counties in New York.
Harper Lee Among Writers Inducted Into American Academy of Arts and Letters
Fiction writers Deborah Eisenberg, Mary Gordon, Allan Gurganus, Jim Harrison, Harper Lee, and Annie Proulx were recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The 250-member organization was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music, and the fine arts."
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