Genre: Fiction
The Written Image: Men of Letters...
A look at select images from Men of Letters and People of Substance, a collection of author portraits created with letters from the writers' names in the typeface that best represents the style of their work.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One features a sample of titles we think you'll want to explore. With this installment, we offer excerpts from Beautiful Children by Charles Bock, Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee, and Infamous Landscapes by Prageeta Sharma.
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Texas State University Buys McCarthy Archive for $2 Million
Novelist Cormac McCarthy recently sold his archives to the Southwestern
Writers Collection at Texas State University, San Marcos, for $2
million.
Hadley, Lam, and Shepard Named Story Prize Finalists
The finalists for the fourth annual Story Prize, a $20,000 award given
for the year's best short fiction, were announced yesterday.
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Lynn Nesbit
With more than forty years of experience in the business, agent Lynn Nesbit discusses how she signed some of her biggest clients, how a writer can get an agent’s attention, and what’s wrong with the publishing industry.
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Emory University to Acquire Alice Walker Archive
Emory University announced recently that after ten years of
negotiations it has reached a deal with Alice Walker to acquire the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author's papers. The archive includes journals
and manuscripts dating to Walker’s teenage years in the 1950s and
correspondence with eminent feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Tillie
Olsen, among other artists and public figures. Walker said that Emory,
located in the author’s native Georgia, is "a place where my archive
can rest with joy in the company it keeps," the Associated Press
reported.
Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns Tops 2007 Book Sense Best-Seller List
The American Booksellers Association released recently its 2007 Book
Sense Best-seller list, which highlights the most popular titles sold
at independent bookstores during the previous year. Fifteen books were
featured in the categories of hardcover fiction, paperback fiction,
hardcover nonfiction, paperback nonfiction, children’s fiction, and
children’s illustrated.
James Frey Lawsuit Settled: Judge Orders 1,729 Refunds
On Friday, a federal court judge in New York City approved a settlement
in the lawsuit brought against Random House by 1,729 readers who bought
James Frey's controversial memoir A Million Little Pieces. Those readers, all of whom bought the book before
January 26, 2006, the day the author and his publisher acknowledged
that parts of the book are fictional, will receive a refund. The
settlement will cost Random House $27,348 in refunds as well as over $1
million in legal expenses. The settlement also calls for the publisher
to donate a total of $180,000 to the American Red Cross, the Hazeldon
addiction treatment center, and First Book.
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