National
Book Awards in the News
November, 2012
Sense of normalcy returns to NYC entertainment
— Jake Coyle, The Associated Press, Nov 5
www.jsonline.com
October, 2012
An Interview with Alice Walker: “Go to the Places That Scare You”
— Valerie Schloredt, Yes Magazine, Oct 9
Author Timothy Egan will open Presidential Lecture Series
— Ray Westbrook, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Oct 8
National Book Award Finalists to Be Announced on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat, Oct 5
Reel World String Band fills its musical life with purpose
— Greg Kocher, Kentucky.com, Oct 4
Q&A: Author Sherman Alexie on 'Blasphemy'
— Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times, Oct 1
September, 2012
Rachel Carson's book turned the environmental world on its ear 50 years ago
— Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sep 27
Skimming the Brooklyn Book Festival
— John Williams, The New York Times, Arts Beat, Sep 24
Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award
— Mike Householder, The Huffington Post, Sep 19
Elmore Leonard to Be Honored by National Book Foundation
— Julie Bosman, The New York Times, Arts Beat, Sep 19
March, 2012
Indian American are influential players in US media
— Daily Pioneer, March 18
Concordia to host National Book Awards
— InForum, Fargo-Moorhead, March 17
Revisiting John Updike's 'Fresh Air' Interviews
— Fresh Air from WHYY, NPR, March 16
Clean Bill of Health: The Novel’s Myriad Roads to Recovery
— Chris Feliciano Arnold, The Millions, March 15
Danielle Evans' blog entry, March 11
Pearlman, Gaddis win National Book Critics Circle awards
— Hillel Italie, AP National Writer, The Seattle Times, March 10
Pearlman wins book critics fiction prize
— Michael Washburn, Globe Correspondent, Boston Globe, March 09, 2012
February, 2012
Parents should encourage their children to study abroad, author David McCullough says
— John Hinton, Winston-Salem Journal (NC), Feb 29
Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates inducted into 2012 NJ Hall of Fame
— Deena Welde, Princeton University Events Examiner, Feb 20
Author Gore Vidal helps Rep. Dennis Kucinich raise campaign money
— Sabrina Eaton, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Feb 17
Byliner website creates buzz - and best-sellers
— Julian Guthrie, SFGate, Feb 8
National Book Award finalist to read at Ball State
— Muncie Star Press, Feb 7
AViD features Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling authors
— Larry Baker, DesMoinesRegister.com, Feb 7
Library of Congress to Celebrate Oklahoma Author Ralph Ellison’s Birthday
— Chris Casteel, NewsOK.com, Feb 6
Walker Percy: The Times-Picayune covers 175 years of New Orleans history
— Sheila Stroup, The Times-Picayune, Feb 2
National Book Award nominee set for R.J. Julia signing
— Joe Meyers, ctpost.com, Feb 2
JANUARY, 2012
Book news: 'Albert Nobbs,' lady friends, and fiction and place
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, Jacket Copy, Jan 28
Ex-Register reporter turns childhood rage into National Book Award
— Kevin Roderick, LA Observed, Jan 25
Jack Gantos’ ‘Dead End in Norvelt’ wins Newbery prize for children’s literature
— Washington Post (Associated Press), Jan 23
Eugenides, Lethem among critics' awards nominees
— Hillel Italie, AP National Writer Jan 22
Memo from Library of Congress's new Ambassador for Young People’s Literature: Reading is monumental
— Clem Richardson, NY Daily News, Jan 19
Cormac McCarthy Sells First Spec Script
— Kurt Orzeck, TheWrap, Jan 18
Where authors grow like chanterelles
— Valerie Ryan, Our Coast (WA), Jan 18
Humanities Series Resumes in February
— Rosanne Pelligrini, Boston College, Jan 18
Palm Beach Poetry Festival bringing pros, pupils to Old School Square
— Jan Sjostrom, Palm Beach Daily News, Jan 14
DeLillo, Millhauser, Pearlman get story prize nods
— Chris Michaud, Reuters, Jan 11
DeLillo a finalist for short story prize
— Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Jan 11
Miss. native Jesmyn Ward's Katrina novel takes literary world by storm
— Billy Watkins, Clarion Ledger, Jan 6
Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award Winner, Gets Another Book Deal
— Emily Witt, The New York Observer, Jan 4
Walter Dean Myers Named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
— Sue Corbett, Publishers Weekly, Jan 3
Indies battle Amazon — by becoming publishers
— Steve Almond, Salon.com, Jan 2
DECEMBER, 2011
Pettis: Selznick's art shines in these two works
— Kerry Pettis, Broomfield Enterprise (CO), Jan 1
Brian Selznick Hosts Virtual Tours of American Museum of Natural History
— Maryann Yin, GalleyCat, Dec 19
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Announces Safe Space Series
— BWW News Desk, broadwayworld.com, Dec 19
Carroll Wins Franklin Institute Award
— Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dec 19
UHV Announced spring reading series speakers
— VictoriaAdvocate.com (Texas), Dec 17
Mary Oliver to deliver Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture
— Andrew Stansell, CaptivaSanibel.com, Dec 16
Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, Dies at 62
William Grimes, The New York Times, Dec 16
SEPTEMBER, 2011
Poetry-in-the-Round Reading - Joyce Carol Oates
— Seton Hall University, Sep 27
Former Detroiter's book 'Arc of Justice' shows all civil rights stories
don't have a happy ending
— Susan Whitall, The Detroit News, Sep 27
Stephen King Reads from Sequel to The Shining
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat.com, Sep 26
INFOGRAPHIC: Top Ten Banned Or Challenged Books Of 2010
— HuffPost Books, Sep 24
Literary legends honored at festival
— Marcia Lane, The St. Augustine Record, Sep 24
Judy Blume showed up nude to a party once
— Sarah Anne Hughes, The Washington Post (National), Sep 23
Lifetime Achievement National Book Awards Go to Ashbery and Kaplan
— Publishers Weekly, Sep 22
12 Spotify Playlists for Writers
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat.com, Sep 22
Ashbery, Kaplan to receive honorary book awards
— Associated Press, Sep 22
Katherine Paterson discusses the longevity of paper books and the best
of young adult fiction
— Janice D'Arcy, The Washington Post (Lifestyle), Sep 20
Canisius series features Oates, O'Nan in Oct.
— The Daily News (Northern NY), Sep 10
A 'Great' Gathering of Authors
— Karen Kullgren, Rockville Patch, Sep 9
Pulitzer Prize finalist to speak at TU
— Tim Stanley, Tulsa World, Sep 9
National Book Awards winners to read at Vanderbilt
— Peter Nygaard, InsideVandy.com, Sep 8
Sept. 27: Marilyn Nelson reading
— Derek Dudek, University of Delaware, Sep 8
Excerpt: I Married You For Happiness (Lily Tuck)
— NPR, Sep 6
AUGUSt, 2011
Patti Smith: Just Kids autobiography to be a major motion picture
— Maud Dillingham, The Christian Science Monitor, Aug 24
220 Authors Confirmed For 2011 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL 9/15-18
— BWW News Desk, BroadwayWorld.com, Aug 23
Drinking the dandelion wine of Ray Bradbury
— Alice Hoffman, Los Angeles Times, Aug 22
Obama's summer 2011 reading list
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, Aug 20
Sales soar for books by new poet laureate
— Associated Press, Oshkosh Hub, Aug 19
Boys and Reading: Is There Any,
— Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times, Aug 19
Writers Are Still Trying to out-Imagine 9/11
— Hillel Italie, Associated Press, Aug 18
'Adventures of Augie March' is new One Book, One Chicago pick
— Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune, Aug 17
Author Oscar Hijuelos Tackles His Toughest Subject: Himself
— Jeffrey Brown (interviewer), PBS NewsHour, June 24
Harnessing The Positive Power Of Peer Pressure
— Anya Kamenetz, Fast Company, Aug 15
Patti Smith Adapting Her Memoir Just Kids Into A Screenplay
— Katey Rich, Cinema Blend, Aug 15
New Poet Laureate Philip Levine's 'Absolute Truth'
— NPR Staff, All Things Considered, NPR, Aug 14
2011 PEN Award Winners Announced
— Kathleen Massara, FlavorWire, Aug 11
Author returns to Alaska for fish and stories
— Mike Dunham, McClatchy Newspapers, Aug 10
Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate
— Charles McGrath, The New York Times, Aug 9
Kurt Vonnegut library offers pupils free copies of banned book
— Alison Flood, guardian.co.uk, Aug 8
Inside the National Book Awards—A Q&A with Harold Augenbraum
— Liz Funk, inReads.com, Aug 8
"Witness to an Extreme Century": An Interview with Robert Jay Lifton
— Robin Lindley, History News Network, Aug 8
Classroom best place for controversial novel
— Jim Deatherage, Tri-City Herald (WA), Aug 7
Tribune literary awards go to Sondheim, Franzen, Wilkerson
— Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, Aug 7
New England favorites with a sense of place
— Katharine Whittemore, Boston Globe, Aug 7
National book award finalist to read in Ludington Thursday
— Steve Begnoche, Ludington Daily News, Aug 4
Poet Robert Bly looks forward and back in new collection
— Euan Kerr, MPR News, Aug 1
Women and Media: Your Mom Reads More YA Than You
— Laura Goode, The Faster Times, Aug 1
Inprint bringing legends & rising authors with James Franco cred to its literary farmers market
—Tarra Gaines, CultureMap Houston, Aug 1
JULY, 2011
Poet Mark Doty Headlines At Sunken Garden
— Carole Goldberg, Special to The Hartford Courant (CT), Jul 25
'Stone Arabia': The Cost Of Artistic Commitment
— Maureen Corrigan, NPR - Fresh Air from WHYY, Jul 25
Pulitzer Prize-winner to speak on Vanderbilt
— Susan Mehalick, Dennis Yusko, Times Union (Albany, NY), Jul 23
Liveright Acquires New David Small Graphic Memoir
— Calvin Reid, Publishers Weekly, Jul 23
Fairy Tale Art at Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores
— Heidi Bitsoli, Daily Tribune (Oakland County, MI), Jul 23
Facing cutbacks, UC Press will suspend poetry series
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, Jul 19
M.T. Anderson to Keynote SLJ/LJ Virtual Ebook Summit, Register Now
— SLJ STaff, School Library Journal, Jul 19
A Dozen Years or Maybe More
— Kimberly Willis Holt, What's New, Jul 18
Copies Of One Maryland One Book Pick Wander Aroud The State
— CityBizList.com, Jul 18
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Trailer Released
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat, Jul 15
Kyra Sedgwick closes a chapter
— Donna Freydkin, USA Today, July 11
Virgin Mobile announces FreeFest Sept. 10; tickets will be given away Friday
— Chris Richards, The Washington Post, Jul 11
Reading Silence
— Proper Noun Blog, Jul 10
UW teacher wins fellowship and awards for book
— Christine Peterson, Casper Star-Tribune, Jul 9
Theodore Roszak (1933-2011)
— Thomas Gladysz, SFGate, Jul 9
Critics are raving over Kalamazoo author Bonnie Jo Campbell's new novel
— Christopher Walton, Detroit Free Press, Jul 2
JUNE, 2011
What should you take to the lake? Something old, something new
— Bill Castanier, CityPulse.com (Lansing, MI), Jun 29
Ann Joslin Williams scales 'Cascom Mountain'
— Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, Jun 29
Jeff Bridges In 'The Giver': Oscar Winner To Adapt Classic Lois Lowry Novel
— Huffington Post, Jun 28
The Prizewinners 2010/2011
— C. Max Magee, The Millions, Jun 27
Great new teen books for summer reading
— Robert Mittendorf, McClatchy-Tribune (MI), Jun 27
At Home with Philip Roth
— Jan Dalley, Slate, Jun 26
Author to sign books, lead workshop
— SalisburyPost.com (NC), Jun 26
F. Gilman Spencer Jr., 85, former Philadelphia Daily News editor
— Walter F. Naelele, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jun 25
Seattle author Erik Larson the special guest on Chuckanut Radio Hour
— Margaret Bikman, The Bellingham Herald, Jun 21
Northwest novel removed from Richland schools' reading list
— Jacques von Lunen, Tri-City Herald, Jun 19
Book review: 'The Hair of Harold Roux' by Thomas Williams
— David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic, Jun 19
Judy Blundell's 'Strings Attached' follows her winning young adult novel
— Rollie Welch, Cleveland.com (Plain Dealer), Jun 18
Don't Know Much About History
— Brian Bolduc, Wall Street Journal, Jun 18
Theatre Directing and Digital Filmmaking Added to Southampton Writers Conference
— newswise.com, Stony Brook University, Jun 17
McCann is readers' choice for world's richest literary prize
— John Spain, Independent.ie (Irish Independent), Jun 16
2011
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
— ShorelinePlus.com (CT),
Jun 8
Multiracial
Americans Celebrate Loving Day at 4th Annual Mixed Roots Film
& Literary Festival
— PRWeb.com (CA), Jun 8
Tradition
trumps Twitter at Iowa Writers' Workshop
— Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press, Jun 7
On
Asian Parenting: 'Level Up' Seeks Middle Ground
— Luke Tsai, East Bay
Express, Jun 1
Works
by 20th-century masters celebrate poet John Ashbery
— The Daily News
(NY State), Jun 1
Albanian
immigrant learns the contradictions of life in the post-9/11
years
— Connie Ogle, The Kansas
City Star, Jun 1
MAY, 2011
Books
Preview: Spotting Summer's High Fliers
— Rachel Syme, NPR, May 31
National
group joins fight to save Wallace Stegner's Los Altos Hills
writing studio
— Jesse Dungan, Daily
News, May 31
Celebrate
two birthdays: Rachel Carson, and her book "The Sea Around
Us"
— Molly Peterson, 89.1 KPCV
(Southern CA), May 27
Freshman
English book is under attack at LOHS
— Linda Hundhammer, Lake
Oswego Review, May 26
Doctorow's
"Welcome to Hard Times" hits Iranian bookshelves
— Iran Book News Agency,
May 24
Book
Review: Take a glimpse into mind of a juvenile offender
— Beth Martin, wausaudailyherald.com,
May 24
How
the 'Oprah Effect' changed publishing
— Bob Minzesheimer, USA
Today, May 23
Author
David McCullough to visit Framingham Wednesday
— MetroWest Daily News,
May 23
Brookfielder
Named Finalist in CT Young Writers Competition
— Brookfield Patch (CT),
May 20
John
Irving Exits Random House
— Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg,
The Wall Street Journal, May 18
Philip
Roth wins Man Booker International Prize 2011
— The Man Booker Prizes,
May 18
Jonathan
Franzen at the PEN World Voices Festival
— Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Work In Progress, May 17
John
Irving Will Publish Two Books With Simon & Schuster
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat,
May 17
Candace
Fleming, Jim Axelrod & David McCullough Get Booked
— Maryann Yin, GalleyCat,
May 17
Speaker
moves crowd to tears
— Daily News, www.newburyportnews.com,
May 17
Literary
events reveal Pittsburgh's dark side
— Rege Behe, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, May
17
4
Great Non-Business Books to Read in May
— Jeff Haden, bNet.com, May
16
Novelist Barrett to speak Friday at OSU
— Corvallis Gazette-Times,
May 16
Literary
journalism finds new platforms
— David Ulin, Los Angeles
Times, May 15
Four books about reading and writing
— Yvonne Zipp, The Washington Post, May 12
A
concept novel: Jennifer Egan on why Iggy Pop is the 'patron
saint' of 'A Visit from the Goon Squad'
— The Wire, May 11
John
Sayles signing, George Porter in the Square and HNOC Spain
exhibit Wednesday in New Orleans
— Mark Lorando, The Times-Picayune,
May 11
Recent
award-winning books to read
— Paul Eisenberg, Times
Reporter.com, May 6
No
Biking in the House Without a Helmet
— Terry Hong, The Christian
Science Monitor, May 5
Story
of 'The Color Purple' continues to inspire audiences
— LaTina Emerson, The
Augusta Chronicle, May 4
Best
European Fiction 2011
— Benjamin Cunningham,
The Prague Post, May 4
Reconnecting
With a Spirit of the Sport
— Jaimy Gordon, The New
York Times, May 3
Japan's
Nuclear Ghost Towns
— William T. Vollmann, The
Daily Beast, May 2
APRIL, 2011
Jennifer
Egan's trajectory through life
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, Apr 29
‘Bridge
to Terabithia’ author will speak to students, surrounding
community
— Kirsten Sanchez, NC
Advertiser.com (CT), Apr 25
But
Wait! There's A Book Fest
— Gail Norris, Gaithersburg
Patch (FL), Apr 24
Jennifer
Egan's 'Goon Squad' gets its due
— Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, Apr 24
National
Book Award Entries Available, Judges Announced
— PublishersWeekly.com,
Apr 22
'Crossing
State Lines': 54 Writers, One American Poem
— Morning Edition,
NPR, Apr 22
Jennifer
Egan Wins Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat,
Apr 18
Arts
Pulitzers include winners with D.C. connections
— Dan Zak, The Washington
Post, Apr 18
Young
readers author Hautman wins Minnesota Book Award
— The Associated Press, Apr
17
Ramona
authors to have book signing
— Ramona Sentinel
(CA), Apr 14
Fishtrap
speaker plans Stegner presentation
— Wallowa County Chieftain
(OR), Apr 14
Glenn
Taylor's top 10 books of the American South
— Glenn Taylor, Guardian.co.uk,
Apr 13
A
nation's character revealed in thrift and resilience
— The Seattle Times,
Apr 13
Recent
award winners enrich the reading experience for children
— Joanna Kraus, Inside Bay
Area, The Oakland Tribune, Apr 12
Impac
prize shortlist dominated by three-strong Irish contingent
— Alison Flood, guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 12 April
Chronicling
Haiti: Award-winning ‘The Farming of Bones’ author
to come to Bryan for Brazos Valley Reads
— Joe Terrell, The Battalion
Online, Apr 11
Award-winning
Sherman Alexie novel among challenged books
— Associated Press, CBC News,
Apr 11
Jason Boog, GalleyCat, Apr 11 Jackson Poetry Prize
— Compiled by Rachel Lee Harris, The New York Times, Apr 10
2011
L.A. Times Festival of Books schedule is announced: Patti
Smith meets Dave Eggers
— Carolyn Kellogg, The
Los Angeles Times, Apr 4
Singing
the songs of sad and beautiful struggles
— J.I.E. Teodoro, GMA News,
Apr 4
Can
you tell it's Poetry Month? We can.
— Laurie Hertzel, Star
Tribune, Apr 4
MARCH, 2011
Novelist
Andre Dubus will discuss new book 'Townie' April 13
— Foster's Daily Democrat
(NH), Mar 31
'Cold
Mountain' Author Frazier Releasing New
— ABC news (The Associated
Press), Mar 22
Children's
author visits school
— Vicki Rock, Daily American,
Mar 22
Backlist
to the Future: Open Road Publishes Enhanced E-Book Edition
of Gleick’s First Book, 'Chaos'
— Publishers Weekly,
Mar 22
Author
Deborah Wiles Speaks Monday
— The Chattanoogan,
Mar 22
NPR
and National Book Awards Finalists visit Concordia
— Jessica Ballou, High Plains
Reader, March
10
Contemporary Irish Authors You Need To Know
— Kathleen Massara, flavorpill,
Mar 17
DiCamillo
to present new book
— The Manchester Journal,
Mar 16
Three
titles explore Elizabeth Bishop through poetry, prose and
correspondence
— Susan Salter Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times, Mar 16
Eileen
Myles, Patti Smith, Lucy Jane Bledsoe among Lambda nominees
— Courtney Gillette, AfterEllen,
Mar 16
Anne
Roiphe's 1950s Feminism In 'Art And Madness'
— Maureen Corrigan, WNYC.org,
NPR.org, Mar 15
Author
Earns Her Stripes on First Try
— Charles McGrath, The New York Times, Mar
14
Terrance
Hayes takes over campus
— Jacquelyn Hoermann, University News (UMKC),
Mar 14
Bookmarks:
Literature events around Northeast Florida
— Brandy Hilboldt Allport, The Florida Times-Union,
Mar 13
National
Book Critics Circle Award Winner Jennifer Egan Coming April
27
— DePauw University, Mar
13
Author
offers dark tales for audience at HVCC
— Paul Grondahl, Times Union (Troy, NY), Mar
12
— Jeffrey Burke, Bloomberg, Mar 12
The
10 Best American Poems
— Jay Parini, The Guardian,
Mar 11
Homeroom:
Finding appropriate books for child's level
— Karyn Adams, KnoxNews.com
(TN), Mar 8
Writing
and fighting: Author Andre Dubus III explores life as a Townie
— Tarra Gaines, CultureMap
(Houston), Mar 7
An
Interview with Ken Kalfus
— Laura Tharp, BookSlut.com,
March
Area
philanthropist Harold Grinspoon to be honored by
Jewish Book Council for PJ Library
— Anne-Gerard Flynn,
The Republican, Mar 7
Christine
Schutt March 31 and April 7
— Washington University in
St. Louis, Mar 7
For
Pasadena readers who brunch
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, Mar 7
Author
Walter Dean Myers, 73, a hero to young readers
— Hillel Italie, Associated
Press, Mar 4
Powerful
voices
— Lauren Zumbach, NJ.com,
Mar 04
Victor
Martinez dies at 56; novel won National Book Award
— Valerie J. Nelson, Los
Angeles Times, Mar 3
Obama
cites Oates' writings in ceremony
— Jerry Zremski, BuffaloNews.com,
Mar 3
Amy
Bloom: Writing at the speed of life
— Carla Meyer, KansasCity.com,
Mar 2
Authors
including Kimberly Willis Holt attend free Jacksonville Public
Library Foundation’s Children’s Chapter event
March 19
— Dan Scanlan, The Florida
Times-Union, Mar 2
FEBRUARY, 2011
Alexander
at NBF panel: 'keep counting'
— John Deming, coldfrontmag.com, Feb 25
Award-winning
poet to speak Feb. 24
— University of Indianapolis,
Feb 23
— Broadway World (LA), Feb 23
James
Carroll to Launch New Book at Suffolk University's Modern
Theatre
— Broadway World (Boston),
Feb 23
USA
Network Announces the Recipients of the 3rd Annual Character
Approved Awards Recognizing Twelve Cultural Trailblazers
— USA Network, PR Newswire,
Feb 23. Krauss was a 2010 NBA Fiction Finalist.
A
Scrappy Youth and His Fists Must Fend for Themselves
— Dwight Garner, The New York Times (Books),
Feb 22
Rats,
Pigs, Foxes, and Eagles: T.C. Boyle’s When the Killing’s
Done
— Mary Pols, The Millions,
Feb 22
Banned book is next Literary Lions selection
— Joplin Independent,
Feb 22
Paramount
To Distribute Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo Cabret' For Thanksgiving
— Mike Fleming, deadline.com,
Feb 19
A
Widow’s Story
— Yvonne Zipp, The Christian
Science Monitor, Feb 16, 2011
Exploring the Limits of U.S. Presidential Power
— Laurie Heffner Lewis,
Bedford-Katonah Patch (NY), Feb 16. Gordon-Reed was the
2008 NBA Nonfiction Winner.
Medal
of Freedom winner Maya Angelou has St. Louis roots
— Sharon Stevens, KSDK.com
(MO), Feb 15
Alice
McDermott Talks About Her "Long Run" in Fiction
as Charming Billy Becomes a Play
— Susan Dormandy Eisenberg,
Huffington Post, Feb 15
— booktrade.info, Feb 15
One
Book, One Philadelphia discussion
— WHYY's newsworks.org,
Alexie's The Absolutely True
Diary of a Part-Time Indian was the 2007 NBA YPL Winner.
Chinese-American
National Book Award Winner Ha Jin to Deliver Paumanok Lecture
at Kumble Theater
— Long Island University,
Feb 14
The
Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology.
— Lawrence Wright, The
New Yorker, Feb. 14. Wright
was a 2006 NBA Nonfiction Finalist.
After
20 years, Atlanta's Kevin Young finally publishes the epic
Ardency
— Wyatt Williams, Creative
Loafing, Atlanta, Feb. 9
Understanding
Robert Mapplethorpe through Patti Smith
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, Feb 9
This
year's book choice for West Roxbury Reads is...
— Wicked Local West Roxbury
(MA), Feb 09
Kids'
books: Newbery Honors are no mere also-rans
— Karen MacPherson, Scripps Howard News Service, The
Seattle Times, Feb 7
Hunger
for language ‘maximalists’ and suspense
— Amanda Katz, boston.com,
Feb. 6
The
Writer's Life: Maxine Hong Kingston picks up the story
— David L. Ulin, Los
Angeles Times Book Critic, Feb. 6
The
10 Most Influential Artist’s Muses
— Paul Laster, Flavor Wire,
Feb 1
Places
in the Heart: To celebrate black history month, we asked some
top children’s book creators to choose their favorite
titles
— Rick Margolis, School Library Journal, Feb
1
JANUARY, 2011
Maxine
Hong Kingston
— The Leondard Lopate Show, WNYC, Jan 31
Tribute
to legacy
— Dr. Morton I. Teicher, The Jewish Chronicle,
Jan 31
Patti
Smith to Publish Free Essay Exclusively on Nook
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat,
January 31
Idle
Doodles by Famous Authors
— Emily Temple, flavorpill,
Jan 30
McDermott:
From page to stage
— Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post, Jan
30
Sara
Zarr Keynote
— The Official SCBWI Conference Team Blog, Jan 30
Lloyd Alexander
— Anita Silvey's Childrens Book-A-Day Almanac, Jan 30
Q&A:
Joshua Ferris
— Rosanna Greenstreet, The
Guardian, Jan 29
Patti
Smith - Smith Writing Detective Novel
— www.contactmusic.com, Jan
26
The
Daily interview: Tim O’Brien
— Caroline Chen, The Stanford Daily (CT), Jan
25
Joyce
Carol Oates to read at APSU
— Charles Booth, Austin Peay
State University, TheLeafChronicle.com, Jan 25
The
Hot Spotters
Atul Gawande, The New Yorker,
Jan. 24
Gawande was a 2002 NBA Nonfiction
Finalist.
Prize
Nominations for Best-Selling Authors
— Julie Bosman; Compiled
by Rachel Lee Harris, The New York Times, Jan 23
Franzen,
Patti Smith book critics prize finalists
— CBC News, Jan 23
The
Saturday interview: Patti Smith
Aida Edemariam, The Guardian,
Jan 22
UCSC's
Karen Tei Yamashita achieves a grand ambition in award-winning
'I Hotel'
— Wallace Baine, Santa
Cruz Sentinel, Jan 22
Reynolds
Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77
— William Grimes, The
New York Times, Jan 20
Ricky Gervais for Newbery/Caldecott Banquet?
— Brenda Bowen, Bunny Eat
Bunny, Jan 20
Adrianne
DeWeese: Weather like this means curling up with a good book
— Adrianne DeWeese, The
Examiner (MO), Jan 20
2010
National Book Award Finalist to Appear at Carleton College
— Jessica Paxton, Northfield.org,
Jan 19
ONE BOOK, ONE PHILADELPHIA 2011: “WAR DANCES”
— Aaron Mettey, The Philly
Post, Jan 19
Ozick,
Beckerman take top Jewish book awards
— Jewish Tribune,
Jan 19
National Book Award Winner to Speak at Sheraton Saturday
— Guam News, Jan
13
Newbery,
Caldecott Medals awarded
— Amy Guth, Chicago Tribune,
Jan 10
Paolo
Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker wins the Printz Award
— Josh Vogt, examiner.com,
Jan 11
Poetry
Goes Digital
— Rachel Lee Harris, The
New York Times, Jan 9
Ordinary
people
— Mark Feeney, Boston
Globe, Jan 9
Michael Fassbender Eyes Sean Penn Starrer GENIUS
— Adam Chitwood, Collider.com,
Jan 7
Barry
Hannah's short stories stand very tall
— David L. Ulin,
Los Angeles Times, Jan 5
Wilmette
Library tells 'One Book' pick
— Wilmette-Life.com, Jan
5
The
Making of a Writer, Volume 2
— Yvonne Zipp, The Christian
Science Monitor, Jan 5
Audiobook
Version of “Washington: A Life (Unabridged)” Now
Available
— ACN Staff, American Consumer
News, Jan 5th
UCSC's
Karen Yamashita to discuss acclaimed book 'I Hotel'
— Sentinel staff report,
MercuryNews.com, Jan. 4
A
Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being
— Dwight Garner, The
New York Times, Jan 4
The
Rubin Museum of Art Presents POEMS ABOUT NOTHING on Jan. 26,
2011
— CityGuide NY, Jan 4
— Editor, The Millions, Jan 3
Book
award finalists offer great reading for children
— ToledoBlade.com, Jan 2
Madmen,
Macbeth and Lear bring spring to Brooklyn Academy of Music
starting Friday
— Michael J. Fressola, silive.com,
Jan 2
DECEMBER, 2010
Top
20 in 2010
— Connect Savannah Editorial
Staff, ConnectSavannah.com, Dec 28
Brian
Selznick to Publish New Book
— Maryann Yin, Galleycat,
Dec. 17
Patti Smith To
Stephen Colbert: 'I Like My Award' (VIDEO)
— Huffington Post, Dec. 14
10
Gift Books for Big Spenders
— Tina Jordan, EW.com, Dec.
16
Michigan
masters: Notable Books list honors the state's best
— Bill Castanier, CityPulse.com,
Dec. 15
Review:
'Ship Breaker,' a post-apocalyptic thriller for young adults,
by Paolo Bacigalupi
— Mary Quattlebaum, The Washington Post, Dec.
8
Patti
Smith, writer, talks of learning to love books in Philly
— Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec.
7
Jonathan
Franzen Wonders How Much Oprah Likes Him
— Christopher John Farley,
SpeakEasy Blog, Dec. 7
Some
Time at the Races, With Luck and Change
— Janet Maslin, New York
Times, Dec 1
NOVEMBER, 2010
Alum
'shocked' to win National Book Award
— Aparna Bansal, The
Brown Daily Herald, Nov 29
'How
We Die,' award-winning classic, updated for 2010
— Michael Turton, The Hastings
Center, Nov 29
A
warrior in the literary world
Feature on Maxine Hong Kingston
— Melinda Miller, BuffaloNews.com,
Nov 29
The
Future of Publishing
Interview with Harold Augenbraum,
executive director of the NBF
— The Brian Lehrer Show,
wnyc.org, Nov 24
People
Are Talking ... About These Five Books
— Heller McAlpin, WNYC (NPR),
Nov 23
NBA
Jam
— Megan Gilbert, ithardlymatters.com,
Nov 20
2010
National Book Awards Slide show
— PublishersWeekly.com, Nov
22
Hit
Parade: Patti Smith
— The New York Times,
Nov 20
National
Book Awards: Young Authors Join The 'House Party'
— Rob Fishman and Bianca
Bosker, HuffingtonPost.com, Nov 19
Baltimore
native Jaimy Gordon wins National Book Award
— Dave Rosenthal,
The Baltimore Sun, Nov 19
Carnegie
Mellon's Hayes wins National Book Award
— Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, Nov 18
2010 National Book Award winners announced
— Stephen Lowman, The
Washington Post, Political Bookworm, Nov 17
“Totally
Hip Book Review” Reviews the 5 Fiction Finalists
— Ron Charles, The Washington
Post, Nov. 9
Saul
Bellow: Letters by Saul Bellow and Benjamin Taylor
— Wilfried F. Voss, FrogenYozurt.com,
Nov 7
Newbery
Award winning author featured at Children's Festival of the
Book
— Luann Rod, Bozeman
Daily Chronicle, Nov 5
Oh,
the humanities
Roller derby or the Humanities Festival? A classic quandary
if ever there were one
— Barbara Brotman and
Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, Nov 3
BLOG:
A Conversation with San Diego's Laura McNeal, National Book
Award Finalist for Dark Water
— Carrie Keyes's, SanDiego.com,
Nov 3
'Devil'
Of A Role For Leonardo DiCaprio
— Mike Fleming, Deadline
New York, Nov 1
OCTOBER, 2010
Sequel
angles toward entwined lives of town's female characters
— Margaret Quamme, The
Columbus Dispatch, Oct 31
Literature
Professor Nominated for National Book Award
— Rosa Castañeda,
City on a Hill Press, Oct 28
One Book (Or Two), One Philadelphia Announces 2011 Title(s)
— Colleen Clemens, phillylist.com,
Oct 28
Thomas
Steinbeck Loses Latest Round To Control Steinbeck Literary
Estate
— Andrew Albanese, Publishers
Weekly, Oct 22
A
Surprise Nomination, a Publisher's Quandary
— Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg,
Wall Street Journal, Oct 22
National
Writers Series starts master class
— Marta Hepler Drahos, Traverse
City, Record-Eagle.com, Oct 22
National
Book Award Winner to Speak at OSU Stillwater
— Young Bill Young, Okie
Reads, Oct 21
The
NBA Aftermath
— Rachel Deahl, Publishers Weekly, Oct 18
Book
To Stage: On The Adaptation Of The Award-Winning Book 'Locomotion'
Into A Play
— Jacqueline Woodson, Huffington
Post, Oct 19
Western
Michigan University professor Jaimy Gordon named National
Book Award finalist
— Chris Fusciardi, Kalamazoo Gazette, Oct 19
EXCLUSIVE:
Judy Blume Adapting 'Tiger Eyes' for Big Screen
— Borys Kit, The Hollywood
Reporter, Oct 18
Author
Nicole Krauss at the Free Library Oct. 21
— Deidre Wengen, phillyBurbs.com,
Oct 18
Duty
as a judge for the National Book Awards requires a bit of
juggling
— Sallie Tisdale, OregonLive.com
(The Oregonian), Oct 16
Readorama | Mickey Mantle biography; National Book Award nominees
— Steve Paul, Kansas
City Star, Oct 16
Newsflash:
13 Women National Book Award Finalists
— Women's Voices for
Change, Oct 15
Carey
on National Book Awards shortlist
— AP, The Sydney Morning
Herald, Oct 15
National Book Awards finalists include two L.A. Times writers
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, Oct 14
Patti
Smith Nominated for National Book Award
— Stacey Anderson, WNBC,
New York, Oct 14
Yamashita
Nominated for National Book Award
“I Hotel” novel set at epicenter of Yellow Power
Movement.
— The Rafu Shimpo (Los
Angeles Japanese Daily News), Oct 14
Philip
Roth: On Writing, Aging And 'Nemesis'
— Fresh Air from WHYY, NPR,
Oct 14
National Book Award finalists announced: no Franzen
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, Oct 13
National
Book Awards come to Savannah
— The Associated Press, Oct
13
Stand Up for Speak — Laurie Halse Anderson Challenged
— Schuler Books Weblog, Oct
11
Cormac
McCarthy, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, & Haruki Murakami Lead
Betting Odds for Nobel Prize in Lit
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat,
Oct 6
Rosanne
Cash to Host National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35
— Bonnie Stiernberg, PasteMagazine.com,
Oct 6
Critics
Notebook: Literature as a competitive sport
It's literary awards season
(first up: Thursday's Nobel Prize), which brings up the question:
How do you quantify the best book when reading is such a subjective
activity?
— David L. Ulin, Los
Angeles Times Book Critic, Oct 4
Home-school
notes: Mingle with favorite authors at book festival
— Kristen Kindoll, Tennessean.com,
Oct 6
5
under 35 honors young literary talent
— Marianne Combs, MPR News,
Oct 5
National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 include L.A. Times staffer
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, October 5
StoryCorps
Animation: Studs Terkel On The Human Voice
Studs
Terkel received the NBF's 1997 DCAL Medal.
— storycorps.org,
The conversation of a lifetime
SEPTEMBER, 2010
School
in Updike's Pa. hometown gets papers
— Associated Press, Sep 29
Authors
and readers rally to defend rape novel from school ban
— Alison Flood, The Guardian,
Sep 29
David
Simon, Yiyun Li, and Annette Gordon-Reed Awarded $500,000
Genius Grants
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat.com,
Sep 28
Twitter:
Banned Books' New Best Friend
— Lela Moore, The New
York Times, Paper Cuts, Sep 28
Collins,
Hoose, Paterson Rock National Book Festival
— Chelsey Philpot, School
Library Journal, Sep 28
Don
Delillo asks, 'Does poetry need paper'?
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, Jacket Copy, Sep 23
'Speak'
called 'soft porn' by Missouri professor, Laurie Halse Anderson
responds
— Connie Ann Kirk, examiner.com
(National), Sep 23
Marcum:
Stockton board wrong to ban award-winning literature
— Cheryl Y. Marcum, News-Leader.com,
Sep 21
In
Missouri, Banned Books Week Starts Early
Both Speak
(1999) and SlaughterHouse Five (1970) were
NBA Finalists.
— Aimee Levitt, Riverfront
Times (MO), Sep. 21
Poets
from throughout U.S. gather to honor Lucille Clifton's memory
Clifton won the 2000 Poetry
NBA.
— Newsleader.com,
JMU (Harrisonburg, VA), Sep 20
http://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/
"The
Widower's Tale," by Julia Glass
Glass won the 2002 Fiction
NBA
— Donna Rifkind, The
Washington Post, Sep 19
Can
writers change the world? Jane Smiley, Evan Thomas and Phillip
Hoose respond
Hoose won the 2009 YPL NBA.
— Steven Levingston, The
Washington Post, Political Bookworm
What
to read while you're on jury duty: crime novels, biographies
Chernow was a 1990 NBA Nonfiction
Winner.
— Mary Ann Gwinn, The
Seattle Times, Books, Sep 19
Le
Guin, McIntyre Contribute to Gulf Coast Benefit E-book
Le Guin was a NBA Honoree.
— Rose Fox, Publishers
Weekly, Genreville, Sep 15
Children's
Book Finds Hope In Haiti's Rubble
Danticat
is a two-time NBA Nonfiction Finalist
— Morning Edition,
NPR, WNYC.org, Sep 9
Oprah
picks Franzen's `Freedom' for book club
— Hillel Italie, Associated
Press, Sep 16
More
Jonathan Franzen & Oprah Winfrey Book Club Rumors
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat.com,
Sep 15
Tom
Wolfe to get lifetime achievement award
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, Sep 15
Tom
Wolfe wins lifetime achievement honour
— CBC News, Sep 15
U
announces its writers series
Chaon and Didion are both
NBA honorees.
— StarTribune.com (MO), Sep
11
'Border
Song' and 'The Big Burn' among 2010 Washington State Book
Awards
Egan
was the 2006
NBA Nonfiction Winner.
— Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle
Times book editor, Sep 10
Franzen
On The Book, The Backlash, His Background
Franzen was the 2001 NBA
Fiction Winner.
— Fresh Air with Terry Gross,
WHYY, Sep 9
School
board keeps ban on award-winning book
— digitalBURG.com (MO), Sep
10
Thomas
Guinzburg, Paris Review Co-Founder, Dies at 84
Guinzburg fostered the writing
careers of Rich, Roth, Kerouac, and Boyle. All NBA Honorees.
— Bruce Weber, The New
York Times, Sep 10
Scott
Spencer's Small-Town Maelstrom
Spencer was a 2003 NBA Fiction
Finalist.
— Cynthia Crossen, Wall
Street Journal, Sep 10
Pakistani
Truck Artist Paints Granta Cover
Mueenuddin
was a 2009 NBA Fiction Finalist
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat.com,
Sept 07
Kerrytown
celebrates Michigan authors
Lynch, Small and Campbell
are all NBA Finalists.
— Christopher
Walton, Free Press Special Writer, Sept 5
In
our reaction to 9/11, echoes of Pearl Harbor
Dower was the 1999 NBA Nonfiction
Finalist.
— Anna Mundow,
Boston Globe Correspondent, Sept 5
Children’s author returns to Delaware on Sept. 23
— Cape Region Life, CapeGazette.com,
Sept 5
AUGUST, 2010
Kurt
Vonnegut Memorial Library to Open
Vonnegut was a 1970 NBA
Finalist.
— Maryann Yin, Galleycat.com,
Aug 30
Event
preview: The AJC Decatur Book Festival
Five event highlights you can't miss
Patricia Smith is a 2009
NBA Poetry Finalist.
— Rosalind Bentley, accessAtlanta.com,
Aug. 30
Thomas
Pynchon on plagiarism
Pynchon was a 1974 NBA Winner.
— Letters of Note: Correspondence
deserving of a wider audience, Aug 24
Author,
Playwright Don DeLillo to Receive 2010 Saint Louis Literary
Award
— Jeanette Grider, Saint
Louis University, Aug 24
Oral
History at the End of the World: World War Z and its Cousins
Terkel was a 1997
NBF
DCAL Honoree.
— Darryl Campbell, The
Millions, Aug 26
Literary
Links: Dan Chaon
— Columbia Daily Tribune
(MO), Aug 29
The
Rhode Islander Book Club
— The Providence Journal
(RI), Aug 29
Author
Tim O'Brien shares his Vietnam with readers
— Eileen FitzGerald, Staff
Writer, NewsTimes.com (CT), Aug 27
Ashbery
to be Honored at Brooklyn Book Festival, 9/11
— BroadwayWorld.com, Aug
23
Black
Mountain Institute Events
Boyle and Theroux were both
NBA Honorees.
— The Rebel Yell,
UNLV, Aug 23
Fall
semester offers bounty of free arts programs
Gene
Yang was a 2006 NBA YPL Finalist.
— Kathleen Maclay, Media
Relations, UC Berkeley, Aug 23
Obama,
daughters go book shopping in Martha's Vineyard
— AFP, Aug 23
Anderson,
Blagen & More Set For Guthrie's THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING
CLUB
— BroadwayWorld.com, Aug
20
Missouri
school district bans book
— Brett Hiltbrand, nbc4i,
Aug 19
THE
UNEXPENDABLES: Five picks for your Summer Reading List
David Small was a 2009 YPL
NBA Finalist.
— Michael Cavna, The
Washington Post, Comic Riffs, Aug 17
Stockton
Reconsiders Ban on Controversial Book
Alexie's
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
won the 2007 YPL NBA.
— Adam Murphy,
KSMU Ozarks Public Radio, Aug 16
John
Irving: Joshua Braff's Not-So-Guilty Pleasure
— Joshua Braff, All Things
Considered, NPR, Aug 16
Guest Post by Bob Shacochis: Getting Scalped Isn't the Worst-Case
Scenario
Shacochis, Hempel, and Irving
have been NBA Honorees.
— Bob Shacochis Critical
Mass, Aug 16
More
Miami Book Fair Authors: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Aimee Bender, Walter
Mosley
Chernow
was the 1990 NBA Nonfiction Winner.
— Amanda McCorquodale, Tuesday, Aug. 17
Why
are American writers so good at coming-of-age novels?
Coman, Salinger, Lee, and
Blundell are all NBA honorees.
— Imogen Russell-Williams,
guardian.co.uk, Aug 17
Master
of the lonely souls succeeds again
— Sharon Dilworth, Post-Gazette.com
(Pittsburgh), Aug 15
The Little Foxes at NYTW from 10 Sep - 31 Oct
Hellman was the 1970 NBA
Arts and Letters Winner.
— New York Theatre Guide.com,
Aug 16
BALI
Gilbert was a 2002 NBA Nonfiction
Finalist.
— By Pico
Iyer, Special to The Washington Post, Aug 15
Jonathan
Franzen: Great American Novelist
— Lev Grossman, TIME
Magazine, Thursday, Aug. 12
Kathi
Appelt's 'Keeper' is just that: near perfect for young readers
Appelt was a 2008 NBA YPL Finalist
— Tricia Springstubb, Plain Dealer (Cleveland.com),
Aug 11
Award-winning
writer Thomas Lynch to deliver Fairfield University's Catholicism
and the Arts Lecture, "Language Feasts: Breaking Bread
with the Dead"
Lynch was a 1997 NBA Nonfiction
Finalist.
— Media-Newswire.com, Aug 11
Corner:
Good summer fiction includes 'The Adventures of Ook and Gluk'
Rita
Williams-Garcia is a 2009 NBA YPL Finalist.
— Karen MacPherson, Scripps
Howard News Service, Aug 11
Pat
Conroy will announce the National Book Award finalists
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, Books, Aug 10
Margaret
Atwood, Ursula Le Guin to Lecture
Le Guin is a past NBA Honoree.
— Authorlink
(Portland, OR), Aug 9- Aug 15
Acclaimed
novelist Francine Prose presents author talk on Anne Frank
— Westport Country Playhouse,
ConnecticutPlus.com, Aug 10
The
'Long Time' of Joan Silber
— J.C. Sirott, The Millions,
Aug 9
Top
10 Failed Celebrity Political Campaigns: Norman Mailer
— Nate Rawlings, TIME,
Aug 09
Joan
Didion among featured writers for English@Minnesota
— Mary Ann Grossmann, TwinCities.com,
Pioneer Press, Aug 9
Bad
Religion’s Greg Graffin To Release “Anarchy Evolution”
Book On September 28th
Steve Olson was a 2002 NBA
Nonfiction Finalist.
— icon vs. icon, Aug 9
Readers'
Circle book club in Hoboken suggests summer reads
— Anna Yukhananov, The
Jersey Journal, Aug 9
Entrepreneur
enlists help of authors to open new bookstore
Zarr
is a 2007 NBA YPL Finalist.
— Jessica Harrison,
Deseret News, Aug 10
First
Person: Topic of Cancer
Hitchens
was a 2007 NBA Nonfiction Finalist.
— Christopher Hitchens, Vanity
Fair, September 2010
20
classic works of gay literature
Baldwin, Elmann, Ginsberg, Monette, and Proulx are all
NBA honored authors.
— Carolyn Kellogg, Nick Owchar
and David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, Jacket Copy,
Aug 4
Top
100 Killer Thrillers
Includes NBA Honorees Capote,
King, and Sagan.
— Joe Matazzoni, NPR, Aug
4
In
Fire Country
Egan
won the 2006 Nonfiction NBA.
— Timothy Egan, The New
York Times, Opinionator, Aug 4
Sean
Penn in talks to play famed literary editor
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Pohlad will direct Max Perkins drama
Berg's Max Perkins:
Editor of Genius won A 1980 Biography NBA.
— Borys Kit,
Hollywood Reporter, Aug 3
National Book Award Predictions (has it ever been done?)
— A Fuse #8 Production,
School Library Journal, Aug 3
Faulkner
speaks: Faulkner's voice
— fredericksburg.com, Aug
1
Library
event to feature three Oklahoma authors
— Dana Sue Walker, Tulsa
World (OK), Aug 1
Evening
of Music and Poetry with Alicia Svigals, Alicia Ostriker,
and Alicia Jo Rabins Curated by Jake Marmer and Dan Friedman
Ostriker is a two time NBA
Poetry honoree.
— NY Blue Print,
Aug 1
Literary
Notes: Given Holds Story Hour
E.L. Doctorow and Peter
Matthiessen are NBA Winners.
— The Pilot (NC), Aug 1
JULY, 2010
Salinger
Like You’ve Never Seen Him
Salinger was a two-time
NBA Fiction Finalist.
— Sarah Ball, Newsweek,
July 29
FBI
Releases 'Radical Historian' Howard Zinn's File, Which It
Opened In 1949
— David Gura, The two-way,
NPR's News Blog, July 30
Wordstrike:
Writers Join Boycott of Arizona
Jessica Hagedorn, Ha
Jin, Noam Chomsky, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Adrienne Rich
are NBA honored authors.
— wordstrike.com,
July 29
Dr.
Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane
Gawande was a 2002 NBA Nonfiction
Finalist.
— Fresh Air, NPR, July 29
RiverRun
Bookstore to host Jonathan Franzen and Bill Bryson this fall
Franzen
was the 2001 NBA Fiction Winner.
— Seacoastonline.com (NH), July 29
To
an Aesthete Dying Young (In Memoriam T. R. K.)
Solomon
won the 2001 Nonfiction NBA.
— Andrew Solomon,
Yale Alumni Magazine, July/August 2010
All
Day Suckers Plays 14th Annual Fringe Fest 8/13-29
Susan
Dworkin was a 1980 NBA Finalist for General Reference
with Cynthia W. Cooke, M.D.
— BWW News Desk,
broadwayworld.com, July 22
Every
Book Asks for Something Different: An Interview with Tracy
Kidder
Kidder
won the 1982 NBA for General Nonfiction.
— Kara Becker, The Bygone
Bureau: A Journal of Modern Thought, July 27
Norfolk's
Show of Shows
Edmund Morris won a 1980
NBA in Biography.
— Max Wittstein, Litchfield
County Times (CT), July 26
Phantom
Bill Stickers Poetry @ River City On The Banks Of The Mighty
Waikato River
Gerald
Stern was a 1998 NBA Poetry Winner.
— 24-7 Press Release, July
26
Fall
into Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass,' and let poet C.K. Williams
accompany you
— Karen R. Long, The
Plain Dealer (Cleveland), July 25
Scott
Spencer Turns Up the Heat
— Louisa Ermelino, Publishers
Weekly, Jul 26
News
and notes from the world of books
T.J.
Stiles won the 2009 Nonfiction NBA.
— San Francisco Chronicle,
July 25
Novelist
Howard Norman to read from latest novel at Skidmore
Norman was a NBA Fiction
Finalist in 1984 and 1994.
— Elizabeth Floyd Mair,
Special to the Times Union (Albany, NY), July 22
The
Boca Raton Theatre Guild Presents Angie Radosh In 'The Year
Of Magical Thinking' 7/22-25
Didion's
The Year of Magical Thinking won
the 2005 Nonfiction NBA.
— BroadwayWorld.com
(Miami), July 22
Dozens
of authors confirmed for the SD Festival of Books
— BrandonInfo.com (South
Dakota), July 21
Emily
Mortimer and Michael Stuhlbarg Join Martin Scorsese's Hugo
Cabret Shooting in London
— PR Newswire,SOURCE GK Films; Sony Pictures Entertainment,
July 21
Adrienne Mayor: The Poison King
— The Kansas City
Public Library (MO), July 22
Ray
Bradbury in conversation with Sam Weller
—- McNally Jackson Books
(NYC), July 21
Pen
Pals: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Literary World
They Made
Allen Ginsberg won a 1974
Poetry NBA.
—- Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Books
of The Times, July 19
Lenoir-Rhyne
announces Visiting Writers lineup
W.S.
Merwin was a NBA Poetry Winner. Kevin
Young, and Deborah
Wiles have been NBA Finalists.
— Charlotte
Observer, July 18
NPR
- Paperback Fiction Bestsellers
— July 16, 2010
H&S
acquires hot trio by Laini Taylor
Taylor was a 2009 NBA YPL
Finalist.
— Catherine Neilan,
TheBookSeller.com, July 16
Gail
Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday
Feature
— Huffington Post,
July 15
Susan
Sontag Was Once a Struggling Author
Sontag was a 2000 NBA Fiction
Winner.
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat,
July 15
Take
5: Raspberry Festival in Lynden
Ivan Doig was a 1979 NBA
Finalist for Contemporary Thought.
— Margaret Bikman, The
Bellingham Herald, July 15
The
lure of writers' houses
— Carolyn Kellogg, Los
Angeles Times, July 14
In
The Harry Potter Era, An American Fantasy
—
Rebecca Serle, Huffington Post, July 13
US
writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist
T.C. Boyle was a 2003 NBA
Fiction Finalist.
— Alison Flood, guardian.co.uk, July 9
Required
Reading: A Guide to Book Awards
— Allison Ford, divine
caroline: Life in your words
Book
festival set for September
— Argus Leader,
July 3
Soccer
Soothes a Sense of Discontinuity for a Bosnian Immigrant
— Tom Hundley, The New
York Times, July 9
BOOK
GROUPIE: Alexie aims at young-adult trauma
— Anita Miller, The Gazette, Colorado Springs,
June 18
Literary
notes: Dragons and dinosaurs in Orem
Elizabeth Patridge was a
2002 NBA YPL finalist.
— The Salt Lake Tribune,
July 8
'American
Salvage': Bonnie Jo Campbell wins award
— Kalamazoo Gazette (MI),
July 08
Denis
Johnson's papers go to Texas and more book news
Johnson won the Fiction
NBA in 2007.
— Jacket Copy, Los Angeles
Times, Books, July 7
Cancer,
by Stanley Plumly
Plumly was a 2007
NBA Poetry Finalist.
— The New Yorker,
Poetry, July 12
New
Jonathan Franzen novel, half-set in Minnesota, gets early
rave
— Claude Peck, Minneapolis
Star Tribune, July 6
The
World According to Lois Lowry: An Exclusive Interview
Lowry was honored as a
1983 NBA Finalist for Children's Books (Paperback).
— Best Damn Creative
Contributors, July 6
Editor's
Note: Award-winning writers help Dallas Morning News staffers
hone craft
— The Dallas Morning
News, July 4
Bookshops
pin hopes on Jonathan Franzen's return with Freedom
— Alison Flood, guardian.co.uk,
July 6
Seven
New "Living Legends" Honored On April 12 To Commemorate
Launch Of "Library Of Congress Experience"; Public
Enters Through Ornate Bronze Doors First Time Since 1990
National Book Award Honoree David McCullough among the
seven.
— Matt Raymond, Library of
Congress, July 1
The
parable of the prodigal Jack
Marilynne Robinson's Home was a 2008 NBA Fiction
Finalist
— Carolyn Schultz-Rathbun,
The Vancouver Voice, July 1
Next
chief poet a resident of Haiku
— The Maui News,
July 1
In
Defense of Privacy: The 20th Century’s Most Reclusive
Authors
— Caroline Stanley, flavorpill.com,
July 1
JUNE, 2010
Season´s
readings: Spend the summer with Michigan authors
— Bill Castanier, CityPulse
(Lansing, MI), June 30
W.
S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate
— Patricia Cohen, New
York Times, June 30
Westport
Country Playhouse presents Sunday Symposium
Deirdre Bair, Winner of Nonfiction National Book Award
for Samuel Beckett: A Biography, participates in Beckett symposium.
— Westport Country Playhouse,
Norwalkplus.com, June 30
Burlington
Book Festival to honor poet Galway Kinnell
Kinnell is a five-time National Book Award honoree.
— Burlington Free Press
(VT), June 30
Christopher
Hitchens Postpones Book Tour for Chemotherapy
Hitchens' God
Is Not Great
was a 2007 NBA Nonfiction Finalist.
— Jason Boog, GalleyCat,
June 30
Writer's
Haven in Taos
Cristina Garcia, Keynote Speaker.
Dreaming in Cuban, was a Finalist for the NBA in
Fiction, 1992.
— Vocus/PRWEB, June
30
Production
Begins in London on Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret for GK Films...
— PRNewswire,
SOURCE GK Films,
June 29