Nov 18 2010: This year's National Book Awards winners were announced last night.
Arguably the biggest surprise of the evening was Jaime Gordon's win in the Fiction category for Lord of Misrule, which beat Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America,
Nicole Krauss's ...
Nov 15 2010: The backlash continues regarding Amazon's handling last week of a controversial Kindle book offering advice to pedophiles
Nov 12 2010: Newsweek magazine is merging with news website The Daily Beast, it has been announced.
It will bring together one of US publishing's oldest names with one of its newest, under the stewardship of former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown.
Newsweek, established in 1933, ...
Nov 12 2010: This week, The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize which honors the best of Canadian writing, but don't expect to find print copies of the book flooding shelves anytime soon - tiny publisher Gaspereau is running at max, hand printing just 1000 ...
Nov 10 2010: Ten years in the making, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - a beautiful but harrowing work of non-fiction by Rebecca Skloot - has won the second Wellcome Trust Book Prize worth 25,000 UK pounds (about US $40,000)
Nov 10 2010: Johanna Skibsrud is the winner of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, worth Canadian $50,000 honoring the best in Canadian literature.
Her voice quavering, the 30-year-old Nova Scotian thanked her publisher Gaspereau Press, which brought out her first novel, The ...
Nov 02 2010: English teacher Shelley Evans-Marshall gave her ninth-grade class an assignment featuring the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books - and lost her job because of it.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ...
Oct 31 2010: Dutch writer Harry Mulisch, author of The Assault (De Aanslag) and The Discovery of Heaven (De ontdekking van de Hemel), has died at the age of 83. Mulisch wrote more than 30 works, several with a World War II theme. He was considered by many a candidate for the ...
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